Posts tagged ‘Amp’
Richard Gere Guitar Auction Just Short of 1 Million
Richard Gere has G.A.S. or had G.A.S. but decided to auction off his personal guitar and amp collection as I reported a few days ago. Well the numbers are in and his collection fetched $936, 438! Not to shabby!
The most expensive guitar sold was a 1960 Gibson Les Paul which was bought by a private collector for $98,500!
Martin Guitars even bought back a few of their own guitars!
A 1931 CF Martin that went for $62,500 (£40,000), was among three lots bought by the guitar manufacturer
The actor has said it was “painful” to let go of “my true friends”.
Via: BBC.co.uk
Richard Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Richard Gere is a gear head. I had no clue! Apparently he is auctioning off his collection og high end guitars and amps! One of the most impressive is the Gibson Flying V previously owned by Albert King that sold for $74,500!!
Plus with how he describes his guitar collection you can tell he is an aficionado:
“It’s like falling in love. You’ve got to bond with it and hear what it’s saying to you. Each guitar makes you play differently. It’s like touching a woman. How does she like it?” He laughs. “I’d always manage to find something that I liked, and the next thing I knew, I had over a hundred guitars.”
Yup. It really is like that too.
Via: muzicosphere.com
Jimi Hendrix – Newport ’69 Pop Festival with Dial Showman
In case you missed the FREE American Vintage D amp in AmpliTube I posted about yesterday check out this video. It is Jimi Hendrix WAILING on his guitar through the same model amp that IK Multimedia modeled!
Now go get that freebie! Only 2 days left to get it…
Get Jimi Hendrix’s Dual Showman Modeled Amp Free with AmpliTube Custom Shop!
Its pretty bad ass if you ask me when companies give out freebies. So I was excited to hear IK Multimedia was giving out a free American Vintage D in the new Custom Shop! If you haven’t tried AmpliTube 3 FREE yet, get on it!
Check out the deets:
Hendrix acquired this 100 watt amp in 1968 and used it in ‘68 and ‘69 with the Experience tour together with an assortment of other amps. The amp sported a built-in spring reverb unit and originally came with 2×15” J.B. Lansing® speakers.
Once you have installed AmpliTube 3 FREE log into the Custom Shop and download your free American Vintage D amp from the “What’s Hot” section on the main page. Hurry, as it’ll only be free til the end of September!
ReChromE & ReGolD Freeware Guitar Amp VST’s
Ronald Passion has been rocking the VST world with his new plug-ins! 2 Guitar amp modeling plug in with built in cabinet impulse responses!
IK Multimedia Amplitube 3 Review
When I first heard that there was going to be a new AmpliTube 3 I thought “How can you beat AmpliTube Fender?”. Now after spending a bit of time with it I can say they didn’t. They more than raised the bar with AmpliTube 3 and maybe even improved it. From presets, CPU handling and the sound quality they went above and beyond with this release. They poised it to be the new standard not only in guitar amp and effect modeling, but as a whole new platform! Sound-wise it rocks. I have been blown away by AmpliTube before, the first time I played it I closed my eyes and smiled. Well, I get that same dynamic and open feel here, but now I get Orange, Vox, Mesa Boogie models and STEREO in and out! I can go on forever about the things that excite me in it but lets start at the beginning…
AmpliTube 3 is the biggest collection of amps and effects released yet with over 160 pieces accurately modeled! 30 of these are new amps and effects, everything that was there before has been reworked to sound a lot better than they did before. I could not believe the sound I was getting when browsing through the old AmpliTube 2 presets I didn’t like. It brought a whole new sound to what they had before! When looking through previous versions of AmpliTube I always hated how you had to browse through presets. Click, arrow, arrow, arrow again if you had a lot of presets and then wait til yours came up. With AmpliTube 3 there is a new preset manager that makes this easier than ever! They have also taken a nod from their workstation series and made AmpliTube 3 able to open ANY of the other AmpliTube’s amps, effects or presets! Now I don’t have to load up every AmpliTube to see which sound I want to record with – I can do it all INSIDE of AmpliTube 3!!!
One of the biggest changes in AmpliTube 3 besides the sound is the way it manages the computer’s processing power. AmpliTube 3 now includes 3 three buttons on the top right. They are ECO, MID, & and HI and each mode can help save CPU power when using high track counts or on slower computers! In previous versions, you had to go into the preferences for each AmpliTube and select what was oversampled and what wasn’t. Well now you just click a button and you’re done! Of course they still allow you to edit all of that in preferences but I find that the ECO/MID/HI buttons do a fine job. Now a lot of people are thinking “Why would you need to run more than one guitar gear modeler?”. Remember when I was all geeked out about STEREO in and out? Yeah you’re getting it now aren’t you? You can use AmpliTube 3 and all of its great new amps and effects on anything you want now! One of my mix secrets is taking the reverbs from AmpliTube Fender and using them on vocals and drums but I hated that it wasn’t true stereo…Oh wait, now it is! Even better yet for all the producers out there you can use the Step Slicer as an effect on synths and keys for that gated trance sound and it automatically locks on to the project tempo you’re working on! One thing AmpliTube 3 has mastered that I hate about other DAWs is how they handle effects. When you choose a distortion for example followed by a delay. If you want to add another distortion before the delay have to delete it, insert new effect and then reinsert the delay after it and recall your settings. Not in AmpliTube 3! Drag and drop anything wherever you want it! They really outdid themselves with that feature alone! Just taking into account the vast number of effects in AmpliTube 3 makes this a no brainer for normal production and mix duties!
