At Summer NAMM Ibanez didn’t only introduce metal-oriented guitars, they also showed the new archtop models from the Artcore Custom and from the AS series. The released guitars are Ibanez AS73B, Ibanez Artcore Custom AS103BM and Ibanez Artcore Custom AF105SM, all of them hollow body archtop affordable guitars.
The Ibanez AS73B features maple body, set-in neck, [...]
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One of the last releases by Ibanez in this Summer NAMM was an addition to the classic RG series, the Ibanez RG Prestige RGR1570. This guitar features reversed-headstock but there’s one thing I never like about these guitars, the volume control is too near to the strings, somebody could think is an advantage, for me [...]
Another Guild release from the Summer NAMM, this one is the Guild Willy Porter Signature, a Florentine single cut-away acoustic/electric guitar from the Contemporary series. This guitar is specially designed for being tuned in many different open tunings.
The Guild Willy Porter Signature features solid flame maple body with solid AAA sitka spruce top, 1-piece mahogany [...]
Digitech has released at Summer NAMM a rack-mountable preamp/modeler unit designed for professional guitar players, the Digitech GSP1101 Preamp, it can work as a standalone device or be integrated on an existing rig. This device will provide 120 different models including amps, stompboxes or studio quality effects among others.
The Digitech GSP1101 Preamp features 22 stompbox [...]
Alesis released at Summer NAMM a very similar device to the Control Pad released in the last year show, the Alesis Performance Pad. This drum pad includes a built-in classic drum machine and could be a very helpful tool to record your own drum tracks in your home studio or to mount it as an [...]
One of Ibanez’s last releases is this new bass series, the Ibanez Left-Handed SR500BM Bass that include 4-, 5- and 6-string bass models for left-handed guitars. The 6-string version will be the first 6-string bass for left-handed players that Ibanez releases.
There are three models, Ibanez SR500BML, Ibanez SR505BML and Ibanez SR506BML. All the models feature [...]
Tregan Guitars were at Summer NAMM to introduce some of their new guitars that are designed to be used by beginner and intermediate guitar players. One of the guitars they were introducing was the Tregan Guitars Syren, this guitar is available in standard and signature versions whose main differences are the bridge, the fingerboard and [...]
Martin has released at this year’s Summer NAMM a limited edition guitar to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the summer of love that made the hippie culture come into public. The guitar is the Martin Limited Edition 00X Hippie and have traditional peace and love hippie images designed by Don Oriolo in the top.
The Martin [...]
Another company that was in Summer NAMM was SWR, the Arizona bass amp company which bass amps are used by musicians like Roger Glover, Phil Lesh, Jason Newsted or David Pastorius (the nephew of Jaco Pastorius), has released a new 1,500-watts bass head amp from the Classic Series. The SWR SM 1500 can provide 1,500-watts [...]
There were some more models released by Guild in Summer NAMM under the Contemporary series, the Guild Contemporary CV-2 and the Guild Contemporary CV-2C. These are acoustic and acoustic/electric guitars respectively, and their main differences are the Florentine singe cut-away, the D-TAR Wave-Length pickup and preamp system and volume and tone controls and two adjustable [...]
