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The SE Torero features several firsts for PRS – a Floyd Rose bridge, EMG pickups, and neck through body construction among them – that should appeal to both the existing PRS player and a new audience and musician. The minimal/unpronounced heel smoothly blends into the body and the deeper, lower cutaway gives easier and smoother accessibility to the upper frets while the pick-ups provide power, clarity, and definition. [...read more...]
Featuring 24 amp channel models, including both the clean and distorted channels of 12 popular amps plus 11 editable preamp stomp box effects and 11
editable post-amp rack effects with dual-parameter control.
Players can use up to five effects simultaneously. When used with the optional Peavey Sanpera™ foot controller, the possibilities further expand from 12 in-amp presets to 400 programmable presets, with [...read more...]
Morely has a made a mini Volume pedal.
This studio quiet audio taper is an optical volume pedal in a size that can squeeze into your existing set up. Cold rolled steel housing will withstand years of abuse with your guitar, bass or keyboard.
They have a 2 year warranty.
Also of note the Morely Mini Wah. [...read more...]
One of the main reasons for the Little Mark’s incredible international success has been its versatile sound, which makes it suitable for any style of music. But since it’s so often the choice of rock bass players, Markbass decided to make a more aggressive version, adding custom-designed tube drive circuitry for a wide range of onboard overdrive and distortion sounds.
For those about to rock check [...read more...]
Markbass have released the super-light Club Series of bass cabinets. These super-light cabinets incorporate cutting edge design, upgraded custom speakers and materials, as well as useful ideas like the ability to lean back in monitor position and a tweeter level control located on the cab’s side so that you can hear changes as you make them. The result is unrivalled portability, performance and quality in a bass cabinet [...read more...]
You’ve just wrapped up tracking with artists that are on the brink of breaking into the game. You start mixing when you realise you are craving more, the ability to envelope your mix with that magical space that delivers the clarity, depth and fullness that can only be created when recording in a major studio. So you turn to the most trusted name in reverb to achieve the ultimate sound. Lexicon’s LXP Native Reverb Bundle [...read more...]
The Ledbar has become renowned as a supremely versatile fixture that is as equally at home in a five star hotel as a nightclub. The flexibility of use and application is of appeal to production companies and installers alike.
With the burgeoning variety of ledbars available, with more power and affordability on offer, now sees Light Emotion offering a 3 x 12 Watt Tri Colour LED wash light for a low $599 [...read more...]
Jet City Amplification is the new project of one Mike Soldano, whose namesake line of amplifiers set the high-gain standard in the 1990s and became one of the charter members of the HYPERLINK “http://www.gear-vault.com/paul-reed-smith-sweet-16-amp/”boutique guitar amp business as we know it today.
The Jet City JCA20H 20 watt tube amp head and JCA2112RC 20 watt combo deliver pure tube tone from a [...read more...]
Introducing the world’s first pocket sized, scrolling electronic songbook.
Easily mounted to the head stock of your guitar, the iTab is the ultimate guitar tuition tool. Download tabs and backing tracks directly from the iTab website and play them back at any tempo.
iTab is ideal for students or seasoned performers. It displays scrolling chords and lyrics which can be outputted directly to your television via the [...read more...]
The Ibanez Prestige series are some of the highest quality guitars in the world, and as with any high end guitar, the price tag often reflects this. Ibanez wanted to keep this quality standard, but offer a guitar that wouldn’t break the bank and the RG1451 is the result.
This guitar offers everything that the Prestige range is known for. The 5 piece Wizard Prestige neck, 2 humbuckers and a single coil middle pickup [...read more...]
From rock to blues to country, the Session is a guitar with tonal versatility, style and value, all in one instrument that won’t break the bank. The Session features a rock maple neck with rosewood or maple fingerboard, Canadian Laurentian Basswood body, 2x Godin GS-1 single-coils housed in a vintage white pickguard and a Godin humbucker in the bridge, along with a 5-way switch, 1x volume and 1x push/pull tone [...read more...]
Australian distributor for ESP/LTD guitars-CMI Music & Audio-has seen some recent shipments of new LTD models trickle in.
The new colour variants of the Deluxe EC-1000 series have arrived in the form of Silver Sunburst and Metallic Gold.
Specs: Set-Neck Construction; 24.75″ Scale; Mahogany Body; Mahogany Neck; Rosewood Fingerboard; 42mm Earvana Compensated Nut; Thin U Neck Contour; 24 XJ Frets; Chrome [...read more...]
