Designed for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform and Apollo High-Resolution Audio Interface, the API 500 Series EQ Plug-In Collection is an API-endorsed, UA-developed collection and features accurate emulations of the legendary API 550A 3-Band and API 560 Graphic equalizers — two of the most popular and enduring audio equalizers ever made.
Avid and Abbey Road Song Contest: Here’s a great opportunity to have the brilliant recording minds at the famed Abbey Road Studios put their magic touch on your songs and send it off to find the top of the charts. Avid, the makers of industry-standard audio production system Pro Tools, has partnered with Abbey Road Studios to gives aspiring artists the chance for their work to be judged by an illustrious panel of music industry figures, as well as fans online. Three winning artists, chosen by judges, will receive the ultimate package which includes a track of their choice being mixed and mastered online by Abbey Road Studios as well as an Avid Pro Tools|HD Native system. “The hardest thing for an aspiring musician is to get their songs heard by the right people,” said Greg Wells, competition judge and multiple Grammy-nominated producer, mixer and songwriter. “This competition is the perfect way for artists to get their music out there and I’m really looking forward to listening to an eclectic mix of songs.” Artists can upload their original song to “Submit a Track” from today until March 13, 2013, with the winners of the Judges choice, Fans choice and Judges choice runner-up being announced on April 10, 2013.
CORDOBA UKULELE SERIES: Cordoba has partnered with renowned luthier Pepe Romero, Jr. to design a new line of premium all solid ukuleles. Available in four wood combinations, the 30T, 32T, 35T, and 35T S models will hit stores in the first quarter of 2013. Breaking away from the traditional Portuguese build and ornamentation of their other ukuleles, Cordoba has adopted Romero Jr.’s vision of building ukuleles as if they were small guitars by using traditional Spanish methods. The result is an incredibly lightweight tenor ukulele with a deeper and wider body, featuring a Spanish heel neck joint, fan bracing, and a wider fingerboard for easy playability. Romero Jr.’s ukuleles are currently played by a variety of artists including Ben Harper and Jack Johnson. Entirely handmade, the 30 Series are Cordoba’s first ukuleles featuring twelve frets to the body rather than fourteen. This creates greater movement of the soundboard, greater resonance and volume, and a warm, balanced tone. Each model features an abalone rosette, premium all solid woods, Grover tuning machines, and includes a durable Cordoba polyfoam case.
CORDOBA LUTHIER SERIES: Aimed at players looking for an all solid, concert level instrument at a reasonable price, the Luthier Series guitars are handmade by a small team of builders in a boutique workshop, using traditional Spanish construction techniques and carefully selected premium woods. The foundation of the Luthier Series rests upon building methods such as the Spanish Heel, hand carved necks and braces, and domed soundboards which are built on a traditional solera. New models include the C9 Dolce, a 7/8 size version of the C9, and the C12, which features a raised fingerboard for enhanced playability, and lattice bracing – perfect for the musician searching for a more modern style build, and big, open sound. All models in the Luthier Series feature a mother-of-pearl hand-inlaid rosette inspired by a 1920s Domingo Esteso rosette, and include a humidified hardshell case.
DIABLO FX SOUND CONTROL 6: The Sound Control 6 system is the first wireless all-in-one effects pedal management system which enables guitar players to turn multiple analog or digital effects on and off in one stomp. Sound Control 6 is unique because of its wireless design, which means no cords and power strips at the front of the stage or in the way at practice. The unit can be placed anywhere on stage and allows you to control up to six effects pedals or effects loops. Simply select the pedals you want to be “on” for up to four different channels. Now, you can turn on or off up to six pedals on each channel with one button push. When a pedal is not in use, Sound Control 6 bypasses it altogether.
