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AmpliTube iRig for iPhone is a full Guitar Amp & Effects Rig

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AmpliTube iRigComputers have been helping musicians for decades now, particularly as once very expensive studio equipment have been turned into software for convenient and easy home use. If you’ve been playing guitar for a while, you might remember the myriad of effects boxes you needed to tune your guitar sound. Well, software (like AmpliTube) has helped guitarists and bassists to eliminate or at least simplify their gear.

Now, IK Multimedia has put out a version of AmpliTube for the iPhone. It needs an adapter accessory called the AmpliTube iRig which plugs into your iPhone and you plug your guitar into the iRig ($39.99).

The screenshots alone are amazing as there are 3 stompboxes (effects), 1 amp+cabinet and 2 mics in the free version of AmpliTube. There is also an LE version ($2.99) and a Full version ($19.99) which comes with 11 stompboxes, 5 amps+cabinets and 2 mics.

Stompbox effects include delay, fuzz, distortion and more, while amps include clean, crunch, lead, metal and bass.

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More info from the manufacturer
Price: $39.99 for iRig; AmpliTube iPhone app: Free, LE: $2.99, FULL: $19.99.
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Interface your Guitar to your Computer via USB

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guitar to usb linkHere’s an inexpensive way to get your guitar ‘hooked up’ to your computer (PC or Mac) – a Guitar to USB interface. Plug your guitar’s output into this, and then plug the USB cable into your computer.

It comes with a PC software driver and has this variable speed playback function, so you can slow down those tunes to learn. It also has a headphone jack so you can hear your jams.

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Price: $9.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Guitar Hero 5 – Coming Soon!

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Guitar Hero 5

Yes! This is real news – a few organisations are reporting that Guitar Hero 5 is due to be released this fall to try and increase its target audience with a whole range of new features (not much news yet on what these are) but there seems to be general focus around so-called ‘social play’. Some examples of new features are the ability to ‘jump’ in and out of songs, change the level of difficulty whenever you want during a song and adding more multiplayer game types such as a scenario where the weakest player in each song is eliminated, leaving just the best.

I like the idea of being able to change the difficulty mid-song.

Guitar Hero Cufflinks

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Guitar Hero Cufflinks

What more could a Guitar Hero enthusiast like more than these trendy, superbly designed, Guitar Hero cufflinks? Shaped like the guitar featured in the game, these chunky cufflinks will make a subtle but stylish addition to your shirt wherever you happen to be, and let people know about your love for Guitar Hero!

$50 gets you some unique looking cufflinks.

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Price: $49.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

via Trendy Gadget.

Article Recap from the Week of Mar 27, 2009

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Here’s our weekly summary of featured items from Gizmos For Geeks:

There’s a new feature from Google Labs that allows you to ‘unsend’ an email just after sending. Why oh why is the Sci Fi Channel renaming themselves to SyFy?

For noisy environments, you’ll be able to get a ‘throat microphone’ from Sanwa. Home improvement buffs may like the Ultimate Musical Doorbell and wanna-be musicians should take a look at the illuminated fret guitar.

Perhaps one of the more high-end, expensive items this week was the 3G WiFi router for Cadillacs. tikitag which was an item we featured from CES 2009 was renamed to ‘touchatag’ and got some new features as well.

For all of you who crave for faster broadband speeds, VDSL2 might have the answer with the possiblity of up to 500Mbps speeds through simple copper telephone wiring.

Finally, the most important article was that there’s a new virus making the rounds and you should update your AV definitions and security patches ASAP.

Source: Gizmos for Geeks.

Illuminated Fret Guitar

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The Learn To Play Illuminated Fret Guitar

The ‘Learn to Play’ Illuminated Fret Guitar has 132 LEDs in the fretboard that can show you how to play over 3,000 different chords! This device really takes learning how to play guitar to the next level, but has that ‘next level’ price tag of $400.

With this sort of technology, the guitar can help you learn how to play chords and simple songs within minutes, rather than having to teach yourself and really think about what you’re doing. Furthermore, being a standard shape, it allows you to progress onto real guitars without much hassle. To make this work, the guitar simply plugs into your computer to run the necessary programs for illuminating the LEDs. Although not featured at the moment, I think I’d like to see other developers offering songs for download to this piece of software.

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Price: $399.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

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