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Vox rocks Frankfurt show
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year, Vox Amplifiers chose the Frankfurt Musikmesse music show to unveil a varied selection of new amps: including the new high-gain, metal-oriented Valvetronix XL modelling amp; two new additions to its DA digital range; and the ultra-desirable blonde AC15 Heritage Head & Cab.
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Buy Two DigiTech X-Series Pedals To Get A Third Free
DigiTech and UK distributors Sound Technology have announced a very cool promotion based around the company’s excellent range of X-Series stompboxes: it's the DigiTech Pedal Power promotion!
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Fender Presidential Select Strat
Rock n’ Roll and booze have always been comfortable bedfellows, and the Fender Custom Shop has produced what must be the ultimate marriage between the humble guitar and good old fire-water.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: Tech 21
Tech 21 took time at NAMM to introduce a pair of new pedals: the Boost D.L.A., an analogue delay emulator and the Boost R.V.B., an analogue reverb emulator. Each incorporates a clean boost function for up to nine dB of additional volume. With boost and delay or boost and reverb in a single pedal, solos jump out with greater dimension.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: Vox Amps
2007 is, of course, the 50th anniversary of Vox Amplification, something we’ll be loudly celebrating in Guitarist and as well as the Limited Edition AC15H1TVL that we’ll be featuring in our next issue, a standard version is available. It’ll still feature a hand-wired construction but will offer a cream vinyl covering to the cabinet rather than the natural wood version of the limited edition amp.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: DigiTech
DigiTech have announced a number of new products for guitarists and vocalists. If you do both, the Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4 vocal harmony and effects floor processors will make recreating the tricky operatic section from Bohemian Rhapsody a tad easier. The processors generate intelligent, multi-part vocal harmonies using the singer¹s voice. These harmonies automatically detect and change key, depending on the chords that are played on the guitar. The Vocalist Live 2 produces one or two part harmonies, while the Vocalist Live 4 can create one, two, three or four part harmonies, selectable to harmonize in unison or at a 3rd, 5th or octave above or below the lead vocal.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: Line 6
Line 6 highlights at NAMM ’07 so far include a couple of tasty bits of stompbox hardware and what could prove to be the modelling plug-in to end all plug-ins. Previously available bundled only with hardware, GearBox has now evolved into version 3.1 and is an RTAS, AU and VST plug-in solution for computer recording packages that features numerous guitar and bass amplifier models, microphone preamps and stompbox and studio effects. There’s no excuse for sounding rubbish anymore. GearBox is available in Silver or Gold configurations, with the Gold version benefiting from numerous extra models. Out of the studio and onto stage, the Floor POD Plus and Bass Floor Pod provide gigging six and four stringers with the power of modelling technology at their feet. Log on to
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: Epiphone
And Nashville’s Epiphone has evidently been busy too, judging by the variety in its new product line-up. Ready? The eyecatching Les Paul Studio Chameleon is bound to get you noticed: its ‘flip-paint’ finish changes colour depending on viewing angle and light, and is available in Blue/Green, Bronze/Salmon and Silver/Blue. There are new, more traditional finish options too, in Arctic Blue, Worn Brown or Worn Cherry.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: BOSS
Roland has launched several exciting new BOSS products, the pick of which as far as we are concerned is a pair of Legend Series stompboxes developed in association with Fender to recreate the sound of two stone cold classic amplifiers.
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NAMM 2007 Highlights: Jackson
Shredding is back and many players are once again turning their attention to Jackson guitars. The brand new RR24 Randy Rhoads is the very non-Custom Rhoades to feature no less than 24 jumbo frets and the fans that have been begging for this model for many years can now be wholly satisfied.
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