August 2006

SOURCE: VETTAVILLe.NL

New Reactors announced... 16-08-2006

Atomic Amplifiers is excited to announce two additions to its Reactor Series line of guitar amplifiers - The Reactor 112-50 and Reactor 212. These products build on the success of the Company’s debut, the Reactor 112, by offering almost 3x more power for guitarists who demand extreme volume and headroom while maintaining or exceeding the sonic reputation earned by their predecessor.

The Harry Kolbe designed, all-tube, Reactor 212 and 112-50 both boast a 50W, 6L6 based, class A/B power amp. Their birch plywood cabinets are tuned/ported and loaded with 12” Eminence speakers specially designed to Atomic’s specifications.

• The amps sport some features not found in the original 18W 1x12 version such as a master volume control, extension cabinet output, stereo/mono switch (to control the effects loop output – note: the amps are mono), a standby mode and the cabinets have a flat top for easy stacking. In addition, 2 pro-quality steel cabinet handles and touring grade rugged vinyl covering compliment the amps.

• The Reactor 212 and 112-50 will begin shipping to customers September 15, 2006 and have an estimated street price of $699 and $599 respectively.

• Speakers for the R112-50 and 212 are rated for up to 200W

• The Atomic Amps website will be updated by the end of the month

• Announcement for new distribution will come by the end of the month

• If you like more info use the Atomic Amps Email adress at: info@atomicamps.com

• Click here for upclose pictures of the new Reactors
  

Source: Atomic Amps

Packlite A1 Power Amp... 14-08-2006

PRESS RELEASE
August, 2006
Bose introduces PackLite™ power amplifier
EDAM – The new PackLite™ A1 power amplifier from Bose is a combination of power, weight and size. It is designed for bass players, drummers, high output playback of dance music, and anyone who needs more low-end output. The PackLite amplifier can be connected with the PERSONALIZED AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM™ family of products from Bose, but can also be used with any passive loudspeaker (cabinet) that can handle 250W into 4 Ohms.

The PackLite power amplifier provides a simple, powerful, scalable solution for adding bass level to the setup. Each PackLite amplifier powers up to two additional B1 bass modules. Adding one PackLite amplifier to the PS1 power stand will allow the musician to run a total of four B1 bass modules from a single system – two from the power stand, and two from the PackLite amplifier. To add more B1s, simply connect additional PackLite power amplifiers.

When the PackLite amplifier is connected to the PERSONALIZED AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM™ family of products, it delivers increased low-frequency headroom and output, without coloring bass tone. The PS1 power stand automatically senses how many B1s are connected, and adjusts the output to maintain a natural, consistent tone. In other words, the instruments sound the same, but the musician can play much louder. “To our knowledge, no other system offers this important benefit”, said Guy Balbaert, manager Live Music Technology Group Europe at Bose.

The PackLite amplifier is housed in a rugged, die-cast metal enclosure, and includes a soft carry pouch for protection during storage and transport. At a mere 3 pounds, this rugged little power amplifier can be easily carried in one hand or slipped into a gear bag. Dimensions 14,2cm x 5,8cm x 26,2cm (w x h x l). The PackLite power amplifier has a 1-year limited warranty.

The PackLite™ A1 power amplifier will be available through all selected Bose Music Partners in Europe as of June 2006. The power amplifier will have a retail-selling price of € 399 (including V.A.T.).
For more information about the new PackLite power amplifier, other BOSE® products for musicians, the forum or an overview of Bose Music Partners, please visit: www.bose.com and select: ‘Products for musicians’. Or include your local website for musicians.