DVK Technologies is an Australian guitar effects pedal company headed up by electronics maestro Craig Paine and SM Pro Audio’s Brett Kingman.
Both blokes play the guitar, Brett professionally. Through the years they have used a veritable ocean liner full of effects and have come to the conclusion that certain effects could be paired for better sonic combinations and to preserve that precious pedal board real estate. [...read more...]
For bedroom guitarists who love jamming along with their favourite songs, the ultimate musical companion has arrived. eBand is a portable all-in-one audio player that’s packed with big features.
WAV and MP3 files can be loaded and played by eBand, and the tempo and pitch can be changed. Plug in your guitar and jam along using the powerful onboard COSM® preamp and BOSS effects.
You can minimize the pre-recorded vocals [...read more...]
The Babyface is 22-channel High-End USB audio interface with totalMix FX.
Equipped with the latest 192 kHz AD- and DA-converters and two reference class microphone preamps the bus-powered Babyface delivers top sound in a nicely designed and attractively shaped enclosure. The Babyface uses the USB 2.0 high-speed bus and has been uncompromisingly optimized for highest performance under Windows and Mac OS. The [...read more...]
The producers of Underbelly used the HZ400 in the series currently being screened, Underbelly – The Golden Mile. The Antari HZ-400 is capable of producing very large quantities of haze both quickly and quietly, with fine translucence and long hanging time.
It’s a professional product that creates a more pro look compared to standard fog. The fluid lasts considerably longer, one litre per 16 hours or 40 hours from [...read more...]
AKG has announced the newest addition to its range of automatic microphone mixers – the DMM 4/2/4. Designed as a studio version of the DMM 4/2/2, the DMM 4/2/4 utilises a unique and highly effective mixing algorithm that gives it the flexibility to handle nearly any mixing application, from boardrooms to broadcast studios and even houses of worship.
The DMM 4/2/4 offers four microphone inputs and two stereo AUX inputs, [...read more...]
With a 30-plus year professional career as a drummer, engineer and producer, Jonathan Mover has been creating award-winning music with a variety of artists, such as Aretha Franklin, Joe Satriani, Shakira, Alice Cooper, Julian Lennon and Fuel to name a few. Additionally, as the owner and operator of Skyline Recording Studios NYC, Mover has had the opportunity to use the market’s best available equipment. It is [...read more...]
Many of you may well know of Yamaha’s P series of digital pianos that has offered exceptional value for money and quality for some time. For [...read more...]
“it folds up like a Transformer into a space”
Australia’s Jade Sound Systems has been around since the 1970s, making guitar, bass and keyboard amps as well as multi-use amplifiers and PA [...read more...]
Way Huge are one of those almost mythical effects brands. Designed by the ever cool Jeorge Tripps they were originally produced in pretty limited quantities and released with funky coloured housings, cartoon styled advertising and quirky names like Camel Toe, Swollen Pickle, Red llama, Aqua Puss and the Piercing Moose.
The son of an electrical [...read more...]
Washburn has made some killer double-cutaway guitars over the years, from the N4 and Steve Stevens models to the X series to over-the-top creations with 36 frets. The company has never shied away from building guitars for all price [...read more...]
Walden may not be an absolute household guitar name but their combination of traditional guitar making knowledge and innovative tools and design have allowed them to build up an impressive line of guitars. Working through nylon string, jumbos, [...read more...]
Vintage have been forging full steam ahead for the last few years with their pursuit of good guitars at a good price. In this process they’ve produced a range of solid body models that have impressed critics thanks to their features and [...read more...]
“from the bedroom to the stadium”
Ashdown Engineering has been around since 1997 thanks to the handywork and design of ex-Trace Elliot guru, Mark Gooday. Those Brits certainly know how to make amplifiers and following in the footsteps of some pretty hefty company, Ashdown has built its line from humble beginnings to now sport an impressive range of models [...read more...]
“the playability is flawless”
On first glance this new offering from Taylor would seem to be an attractive but otherwise regular guitar. As you get closer to it, however, you notice that it’s a bit bigger than you’re expecting. That’s because it has a 27″ scale length. Interesting. Must be a baritone. You look a little [...read more...]
“definitely has a place in any busy musicians life”
When it comes to user friendly, portable recorders, Tascam have been delivering the goods time and time again for longer than I care to remember. Nowadays though, we are a long way from the clunky old cassette recorders that gave so many musicians a quick and easy method of getting their ideas down. The latest [...read more...]
