Today's Top Stories:

  New in Stock at Sweetwater

• Grace Design m101 - Thought you could never afford a Grace Design product? Well, think again! The Grace m101 is a single channel of the critically acclaimed Grace Design mic preamp, and it sports updated components inside and out. The former silver exterior has been replaced with a sleek black finish. With incredible bandwidth, headroom, and resolution, the m101 is remarkably natural, musical, and detailed. A 12-position gold-plated rotary gain switch with a high-performance output line driver and HPF amplifier are onboard. Also new is the ribbon mode, with plenty of gain and a relay bypass de-activating phantom power to protect your ribbon mics.
  
• TASCAM GigaStudio 4 - TASCAM has done it again! They've redefined the high-end of sampling workstations with GigaStudio 4. This new version supports 64-bit operating systems like XP 64 and Windows Vista 64, allowing users to access up to 128 gigabytes of RAM for loading those massive sample libraries and compositional templates. GigaStudio 4 also Hosts VSTi And GVi virtual instruments, loading or stacking instruments alongside GigaStudio instrument libraries. Hundreds of enhancements have been made from GigaStudio 3, such as an all-new QuickSound database tool, additions to the QuickEdit interface and user interface improvements.
  

  Guitar of the Day
Today's Guitar of the Day is, if you don't mind us saying so, a sublime work of art. But then we've come to expect no less from the master builders at PRS. We're talking about the Paul Reed Smith Hollowbody 1 in Santana Yellow! Just look at that amazingly quilted carved maple top and tell us how that's not a 10-top. Hold it up to the light and you could get lost in the deep 3-D perfection of its unique pattern. But that's okay, since you're getting what sure looks like a 10-top but without the extra charge. Spin this baby over and have a look at the back. Unlike the Hollowbody 2, which has a matching maple back, the Hollowbody 1 has a carved mahogany back, and this one is pretty sweet! It's easy to see why the PRS Hollowbody was so successful right out of the gate. Naturally, it wouldn't be a PRS without those trademark rippled abalone birds on the premium 22-fret rosewood fingerboard.

We love the feel of the wide-fat neck carve, which is exactly right for this beauty. Anything less wouldn't be right on a guitar that's a full three inches deep at the bridge, eventually spilling down the sensuously carved top to 1-1/2" at the sides. The Hollowbody 1 comes standard with specially voiced McCarty Archtop pickups. Yes, the same McCarty (first name Ted) that was at the helm at Gibson during the so-called "golden age" (if you ask us, we're smack dab in the middle of the true golden age of guitar making, but that's just our opinion). They're humbuckers, so you know you'll get a rich, smoky tone from either or both pickups. Plugged in, these can sound remarkably refined or burnin' hot! So no matter what kind of music you play, the Hollowbody delivers on the promise of superior sound. Sustain is guaranteed by the combination bridge/tailpiece, which is actually anchored to a thick piece of the carved mahogany back. Finally, oversized f-holes deliver the right combination of class and acoustic "zing." Don't like the Santana Yellow? That's okay, because we also have Hollowbody 1s in Whale Blue (with moon inlays), McCarty Sunburst (with the onboard piezo pickup option and bird inlays), and your basic Black (with moons). All include a deluxe, plush-lined hardshell case and free FedEx shipping right to your door!