Source: Bose / vettaville.nl

Tonecore - Modular and Interchangable Modules - Video II... 11-08-2006

Vettaville.nl presented the modularity and interchange features of the Tonecore pedals. To try and inform you in the best way possible here's a small video that shows:

• how to unlock the module
• an upclose look at a module
• it just takes seconds to interchange a module
• Click here to see the small video (.wmv 2.2 MB)

Source: vettaville.nl

More Wah-Wah Wackyness... 08-08-2006

So the there are several new Wah Wah's in the V2,5 Vetta software. Just to get you a glimpse of which once they are here's a summary and then a complete despribtion of what you can do with them.

1. Vetta Wah (okay that was in already
2. Fassel - Based on Cry Baby Super by Jen Electronics
3. Weeper - Based on Arbiter Cry Baby
4. Chrome - Based on Vox V847 (V846 re-issue Clyde McCoy)
5. Chrome Custom - Vox V847
6. Throaty - Based on the RMC Real McCoy 1
7. Conductor - Based on the Maestro Boomerang
8. Coloursound - Based on Colorsound Wah-Fuzz
9. Custom - Based on Geoffrey Teese - Real McCoy RMC3 and you can customize it.

Everyone plays different, everybody hears different, every uses his gear different. There are plenty of options on wah's if you go to your local music store. And all pedals have something unique to them. So what do you need? Different wah's to play with. Well behold, there are 9 options to choose from. Grab your pick, select and play!

Vetta Wah
Original Vetta Wah Model - for those who like what they had. We weren’t going to take it away from you.

Fassel
Based on a Cry Baby Super made by Jen Electronics. Jen Electronics in Italy manufactured wah pedals for many companies, including Vox, Thomas Organ, Arbiter, and others. This particular pedal has the highly desireable mojo of the Fasel (an Italian manufacturer of electronic components) inductor. Some have credited the unique saturation characteristics of the Fasel inductor to the fact that it was a really cheaply made component. Go figure.

Weeper
Modeled after an Arbiter Cry Baby, this is yet another variation on the original Vox wah design. The biggest variation between many of these wah pedals is the inductor and the tolerances of the capacitors and resistors that make up the filter circuit. As with vintage guitar amps, two of them made on the same day, by the same person, from the same parts bin might sound totally different. We went for the best examples we could find.

Chrome
Based on a Vox V847. This pedal was a reissue of the original 1967 Vox V846 wah pedal, which was the successor to the original Clyde McCoy wah (Clyde McCoy was a trumpet player who had asked Vox to make an effect that would make a keyboard sound like you were using a plunger mute on it. Guitar players everywhere thank him).

Chrome Custom
Custom Vox V847

Throaty
Based on the RMC Real McCoy 1. For many guitarists, the original Vox Clyde McCoy signature (or even rarer, picture) pedal is the ‘holy grail’ of wahs. Geoffrey Teese of RMC did a lot of research, even tracking down a supply of the original ‘stack of dimes’ inductors and having pots that duplicate the taper characteristics of the original ICAR parts to produce a clone of these highly sought-after wahs.

Conductor
Maestro Boomerang - According to the original Maestro advertising material , this was not a ‘wah-wah’ pedal, but a ‘wow-wow’ pedal. Po-tay-to - Po-tah-to. In 1968 or so, Maestro went to Richard Mintz of All Test Devices, who had first become known for his design of a sustainer for Leslie West, and hired him to redesign most of their effects units. This pedal was Curtis Mayfield’s choice for wah, so it’s perfect for R’n’B ‘wacka-wacka’ retro madness.

Colorful
This model is based on the wah part of a vintage Colorsound Wah-Fuzz. The Colorsound is different from the other wah pedals here in that it was an inductor-less design. For you non-electronics minded folks, this basically means that it used a different type of circuit to get its frequency resonance and would saturate (distort) in a different manner than the inductor-based designs. (twin-T design?)

Custom
This is Wah model is adjustable by it's user, you can set Top, Bot and Q to different levels so you can assign or make your own custom wah. Its modeled after the Geoffrey Teese - Real McCoy RMC3. The Frequency range is customisable with Q (resonance) of the filter.

