New AMPLIFi amps from Line 6

Line 6 has introduced two interesting amps. They are aimed at guitarists but have some interesting features for amplified strings as well.

The two amps contains a full-range speaker system and 75watt and 150watt respectively and can be configured via an iOS app, for either ipad or iphone.

This way the tone can be highly customized for hard to amplify instruments such as stringed instruments.



Learn more here: http://line6.com/amplifi/

Vi-Vi electro-acoustic violin

I found this on the VLM-Augustin website. The Vi-Vi electro-acoustic violin is a fusion of wood and carbon fibre and with a Stringamp pickup system.

The design is a quite traditional Chanot shape, which is often seen on carbon fibre violins. But the Vi-Vi has chosen spruce for the top and maple for the neck and scroll.

Later on there should be a cello with the same pickup system.

Violin Bridges

from www.violinbridges.co.uk

I have been returning occasionally to this site, where you can see pics of old bridges from a lot of makers.

There are good points as to what the correct measurements are for a bridge.

The pictures include bridges for violin, viola, cello and double bass.

The bridges look so amazingly different so have a look  .

Fourness Fuse Violin

It is a while ago I first heard of the Fuse violin by Fourness. At that time there was not any sound clips available and so I thought it was just a revival of the ZETA Jazz.

In the looks department there is nothing new, but the sound is a little different. It is always hard to evaluate sound quality from a youtube clip.

20.000 visitors

I have since last december tried to post updates, test and news every time I had the time for it and now a year later my humble blog has reached 20.000 visitors.

B-Band surprice

I did some tests with a colleagued, who needed a non-permanent pickup.

We took a good 4 hours trying out some of my pickups and mics.

The choice was for me a little surpricing: A B-Band 1470 pickup mounted in a certain spot on his fiddle and viola sounded great, both natural and with a good amount of feedback rejection.

I decided to make some further testing on this pickup. Hopefully, if time allows, I will be able to present some soundclips and more in depth thoughts on placement soon.

Acoustic Image Flex

Acoustic Image is know for their high-power light weight acoustic amps.

They have recently introduced the Flex preamp/mixer and cabinet.

Both units work independently or connected via an RJ45 cable to form a powerful combo.

The preamp features 2 separate channels with xlr and 1/4" inputs, 4 band eq and 2 fx units.

The cabinet is equipped with 2 10" woofers and a 2.5" tweeter all powered separately.