The Paul Reed Smith Al Di Meola Prism signature model features a stained top with a full spectrum of colours, a curly maple custom "9" top with mahogany back, 25" scale length, 22 fret Mexican rosewood fingerboard, custom Al Di Meola neck carve, grommet style locking tuners, standard abalone bird inlays and a tremolo bridge. More
Recording King's incredibly affordable RD-06 and RD-07 (MSRP: From $319) quality acoustics feature solid spruce tops with ultra-thin "C" profile mahogany necks, scalloped spruce forward X-bracing and rosewood fretboards. Available with either Rosewood (RD-07) or Mahogany (RD-06) back and sides, these guitars apparently set a new standard for low-cost, professional-quality sound. Upgraded features like a bone nut and saddle, die-cast tuners and classic tortoise shell body binding. Both guitars are also available in 000 style with no pickguard. The RD-07 also comes in a cutaway style with an optional 4-band B-Band EQ installed. Lifetime warranty included. More
The Mopho from Dave Smith Instruments is a desktop monophonic analogue synthesizer module based on the popular, multiple-award-winning Prophet '08. It has a user interface pared down to certain essential controls and four user-assignable controls per programme. The assignable parameters can control any of Mopho's parameters, so the synth is fully programmable from the front panel. Mopho also includes a basic software editor for Mac OS or Windows. It's been described as "an inexpensive, feature-rich mono synth that really excels at basses and big, fat lead sounds". MSRP: $439.00.More
The Starla from Paul Reed Smith is a solid-body electric with retro vibe similar to the double cutaway Mira model introduced at Experience PRS 2007 but with a single cutaway and vintage-themed appointments. It's apparently the first PRS solid-body electric to feature a standard Bigsby B5 tail piece and a Grover Tune-O-Matic bridge. The guitar also includes exclusive double-screw Starla Treble and Bass pickups. The solid mahogany Starla body is accented with a 24" scale rosewood fingerboard, a solid mahogany neck and dot inlays or optional bird inlays. Proprietary Alnico magnets incorporated into the pickup design contribute to the guitar's unique clean and crisp sound but are also capable of rich harmonic overtones when driven. Other features include a uniquely shaped black plastic pick guard, tone and volume pots and a three-way pickup selector. Color options include Vintage Cherry, Vintage Mahogany, Vintage Orange and Black. More
Released in 2005, the Neal Schon Signature Les Paul guitar from Gibson Custom features a Floyd Rose tremolo unit, a dramatically sculpted neck/body joint for easier upper fret access, and a Fernandes Sustainer pickup. It has a carved mahogany top, mahogany back, multi-ply black/white binding on top, chrome-plated hardware and a Floyd Rose tremolo. The one-piece mahogany neck has a scarfed heel joint a Schon custom slim-taper neck profile. The 22-fret ebony fingerboard features pearl split-diamond inlays and single-ply white binding. The pickups are a DiMarzio Fast Track/Fernandes Sustainer in the neck position and a Gibson BurstBucker Pro in the bridge position. In addition to the standard Les Paul electronics (individual pickup volume and tone controls, plus three-way selector switch), the Schon Signature features two mini-toggles – an on/off for the Sustainer and an octave effect – along with a push/pull pot for midrange cut. Only 25 units were made. MSRP in 2005: $10,589. Schon interview.
Ovation's iDea is apparently the first and only guitar of its kind to feature a built-in MP3 recorder/player that's part of the on-board Ovation preamp. The iDea can record from the guitar alone, simultaneously from the guitar and built-in microphone, and from an auxiliary input. Any audio signal fed into the auxiliary input is converted into an MP3 file and stored in the iDea memory. More
Looking for a way to digitize your favourite 33s and 45s without all the conversion hassles? Then, the Ion's LP 2 Flash turntable is what you should grab. It looks like a standard deck but comes with ports on the front panel for an SD card, USB thumb drive or USB hard drive. It's a straight vinyl-to-digital (MP3) convert-and-store operation with tracks separated automatically. You can also hook up the turntable to your Mac or PC via USB and use the supplied vinyl-to-digital audio conversion software to archive your collection. There's also a line level output and an input that allow you to connect a cassette recorder, MiniDisc or eight-track player for converting the analogue stuff to digital. MSRP: £130. More
While it's nothing more than a gimmicky digital pocket recorder, Line 6 are touting the BackTrack as a "magic" device that "captures everything you play without ever hitting record" ... coz it's "always on" and "begins recording as soon as it detects a signal". It comes with 1GB flash memory for "12 hours" of WAV audio and has a USB port that "also recharges the internal battery to its full capacity of over 8 hours". Street price hovers at around $150, but for about 50 bucks more, you can score the better spec'd and far more useful and versatile Zoom H2. More
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