Magnatone has rolled out four of its top requests over the years and has made them available for all Traditional Collection models at no extra charge. The new models are available in traditional brown, camel, dark green and Spanish Moss colors. Built in the tradition of the American-made tube combos of the 1960s, the Magnatone Traditional Collection features tube-driven reverb, tremolo and true-pitch shifting varistor vibrato.
Hal Leonard’s Melodica Method is the publishing company’s first release dedicated to the hand-held, free-reed instrument. The Melodica Method is designed for anyone interested in learning the basics of playing the melodica. It’s filled with helpful diagrams and photographs and uses folk tunes that students can learn as they work their way through the book. Topics covered in the book include: mouthpiece techniques, breathing, chords, rhythms, improvising, vibrato, trills and glissando technique.
IK Multimedia’s Tonex Pedal completes the Tonex ecosystem and brings AI Machine Modeling Tone Models to any venue for live performance or recording. The Tonex Pedal can store up to 150 tone model presets at a time and comes with more than 1,000 tone models of the included Tonex Max software that can be installed à la carte with its new librarian feature. Tonex’s technology lets users model everything from a single pedal to a full-pedal, amp-and-cab rig. The Tonex Pedal provides musicians with all the tools needed to shape sound live on stage.
