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radiopaq-custom-tuned-earphonesRadiopaq, the same company behind the internet radio station website, has created a new range of headphones that promise the perfect sound for people into different music genres.

The new ‘Custom Tuned Earphones’, will offer Classical, Jazz, Pop and Rock fans an optimised sound based on their choice of music genre.

Radiopaq are apparently worried that music fans are having to put up with “one-size-fits-all” headphones and state that these  mechanically tuned individual headphones will produce a different sound to make the most of the music that is playing.

Radiopaq therefore say that the Rock offering will provide a warm sound with a tightly controlled bass, while the Jazz offering will give rhythm, pace and a perfectly recreated soundstage. Classical promises 25% more detail in the mid to high-end range than standard earphone while Pop will give you a strong vocal balanced with up to 30% more detailed mid range.

Users will also get three sizes of ear cushion to choose from and the headphones will be available for £59 from the usual places on the highstreet and online.

Now, I may be wrong – but surly it’s all about frequency response where speakers and headphones are concerned?

My Audio Technicas can rock, metal, jazz, classical, funk and drum n bass without changing for some other cans.

Until I’ve tested these Radiopaq offerings I’ll stick with my one-size-fits-all.

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Coyote 1Now here’s a thing.

To get your own custom effects pedal can be a little on the expensive side – so why not do a Brian May and build your own?

The OpenStomp Coyote-1, whilst still in the prototype phase, seems a pretty well thought-out open source guitar effects module.

It has a Parallax Propeller 8-core processor running at 80MHz that can even generate basic video. 

Howler

A companion Windows application (OpenStompTM Workbench) allows users to combine effects into patches graphically, and to move patches and effects between the Coyote-1 device and their PC’s disk.

Combined with a 44kHz 24-bit sampler, two foot switches, and a two-line LCD screen for feedback it’s like a mini diy POD or similar.

The main brain behind it, Eric moyer, says he wants the pedal to serve as an “audio sandbox” with totally open-source software and fully documented hardware.

Although some feedback is anti the Windows requirement I’m going to keep an eye on how this goes forward for the future.

Via Make

OpenStomp Site

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Gibson Robot Guitar

November 14, 2007 Click to read more →

Looks like Gibson’s long awaited self-tuning guitar has finally arrived in the form of the Gibson Robot Guitar. This auto-tuning guitar tunes itself to standard A440 tuning, ensuring even if you have terrible pitch detection skills, it will still be able to do the job quite decently. In addition, the guitar offers access to [...]