Posted on Tue 07 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with guitars, jackson, pro series, rhoads, soloist
This one’s for the shredders...We have just got two new Jackson Pro Series guitars in stock and we couldn’t resist plugging them in and getting loud!
Jackson guitars often cause a bit of a stir when they arrive and never fail to get the staff talking about …
Posted on Mon 06 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with ROLI, seaboard, strobe, strobe2
Existing owners of (and those that are about to purchase) the Roli Seaboard, rejoice. You will now be able to download the award-winning polysynth software STROBE2 for free.
Ever since the launch of the soft silicone keys and ‘5D touch’ of the Roli Seaboard, many players have been making the …
Posted on Sat 04 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with bose, tonematch
When it was released, the Bose L1 compact PA system was a huge game changer for musicians and venues. The clarity, sound quality and portability of the L1 was a big hit across the board. A few years later and the Bose L1 system is still massively popular.
If you …
Posted on Fri 03 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with nord, piano, royal grand
It may seem a little daft at first but then there is a moment of “that’s brilliant!”...Nord uses a mannequin dummy with two ear-shaped microphones to record the new Royal Grand 3D sample.
Nord has recently added to its, already impressive, library of piano sounds available to download …
Posted on Thu 02 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with 3-way monitor, active studio monitors, dynaudio, lyd-48
Founded in 1977, Danish pro-audio systems company Dynaudio is one of the leading names in studio monitors and the LYD line has gone from strength to strength, picking up 5 star reviews all over the place. The newest addition to the LYD studio monitor range has just been announced and …
Posted on Wed 01 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with digital piano, roland, sheet music
If you are thinking of buying a new Roland piano, then now could be an ideal time. Buy any HP, LX or GP series Roland between 1st Feb and 31st July and get a free 3 month subscription to SheetMusicDirect.com
Visit Absolute Music and buy any Roland HP, LX …
Posted on Wed 01 February 2017 in Amplifiers • Tagged with 15 watt, 30 watt, guitar amplifier, orange, orange amps, rocker, valve amp
With their latest product launch, Orange Amplification attempts to bridge the gap between bedroom and stage with an amp loud enough to fill a venue but enough tone at low volume for home rehearsals.
The new Orange Rocker 15 and Rocker 32 are valve combo guitar amps with plenty of …
Posted on Mon 30 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with exotic, fender, jazz bass, jazzmaster, limited edition, stratocaster, telecaster
Alongside the release of Fender’s 2017 American Professional series of guitars and basses,comes the exciting announcement of the Limited Edition Fender Exotic Collection, offering familiar shaped guitars but made from unique woods, such as rescued mahogany, shedua, Malaysian blackwood and reclaimed pine.
Make no mistake, these are highly …
Posted on Fri 27 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with cabdryvr, digitech, effect pedal, freqout
At the recent NAMM show in California Digitech announced the arrival of two new pedals, the DigiTech CabDryVR Cabinet Emulator and the DigiTech FreqOut Natural Feedback Creator Pedal. Two very different pedals in one blog post, let’s check them out.
Digitech CabDryVR
Firstly, the DigiTech CabDryVR Speaker Cabinet Emulator …
Posted on Fri 27 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with condenser microphone, mercury, sontronic mercury, sontronics
Our friendly neighborhood microphone maker down the road, Sontronics has just sent us details of their newest addition, the Mercury and it looks as though they have hit it with all guns blazing.
The new Sontronics Mercury is a valve condenser microphone with a continuously variable polar pattern from omnidirectional …