If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Feel free to comment on anything you see on this site, and check out my new site Musician's Road. Thanks for visiting and I hope you hang around!
Looking for a truely portable guitar. How about one that actually comes apart so yuo can carry it around in a small bag? Welcome to the Adirondack Aria Sinsonido Travel Guitar.
Basically a neck attached to a slim body, it has rubber coated aluminum frame that you connect to get the “feel” of a guitar whilst playing.
Having no body as such, it does need to be plugged into some sort of output device so you can hear it, but it sounds suprising good. The guitar features a 9 volt battery, preamp and two stereo condenser microphones built into the unit to provide the require sound source for amplification. PLug in your headphones, or plug into a little boom box and your on your way. Adirondack offers three models of this latest version: steel string, nylon string, and nylon string with a cutaway design.
I really love the look of these Reverend guitars. I just wish I could find some down under to get my hands on. Or maybe Reverend would like to send me one of each model so I can review them… that would be nice.
Anyway, the new Double Agent from Reverend features olid korina body, maple neck, medium oval neck profile, rosewood fingerboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, 25.5″ scale length, Tune-o-matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, Reverend humbucker (bridge) and Reverend P-90 (neck) pickups, 3-way pickup switch and volume, tone and bass contour control mounted where a Les Paul would normally have the pickup switch.
i really like the idea of the humbucker and P90 combination. This sounds stupid but I always thought visually that mixing the pickup types really degades the aesthetic of a guitar. But reverned have got the P90 surrounded by a matching pickguard, so you almost don’t notice it there.
More on the Moog I talked about earlier. Here is a video showing how the electromagnets affect the strings, and more of an idea on what you can actually do with it.
This is showing up on all my regular reads lately, both guitar and tech/gizmo sites. This is the new Moog guitar. It feature some amazing technology that gives you the ability to either have unlimited sustain, or to mute the strings automatically, or a blend of the two. Thinking about the science of it, it’s a guitar that has some very power pickups that I assume alter the magnetic field around the stings. So in essence you have an EBow built into your guitar, or the magnetic field is strong enough to stop the string from vibrating out (same as if you have your strings too close to the pick ups).
It’s a brilliant piece of kit and you should check out the video above. Just a shame on the two drawbacks:
1. The price
2. the fact that to work properly it needs some special strings that are more easily manipulated by the pickups.
Gibson have done it to me again. I hate them, but I love their guitars. This is a beauty. The latest GOTM release, the Longhorn Double Cut DV is a thing of beauty.
Besides being a stunner to look at, technically it is very well optioned. Dual EMG humbuckers, piezo under the tune-o-matic bridge for acoustic tones, and seperate outputs for each, this is an all in one solution for live performance.
If you don’t like the colour (shame on you) then the guitar is also available and the Gibson Longhorn Doube Cut HS which features a classic cherry sunburst.
