Guitar - SlashGear

Posts Tagged ‘Guitar’

Hammacher Schlemmer marketing World’s Smallest Precision Electric Guitar

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Nov 27th 2007 No Comments

So the guitar craze due to Guitar Hero and Rock Band are probably causing large numbers of guitars to go quickly out the doors at music stores around the nation, but large numbers don’t always equal large guitars. Just look at this one from Hammacher Schlemmer.

guitar

It’s a mere 26.5 inches long but still has 20 frets. Personally, I’d never want to see someone up on stage jamming out on a guitar like this, but it is small, and simple, so for a practice guitar it’d be nice, you could just stuff it in your locker, or your luggage, no problem.

Continued »

Official Activision Guitar Hero 3 wireless controllers not coming until 2008

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 26th 2007 2 Comments

That’s pretty much it, those of you that have the PS3 or Wii versions of the game can go buy a whole other copy of the game to get a second controller. For now that’s it, and the Xbox 360 and PS2 owners are stuck without until next year.

ghiiicontrol

So, there are tons of knockoff guitar controllers, there is one guitar for Guitar Hero 1, 2, and 3, and another for Rock Band, and depending on what system you have, there were some random special edition official guitars along the way. That’s pretty much it though.

Continued »

Drum Bag for Rock Band drums

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Nov 23rd 2007 No Comments

I am really excited about Rock Band, I have yet to be able to make it out to buy my own copy, its been busy around here, but I am patiently waiting till I get a spare moment. But for those of you who have already managed to purchase a copy, I am sure you’ve come up with a slight transportation problem when it comes to the drums, there are a lot of parts.

drum bag

Well, the makers of Rock Band have your back once again, they have, for sale, a customized bag specially made to fit all the drum kit parts inside in an organized manner. Now all you need to do is get some decent sticks, a drum pad, and then work on your technique.

Continued »

Virtual Music With Air-Musician

By Christina Crouch on Monday, Nov 19th 2007 No Comments

Air guitar is fun and free. It’s a simple concept that lets the imagination run wild and requires no tools except for your own two hands. However, we as humans cannot leave a simple idea alone, we must expand it, and of course must make money off of it. Not to mention if one person manages that another will have to do it as well.

Air Musician

Continued »

Gibson’s Robotic guitar: “Danger, Eddie Van Halen!”

By Reece Bailey Schofield on Tuesday, Nov 13th 2007 3 Comments

No, it won’t warn you of impending danger. But it will automatically tune itself to any one of six user defined tunings. Using an on-board computer, built in servos, and magnetic ‘pickup’ coils the user can set the tuning as well as the intonation.

robotguitar