Amps
Fender Pawnshop “Excelsior” & “Greta” Amps
Fender has been spewing out a staggering amount of new gear for NAMM. I’ve been trying to just hit the highlights so that Guitarify doesn’t start looking like “Fenderify”. But these new amps are just too cool to pass up. The Machete I posted a few days ago was pretty unexpected, but I think these [...]
New Fender Machete Amp
Fender has just released a bunch of videos demoing their new Machete amp. It looks like they are trying to do something a bit different then the usual Twin Reverb, Tweedy, vintage type stuff everyone loves. This amp has a modern sound and seems geared toward hard rock and metal. It’s 50W with one 12″ Celestion speaker, 2 [...]
Win One of Ten JamUp Plugs for iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch!
Over at Gearpipe they are giving away 10 JamUp plugs, one a day till November 7th. The JamUp plug is an adapter that allows you to connect your guitar to your iOS device. Ideally, the JamUp Plugs creators, Positive Grid, hope you will use it along with their new JamUp software. JamUp is basically an [...]
How to build a “VideoBass”
OK, I’m not too sure about the whole ‘videobass’ concept. But this guy, Michael Egger, it’s inventor, certainly has a lot of building skills. Fascinating to watch if your are interested in making your own instruments. Building the Videobass from Michael Egger on Vimeo.
Amplitude Custom Shop
IK Multimedia just updated their Amplitude software to version 3.5. Amplitude is computer software that emulates real world amps, effects, speaker cabinets, microphones and some rack effects. It’s very useful for recording your guitar giving you a wide selection of high quality sounding gear that most us couldn’t afford to have all of, or the [...]