START ME UP!
Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…
GATOR ‘LED EDITION’ GUITAR CASES
1 Picture the scene: you’re in the darkness back stage, with seconds before you go onstage, but your pick is lost in the hard case. disaster? not so with Gator’s new LED Edition guitar cases, which feature LEDS integrated into the interior lid of the case. Two editions are available: gc cases are made with abs plastic and eps foam, while the gts a feature military-grade polethylene exteriors, black padded interiors and tsa-approved locks. (£119, gatorcases.com]
IK MULTIMEDIA LESLIE
2 Ik has partnered with Hammond us a and suzuki Music Corp to nail the authentic whirl of Leslie rotating speakers and amps. available as a collection for download in Amplitube, the collaboration brings control over mic distance, amp and cab combinations, acceleration and deceleration of the rotary speaker, horn/drum balance and more. five amps are onboard and six rotating speakers. all promise authenticity courtesy of ik’ s dynamic Interaction Modelling and Volumetric Response Modelling. ($129.99, ikmultimedia.com)
BARE KNUCKLE BOOT CAMP PICKUPS
3 Cornish tone hounds bkp has launched an affordable line, the Boot Camp series. Three designs are on offer: Old Guard (Alnico II for classic blues, rock and country); True Grit (Alnico V for hard rock, grunge and old-school metal) and brute Force( ceramic hum bu ck ers, Alnico V single coils for pro g-metal, th rash and extreme metal ). hum buckers, strat and Tele-style single coils and P-90 options are available, with prices ranging from £47 up to £107 for individual pickups. (from£47, bareknucklepickups.co.uk)
D’ADDARIO MULTI-TOOL FOR GUITAR & BASS
4 New guitars come with a plastic bag full of allen keys, which you use once before you misplace the small one that adjusts the saddles. Enter D’addario’s Multi-tool, which boasts 10 tools ready to sort your guitar out. It spans US and metric-sized keys made of heat-treat eds 2 steel and the whole lot folds up into a small form factor. Three fractional hex keys, four metric hex keys, two Phillips screwdrivers and one slotted screw driver add up to one seriously handy gadget.. (£17.49, daddario.com)
DAVA POWER GRIP
5 Picks don’ t get much more versatile than Dava. If you’re not familiar with the Dava concept, the company’s plecs allow you to switch between the feel of a soft-gauge for rhythm playing to a hard gauge for leads, all while playing, thanks to a flexible core and reinforced tip. The latest tweak is the Power Grip, which offers a thicker, heavy-duty feel, paired with the company’ s signature rubber grip. If you’ve never tried Dava plecs before, these area great gateway into their adaptable world. (£7.99for6, www.davapick.com)