The British company Swineshead now offers 2 new models for telecaster players, the Spotlight-TC and the Dragonfly-TC, that provide more low end and clean high tone, the first one, and more low end and a little bit less high tone that the classic telecaster sound.
These 2 models are similar but their main difference is the resistances, 8.5k in the bridge and 7.1k in the neck for the Dragonfly-TC and 7k in the bridge and 6k in the neck for the Spotlight-TC, besides that the other features are the same for both models, Alnico 5 Rods magnet and ferrous metal baseplate on the bridge position pickup.
Both models are available in a wide range of colors and woods, if you choose wood nor plastic, and come with all the accessory necessary to mount it on your guitar. The prices of these pickups are $84 (plastic) and $103 (wood) for both Swineshead Dragonfly-TC and Spotlight-TC models.
Published by Khriz May 8, 2008
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We talked about the Aura Imaging pedal more than a year ago and it has been a big success, probably for this reason Fishman joined the dobro master Jerry Douglas to release a signature version of this pedal, the Fishman Jerry Douglas Signature Aura Imaging Pedal
The features of this pedal are 16, specially created by Jerry Douglas, Aura Images designed for resophonic guitars, phase switch that minimizes the feedback, 24-bit A/D and D/A converter, 32-bit audio processing, on/off footswitch, volume, blend and image select controls and input / battery status LED.
This pedal comes in a black heavy duty case, although I must say that I like most the silver finish, and signed by Jerry Douglas. The availability of the Fishman Jerry Douglas Signature Aura Imaging Pedal has not been announced yet, but the rumors say that it will be introduced at Summer NAMM, the price will be $250.
Published by Khriz May 6, 2008
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If you are the kind of guitar players that always add the last innovations to their gear you should read carefully about this product, the new Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal is a harmony generator pedal that analyzes your playing, chords and style, and creates a 3-part harmony signal that complements the chords you played before the solo section. The pedal has 2 footswitches, one of them (memory select) allows you to memorize up to 4 different harmony voices to be played during the solo section, and the other is the one that activates the harmony generation.
The specifications of the Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal are independently selectable voices for each harmony (from 2 shift modes, unison/detune, octave +/-, +/- 12 semitones and 2 octaves down), strum key (that sets the key from your chords), pre-harmony loop that allows you to apply your favorite stompboxes before the harmony is generated, 2 voice and mix (that blends between the lead and harmony signals) controls, 1/4″ guitar input (with distortion send and return), 1/4″ guitar sidechain input (to use your guitar bandmate to be the harmony generator source), balanced stereo 1/4″ outputs and built-in tuner
The Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal will be available this month and its MSRP is $450.
Here we have an absolutely great looking guitar released by Gretsch, this model is based on the Electromatic G5120 Hollow Body but with some differences like the double cut-away instead of the single cut-away and some hardware improvements regarding pickups, bridge, … The Gretsch G5122DC Electromatic Hollow Body Guitar, that is how has been called,
The main features are laminated maple body and neck, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, 24.56″ scale length, Adjusto-Matic bridge with licensed Bigsby B60 vibrato tailpiece, 2 dual-coil humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch, 1 volume knob per pickup and master tone and volume controls. Other features that are included on the Gretsch G5122DC Electromatic Hollow Body Guitar are bound body and fingerboard or plexi pickguard, the sound produced by this guitar will be similar to the original, so it’s a must-have model for hollow body fans.
The guitar does not include any case but you can add a hardshell case for less that $100, by the way available finishes are black and walnut floss urethane. The Gretsch G5122DC Electromatic Hollow Body Guitar is now available and its price is $630.
Published by Khriz May 5, 2008
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Empress Effects is a very new Canadian pedal company, only 3 years around, that has released only one product, but will soon release the Empress Effects Superdelay Pedal, and in both models you can see that unique features and high quality are some of the goals to achieve by this company.
The specifications of the Empress Effects Superdelay Pedal are true bypass, up to 2.8 seconds delay time, high and low pass filters, slow and fast modulation, a,b or c mode specific and expression pedal assignment switches, tap, preset and bypass footswitches, mix, d time/ratio, feedback, mode (normal, tap, autoset that set the time with the tempo of the playing, reverse, rhythm mode multitap, tape mode, misc and 12 second looper) and volume controls, up to 8 user presets and expression pedal input that can control the feedback or the mix levels.
In the official site you can hear and look to some samples, this samples show us that you can get sounds from crazy and psychedelic to discrete delay tones. The Empress Effects Superdelay Pedal will be available next week but its price has not been announced yet.
