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Pocket-Sized iGTR Amp Is Perfect For The One-Man Concert No One Will Hear But You
Posted by Jack Loftus at 5:00 AM on July 14, 2008
Need to practice your power chords on the subway, in church, or anywhere else where crunching out the intro to Enter Sandman might be frowned upon by the man? Jam away safely in silence with this cigarette pack-sized iGTR amp from Waves. The "i" is for you, not because everyone and their dog wants to name their products after Apple phones and MP3 players, but because thanks to the dual headphones jacks, only you and a friend will hear what's going down.
Beyond the headphone jacks, there's also a laundry list of traditional amp settings to tweak, including effects like Phase, Wah-Wah, Reverb, and Delay. If you have an MP3 track you'd like to accompany, you can plug your player into the iGTR, too. Just stock up on batteries, because the US$80 amp uses AAA. [Interactive iGTR Demo and Product Page via Technabob]
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swpoison
Posted 5:10 AM 14/7/08
I need to by this for my wanna be musician neighbors. All they need know is something for drunk women who think they can sing.
swpoison
pwnz0r
Posted 6:15 AM 14/7/08
God this is horrible even for $80. Buy Pocket POD people. It's much less horrible and about as portable as this thing.
pwnz0r
NetSlut
Posted 7:23 AM 14/7/08
@pwnz0r: Are you kidding? Apart from costing $100 more, the pocket pod looks like it was made by Barney...
NetSlut
sshrum
Posted 11:45 AM 14/7/08
Forget this thing...I got a Korg Toneworks PX4D Pandora's box.
[www.zzounds.com]
Yeah, it costs a little more but works for both electric guitars and bass. It's a amp simulator with 50 electric pre-defined models for guitar and 50 bass settings. Allows for user defined models as well (distort, reverb, echo, flange, x2, x3, x4, etc).
I got mine a couple of years ago (think I paid $140) and use it at home and on the train when I go down to San Diego. Runs on 4 AAA.
I plug in my HTC 6800 phone (running HTC audio manager), headphones, guitar and jam away with Clapton!
And if you HAVE to let your friend listen, you can always get a y-adapter ($1).
sshrum
kaden
Posted 2:25 PM 14/7/08
It's from Waves, there's no mention of an iLok dongle, and the price is less than 4 figures.
There's something wrong with the fabric of the universe.
kaden
UniComp
Posted 4:25 PM 14/7/08
Well the last lick was kinda cool
UniComp
Set to evil
Posted 5:25 PM 14/7/08
@sshrum: Yeah Dude! I have a PX3 and it still sounds great. When I a kid I had a "rockman" it looked like an over sized Walkman and had compression, distortion, stereo chorus, and echo.way ahead of it's time.1982.
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Bitstuff
Posted 6:23 PM 14/7/08
@sshrum: Hell yeah! I need one, I think. It's really not expensive, especially when you think how much actual amps cost. It even looks serious, as opposed to looking like a car radio remote control or a Chinese universal DSLR remote shutter.
Still, you know, playing an electric guitar through a headphone amp isn't silent - so don't try it in the church.
Bitstuff
Spoondizzle
Posted 10:15 PM 14/7/08
@sshrum: Seconded. I have a gen 1 pandora that still works even after my dog used it as a chew toy.
This looks ok, but it loses the bang/buck race by a wide margin.
Spoondizzle
rabiddachshund
Posted 11:11 PM 14/7/08
[www.trombone.org]
for the brass players out there.
rabiddachshund
Set to evil
Posted 4:26 PM 15/7/08
@rabiddachshund: I have one of those for my trumpet. I patch it though my pandora. It sounds really weird!
www.myspace.com/thetelharmoniumproject
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