• Top sets frequency of the wah when the footcontroller is down
• Bot sets frequency of the wah when the footcontroller is up
• Q sets the peaking filter's sharpness and intensity, from Mellow (0) o Peaky (127)

One thing to remember that the wah's are already been level adjusted, meaning that they won't 'suck' some signal level out when engaged like the authentic wah's would. So no worries there, that's the nice thing about digital modeling, you can have everything as convinient as you want it. Thanks Line 6.

So that's a lot of Wahwah Wackyness ain't it.

Source: Line 6 / vettaville.nl

Software - Variax P.I.M. V. 1.13 for Workbench... 07-08-2006

VPIM ( Variax Patch Information Manager )

VPIM is a utility special for users with a Line 6 Variax guitar and the Variax Workbench software package.
This utillity can save a lot of time. Iinstead of loading different patches into Workbench, you can now
easily search for all patches which have e.g. Special Bird Body with T-Model Bridge and pickups which are
switched in series and are in or out of phase. Now try that for yourself in Workbench.

Variax Patch Information Manager Features:

• Open a directory with your single patches (*.vwm) and all will be loaded into VPIM
• Show useable patch information, Variax Workbench is not needed.
• Search for a combination of Author, BodyType, PickupType, search if pickups are switches in series or parallell , search for pickups which are in phase or out of phase, search for patches which have alternate tunings or default tunings
• Copy found patches with search to a directory you want.
• Double click on a patch will automatically launch a patch into Variax Workbench in editor mode if installed (sometimes Workbench need be started manually, patches will then load automatically).
• Latest opened patch directory will be saved.
• Added print options for your Workbench bundle
• Added print options fro your Tone Collection files

• Does not wite to registry
• Very small exe <100k
• No DLL's needed
• Can be run from USB Stick
• Workbench is not needed to show information of patches.

Thanks go out to Cor de Visser, he made this freeware program and already made adjustments to it. Read the readme-file inside the Winzip package for more info.

Download the Winzip file, unzip it, open Workbench and run VPIM, seach for your patch directory and let VPIM do the search for you...

• VPIM - Variax Patch Information Manager

This software has not been developed by Line 6. It was not sanctioned by Line 6. This software is distributed as freeware. There is no guarantee with this software. You can submit comments and suggestions, instructions are in the readme file.

Source: Cor de Visser / vettaville.nl

ToneMatch T1 Presets launched... 04-08-2006

Bose launced a new presets systems called ToneMatch™. First ToneMatch™ presets are for Taylor guitars with the Expression System. This is good news for all L1™ users. Bose getting together with a different company to get the best possible sound reproduction with the help of the manufacturers.

As many of you know we have Bose created presets in the L1™ system so that we can bring to musicians this idea of “completing the system”. Presets have really resonated with owners as a cool part of the system and we started working on more. We approached the good folks at Taylor with the idea of creating presets for their instruments and they jumped in with both feet.

Their engineers worked with Bose to develop presets for the different body styles of Taylor guitars and the results of that work are ready for the world. Now, some of you know that we’ve done this with other companies, but Taylor got their communications team into it and they said “Let’s tell this story. Our owners will be interested in hearing about this.” We said, “Okay!” and we went to work putting together a video that tells this story.

On the web site you can view a video (soon to be a free DVD) that talks about the work we did together. We’ll also add more info to the Bose website as we finish up the ToneMatch for Taylor story.

• So what is a “ToneMatch preset” versus a “preset” … why the fancy name?
  
  Well, to me, there is a big difference between a ToneMatch preset and what I’ll call a “Bose preset”. A ToneMatch preset is one where Bose and another manufacturer, in this case Taylor, work together to optimize the sound of the instrument (or mic) when it is connected to the L1 speaker. A Bose preset is one where Bose, independent of the manufacturer’s input, creates a preset for a mic/instrument/pickup connected to the L1 speaker.
  
