$699.99
“Neck Dimensions:. Scale/Length: 24.75″”/628mm. Fretboard Radius: 12″”/305mm. Width at Nut: 1.69″”/43mm. Width Last Fret: 2.30″”/58.5mm. Thickness 1st Fret: 0.78″”/20mm. Thickness 12th Fret: 0.88″”/22.5mm.”
Ibanez ART600 Artist Electric Guitar Transparent Black
Innovative products are often conceived when seeking to improve upon an existing design. In the case of Thomas Wnorowski, he recognized that the tonal possibilities residing within his Strat copy fell far short of their potential, so he set out to do something about it. By replacing the standard pickup selector with a series of individual switches, he more than doubled his palette of sounds. Today Thomas boasts a number of mods for getting the most out of one’s axe, a patented Pickup Tone Multiplier™ (PTM) switching system, and a company that lives up to its name: AweSome Musical Instruments. We shared with Thomas a sad tale of a stock Telecaster that only offers three tones. Shaking his head with understanding, he sent over his Telecaster 2-pickup Hyper-Mod™ control plate to break us free from our tonal restrictions.
The entire mod is contained in a single unit. A black acrylic control plate serves as the base for a stacked master volume and tone pot, and three toggle switches. The genius behind the mod, the PTM switching system, is mounted to the bottom of the plate and sits within the control cavity. This unit installs as easily as one can imagine with a solderless connector block replacing the time and trouble of traditional methods requiring soldering tools, a steady hand, and a good dose of patience. I literally had the mod installed within ten minutes and that’s because I took extra time to desolder the leads from the stock plate rather than just clipping them.
A standard Tele offers three tonal pickup options: bridge, neck, and bridge/neck in normal phase wired in parallel. With the Hyper-Mod™, three more possibilities are opened up allowing for the maximum number of configurations from this two-pickup setup: bridge/neck in reverse phase wired in parallel, bridge/neck in normal phase wired in series, and bridge/neck in reverse phase wired in series. With the newly modded Tele running through a Blackheart Little Giant Half Stack and a touch of reverb, I recorded some short passages to give you an idea of the expanded spectrum of sounds.
1. Bridge (stock)
2. Neck (stock)
3. Bridge/Neck Normal Phase Wired in Parallel (stock)
4. Bridge/Neck Reverse Phase Wired in Parallel (mod)
5. Bridge/Neck Normal Phase Wired in Series (mod)
6. Bridge/Neck Reverse Phase Wired in Series (mod)
Be All That You Can Be is a slogan proudly promoted by the US Army. Were it not under their legal jurisdiction, AweSome Musical Instruments would have every right adopting it for their core business which turns the equivalent of guitar caterpillars into fully matured tonal butterflies (work with me here – I’m waxing poetic). I would really like to see the control plate offered in chrome, rather than the singular choice of black acrylic, as it’s more common to stock and I imagine there are others, such as myself, who simply prefer that look, but for the greatest tonal options from your Tele with the least amount of hassle, this is the way to go.
It should be noted that for those of you with 3-pickup Tex-Mex or Nashville Teles, AweSome offers a mod that septuples (7 times!!!) your choices for a total of 35 possible tones.
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LAS VEGAS — April 11, 2011 — Pilat Media Global plc (AIM: PGB) today introduced the Workflow Orchestrator, an advanced workflow integration hub for the company’s IBMS:Adapt set of customization tools. With its comprehensive toolkit of integration and orchestration building blocks, the Workflow Orchestrator dramatically simplifies the process of developing and deploying enterprise-scale workflow integrations for Pilat Media’s flagship Integrated Broadcast Management System (IBMS). (more…)
SSL Flagship Digital Console Favored by Wide Range of Facilities
LAS VEGAS – The Solid State Logic C100 HDS continues to impact the high-end of the broadcast and production studio spectrum with continued sales into commercial broadcast and educational facilities around the world. Heading into V4 Software at the 2011 NAB Show (Booth C3310), the feature-rich C100 HDS delivers ultra-reliable operation, ease of use, quality sound and compatibility with SSL’s Integration I/O range of cost-effective, MADI-based distribution and format conversion products. The C100 HDS is scalable and offers full DSP on all channels for standard configurations, giving the educator and broadcaster options for future expansion. (more…)
Preps Files for Theatrical Distribution and Archiving
LAS VEGAS, APRIL 11, 2011 — RadiantGrid Technologies, the developer of leading-edge transcoding, transformation and new media automation service platforms, is furthering moves into the film and post production market with the addition of Digital Cinema Packaging capabilities to the RadiantGrid platform. The company will debut this new functionality at the 2011 NAB Show (Booth SU3725). The company recently released its Preparation Services Module for Broadcast and Film Production with integrated Cinnafilm and Linear Acoustic functionality. This latest update strengthens RadiantGrid’s role in the film industry by achieving quality-based processing, combined with incredible efficiency gains. (more…)
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ExtremeStor-Ultra and DI Presented at The Studio-B&H Booth Demos
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As part of the booth demos, Globalstor will be used to help depict complete end-to-end workflow solutions for digital cinema as well as targeted applications for broadcast and post-production.
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Compact Caption and Audio Decoder Enables Convenient, Cost-Effective Monitoring of SDI Stream and Caption Data
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