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DigiTech JamMan Looper Pedal Demonstration

  • Stompbox Walkthrus
  • DigiTech
  • Guitar Effects
September 30, 2008
DigiTech JamMan Demo
The DigiTech JamMan looper is one of a few good loopers on the market that's really made a name for itself. The looping process doesn't vary much, but Bill Holland overviews the features and demonstrates basic looping on the JamMan.  

Offsite Link: Visit DigiTech's official website for more information

BBE BMAX-T Makes The Low End Blossom Like A Delicate Flower

  • Gearwire Labs
  • BBE
  • Signal Processors
September 30, 2008
BBE BMAX-T Tube Bass Preamp
The BBE BMAX-T joins Owen O'Malley for a sweet, low key studio bass session. Take your time enjoying every single abalone-tipped knob on the front of this smooth little number.  

Offsite Link: Visit BBE's official website for more information

Epiphone 4x12 Speaker Cabinet: Talking Cabs With Cabin

  • Artist Features
  • Epiphone
  • Guitar Amps
September 30, 2008
Epiphone Guitar Cab

Dave Chale, the drummer from Louisville's Cabin, is back with an unidentified Epiphone cabinet. The grill hs been removed for anonymity or to protect the innocent or something like that.  


Offsite Link: Visit Epiphone's official website or Cabin's official website for more information

Numark IDJ2 DJ Interface Overview, Part Two

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Numark
  • DJ
September 30, 2008
Numark iDJ2, Part Two
We continue on from our last iDJ2 video where Bill Holland left off, testing out the pitch controls with the chipmunk effect. I, on the other hand, would put on some Sleep, slow it down as much as I could and make it seem like that pizza you ordered is taking literal days to get delivered. That's how I roll. Welcome to Ice Town.  

Offsite Link: Visit Numark's official website for more information

Circuitastrophe Circuit Bending Spectacle Uses Ingenuity All Night Long

  • Expert Features
  • Location Sound
September 30, 2008
GetLoFi's Ingenuity Enables All Night Bending Jam at Circuitastrophe
Circuitastrophe was the first annual Circuit Bending symposium held in Cincinnati, Home of the Bent. After the workshops and jams, Reed Ghazala (aka the Father of Circuit Bending) held a real live 21st Century Be-In. But how to power all those late night benders with no juice?  

Offsite Link: Visit Circuitastrophe's official website for more information

Shure 55SH Series II Mic Is All Up In Sarah Teeple's Grill

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Shure
  • Stage Microphones
September 30, 2008
Shure 55SH Series II Ladybirds
The Shure 55SH Series II is for the singers who really like a mic that gets right up in their face. With old school charm and a cardioid pickup pattern, this mic takes center stage.  

Offsite Link: Visit Shure's official website or The Ladybirds on MySpace for more information

Hohner Marine Band Harmonica: Playing The Blues With Bill Holland

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Hohner
  • Woodwind
September 30, 2008
Hohner Marine Band Harmonica
Remember the early-to-mid 90s Nickelodeon game show What Would You Do? where people would get hit by all sorts of pies, and then Marc Summers would ask random audience members if they had hidden talents? Who knew that Bill Holland could play such a mean harp?  

Offsite Link: Visit Hohner's official website for more information

Soniccouture Tremors Dubstep Drums And Atmospheric Breaks

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Soniccouture
  • Sample Libraries
September 30, 2008
Soniccouture Tremors
Soniccouture releases Tremors, a loop library chock full of your wildest Dubstep dreams. It's also only a couple degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon.  

Offsite Link: Visit Soniccouture's official website for more information

Zero-G Vocal Foundry: Zero-G Teams Up With Xfonic For An Even Better Vocal Library

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Zerog
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September 30, 2008
Zero-G Vocal Foundry
Zero-G and Xfonic team up for Vocal Foundry. If it's anything like a regular foundry, the vocals will be produced like metal castings from either ferrous or non- ferrous alloys!  

Offsite Link: Visit Zero-G's official website for more information

Peavey 5150 Sets In The Stone The Legacy Of Van Halen

  • Gearwire Gallery
  • Peavey
  • Guitar
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September 30, 2008
Peavey 5150 Gets the Gearwire Gallery Treatment
As if you couldn't get enough Van Hagar back in 1993, Peavey unleashed this goodie upon the world. Despite it's diagonal positioning in this ad, however, this amp turned out to be quite useful for touring artists.  

