Guitar Port
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List Price: $99.99
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$99.99
Features
• CD-ROM
• 16 amp and cabinet models based on PODxtA , 19 must-have Stompbox and Studio effects, Effects can be routed Pre- or Post- Amp
• MP3, WAV and Audio CD playback, Looping and real-time half-speed without changing pitch
• 24-bit converters & 32-bit processing, Line level and headphone outputs, Ideal guitar front end for other recording software
• Metronome for practicing, Built-in chromatic tuner, Includes preset tone library |
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Guitar Port Customer Reviews
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Worth Buying - Excellent Product
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| I've owned the GuitarPort for over a year. It allows you to change the way your guitar sounds in the same way that a word processor allows you to choose different fonts. If you want your guitar to sound the way Jimmy Page's guitar sounds on the song "Heartbreaker", you change to a preset which is in fact, called "heartbreaker". If you want your sound to be like John Fogerty's on "Rolling on the River", you change to the preset "Rollin'". And so on. All the presets are organized by genre: metal, blues, classic rock, surf, jazz, etc. They also include preset bass guitar settings, so you can use the GuitarPort with a bass as well. It's great: you can sound like Sabbath, Cream, The Ramones, etc. By using this device, you can avoid the expense and complexity of utilizing hundreds to thousands of dollars of effects pedals, and/or the expense of purchasing several different types of guitars (hollow body guitar vs. solid body guitars) to obtain different sounds. Also, you can tweak and customize the presets, and give them a name of your choosing, or start from scratch to create your own unique sound, that you can save and get back to quickly and easily. And let me tell you, this customization feature is actually very comprehensive and sophisticated: I've created settings that incorporate echo, delay, distortion and octaves (where you can add more distortion to certain frequencies of the sound and keep other frequencies cleaner), where the sound you get out of your guitar is unique and amazing! PLUS, I've run my electric violin through the guitar port, and it's worked great for creating a truly memorable audio experience! Much of the time I plug my headphones into the unit, so I can play to my heart's content, without disturbing the family. For recording, I purchased Riffworks, which works well, but frankly is just a bit too ambitious of a program for my taste, kind of like the way I find Photoshop is too ambitious for my home user, non-pro digital photography. So frequently I'll record by a simpler method: there are any number of shareware programs that record whatever you hear coming over the speakers. Many of these will record in the MP3 format. So I use one of these programs, and just click on "record" and then play! There aren't a myriad of settings to contend with, then, and whatever I record comes out in a nice, compact, MP3 file. For the drum tracks, I just choose a drum track from my Prodikeys keyboard (well, that's a whole nother review, the Creative Prodikeys keyboard, which is a typing keyboard with a musical keyboard built in under the wrist support, it has tons of built in midi drumtracks.) For overdubs, I just let Winamp play my original MP3 composition, and click "record" on the shareware software I use, and play on top of my original music. It sounds great, even though it is in glorious mono! I e-mail my MP3's to my musically interested friends and they listen to them and give me feedback! Anyway, the GuitarPort is tons of fun and well worth it's affordable cost! I only give it four stars, because it's an electronic, computer product, and as such, it can be a pain to set up, with drivers, etc. I'm sure you've experienced the same type of trouble with setting up new printers or multifunction devices, etc. So I had to struggle with it a little bit in the beginning, but overall, nothing too difficult in getting it set up and configured. |
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