Now in all of the update I love one thing I never fancied about AmpliTube 2 but (which never bothered me at the same time) was – the bass amps. I mean I have IK Multimedia’s Ampeg SVX and I loved that sound on just about any song for bass. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke right? Wrong. They have brought HEAT with the new bass amps in AmpliTube 3! This is the first time I have used ANYTHING besides Ampeg SVX and been more than happy with it! I brought in a session bass player and pulled up the Phat Vintage Bass preset and was blown away. It really is a gift and a curse now – I don’t know which one sounds better! Comparing two sounds from different AmpliTube releases is easy too now that we are able to load the different presets inside of AmpliTube 3‘s new preset manager! Also Another new thing is the way you can mic up amps,. You can now choose 2 different mics and move them around independently of each other and move them around in the room to really fine tune the amp/mic/room sweet spot!
Last but not least we have the standalone version. Usually I don’t use the standalone versions of AmpliTube to often but when I opened up AmpliTube 3 I was in for a nice surprise! They added a feature packed 4 track recorder! Now I know what your thinking, “I have a full featured DAW! Why would I want a simple 4 track recorder!?” Well this isn’t just ANY 4 track recorder, this is the most feature packed 4 track you’ll ever use! Not only can you use independent pitch-shift/time-stretch on each track but you can use the effects within AmpliTube 3 on these tracks! Get out basic song ideas out quick in record time! There are also Stealth Pedal and Stealth board control features to assign pedal controllers on the fly! Small additions like this really make this release IK’s best yet!
Seems like the good folks over at IK Multimedia keep me surprised and happy with all the stuff they have been releasing lately! With their attention to detail in the features, sound, and even looks on AmpliTube 3 this is sure to be a hit! From jamming out with headphones playing new Orange, Vox and Mesa models to recording quick ideas on the fly AmpliTube 3 has got it. Learning new songs and need to slow down leads to learn them? AmpliTube 3 has got it. Recording in an apartment and need quality top notch amp and effect selection? AmpliTube 3 has got what it takes to turn your computer into a world class studio with the best mics, amps and effects available to man! You can not go wrong with IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube 3 whether you are a guitarist, bassist, producer or engineer. AmpliTube 3 belongs in your collection.
IK Multimedia Amplitube Metal Review
Amplitube Metal is ugly. I mean really, really ugly. Ugly like when your doing an awesome solo and your face scrunches up. Or Ugly like when your listening to your favorite metal band and they go into a break down and your face does the same scrunch up while you bang your head to the awesomely dark, deep yet full guitar tones! (Yeah you know what I’m talking about…) Amplitube Metal is exactly what it is. Its Metal. Full on rebellious, in your face, loud Metal. From old school rock to Nu Metal and every other type of distortion you can think of! Another great amp sim from IK Multimedia in the Amplitube series this is another specialty amp sim that sounds phenomenal.
Amplitube Metal, like Amplitube 2, Amplitube 3 or Fender has a basic yet highly customizable interface. There are 5 modules and each module has tons of options. You can switch back and forth between them like you would tabs in FireFox. Very easy and you don’t get lost in menus! The modules in order are: a high quality tuner, a stomp pedal board with 12 stomp effects, 5 Amp models, 13 cabinet models 6 microphone and 9 rack stereo effects. The number of tone combinations here are ridiculous! You can go through so many different tones that I get stuck when I record myself. Sometimes I go in with a idea and then just start jamming and come up with tons of new one and forgot why I originally came in to record! This is a great problem to have. I have had writers block before but when you have a tone that inspires this really makes tools like Amplitube Metal a necessity in the studio!
With Amplitube Metal you have 5 amps. Well in this, like in Amplitube 2, you can select pre amp, EQ and a power amp all within the amp head. This is a great feature to mix and match what you like in different amps. On to the cabs, there is a pretty big speaker selection for you here too. This is where the Metal in Amplitube Metal really starts to come out. Nothing but 4×12 cabinets here, 4 of them with 3 “takes” of each one to be exact! Some of the best and most used in metal cabs are here. From Marshall to Mesa, all here and they all sound huge just like they do in real life!
The included effects in Amplitube Metal are again awesome sounding and centered towards metal. So chances are if you play metal you have played these before. With the included Rack effects you have over 23 different effects at your disposal. Chorus? Done. Flange? Done. Delay? Of course, oh and its sync-able to your host’s BPM! Everything you could ever need plus mere? Done, it is all here! Oh and they threw in a kick ass tuner as usual. Oh and the fact that you can run 2 rigs at the same time is awesome!
What bad can I say about Amplitube Metal? I seriously can’t think of a thing! Every time I review something or am looking at purchasing something I look at the price point. At this price point you can not get a better deal for recording distorted guitars. If you were to even buy one rig you would be spending hundreds, if not thousands more than you would pay for any of the Amplitube series!