iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard

The iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard sets a new standard for guitar signal processing. By harnessing the power of the iPad®, it combines the simplicity of a pedalboard with the flexibility of a multi-effects. The iPB-10 unleashes the ability to create and control guitar effects like never before.

Pedalboard Simplicity

The iPB-10 allows you to create your ultimate pedalboard, all on your iPad. Design a pedalboard by simply dragging and dropping up to 10 different pedals, in any order, to each pedalboard. You can even add an amp and cabinet to each setup. With 87 different pedals, 54 amps, and 26 cabinets to choose from, your options are virtually unlimited. Simply swipe your finger across the iPad to rearrange your pedals, turn them on and off, or to adjust their knobs.

Multi-effects Flexibility

Traditional multi-effects have given you the flexibility to change the entire configuration of your signal chain with a single footswitch. The iPB-10 brings the concept of presets to a pedalboard. This allows you to save 100 of your favorite pedalboards with the touch or your finger, and instantly recall them with the stomp of your foot. You can have a different pedalboard for each gig, set, song, or even switch pedalboards within a song.

Once you experience the flexibility of the iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard with its drag and drop design, you will change the way you think about guitar effects forever.

iPB-Nexus App for iPad-Coming June 2011

The iPB-Nexus app is the perfect way to build and control your pedalboard. Using the simple and intuitive touch screen controls of the iPad, iPB-Nexus makes designing your setup for the iPB-10 Programmable Pedal board easy. Add, arrange, and adjust your pedals with a few simple gestures of your finger.

iPB-10 Rear Panel Features

• 1/4” guitar input
• 1/4″ amp loop with ground lift switch
• 1/4″ effects loop
• Stereo 1/4″ line output with Amp/Mixer switch
• Output level
• Stereo XLR outputs with ground lift switch
• 1/8” headphone output
• 1/4″ external footswitch control
• USB port for audio streaming
• DC power input
• Power switch

more info on www.digitech.com

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Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. Musicians, engineers, and historians discuss the impact of the pedal on popular music and demonstrate the various ways it has been used, as well as how its evolution has improved the ability of artists to express themselves musically. The film features interviews with Brad Plunkett, the inventor of the pedal, plus many other musical luminaries such as Ben Fong-Torres, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Buddy Guy, Art Thompson, Eddie Kramer, Kirk Hammett, Dweezil Zappa, and Jim Dunlop. These professionals explain how a musical novelty transcended convention and has become timelessly woven into the fabric of modern pop-culture.

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World from Joey Tosi on Vimeo.

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How about a quality valve amp that sounds great, with neither bells nor whistles, at an affordable price for everyday musicians?

Founded in 2009 in Seattle, Washington, that’s exactly what Jet City is all about. The company is headed up by ex-Loud Technologies/Blackheart colleagues Dan Gallagher and Doug White, plus, wait for it… Mike Soldano. Now you’re listening.

“This ain’t an amp for players who like to program a bunch of different sounds and then select them with several footswitches.”

Soldano, of course, is a legend in guitar amplification. His were the hand-built, no-compromise heads that stood behind Clapton, Knopfler, Lukather, Gary Moore and countless other heroes in the eighties and nineties: he still makes them and they still cost limbs. Now, however, his design nous is available to all via Jet City, so just how do you compromise on no-compromise?

You start by designing your amps in the US and building them under strict quality control in China. Jet City makes much of the fact that the three key parties – Gallagher, White and Soldano – are free of penny-pinching corporate pressure, and that Soldano has carte blanche with design.

Nevertheless, offshore build is essential if you want to hit these price points. “We chose our contract manufacturers carefully and we’re really happy with the processes of development,” comments Gallagher.

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Make your own Guitar Picks with pick punch!

Get it from www.pickpunch.com

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Gibson introduce Dusk Tiger, a super guitar full of technology… is you are a geek this is your guitar!
Here how it works:

to know more visit gibson

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Can wait to mix a song with the guitar parts made with this amazing new Air Guitar!

You can buy it on www.isharegifts.com

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a Midi Guitar that can control lights
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Generate slithering “Axis Bold as Love” textures. Use Filter Matrix mode to manually flange your sound or select a flange point allowing musically frozen tonalities. This is the only pedal where lush Stereo Flange and Stereo Chorus work together seamlessly for the richest modulations that undulate and flow over any stage or recording. Colorful and seductive in stereo.

find out more on www.ehx.com/products/stereo-electric-mistress

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This guitar could transform your playing, but there are strings attached

Back in 1950, the first commandment of electric guitar manufacture was set in stone: thou shalt have six strings. While most luthiers obeyed, others have since broken protocol, to the delight of more adventurous players and the disgust of old-school purists.

If you frowned on the seven-string boom of the early Noughties, then you’ll probably hate Schecter’s new Damien Elite 8. Not only does it feature the bowel-emptying low B much loved by Korn and the gang, it also has a tectonic-plate-quaking eighth string that’s thicker than an industrial cable.

Eight stringers do have real benefits, with jazz cats (Charlie Hunter) and metal bands (Meshuggah/Deftones) all taking advantage of the added melodic range. But make no mistake: this is the most esoteric guitar we’ve seen in ages.

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The 70th Anniversary John Lennon Imagine Model,  J-160VS and the John Lennon Museum J-160E Model

Seventy years after his birth and three decades after his untimely passing, John Lennon’s message of peace continues to touch the masses, and his songs still resonate in the hearts and minds of fans around the world. At the request of Yoko Ono, Gibson Guitar is proud to offer three 70th Anniversary John Lennon J-160E acoustic guitars to celebrate the legacy of this extraordinary artist. Accordingly, only a very limited number of these handmade acoustics will ever be available.

In 1962, John Lennon was still an up-and-coming artist, and though one of two main singer/songwriters at the heart of The Beatles, was scraping by on the little money the band was bringing in at that time. For his first quality American acoustic/electric guitar, Lennon had his sights set on a new Gibson J-160E – the problem was, he didn’t have the money to buy it. With the aid of a co-signed purchase from Beatles manager Brian Epstein (who also co-signed for bandmate George Harrison’s J-160E), Lennon made the guitar his own, and put it straight to the business of making rock and roll history. Recreated by the luthiers at Gibson’s Montana acoustic guitar facility in period-perfect detail, the 70th Anniversary John Lennon models are available in three distinct versions to represent the instrument at three periods in Lennon’s life and career. The first, finished in Vintage Sunburst and limited to 500 guitars, represents the guitar as it was when Lennon first acquired it and used it on several famous Beatles recordings from 1963 to ’64, including Please Please Me, With The Beatles and A Hard Day’s Night.

The second is a stunning Custom Shop “Imagine” model in a Soft White finish personally requested by Yoko Ono to reflect the sentiment of John’s life and music during the recording of Imagine. And the third is the model as it is today, on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, with a thin, natural finish and Lennon’s famous “John and Yoko” caricature sketches, representing the appearance of the guitar during the famous Lennon-Ono “Bed-In” peace protests of 1969.

The custom shop’s second and third renditions are limited to 70 guitars each, one for every year since John’s birth in 1940, and both include a special 70th Anniversary Certificate personally signed by Yoko Ono and sent to the final purchaser by Certified Mail. As for construction, each version is an accurate rendition of the J-160E of 1962, a guitar originally released in 1954 as one of the world’s first successful “electro-acoustic” guitars, with built-in pickup and electronics and ready to hit the stage for the professional performing musician. Beloved by Lennon, and kept close throughout his too-short life, the 70th Anniversary John Lennon J-160E is a guitar every Beatles fan will want to make their own.

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