Tag: equipment

  • This Linux Goes to Eleven – The Linux Guitar Project

    What do you get when you cross Linux with a guitar? You get a guitar with a built in recording studio. Or at least that is what Canadian luthier Mark Kett and linuxcaffe proprietor David Patrick hope to achieve with their Linux Guitar Project. read more | digg story [ad#co-1]

  • FCC to Fine Behringer One Million Dollars

    An interesting piece of news if you own any Behringer equipment: Radio World Posted an article saying that the FCC is proposing a $1,000,000 fine for marketing products in the United States without certification that they meet FCC standards for radio interference. There is a list of the specific models that were imported in the…

  • Ammo Box Amps

    Here’s an interesting item I found on digg: Looking for a better guitar amp? So were we… Enter the original Ammo Box Amp… a hand-wired tube guitar head amplifier, designed by a naval nuclear-trained engineering officer and built to MIL-SPEC using NASA/military-grade components. Personally, I would want to hear what it sounds like before sending…

  • Peterson StroboSoft Tuner

    The StroboSoft tuner from Peterson is a software (PC or Mac) version of the strobe tuners for which Peterson is famous. If you don’t know what a strobe tuner is, it is a tuner that works by triggering a strobe light from the audio signal of the instrument you are tuning. The strobe light illuminates…

  • Fender Internet Guitar

    I just saw this article on gizmag saying that Fender and Intel have teamed up to produce an internet enabled guitar. It seems like this is a concept guitar and not an actual product.

  • The StroboPick

    The StroboPick is a small guitar tuner in the form of a guitar pick. Rather than measuring the frequency of the sound your guitar makes, the strobopick is like a miniature strobe light that allows you to see when the string is vibrating at the correct pitch. This allows you to tune extremely accurately and…

  • DVForge JamPod

    The JamPod is a cool little accessory for you guitar and iPod. It’s a tiny little guitar amplifier that sits on your iPod and allows you to jam with your guitar to music on your iPod through your headphones. I thought this was a fun thing so I pre-ordered one back in March of 2005…