OMFG look at this thing!
That’s a 22″ widescreen touch LCD. Those are metal knobs, dedicated transport controls, mousepad, 8 channel strips, 100mm touch sensitive fader, touch sensitive rotary encoders.
Drool factor of 9.5
http://www.smartav.net/tango/index.php
Made for Logic, Cubase and Nuendo, but I hear it works pretty decent with Pro Tools too.
OMG, I saw this in Long & McQuade the other day, and just putting my finger down on a key, the huge bass that came out of the Little Phatty made me instantly want to buy it, although I didn’t. It’s a bargain at only $1400. It’s a 100% analog synth, that is digitally controlled and self calibrates, and sounds amazing.
The Fender Stratocaster VG
God’s guitar.
I figured I would share this recent piece of gear with the readers here at AudioGeekZine. This is one of the coolest things I have found in a long time. Does anyone remember that guitar from Line 6 that felt like a poorly set up Squire? Variax maybe? No…. I don’t either…. but this captures that technology, originally brought about by the crew over at Line 6, and amalgamates it with one of the greatest pieces of music history, the Fender Stratocaster.
The new VG Stratocaster is a plethora of incredible sounds just waiting to be unleashed. Other than looking cool like Strats always do (In my opinion) it has thirty-seven different pickup sounds to use. They are denominations of the five primary Modes: Normal Stratocaster (Magnetic pickups), virtual Stratocaster, Telecaster, humbucking pickup and acoustic. The guitar can be used like a normal strat by utilizing the stock magnetic pickups on the guitar or switch into one of the virtual modes and use classic strats, teles, and 5 different acoustics (from dreadnoughts to resonators).
Pretty sick eh? Well that’s not all this powerhouse boasts. Along with the virtual setups it has the ability to change between five different tunings….. Without ever touching a machine head…. what? Seriously. This allows alternate tunings without any change at all in string tension, consequently making it so that a person never again has to set up alternate guitars if they have a song that necessitates something other than standard tuning. The 5 tunings include all the most often used tunings, Standard tuning, Drop D, Open G, D modal (DADGAD), Baritone/Low B, and 12 string. Of course, by the sounds of it, this guitar appears better suited to live gigging or light studio work opposed to serious productions, but wow… what a toy.
The only negative aspect of this instrument I have come across in my travels is that it has an insatiable hunger for battery power. I could get over that. The only way they could make this guitar any better in my opinion would be to hijack the electronics from the Line 6 Variax which allows digital linking between it and their flagship amplifier The Vetta…. The Stratocaster VG and The Vetta would be UNSTOPPABLE.
Throw away your Variax… The Strat has evolved… and its hungry and sure to eat the competition.
Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher Ultra Distortion
“The TM-7 is basically a mean, angry guitar preamp made of three vacuum tubes. Plus a feedback loop which makes the preamp unstable. There is nothing else like it. No, it does not sound like a Death By Audio pedal. No, it won’t make you sound like Steve Vai. It is unsuitable for 80s nostalgia cover bands, unless they like to do industrial versions of Duran Duran. “
I don’t know why I want this, it just seems so cool, so offensive to ears and eyes. I love how it says “There is no bypass, only Zu’ul.”
$449.00 US