The Teletronix® LA-2A Classic Leveler Collection provides emulations of three distinct Teletronix hardware units, right down to their transformers, amplifiers, and aged luminescent panels. With the new LA-2A Classic Leveler Plug-In Collection, Universal Audio modeled the entire electronic path of three highly coveted hardware units — “Silver,” “Gray,” and the original LA-2 model — providing the most authentic plug-in emulations available of this iconic compressor.
THE LOAR LH-319: The LH-319 begins with a solid hand-carved and hand-graduated spruce top accompanied by select maple back and sides. The mahogany neck has a traditional V-profile familiar to aficionados of classic Golden Age instruments. The fretboard is rosewood and the compensated bridge is ebony. With a 16″ lower bout and a classic 24-3/4″ scale, the LH-319 is designed from original Golden Age archtop specs. Other features include a classic Fleur-de-Lys headstock inlay, bone nut, open-geared Grover butterbean tuners, a historically accurate sunburst finish and two P-90 pickups.
RECORDING KING 12-fret Slope Shoulder Guitar: Assembled from all-solid tonewoods, the RAJ-122 starts with a solid AA grade Sitka spruce top and solid African mahogany back and sides. The 1-11/16″ bone nut is the perfect spacing for strumming, fingerstyle or flatpicking, and combined with the bone saddle, helps to give these guitars and additional degree of brightness and clarity. It’s finished in vintage sunburst with a classic black pickguard, ivory Golden Age tuning machines and the historic Recording King headstock. A solid top version, the RAJ-112, with mahogany back and sides and vintage-style Grover tuners is available in a natural gloss finish.
RECORDING KING RJJ-116: Recording King’s goal is to create affordable models of the world’s most iconic guitar bodies. The new RJJ-116 is assembled with a solid AA grade Sitka spruce top and mahogany back and sides. The 24.75” scale and 1-11/16” nut gives players ample room for chording or fingerstyle, while delivering powerful volume. The contemporary C-profile neck strikes the balance between a vintage and modern shape. The vintage-style Grover tuners keep the RJJ-116 in tune under hard strumming. Combine those components with the classic Jumbo-style body, and you have a vintage-style singer/songwriter guitar with some serious projection. It is available in natural gloss finish.
TAKAMINE: Takamine’s Pro Series instruments are built with the performer in mind, and feature the renowned Palathetic™ pickup that delivers detailed articulation and rich harmonic content for a complete and accurate acoustic guitar tone at high sound pressure levels. Pro Series 6 and 5 guitars feature the latest-generation CT4-DX four-band preamplifier with two feedback-reducing notch controls and a flexible dual-pickup mix control (for when a second pickup is added.) The Pro Series P4DC comes with the CT4B II three-band EQ system. All Pro Series 6, 5 and 4 guitars feature a solid spruce top and scalloped “X” top bracing for superior balance and articulation. A split bone saddle provides faultless intonation, while the bridge pin positioning on the Series 5 and 6 optimizes break angle for improved sustain and presence. The Pro Series P4DC features the Takamine pin-less bridge, making string changes a breeze. The back and sides for each series feature different wood types: Pro Series 6 guitars also feature a solid flame maple back and flame maple sides, white body binding with black and white purfling, and mother-of-pearl rosette. The mahogany neck has an ebony fingerboard with white binding, and mother-of-pearl snowflake inlays. Pro Series 5 guitars bodies are crafted with a solid rosewood back and rosewood sides for a rich, warm sound, and feature ivory binding with dark wood purfling and an abalone rosette. The mahogany neck has a rosewood fingerboard, and abalone “dot-in-dot” inlays. The Pro Series P4DC features a solid sapele back and sapele sides, with ivory body binding and dark wood purfling, and rosette. The mahogany neck has a bound rosewood fingerboard with wood “dot-in-dot” inlays. All guitars feature a premium archtop hard-shell case.
The Softube amp plug-ins offers users guitar and bass amp modeling at near-zero latency when used with the Apollo Audio Interface. The various models include Vintage Amp Room, Metal Amp Room, Bass Amp Room, and Acoustic Feedback “
