Tag: Guitars

Guitar Gear iOS

David Mead’s Guitar Gym—a guitar practice workout

I discovered the David Mead: Guitar Gym app through GuitarNoize—who you should absolutely follow on Twitter and/or Facebook—when I was looking at various guitar-related iOS apps. I have a fascination with guitar-related iOS apps to be honest. I love the educational guitar apps, the amplifier simulator apps and most other music apps that allow me to use my guitars on iOS. But with the number of apps out there these days how do you find the good apps?! I’m lucky I follow smart people on Twitter. If you’re discovering the David Mead: Guitar Gym app from this article, you’re lucky through association. Congratulations! … David Mead’s Guitar Gym—a guitar practice workout

Guitar Gear

iRig BlueBoard by IK Multimedia

The talented people at IK Multimedia have released news of another addition to the iRig family—iRig BlueBoard. The iRig BlueBoard is the first wireless MIDI pedalboard controller for iPhone, iPad and Mac. The wireless aspect of this cool new device is managed through the power of Bluetooth. Of course you can’t see the awesome blueness of the device’s buttons on this website, but trust me, it glows with the power of blue. Perhaps it’s the Bluetooth that makes the buttons glow with such amazing blueness?! Who knows?! Not me. I just know it looks amazingly cool (which works on a whole new level because blue is a cool colour—it’s a design thing). … iRig BlueBoard by IK Multimedia

Guitar Gear iOS

StompBox into Meteor Multi Track Recorder

When I got my hands on an iPad, one of the first apps I wanted to try out was StompBox by 4Pockets Audio. I’d seen it in iTunes when I was using the iPhone and admired the way the screenshots replicate the design style I was used to in the PC based VST plugins I had been using (which are often based on the racks and pedalboards of the real world). I was hoping that user interface (UI) would translate into an easy to use application. I wasn’t wrong.

As luck would have it, 4Pockets Audio also made a multitrack recorder—Meteor Multi Track Recorder—which had UI similarities to the PC based DAWs I’d become somewhat familiar with over the last few years. That made this combination seem like a perfect match. Again, I wasn’t wrong.

Surely this couldn’t last. … StompBox into Meteor Multi Track Recorder

Guitars

52 Guitars, week 3—Dreamer D-Pro

I only recently stumbled upon the Dreamer Guitarworks range when Twitter suggested I might like to follow them. It seems the people I am likely to follow on Twitter are fairly predictable (when it comes to the subject matter they’re likely to send my way). If I continue to find guitars like the Dreamer D-Pro through Twitter, I am happy to have predicatable tastes. My predictability based happiness can be explained several ways. Here are some of them in list format. … 52 Guitars, week 3—Dreamer D-Pro

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52 Guitars, week 2—Carvin JB200C Jason Becker Tribute

Unlike this website which uses no colour—I generally prefer my guitars to do the same—today’s guitar from my wish list of guitars in 2013 is incredibly bright and colourful. You’ll need to visit the official Carvin JB200C website to see that colour, but I have a feeling you’ll be glad you did. As far as colours go, that is one impressive shade of blue. Of course you can upgrade to any of Carvin’s translucent finishes if blue isn’t your thing. … 52 Guitars, week 2—Carvin JB200C Jason Becker Tribute

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52 Guitars, week 1—Kramer Baretta (The ’84)

I love guitars. I can’t explain my fascination to anybody that doesn’t love guitars, so I don’t try. I am lucky enough to own a few guitars already and hope to never stop buying new models each time my circumstances allow me to do so. I have a wife who wants that to end, but I’m sure she’ll get over that. Having said that, this new article series which I’ve brilliantly named 52 Guitars (on account of me attempting to write about a different guitar I would love to own each week this year) may provide me with enough enjoyment to be happy with the virtual collection instead of attempting to grow my real-world collection.

Yeah … I doubt it. … 52 Guitars, week 1—Kramer Baretta (The ’84)

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The beginnings of my next guitar

I’m lucky enough to own a few different guitars. I’ve tried to add a new guitar to my little collection every other year for the last 10 years or so. With each new purchase I try and get something new. Not new in the sense of the guitar not being second hand, but in the sense of the guitar having features my previous guitars didn’t have. For example, I purchased my Fender Stratocaster so I could experience the three single coil pickup scenario (plus I just wanted to own a Fender Stratocaster). I purchased my Epiphone Les Paul so I could experience the twin humbucker scenario with independent volume and control knobs. With all my current guitars, I have most scenarios covered. I guess that’s why this year I wasn’t really looking for a new guitar. … The beginnings of my next guitar