MiniFoogers
Moog just introduced a line of all analog guitar pedals, that surprisingly, I find pretty cool. I’m a bit burnt out on the seemingly millions of guitar pedals out there, with another dozen or so released everyday. But something about these caught my attention. It helps that the demo is nice, but each pedal also seems to bring something a bit unique to the table as well. The prices are reasonable too.
How to Refresh Your Bass Strings in 2 Minutes
And you don’t even have to remove them or use any kind of liquid solvents. People in the comments said it works for guitar too.
Rocksmith 2014
The original Rocksmith had a lot going for it, but was made frustrating by a number of bad design decisions and technical issues. This new version, if it lives up to the description, looks nearly perfect. Just the fact that you can jump directly into the riff repeater from the middle of a song to work on just that section, then immediately jump back to the song once you got it, is exactly how it should have always worked.
I use backing tracks all the time to practice improvisation. Using Rocksmith’s new “Sessions” mode to generate backing tracks in different styles, tempos and keys should be extremely useful.
Tone-Lie or Truth?
I find it funny when someone says a particular guitar has lot’s of tone, or a new pickup or FX pedal will give you MORE tone. I’d like to see how they measured that.
In these two videos, “Just Nick” waxes philosophically, then scientifically on ‘tone’.