Tuesday, 25. September 2007, 21:32:53
kaossilator
The latest addition to Korg's Kaoss family, the Kaossilator is a dynamic phrase synthesizer that lets you create lead sounds, loops, bass lines, chords, special EFX and drum sequences. It has a touch-sensitive pad, controls for pitch, filter frequency, and an arpeggiator with 50 preset patterns.
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Tuesday, 25. September 2007, 13:39:53
amplug
A toy amp or a useful practice tool? That's what you have to decide after listening to the audio samples for Vox's new amPlug headphone guitar amp that comes in three flavours – AC30, Classic Rock and Metal. It apparently simulates the analogue circuitry of a vacuum tube amp, has an aux in jack to let you jam along with your CD/MP3 player, and can be used for up to 15 hours on the two supplied AAA batteries.
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Tuesday, 25. September 2007, 13:38:12
xynergi
So you thought Fairlight was just a name from the past? Well, you'd be amazed to know that the makers of the Fairlight CMI are still around and building new stuff. Like the Xynergi Media Production Centre, a high-end desktop audio interface for video production that's "based around a completely new concept in tactile control harnessing the awesome 'green' processing power of Fairlight's CC-1 digital media engine and Fairlight's integrated PhyxisTrack video".
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Monday, 24. September 2007, 23:32:10
Bruce Cameron, Midnight Daydream
It's one of those amazing rock-on-the-fringes stories: How an unknown Hendrix clone named Bruce Cameron (1955-1999) convinced legendary rockers like Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles and Ken Hensley to play on his debut solo project and died shortly after the album, Midnight Daydream, came out in 1999. Some say he took his own life; others insist he was offed by a demented girlfriend. Whichever way he went, the thing that matters to listeners eager to discover rock obscurities is that Midnight Dream is now available as a free full MP3 download from Cameron's label, Brain Cell Records. It's a pretty messy mish-mash, with Cameron's wildly wah-fed guitar blazing in and out of the mediocre melodies, often in curious defiance of time, taste and subtlety. But strangely, the guitarist displays a disconcerting honesty in his playing that makes you sort of admire him for his damn-the-devil audacity.
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Wednesday, 19. September 2007, 22:42:08
VT999
Looks like Behringer, stung by past failures, are desperately trying to get "tubey" again, this time with a new effects pedal. The Vintage Tube Monster VT999, which is claimed to have "a hand-selected 12AX7 vacuum tube" for that glorious power glow, includes three-band EQ, an integrated and switchable noise gate with adjustable threshold, and "true" hard-wire bypass. So, will this be the toy to aid that true tone throwback you've been trying to achieve for so long? Well, you can find out for just $99.99!
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Monday, 17. September 2007, 22:35:49
Taylor electrics
The big news is that Taylor are boldly going where they've never dared venture before — the Land of Electrics. And according to Brother Bob, their debut line of solid-body electrics features "a completely original design", with a distinctive neck and body shape and an aluminium bridge that "feels like a luxury watch band". Three models are expected to hit the streets early next year: Classic, Standard and Custom with humbuckers. Expect to pay major moola for these babies!
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Monday, 17. September 2007, 22:32:52
Hendrix tins
Jim Dunlop are invoking the power of the Hendrix name again to push a product, this time a vanity "Collector Series Pick Tins". For US$9.50 a pop, you get what looks like a midget Chinese-made pencil box tin with a dozen celluloid picks "adorned with collective album art". Go get 'em, suckers!
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Monday, 17. September 2007, 09:19:07
Self-tuning Gibson
Always wished for a guitar that would tune itself? Then you're in luck, dude! Gibson have just come out with a Les Paul-style electric that features their new Powertune System, an automated tuning device that's built into the guitar for anywhere-anytime functionality. Just activate the guitar's Master-Control Knob (MCK), strum the strings lightly, and presto, the guitar's in perfect tune within seconds... or so they claim! The Powertune's digital brain and Powerhead tuners also do open or alternate tunings, thanks to presets like Open E, Dropped D, Double Dropped D, DADGAD, Open G and Hendrix Tuning (half-step down). Is this gonna be a huge hit or just another grand Gibson flop, like their Digital Guitar? Hard to say at this point.
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Sunday, 16. September 2007, 05:45:00
Lonely jeans
Here's something else that's been discovered to be genetic: loneliness. Apparently, some folks are just predisposed to be lonely. So, if it's in your genes, you might as well wallow in it wearing your best jeans! From Science: 'If, as Roy Orbison sang, "Only the lonely" know how you feel tonight, you may need a doctor. A new study shows that loneliness may change how certain genes in the body work, leaving chronically lonely people with less effective immune systems and lower defenses against disease. The results, if confirmed, could enable doctors to better prevent those ills for which the lonely are at greater risk, such as heart disease, infection, age-related dementia, and certain types of cancer.'
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Friday, 14. September 2007, 16:13:32
Dwight Yoakam
From TheAdvocates.org: '...Country superstar Dwight Yoakam has been described as a modern traditionalist — combining a modern sensibility with older honky-tonk and hillbilly musical styles. The same "modern traditionalist" label could be applied to his politics. When it comes to government, Yoakam says he supports "libertarianism, the pure Jeffersonian ideal..." In a discussion about artists who make commercial endorsements, Yoakam said, "I believe in liberty. I'm a libertarian... That's Jeffersonian, my friend."'
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