R.I.P. Gibson Digital Guitar

Gibson has pulled the plug, or should we say, Ethernet cable, on their groundbreaking Digital Guitar. We were pretty bullish on the innovative new guitar after interviewing CEO Henry Juszkiewicz just before the product’s launch in 2004, but unfortunately the steep price tag and lack of enthusiasm from the guitar crowd put the final nail in the coffin. Juszkiewicz reveals that some of the technology utilized in developing the...

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TestDrive: Tascam DP-008

Portastudio. The name invokes a flash flood of memories for anyone who wanted to do a little “home” recording in the era of cassette multitrack recorders. It’s like smelling a crayon and getting transported back to Kindergarden. But the DP-008 is not your father’s Portastudio. No sir. Tascam has taken the Portastudio concept and infused all the wiz-bang technolgy that the new millennium has to offer. We may not...

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