Start me up!
Five new products to fuel your GAS this month…
Richter Matt Heafy double guitar strap
1 Triviu mare one of metal’ s leading purveyors of heavy riffs, and matt he afy wields one of the heaviest guitars with his signature les paul custom. his strap collaboration with richter aims to alleviate the weight–an extra strap for the other shoulder wraps around the guitar’ s body to spread the weight .“guitar straps are not ergonomic ,” says he afy. “The concept of a weigh to none sideofatrapezius/shoulderjoint for an entire musical lifetime is detrimental to the balance of yourbody.” (€159,richterstraps.com)
Rockboard MOD 5
2 Rock board’ s latest pedal board module is the Mod 5, anir lo ad er,di and connection box that’ s designed to be mounted into the company’ s pedal board frames. the collaboration with moo er features six select able stereo/ monoir speaker si ms, with support for up to 1,024 userirs; plus an act iv edi, headphone outputandmicro-usbport.it also functions as a patch bay, offeringthreeins/outs,aswellas a parallel out andxlr out, with balanced/ unbalanced and lift/ groundswitches. (€179,rockboard.de)
Positive Grid BIAS FX 2
3 Version 2 of the aweinspiring effects modelling plugin delivers areengi ne ereddsp engine, new amps, pedal sand racks, advanced fuzz, Time and harmonizer modellers, and a guitar match system that’ s designed to make one guitar sound like another, enabling you to emu late the pick ups, body type and body thickness of a range of classic guitars. the amp engine is the same as the one from bias Amp 2, inc lu dingce lest i on cabirs, and it’ s been made easier to configure your virtual pedal board set ups and switch between them. (from$99,positivegrid.com
Kemp er reverbs
4 Kemp er’ snewos 5.7 adds Spring, natural, echo, cirrus and space re verbs to the Profiler’ s already-extensive sonic arsenal. the spring re verb is directly inspired by the legendary Re verb tank from 1963; natural is a more utilitarian affair and re creates a range of rooms, as well asp later ever bandsynt h-like effects; echo is simply a delay plus re verb; cirrus specialises in long, ethereal tails with exceptionally slow re verb on sets; while space produces the natural reflection sofa small, neutralsounding room. (free fork em per owners, kemper-amps.com)
Er nie Ball Ultra and Burly Slinkys
5 Us guitarists have never had it so good when it comes to the sheer range of string choices out there. now the iconic Ernie ball have made our situation even better and announced the company’ s first new gauge electric guitar strings in over a decade with the ultra and burly Slinkys. the ultra set combines Regular and power slinky sets, with gauges spanning .010,.013, .017,.028,.038, and .048", while the Burly set combines power and Skinny top heavy bottom slinky setsforgaugesof.011,.014,.018, .030,.042,.052". (£6.99,ernieball.co.uk)