I was feeling like crap today, but still accompanied my friend, Jeff Aragaki, to go to the offices of Guitar Player Magazine, which just so happens to be local to us in the Silicon Valley. Nested in an office building near the heart of San Bruno, CA, the office itself is rather unassuming, though there are tons of pictures hanging on the wall of great musicians from over the years. Very cool.
Like I said, it looked like your typical office, replete with cubicles… Then you see all the guitar cases in the cubes, and the amps stacked along walls, and effects in various states of disassembly on desks for evaluators to examine. Moving to the back of the office, is an area filled with boxes of gear waiting to be reviewed. Had I died and gone to heaven? 🙂
Jeff invited me along to help him show some of his equipment to the GP folks. We were supposed to meet with one of the editors, but unfortunately, because of the SF Bay Bridge closing, he couldn’t make it to the meeting. Instead, we were greeted by Reggie Singh, who is the marketing and ad sales guy for the mag. Very cool dude. He gave us a tour of the office, and let us get some back and upcoming issues of the mag, plus some very cool swag (I got this GREAT coffee table book on Gibson guitars). But the highlight of the day was going into the GP test studio where I got to demo the PRX150-Pro for Reggie.
For the demo, I played a ’59 Les Paul Reissue with the fat 50’s neck and light, mahogany body. OMG! Reggie said that guitar was the one everyone uses to test gear. The way he said it was so non-chalant, as if that was a beater guitar (mind you, it was great shape)! You gotta love being able to work at a guitar magazine! Anyway, we demonstrated the features of the PRX150-Pro through a Dr. Z Remedy. That’s a 40 Watt, quad 6V6 tone beast that was absolutely incredible! Very simple control layout – just single bank of a few knobs, and it had such a sweet tone! I think I’m going to have to review this one… 🙂
Going to that magazine office was an eye-opener… There’s A LOT of gear out there! You don’t fully realize it until you go to a place like this where people’s jobs are to evaluate it. It’s not like a store where things are on display. In fact, several times, Reggie told us, “Hey, if you want to plug something in, please feel free.” Damn! I could spend a whole day there and not make a dent in all the gear that’s in that office.
That was truly an adventure of magnificent proportions!
Guitar Gear 
My newly released T4-Board gives your electric guitar and bass 68 pure analog pickup tones.
I now have the following three core products (that all my other products leverage).
* T2-Board. Designed to give you 6 pickup tones by controlling two pickup coil instruments. This can be an instrument with two single-coil pickups or an instrument with one 4-wire humbucker. This board has also been designed to permit transparent Gibson product upgrades by using two push-pull pots to double the number of pickup tones.
* T3-Board. Designed to give you 35 pickup tones by controlling three pickup coil instruments. This can be an instrument with three single-coil pickups or an instrument with one 4-wire humbucker and one single-coil pickup. Also works with many other similar configurations.
* T4-Board. Designed to give you 68 pickup tones by controlling four pickup coil instruments. This can be an instrument with four single-coil pickups, or an instrument with two 4-wire humbucker pickups, or an instrument with one 4-wire humbucker pickup and two single-coil pickups. Also works with many other similar configurations.
Do You Want To Get MORE Pickup Tones Out of Your Electric Guitar and Bass?
My revolutionary patented Pickup Tone Multiplier™ switching system products are designed to give you dozens and dozens of (up to 68) pure virgin analog pickup tones on your electric guitar or bass.
Now you can get Blues, Jazz, Surf, Country Twang, Tin-canny Sounds and much more from just one instrument.
These products are completely passive and green, so there are no batteries or sensitive digital electronic components to fail and let you down when you’re performing or recording. Best of all, you can keep your analog pickup tones pure.
My products will give your electric guitar and bass that elusive Signature Sound to die for – that exquisite and unique sound from an incredible Grand Canyon Wide range of pickup tones that nobody else will have.
Your budding career is on the line! How can you stand out and be noticed if you have the exact same pickup tones that millions of other wanna-bees have? These hard times have you struggling for shrinking gigs, lower pay rates and fewer recording contracts. To survive, you want something that lets you “stand out” in an increasingly crowded guitar and bass player market. When you have dozens of pickup tones nobody has heard before, you can use them to differentiate yourself and boost your career. This also lets you more precisely tailor your output to “precisely get the sound” that you want.
With up to 68 pickup tones, you can instantly select that incredibly unique tone that will stop the audience “dead in their tracks” to HEAR and APPRECIATE your unique talent and ability. Now you can finally “stand out” head and shoulders above everyone else and be noticed.
These products are a huge benefit to session musicians because it “lights their load.” Now you only need one instrument to get all those special pickup tones – plus have dozens and dozens of additional pickup tones you have never heard before.
I have solderless drop-in upgrades for your Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazz Bass, and now have “transparent” upgrades that use push-pull pots with my multi-layer circuit board for Gibson, and even have upgrades for all other electric guitar, bass and other instruments that contain magnetic coil-wound pickups.
See the display ad in August Premier guitar (page 206) and July Premier Guitar (page 238), September Vintage Guitar (page 107) and August Vintage Guitar (page 106), and July Pennsylvania Musician Magazine (page 25-26)
Even the guitar and bass technicians who do extensive upgrades to instruments are impressed — not only with the number of pickup tones my products provide, but also because what used to be a days-long wiring job to get this kind of result is now a simple 5-minute task.
These products are also ideal for both guitar and bass builders to instantly offer customer MORE pickup tones. All the complex wiring and logic is “baked” into my multi-layer printed circuit boards. Because all of my circuit board products now contain a solderless terminal strip, it now takes less than a minute to connect your pickup and input wires to upgrade your instrument.
Over 40 AweSome products and growing. Thank you for taking a closer look.
(P.S.: Thought you’d find this interesting…)
Here is a recent alert from the editor at notreble . com about a subscriber that used my T4-Board to create a bass with 68 pickup tones and his comments:
In case you missed it, I just wanted to drop you a note to about a post on our Facebook page over the weekend from Rob Doane. There was a nice conversation started in the thread, which you can find at our Facebook page: facebook.com/notreble
Thomas Wnorowski – CEO
AweSome Musical Instruments
http://www.AweSome-Guitars.com
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