Back in the day I saved up all my spare change in a biscuit tin with a hastily-scribbled label reading Peter’s 4-track cash. Every day I’d pop a few coins in there, and eventually a used 4-track within my budget popped up in the For Sale pages of the local paper. I bought the hell out of that thing and I recorded hours and hours of stuff with it. But the [...read more...]
“this baby has some guts!”
John Suhr has long been involved in guitar and amplifier design and manufacturing. Like many builders his early efforts were a response to his search for the perfect tone which in turn lead him through many phases – Pensa Suhr Guitars, working with renowned amp guru Bob Bradshaw on the Custom Audio Amplifiers line [...read more...]
SE Electronics has established themselves in the world of microphone manufacturing offering good quality microphones that begin at an affordable price range. The newest addition to their range is the sEX1 bundle. This combines their sEX1 studio condenser microphone with their Project Studio Reflexion filter, offering a clever solution for recording in environments [...read more...]
“Combining old school and new”
Roger Sadowsky set up shop in New York City in 1979 hoping to put into place his luthier learning and experiences from modding, repairing and setting up vintage Fenders and the like. Now on his [...read more...]
“With a 25-1/2” scale length, note attack is nice and snappy”
Reverend guitars have been around for a few years now but despite some great offerings they’re still probably yet to enter the absolute forefront of most players’ minds. They’re perhaps still in the ‘Oh man, why didn’t I think to try this guitar earlier?’ category. Well that [...read more...]
“designed with the end user in mind”
For those of your who have not heard of QSC when talking about audio products, you have probably heard their speakers before and not known. They are starting to turn up in venues and in portable rigs giving great results. The K Series offers not only a great sound at a great price, but a lot of flexibility in a powered [...read more...]
Zakk Wylde’s right hand man in Black Label Society, Zakk’s officially christened Evil Twin, Nick Catanese, recently switched over to PRS after a few years with another company, and [...read more...]
“a handy creative tool”
There are many, many recording programs out there. Which one do you choose? Some are very complex. Some are very basic. The problem is often that the complex ones are too tricky to get the best out of unless you spend two minutes reading the manual for every one minute you spend using it. The simple ones are often [...read more...]
Now is the perfect time for Peavey to release the Powerslide. Interest in slide guitar and its many variants is at probably an all-time high thanks to the work of players as diverse as Derek Trucks, Ben Harper, Robert Randolph, Jack White [...read more...]
Well, I thought I had seen it all, and then along come Numark with a new idea that makes me wonder. The PHX USB headphones really do take ingenuity to a new level and offer more options than you would ever expect from a conventional set of headphones.
USB? REALLY?
Yes! USB headphones. But not strictly limited to just USB connections. The PHX headphones have [...read more...]
“compact rig with enough tone and power”
Yes, those bass gear makers from Italy with the yellow obsession have been at it again with a range of modular heads and additions to their cab range. Seemingly obsessed with making everything smaller, lighter, more compact (a damn lot easier in my book!) without tonal sacrifice Markbass really set the bar with [...read more...]
“Who you gonna call?”
Remember 4-track tape recorders? No? You’re not as old as me? Well, remember digital multitrack hard disk recorders? No, not that either? You’re used to computer software? Well hey smarty, your computer is at the shop because you downloaded a virus, and some punk jacked your iPod on the tram so you can’t even use [...read more...]
A number of years ago, I was mightily impressed when Korg took their MS2000 analogue modelling synth and bundled its sounds into a portable and simple to use package, calling it the MicroKORG. So were a lot of other people as these keyboards began appearing atop of just about every keyboard stand on stages everywhere. Now, Korg have gone one step further with their [...read more...]
“dirt with plenty of tight bottom end and tough mids”
For a long while boutique amps have often been the unattainable dream for the majority of guitarists. Whilst not intentionally omitting the perhaps less affluent of owners, boutique makers have created amps with price tags that just have been out of reach or not justifiable for some. Numerous factors have [...read more...]
I’ve long been a fan of Godin guitars (and I’ve set up more than a few when I worked at a music store), and I’ve always felt that they’re just one or two huge mega high-profile endorser away from pretty much taking over [...read more...]
I’d hazard a guess that Flea would be one of the best known bass players in the world. Crossing the boundaries of funk, rap, rock, pop the Red Hot Chili Peppers have enjoyed a longevity rarely seen in the music world with loads of [...read more...]
Based in the UK, Faith guitars are overseen by the esteemed luthier Patrick Eggle and have increased their lines to now feature over 20 models of acoustic guitars. With the market becoming increasingly crowded and competitive over the last few [...read more...]
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