Tuesday, August 03, 2004

I'm excited, you can see from my last post I was catching up on a bit of guitar news, an area of my life that I have neglected over the last few years considering I spent 20 years studying music finishing Uni with a BMus(hons) only to find myself developing websites and getting very excited about learning how to program actionscript/xhtml/css etc. But I have the odd day where I reminisce about what could have been. Today is one of those days and the reason I am excited is that I have just found out about an album which I was unaware of. 'Me & Mr Johnson' is the new album by Eric Clapton in which he pays homage to the creator of modern day blues, Robert Johnson. Eric has also created a new guitar for this album built by Taylor which looks pretty nice and check out his website which is also a nicely designed simple flash site.

Also in the guitar news, Gibson finally unveil their MaGIC Digital Les Paul which, using an ethernet cable gives you the capability of processing each string individually, aparently Gibson did this at NAMM:
"...the signal was sent to six different channels on a computer-based sequencer (Cubase on this occasion) so that each string could be processed separately. Output from the channels was sent to six separate speakers spread across the width of the stage so that the panning posibilities could be fully appreciated. With the strings from low to high spread right across the soundstage the sound was simply huge." - www.guitar-gear.com

And of all the people to release a guitar, DSP company Alesis have released a budget guitar (US$349) called the Xguitar:

"The XGuitar is a full-scale electric guitar that features 80 editable guitar presets in one package, including headphone and line outputs. All of the presets can be user-configured using the 9 effect modules and 8 different signal routing possibilities. Features include 28-bit effects- Delays, amp, and cabinet models, chorus, transposition EQ, Noise reduction, flanger, reverb rotary speaker, a built-in digital tuner, one humbucker and two stacked single-coil pickups, plus a five-position pickup selector switch, master volume and two tone controls. The XGuitar can run up to 30 hours of operation on 4 AA alkaline batteries." - www.guitar-gear.com

Jon 10:32 AM Permalink