Epiphone Valve Junior – First Thoughts
If you came across an ad for a new $200 valve amp, what would be your first thought? Broken, cheap, sound like marbles in tin can? You might be surprised if the ad was for the Epiphone Valve Junior.
REVIEW: TC-HELICON Voicetone Harmony-G
Review by: Joe Gillespie – Joe runs a web site, www.joesjamblog.com, dedicated to the Line6 Spider Jam.
TC-HELICON Voicetone Harmony-G
About ten years ago, I bought a vocal harmony device, I can’t remember the brand. It was rack-mounted and required a MIDI keyboard to be connected to it. Singing into a microphone and playing a chord on the keyboard produced pitch-shifted harmonies. The trouble was, it sounded like a choir of robots, most unnatural and frankly, too embarrassing to use. It gathered dust until finally ending up in my growing heap of unwanted electronic scrap.
Recently, I saw a demo of the TC-Helicon Voicetone Harmony-G pedal. The harmonies it produced sounded much more like the real thing. Instead of a MIDI keyboard, it takes its instructions from an electric or electro-acoustic guitar. You strum a chord, sing into a microphone and the box makes the harmonies based upon what you are playing. I had to have one. Unlike the earlier disaster, this one is very impressive. Read more
Line6 Spider Jam v. JM4 Looper – which for what?
Review by: Joe Gillespie – Joe runs a web site, www.joesjamblog.com, dedicated to these great devices that offers information and tips to get the best out of them.
Line6’s Spider III Jam and JM4 Looper are basically the same product in different packages. Although I could start by rhyming off a whole list of features, I will instead explain what these products are all about;
They are to help you improve your playing. They will! Not many other products can make that claim.
