Whether you're a musician or a music lover, no one appreciates an out-of-tune instrument. And while there are many solutions available to help players keep their strings properly tuned, they usually require clunky workarounds or inaccurate devices. Todd and Nick met with Sam Force of the company Band Industries. Sam showed off the Roadie Tuner, a mechanical Bluetooth-enabled guitar tuner.
Learning to play a musical instrument is both challenging and rewarding but fitting practice into today's busy lives can be difficult. Zivix Jamstik - the guitar for iOS - could be the answer. Chris Heille from Zivix shows the two Todds a few riffs. The Jamstik is 16" lightweight, portable guitar with six real strings and five frets designed to fit
Celebrating 120 years of Gibson, Aljon Go shows Jeffrey and Todd the superb Anniversary Edition of the Les Paul Standard. It's stunning both in the Ocean Water Perimeter finish, the level of detail and the technology built-in. The sound of the guitar can be changed to mimic the tone of your rock'n'roll hero and Min-ETune will tune the guitar automatically.
I've seen multi-effect processors for iPad before. We did a CES interview on a stompbox. Positive Grid (positivegrid.com) is another company offering effects pedal for iOS. Today, they announced JamUp, a new multi-effect guitar app and guitar interface for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. JamUp gives guitarists access to many tones. They also have the iTunes Jam Player and the very
Professionals are giving Gibson major props for coming out with a Guitar that self tunes itself. Watch as team Jeffrey Powers from the Geekazine podcast jams out with this self tuning guitar