Electric violin effect pedal reviews - MAK Space Reverb

Here is a nice little video on the MAK space reverb. Even if you do not have that particular reverb a lot of the controls are essentially common on all reverbs.
Reverbs are very useful in conjunction with with pickups or more directional mics for giving a more lively feel.

Yianny Kuc also goes into more experimental sounds in the last half of the video.

Zoom A3 - with the Remic

I have been using the Remic 5200LB for more than a year now. It is a nice handmade mic, which is not intrusive and has a good sound and is very feedback resistant - the most feedback resistant mic I have ever tried on my fiddles.

My first setup comprised a Sennheisser G3 system going into a Headway EDB-1 (discontinued) preamp for EQ. After discovering that the allowed wireless frequencies in Denmark was not allowed within the UK, I ditched the Sennheisser (but I would like to be wireless so I am searching for a system)....

KC 5 Star Pro fiddle for sale

I am selling my great sounding and playing 5 stringed fiddle, which was made for me by Michael Richwine from KC Strings.

Here is a video of the trio Strings at Hand. You can hear my friend Thyge playing that very fiddle:



If you would like to hear more about the fiddle, please contact me at hjansberg@gmail.com

Zoom Q4

Zoom has released a new HD video recorder, the Q4.

Again it looks like zoom has their eye on the musicians, who need an easy to use portable recorder for good quality sound and video.

Also the Q4 adds a bit more in functionality compared to other music/video recorders like the Sony HDR MV1 or Olympus LS-20M HD.

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  .