  I know that may be subtle to many of you, but to me it’s a big difference. It’s really putting the controls in the hands of the “tone creation” experts and guiding their choices (not deciding) and we play the role of the “tone distribution” experts. To me, as a musician, it’s like bringing Taylor and Bose to your gig and saying “Guys, get it sounding great and I’ll take it from there.” My totally biased opinion is that this is a great benefit to musicians.

• How do you get the presets?
  If you’re an L1 owner and interested in getting a preset upgrade disk with ToneMatch presets for Taylor guitars, simply call (800) 905-0894 and Bose send it out to you.
  
  The Taylor disk adds the new preset to locations 89 to 99 so you keep all your other presets (less one) and gain the Taylor presets. Note: You must have version 2.0 presets installed before you can install the Taylor presets.
  
  If you’re not an L1 owner and you’re ready to buy, you can skip the upgrade process and buy an L1 system that has been preloaded with ToneMatch for Taylor presets at that same number (800) 905-0894. We have a limited supply of these systems and we hope that they will go fast … so act fast.
  

Source: Bose / vettaville.nl

Gearbox - Gearbox V. 2.0 - Why should you?... 02-08-2006

Much sooner then expected the release of Gearbox V 2.0. Gearbox V 2.0 replaces both the GuitarPort software and the existing GearBox (the former V1.02 just for Toneport) software. It has all of the features of both of these apps, looks and works basically the same, and adds support modelpacks from PODxt series, Guitarport and the Bass Expansion Model Pack. So where's your benefit?

If you own GuitarPort, TonePort, or any product from the PODxt family, then the free GearBox 2.0 download is now available. What does this mean? Well, it depends what you have.

• If you own GuitarPort...
  
  In addition to the fantastic PODxt-based sounds that you already have, you get 2 new amp models and 4 new effects free with the update, as well as the ability to add the Bass Expansion Model Pack, so you have even more options for your music. It also means that your beloved GuitarPort is now Mac compatible - even for Intel Macs.
• If you own TonePort...
  
  The world of GuitarPort Online is opening up to you with GearBox 2.0. With your paid subscription, you can improve your guitar playing with exclusive artist lessons, backing tracks in every style imaginable, and much, much more. This update also adds 2 new amp models, 4 new effects, Bass Expansion Model pack compatibility and fully supports Intel based Macs.
• If you own PODxt, PODxt Live, or PODxt Pro and a Mac...
  
  You now can reap the benefits of becoming a GuitarPort Online member. Your subscription will help you improve your guitar playing with exclusive artist lessons, backing tracks in every style imaginable, and much, much more. GearBox 2.0 adds Intel Mac driver support, as well as support for the PODxt version 3 update and Bass Expansion model pack.
  
• download the new Gearbox V2.0 software

Source: Line 6 / vettaville.nl

Gearbox - Gearbox V. 2.0 available... 02-08-2006

Much sooner then expected the release of Gearbox V 2.0. Gearbox V 2.0 replaces both the GuitarPort software and the existing GearBox (the former V1.02 just for Toneport) software. It has all of the features of both of these apps, looks and works basically the same, and adds support modelpacks from PODxt series, Guitarport and the Bass Expansion Model Pack.

• Bundled with v3.0.0 drivers, Monkey 1.13 and Preference Panel 3.0.1
• Adds support for GuitarPort Online subscription service.
• Adds support for GuitarPort and PODxt, PODxt Live & PODxt Pro and UX 1, UX2.
• Supports Bass Expansion pack for TonePorts and GuitarPort.
• Free access to integrated Tone Library, Guitarport and artist tones
• New User Interface Improvements

The new Gearbox software is bundled with V 3.0.0 drivers, Line 6 Monkey 1.13 and Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Control Panel 3.01. It now supports GPO Mac. Remember that you need to be logged in to be able to download this software.

• download the new Gearbox V2.0 software

Source: Line 6 / vettaville.nl

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