It’s easy to test batteries, right? You probe a battery with a voltmeter (like the kind you find at electronics stores), and check the voltage. Done. But there’s a problem: A battery’s voltage changes depending on whether it’s under load or not; effects load down a battery to varying degrees, but meters don’t. So a battery can read fin with a meter, but under a real load the voltage might be marginal at best. Read the rest of this entry »
The successful 2007 release of the Twentieth Anniversary Ibanez RG550 guitars only whetted guitar dealer and player appetites for the original RG designs. What they wanted was more RG reissues — especially the RG770DX with its matching color body, knobs, headstock, pickups, and sharktooth inlays. The RG770DX epitomized the philosophy of metal excess in the early 90’s. Read the rest of this entry »
Boss today is showing off their new TU-88 Micro Monitor and Tuner, for use with MP3 players.
Celebrating their release of the TU-88 as perfect timing for a potential Father’s Day present at the end of the month, BOSS gives the rundown of the Micro Monitor and Tuner as being a device that allows bass and guitar players to play and tune in concert with their MP3 players via LCD. An amplifier is discreetly built into the TU-88 so as to provide the ability to listen quietly to stompboxes and the guitar via the headphones. A connection to any and all MP3 players is made possible by the MIX IN mini-stereo input, although the TU-88 also can plug into a digital recorder or home stereo system to provide a little party fun. Also featured are three tuning modes (Guitar, Bass, and Chromatic), ACCU-PITCH verification, a metronome, and Flat Tuning function. The metronome itself features full volume control and selectable rhythmic patterns.
The Boss TU-88 runs for $69.00. Click here for more.
Source: Harmony-Central
Handmade instruments are integral to the Magneto brand, and now they are bringing their old world design and styling to two new guitar models straight from Matsumoto, Japan.
Born from the minds of Kei Yatsuzuka and Christian Hatstatt, the Sonnet and T-Wave are Magneto brand guitars featuring a light body shape, Canadian maple, American alder and East Indian rosewood. While the woods, output jacks, CRL Switch and CTS Pots of the Sonnet and T-Wave electric guitars are imported, all the other guitar parts and sections are made and assembled in Japan. The Magneto guitars also feature bone nut materials and custom wound pickups. Pickups are constructed using AWG 42 wire and Alnico 2, 3, and 5 rods.
Both guitars are available this fall.
VHT is heralding the release of their Classic 6 amp. Designed for low-wattage usage, the Classic 6 was created with a 12? VHT Special Design speaker. VHT believes this design allows the amp to be cranked up (to 11, so to speak) without sound distortion or frying the speakers.
The Classic 6 from VHT comes complete with two controls, Tone and Volume, and also has low and high inputs. The power amp is a 6V6 model, while the pream is a single 12AX7 tube. VHT particularly talks up the versaitility of the amp here, citing its supposed ability to mimic both a British amp and a classic American tube amp. We’ll let readers be the judge. Also heralded is the simplicity of the amp design, with the tone control options allowing for quick adjustments and easy manipulation of harmonics. Read the rest of this entry »
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