We just walked out of a product demo/product training (both training and demos go on day-in and day-out here at Sweetwater) featuring the Dave Smith Instruments PolyEvolver Keyboard. It’s hard not to be stoked by getting up close and personal with a product, but in this case… wow! Here’s a comment we overheard in the hallway: “The Poly Evolver really nails down the point that there’s a whole world of new sounds out there, just waiting to be discovered!” Another: “I was impressed that this is a real player’s synth – not just a sound design tool. Not that it’s not an amazing sound design tool, too!” Yet another: “The quality and sheer size of the sound draws you in – you start imagining the possibilities for exploring uncharted musical worlds – Poly Evolver reminds me why I got excited about synths in the first place.” To say we were enthralled by what we heard is an understatement. Dave Smith (the “Daddy of MIDI,” as David Bryce, the DSI rep called him) really out-did himself with this one.
We Win!
We/re proud to announce that Hear Technologies, manufacturers of fine personal monitoring solutions, have presented us with their award for Outstanding Sales Achievement for the Year 2004. Pretty cool, thanks guys!
New In Stock At Sweetwater
It was guitar day at Sweetwater today: Fender sent us their new DG14SCE a new single-cutaway dreadnought acoustic guitar. The DG14SCE has a solid spruce top, maple back and sides, and a nato neck. A Fender/Fishman Classic 4 Active On-Board Preamp is included, which features Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble, and Body (Mid-Sweep) controls.
Fender Deluxe Player’s Strat is a revised version of the Super Strat. With American-made Vintage Noiseless pickups, “C” neck, 12″ radius fingerboard, medium jumbo frets, gold-plated hardware, and 7-way pickup switching, this thing is made for, well, playing.
The Brian Moore iGuitar i81.13 is based on the i81, and features an RMC piezo pickup as well as a 13-pin system for access to Roland and other guitar processor and MIDI converter systems.