Hardware

Rip It Up, Issue 235, 1 March 1997, Page 31

Hardware

New Products from Direct Imports are: Epiphone by Gibson: Les Paul Double Cutaway, fitted with USA P-90 pickups, fast neck. RRP $899.

Guild D 4 Solid Top Acoustic: Made in the USA, Rosewood fingerboard. RRP $1299. Fender Tex-Mex Strat: 22 Frets, medi-um-jumbo, solid body vintage hardware, Tex-Mex Trio pickups. RRP $999. Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Amp: New model, 40 watts all tube, 3 channel clean, overdrive, cover included. RRP $1395. Emagic Audiowerk 8: Full size expandable PCI Digital Audio card for use in either a Mac or a Windows 95 based computer. Features 2 analog Ins, 6 analog plus S/P-DIF digital I/O, ships with the highly user friendly VMR software and is fully compatible with both Emagic Logic Audio and Emagic Logic Audio Discovery. (Electric Factory). Alesis QSR: Packs the features of the QS-8 Synthesiser into a single rack space unit. Features 640 programs, 500 mixes, 16 megs of sample ROM, 64 note polyphony, ADAT optical link, two expansion card slots, Mac or PC compatible interface, full 16 Part multi-tim-bral operation, ships with a CD ROM that includes sequencing and editing programs, MIDI files and new banks of sounds. (Electric Factory). Alesis Nanosynth: 1/3 rack size, 64 voice, 16 part, 8 megs of sample ROM, over 500 sounds, 128 programmable sounds, GM, multi-timbral synth’ module offering all the sounds found on the QS6 synth’. RRP less than SIOOO. (Electric Factory). Spirit By Soundcraft F 1 Mixing Consoles: New F 1 14/2 and F 1 16/2 mixing consoles with six or eight mic inputs respectively, Ultra-Mic Pre-amp, high pass filters,'swept mid EQ, stereo inputs, stereo FX returns, 100 mm faders, rack mount options. Available early April. (Electric Factory).