Offsite Link: Check out Peavey amps at: www.peavey.com

Universal Audio LA-610 Channel Strip Demonstration

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Universal Audio
  • Stereo Recorders
September 29, 2008
Universal Audio LA-610
The Universal Audio LA-610 channel strip is, in layman's terms, a magic box that will make whatever you plug into it sound better. Owen O'Malley and his sweet lightning bolt guitar strap test the merits of this preamp / leveling amp.  

Offsite Link: Visit Universal Audio's official website for more information

Circuitastrophe: Recreating Michael Una's Beat-Bike

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September 29, 2008
Circuit Bent Bike With Alex
Alex from Get LoFi joins us at Circuitastrophe Event, a circuit bending event in Cincinnati, Ohio. He's up to making his own circuit bent bike, this one, thankfully, is stationary (at least for the time being) to avoid circuit bent fender benders.  

Offsite Link: Visit Get LoFi's official website for more information

Yamaha GO46 Firewire Interface Overview

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Yamaha
  • Interfaces/Hardware
September 29, 2008
Yamaha GO46
We put our game interfaces on to review the Yamaha GO46. It's a little FireWire interface that offers low latency recording for those home studio engineers who don't need eight simultaneous XLR inputs . . . or are you miking up a full kit in your bedroom?  

Offsite Link: Visit Yamaha's official website for more information

Carvin DCM1000: Black Suit Karma Bassist Talks About His Power Amp.

  • Artist Features
  • Carvin
  • Power Amps
September 29, 2008
Black Suit Karma
James Russell recently spoke to Gearwire about his Yamaha bass. Now he moves down the chain to talk about his power amp.  

Offsite Link: For more on Black Suit Karma.

Line 6 M13: It Even Has A Built In Looper

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Line 6
  • Guitar Effects
September 29, 2008
Line 6 M13 Looper
In addition to have 12 scenes capable of storing a dozen different stompbox models each, the Line 6 M13 has a built-in looper as well. The next version is rumored to have built in amps, guitars and guitarists, so you can do what you really want to do -- sip lemonade!  

Offsite Link: Visit Line 6's official website for more information

Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass With Reformed Guitarist Billy Lease

  • Artist Features
  • Fender
  • Bass Guitars
September 29, 2008
Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass
Cabin's bassist, Billy Lease, became a bassist by the Darwinian laws of population control. He talks about making the switch from a six-stringer to a Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass.  

Offsite Link: Visit Fender's official website or Cabin on MySpace for more information

Novation Remote 25SL: Gearwire Studio Overview

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Novation
  • Controllers
September 29, 2008
Novation Remote 25SL
Bill Hollands goes all Benjamin Gates in this overview of the Novation Remote 25SL. This compact little warrior is preconfigured to work with a bevy of plugins, making configuration a thing of the past.  

Offsite Link: Visit Novation's official website for more information

SoundFonts Electric Grand EG70: Yamaha CP-70 Physically Modeled

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Software Instruments
September 29, 2008
Soundfonts EG70
For those of you tired of lugging around those Yamaha CP-70's, just pack up your laptop setup and load on SoundFonts Electric Grand EG70. SoundFonts very carefully reconstructs the sounds and nuances in plugin format.  

Offsite Link: Visit SoundFonts' official website for more information

Homegrown Sounds WAV Recorder: Simple Plugin Records Directly To WAV

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Homegrown Sounds
  • Computer Music
September 29, 2008
HGSounds Wav Recorder
Homegrown Sounds releases WAV Recorder, a free plugin (donations welcome) that records directly to WAV for the times when you don't need your whole home studio setup running.  

Offsite Link: Visit Homegrown Sounds' official website for more information

2003 Les Paul Classic 1960 Reissue: Guitarist Luke Mulholland Talks About His LP Reissue

  • Artist Features
  • Gibson
  • Electric Guitars
September 29, 2008
Luke Mulholland
Despite abuse, Luke Mulholland still loves his 2003 Les Paul reissue. But then they say you always hurt the one you love.  

Offsite Link: For more on Luke Mulholland.

Moog Etherwave Theremin: Theremin's Explained!

