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2 May

TC-Helicon Perform V

Amber Technology | 1800 251 367 | www.ambertech.com.au | RRP: $439

The latest installment in DIY vocal effects from TC-Helicon goes back to an older design concept of theirs, and places the effects unit and all of its controls right at your fingertips with a very compact, stand mounted design. The Preform V is a fairly simple unit on the surface; one that doesn’t make you look for a user manual in order to get it up and running, but it still has plenty going on under the hood.

2 May

16 Mar

Singular Sound BeatBuddy

Innovative Music | (03) 9540 0658 | www.innovativemusic.com.au | RRP: $599

BeatBuddy comes from the I Can’t Believe Nobody’s Done This Before files: it’s the first guitar pedal drum machine, giving you hands-free control of your beat while you’re rocking out. It was initially funded via an IndieGoGo campaign which reached $30,000 within the first 30 minutes and went on to be super mega successful. It’s now distributed in Australia by Innovative Music, and I couldn’t think of a better group of folks to bring this particular pedal to Aussie players.

16 Mar

6 May

ALESIS SAMPLE RACK DRUM MODULE

Electric Factory | (03) 9474 1000 | www.elfa.com.au | RRP: $399

Many of you may be familiar with the Alesis Sample Pad, I have road-tested it before in the past and had a great deal of fun with it. Well, Alesis have now released the Sample Rack, essentially a rack mounted version of the Sample Pad, but without the pads. What you get in place of the four pads found on the Sample Pad is eight trigger inputs for use with any electronic drum kit or an acoustic kit fitted with drum triggers.

6 May

2 Mar

TC-HELICON DITTO MIC LOOPER

Amber Technology | 1800 251 367 | www.ambertech.com.au | RRP: $329

Everyone seems to be going looper mad at the moment. There is a huge range of pedals available to get your guitar and bass loops going on the fly in order to bring some added creativity to your gigs, but what about the singer? Why is it that guitarists seem to get all the cool toys to play with? That is exactly what the team at TC-Helicon were asking a while back, and now they have responded with the very slick and very cool Ditto Mic Looper. Now your vocals can become more than just the one.

2 Mar

1 Nov

TC-HELICON PLAY ELECTRIC VOCAL EFFECTS PEDAL

Amber Technology | 1800 251 367 | www.ambertech.com.au | RRP: $749

Vocal effects and har­monies can really add to the pro­fes­sion­al­ism of a live per­for­mance, but they’re hard to imple­ment, espe­cially for the singing gui­tarist. It’s dif­fi­cult to get har­monies hap­pen­ing between band mem­bers some­times: bad mon­i­tor mix, one or more vocal­ists hav­ing an off night – and that’s before you start to think about how this will all actu­ally sound to the audi­ence, which is the most impor­tant thing. TC-Helicon has tack­led this prob­lem head-on with the Play Elec­tric, a floor-dwelling device aimed at giv­ing the singing gui­tarist two things: inter­ac­tive con­trol over the cre­ative exe­cu­tion of their vocals, and con­trol over the qual­ity of the final sound as heard by the audience.

1 Nov

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