The new guitar that has been introduced on the Gibson’s Guitar of the Month product line is a very good loking guitar called Les Paul Push-Tone is one of the few products with new features, although as Cary says this is not new for some other brands. This guitar comes with the special feature of allowing to change the pickups only by unhooking them and pushing the new ones, so you can easily change the voice of your guitar.
The features of the Gibson Les Paul Push-Tone Guitar are mahogany body (with maple top) and neck, ’50’s rounded neck profile, ebony fingerboard, 22 frets, 24.75″ scale length, Nashvile Tune-o-matic bridge Burstbucker Pro humbucker pickups (it also comes with an extra pair of Zebra Pro humbucker pickups), 3-way pickup switch, 2 volume and 2 tone controls.
The model is only available with the antique natural lacquer finish, but I have nothing to say because it’s very cool, it also comes with a hardshell case. The Gibson Les Paul Push-Tone Guitar price is $2,900 and is now available,
G&L has released a new model on its guitar product line based on the Classic Bluesboy model, the G&L ASAT Classic Bluesboy Spalted Maple Top is a telecaster-like guitar but with a humbucker and a single-coil pickup. This model comes in spalted natural finish that gives it that aged look, that is really attractive.
The features of the G&L ASAT Classic Bluesboy Spalted Maple Top Guitar are solid alder body with maple top, hard rock maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, 25.5″ scale length, ‘boxed steel’ bridge with individual saddles, Seymour Duncan Seth Lover humbucker (neck) and custom magnetic classic single-coil pickup, 3-way pickup switch, master volume and tone controls.
This model come with a moulded hardshell case and its chrome hardware matches really good with the natural finish. The availability and price of the G&L ASAT Classic Bluesboy Spalted Maple Top Guitar have not been announced yet.
Jason Z. Schroeder is a guitar builder that creates very cool custom made instruments with the highest quality woods and electronics that wants to compete with the highest brands and its last effort is the Schroeder Custom Guitars “Shorty” Carved Top Guitar that is, like all the Schroeder models, handmade, produces great tone and includes a carved top.
The Schroeder Custom Guitars “Shorty” Carved Top Guitar features own-choice high quality body wood (like maple, Brazilian rosewood, Honduran mahogany, …), solid rosewood neck, 22 frets, 2 high-quality humbucker pickups, Tone-Pros bridge, 3-way pickup switch and handmade Brazilian rosewood volume and tone knobs.
Other interesting features of this model are stainless steel frets, 12th fret inlay and nitrocellulose finish (available in natural and blue). The Schroeder Custom Guitars “Shorty” Carved Top Guitar will be soon available and its price starts at $3,500.
The new model from Allen & Heath Xone series is a USB mixer with a new soundcard that includes the same features than the Xone:3D but with some interesting news like multi-track recording, running 4 simultaneous decks in Native Instruments Traktor or, like a lot of people requested, panels that can be read in very low light using a ultra violet sensitive paint.
The specifications Allen & Heath Xone:4D Mixer are 24-bit audio resolution and 96 kHz sampling rate, 8 different setups for the USB soundcard (that removes the need of using the computer software utility like the Xone:3D model), 225 assignable MIDI controls, real-time LFO waveform edit function, 4 stereo and digital outputs and 4 stereo and digital inputs and FX2 RCA sockets that can be converted to recording outputs.
This mixer works with both PC and Mac and could be a very interesting tool for DJs. The Allen & Heath Xone:4D Mixer will be available next month and its approximate price will be €2,000.
Dan Donegan, Disturbed axeman, and Washburn have released 2 new signature models inside the Idol model line that look great, single and double cut-away models that both include a case and feature the chopper top graphic finish.
The Washburn Dan Donegan Signature WI91 features mahogany body with carved maple top, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, 22 jumbo frets, 25.5″ scale length, Tune-o-matic bridge with Tone Pros stop tailpiece, El diablo (bridge) and ‘59 (neck) humbucker Seymour Duncan pickups, 3-way pickup switch and 2 volume and 2 tone controls.
While the other model, the Washburn Dan Donegan Signature WI63SF includes also mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard, 22 jumbo frets, 25.5″ scale length, Tune-o-matic bridge with Tone Pros stop and string-through tailpiece, Randall UL (neck) and SL (bridge) humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch and 2 volume and 2 tone controls.
The list prices of these 2 signature models are $5,400 and $700, so you can choose, the affordable one… or the other, by the way, the release date has not been announced.