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Moog Music
  • Synths
September 26, 2008
Moog Etherwave Theremin
Everyone knows that theremins are neat, but if you haven't played one, it takes more than just wiggling your hands around. It doesn't take THAT much more, but there's obviously a lot more to it than that.  

Offsite Link: Visit Moog's official website for more information

Shure Beta 58A With Sarah Teeple Of The Ladybirds

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Shure
  • Stage Microphones
September 26, 2008
Shure Beta 58A Ladybirds
We talk to Sarah Teeple of the Ladybirds about one of the two microphones she uses on stage. The Shure Beta 58A is a highly touted dynamic mic with a supercardioid pattern that comes in handy.  

Offsite Link: Visit Shure's official website or The Ladybirds on MySpace for more information

Line 6 M13: Stompbox Modeler Demonstration, Part Two

  • Expert Features
  • Line 6
  • Guitar Effects
September 26, 2008
Line 6 M13, Part Two
Line 6's Dave Lenat shows how far the M13 can take your tone. Thanks to the Line 6 FM4 effects within and some crazier effects -- like a reverb with its own stringy tonality, you'll never be at a lack of juicy tonal options.  

Offsite Link: Visit Line 6's official website for more information

Guild F-50 Jumbo: Singer-Songwriter Jimmy Lloyd Reflects On His Choice Of A Life Partner

  • Artist Features
  • Guild
  • Acoustic Guitars
September 26, 2008
Jimmy Lloyd And His F-50
While it may not be the right guitar for everyone, the Guild F-50 suits singer-songwriter Jimmy Lloyd fine. He spend six months looking and found the best for all his musical worlds.  

Offsite Link: For more on Jimmy Lloyd.

Epiphone Les Paul Modded Out By Cabin Bassist

  • Artist Features
  • Epiphone
  • Electric Guitars
September 26, 2008
Epiphone Les Paul With Cabin
Billy Lease, who primarily plays bass for Cabin, occasionally switches out the four-string for an electric guitar. He shows us his Epiphone Les Paul, which he has modded out to meet his needs.  

Offsite Link: Visit Epiphone's official website or Cabin on MySpace for more information

Moog MF-104Z Analog Delay Review With Ben Felker

  • Artist Features
  • Moog Music
  • Guitar Effects
September 26, 2008
Moog MF-104Z
It's no shame for Line 6 that Ben Felker eventually replaced his broken DL4 with a Moog MF-104Z. You just can't beat an analog delay without the analog part, and this MoogerFooger series delay keeps it simple and sensational.  

Offsite Link: Visit Moog's official website or The Fervor on MySpace for more information

Kurzweil SP88: It Is Tough To Take A Grand Piano On The Road; What's A Budget Conscious Musician To Do?

  • Artist Features
  • Kurzweil
  • Keyboard
September 26, 2008
Sora
Sora, a Canadian songstress, talks about her recent purchase of a Kurzweil SP88. She likes it. It works. The price was right.  

Offsite Link: For more on Sora

Heet Sound Plus EBow Demonstration

  • Gearwire Labs
  • Heet Sound
  • Other Guitar
September 26, 2008
Heet Sound Plus EBow
Everyone from Blue Oyster Cult to R.E.M. to the Smashing Pumpkins has dug a little EBow in their tunes. Even Brad Delson from Linkin Park messed around with some EBow. Here, J. Irving-Giles does the same with the Heet Sound Plus EBow.  

Offsite Link: Visit Heet Sound's official website for more information

Gibson Robot Flying V And Gibson Robot X-Plorer: Two New Robot Released

  • Gearwire Gear Insider
  • Gibson
  • Electric Guitars
September 26, 2008
Gibson Robot V X-Plorer
Gibson is building a robot army to eradicate tuning problems. They have soldered up two more soldiers in the fight -- the Flying V and the X-Plorer.  

Offsite Link: Visit Gibson's official website for more information

ProCo RAT 2: Chris Perricelli Of St. Paul's Little Man Talks About His RAT 2

  • Artist Features
  • Proco
  • Guitar Effects
September 26, 2008
Little Man
The ProCo RAT has been around the block. It is one of the pedals you see all the time--being used by a wide variety of guitarists. One of these is Chris Perricelli of the power pop band, Little Man  

Offsite Link: For more on Little Man.

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