Mulder: The X-Cabinet is capable of producing tones never before heard by mere mortals.
Scully: Where did you get that information, Fox?
Mulder: It's right here in the product literature.
The vintage Celestion speakers are all equipped with a foam diffuser in front of the cone.
This helps prevent crappy sound when the engineer doesn't know any better and sticks a 57 right in the middle of the speaker.
I wish I could take credit for the title, but I simply swiped it from their product literature. Sometimes these guys just write the copy for me.
Here we have a mini-amplifier built into a guitar strap. As opposed to a belt-mounted amp, the Mighty Moe puts the amp close enough to the guitarist's ears so he can hear himself.
With Stealth Tune you can tune up your guitar and nobody will be the wiser. That is unless they notice that you're playing the guitar, no sound is coming out, and you're turning the tuners.
In theory, this is a pretty cool idea. A tuner is built into a strap and picks up the mechanical vibrations of the guitar so it doesn't need to be plugged in.
It was having trouble tuning in the moderate din of NAMM. I don't know how well it would do on a loud stage.
They really should have had a stage magician in the booth to put an untuned guitar into the case, close it, tap it with a wand, pull it out and voila, it's in tune!
Never get caught without a guitar stand again. Hook one of these babies on your guitar and just flip it out when you want to put your guitar down.
I had this nagging feeling that I'd seen this product before, and I was right. Back in 2002 there was a product being shown at NAMM called the
Quickstand that looks almost identical.
Nick Edelstein clued me in about a vintage version of this idea in the venerable Guild Thunderbird.
I thought this was pretty clever, it's a stool with flip-down arms that turns it into a guitar stand.
The entire unit folds up into a fairly compact unit.
When you're playing you don't need a stand and when you're not playing you don't need a stool, right?
Just wedge this appendage in between your cabinet and your head (or under the handle of your combo) and you won't have to worry about tripping over a mic stand in front of your amp.
According to NIH statistics, there has been a rise in the incidence of… oops, wrong mono.
This probably is the nicest soft case I've ever seen. There are several pockets, a handle and straps that work over the shoulder or as a backpack.
They use more high-tech materials than a polar-rated mummy bag from REI.
If the guitar player has a hand grenade guitar cable, then the singer needs to up the ante and pick up one of these hand grenade mic stands.
It uses a one-hand adjustment system so you squeeze the grenade handle to change the height.
Ultimate has a whole line of garish mic stands including one with a celtic cross and another with brass knuckles.
Again, here is a company that's doing my job for me. The title is taken right from their flyer.
The thing that puts these on the oddities map is their unique method of securing the strap at a specific length.
One part of the strap feeds into the other and when you put the guitar on, the outer part constricts and prevents the other from sliding out.
This ingenious bridge design utilizes springs that will, in theory, keep the guitar in perfect tune no matter how much bending you do.
I like that you could use the palm of your hand on the curved tabs for moderate whammy bar effects. I would imagine that you could do some cool non-uniform bending.
While it might sound like a product for smile-challenged teens, Brace-ade is a guitar sound board support system that can be fitted to any guitar (except for maybe this one)
without requiring surgery.
