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Square and Greasy? So maybe that's not what they were thinking when they came up the White Castle grills for these cabinets, but that was my first thought. Then again, my documenting a decade of Oddities has somewhat skewed my perspective. Boutique Music |
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Amplifier Art The amp has been a long overlooked canvas in the world of music. They should think about using pieces from the old masters, so that you can have your very own Sistene Combo or Mona Half-Stack. That would be something a little classier than using the original cover from "Smell the Glove." Silkyn |
Paint 'Em All Once you've got your amp dressed up, how can you resist doing the same to your guitar cases? How can you not buy a case from a company called "Postal Monkey?" Postal Monkey Cases |
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Aren't We Taking This a Little Too Far? Now that we're on an artistic roll, why only do hard shell cases? Ace Products |
Chopper Bag Screw all those foo-foo pretty boy cases and stow your axe in something suitable for your next biker bar gig. TKL Products Corp. |
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PhasiBalz The name pretty well says it. This is a phaser with distortion. It's got the Rex Bogue name on it, but he's been dead for more than ten years. It appears that the company is producing products based on the designs by unsung-active-guitar-electronics-pioneer Rex Bogue. Thanks to Barry Monroe for sending me a link to the site, there was no info about them at the show. Rex Bogue Electronics |
Wheelchair Guitar Stand I thought it was a pretty cool idea to make a guitar stand that clamps onto the side of a wheelchair. You just have to be careful going through narrow doorways. PL & H International, Inc. |
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Workinghorse Amp I not real clear on how the name "Workinghorse" and hubcaps go together, but what the heck. They've got single-speaker "Pony" and a dual-speaker "Stallion" models. If you buy one, Visual Sound will throw in a one of their Jekyll & Hyde overdrive pedals for free. Visual Sound LLC |
The Fin Bob Heil has been busy with his dynamic mic renaissance. While quality dynamic mics are not all that odd, one housed in a retro-finned case with an internal phantom-powered blue LED is. Heil Sound |
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Mic Thing I think the name could use work, but the "Mic Thing" is a pretty nice idea. It's a hinged metal housing that's filled with foam. Just the thing for some focused sound control. SM Pro Audio |
Snap Jack Just like the Apple laptop power connectors, these magnetic 1/4" connectors will come apart under stress. Great if you or your bandmates are particularly clumsy. Jodavi, Inc. |
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Two In One Cut down that annoying between-song double recapoing time with the Transpo Capo. Transpo Products, Inc. |
The Final Frontier Not to be satisfied with producing custom knobs and pickgaurds, Q-Parts has transformed the lowly staplock into a work of art. Q-Parts |
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Accessorize You can order any of Home Brew's stomp boxes in an array of custom paint jobs. They've also got quite a selection of knobs and if that's not enough for you, they've partnered with Q-Parts so you can even have tiny metal skulls for knobs. Home Brew Electronics |
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Duck's Stuff The top picture shows a handy collapsible guitar workstand. Below is a string winder that you can fit into a power drill for those times when you have to have the string wound now. Duck's Deluxe |
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Stage Ninja Finish your gig and get the hell out of there. When you're done just let the Stage Ninja reel the cable into the plastic housing and you're done. They've got 1/4" instrument cable and XLR mic cable models. Stage Ninja |
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Stowey's Bags Cable management for the chronically disorganized. They were showing bags with pictures of the cable they should contain silk screened on the outside. They also had their new bags with a clear plastic side. I guess they didn't want to do artwork for every kind of cable out there. Dan of All Trades |
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Quickmod This clever device gives you the ability to create a two-channel amp out of a single channel amp by plugging into one of the tube sockets. No amp surgery required. Kasha Amplifiers |
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Self Tuning Guitar I believe that this was at the NAMM show last year but it's one of those things that I missed. I was impressed enough to include it in this year's Oddities. This system doesn't require any modifications to your guitar at all. The motorized tuners on the headstock get their power via the strings themselves. Tronical GmbH |
Simple Guitar Stand This is one of those slap-yourself-in-the-forehead why-didn't-I-think-of-that kind of ideas. They've even cut little slits in it for convenient pick storage. Gig Gear International |
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Echolution Pigtronix has made it into the Oddities a couple of times in the past, and not just because of their name. Their latest, the Echolution, is sort of like the Roland Space Echo in the sense that you have taps in multiples of the main tap tempo. What's different (other than not using tape) is that you can switch in taps at will, thereby allowing you to mix eighths and triplets together. Pigtronix |
ToneStyler This simple tone knob replacement uses fourteen separate capacitors selectable with stepped knob. Instead of just attenuating this highs, they changes the corner frequency of the high end rolloff at each selection. Stellartone |
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Axe Guardz This pickguard is composed of a layer of polyethylene between two layers of aluminum. With the RF coming off all the microprocessors around recording studios these days, any extra shielding is a good thing. AxeGuardz Technology |
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