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ToneDexter Live YouTube Event with Audio Sprockets’ James May
Impulse Responses for Acoustic Instruments
Aaron Short interviews James May
Audio Sprockets’ founder, James May, discusses Impulse Responses for acoustic and electric instruments, ToneDexter, live acoustic sound, and pickups with Aaron Short.
This extended interview has been segmented into 19 shorter topics available on a YouTube Audio Sprockets’ Playlist. Also on our Video Page.
ToneDexter
ToneDexter®, from Audio Sprockets, is an amazing new pro preamp for acoustic guitar, violin, upright bass, mandolin and more, that restores the missing body sound to an instrument’s piezo pickup.
ToneDexter stores WaveMaps® of your studio mic sound that you can recall when using just your pickup. The WaveMaps transform the pickup signal so that it sounds like a mic—lush, resonant, and natural. You can store WaveMaps of different mic positions and different mics, for each of your instruments.
Artists
Uwe Kruger – “The ToneDexter is a true game changer in my opinion”
Peter Frampton – “From the first listen, it’s easy to hear that ToneDexter is amazing!”
Thomm Jutz – “Finally I feel like I’m playing a real acoustic guitar onstage. There’s absolutely no going back for me.”
Jason Bailey – “I didn’t realize how much I needed the ToneDexter until I got one. Wow!”
Paul Jacob Cartwright – “I can say with no exaggeration that the ToneDexter is the single most important purchase I’ve ever made for live acoustic amplification of my violin, guitar and mandolin.”
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Downloadable Free WaveMaps
WaveMaps available for Yamaha SLG200 Silent Guitars, Fender & Gibson Style Electrics
We have decided to create free WaveMap sets designed to be used with specific solid and thin body instruments that we have studied in the lab. This way we know that the sounds you will experience will be satisfying.
WaveMaps for Electric Violins and Cellos
WaveMaps available for Yamaha or NS Design violins and cellos
Jacob Szekely and Luis Mascaro of ‘The Pickup Test‘ and ‘Electric String Player‘ YouTube channel, collaborated with ToneDexter to create custom WaveMaps for Yamaha or NS Design violins and cellos.
