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Audio Sprockets Launches ToneDexter II Pro Preamp Restoring the Missing Body Sound to a Piezo Pickup

Major Updates Bring a Host of New Features to ToneDexter II

Nevada City, CA Feb 2024 – Due to COVID supply issues, Audio Sprockets has completely redesigned the original ground-breaking ToneDexter, an innovative professional grade preamp that improves the live sound of an acoustic instrument’s piezo pickup.

ToneDexter II now includes a new color screen, USB web browser connectivity for naming and managing WaveMaps, additional routing options, configurable FX loop, faster and more accurate training, enhanced tuner, graphical EQ, improved anti-feedback algorithms, and more options for external foot-pedal and MIDI control.

ToneDexter II can learn the difference between how an instrument sounds through a microphone and how it sounds through its pickup. Using patented WaveMap® technology, it corrects the pickup so that it sounds like the mic. Store different mic positions, different mics, and different instrument WaveMap sounds for easy recall, naming and backup with the USB web browser interface, plus ToneDexter II includes features for intelligently reducing feedback in live situations.

ToneDexter II is applicable to a wide variety of stringed acoustic instruments including guitar, violin, cello, upright bass, mandolin and banjo. It allows the performer to plug-in on stage using a pickup but at the same time retaining the unique acoustic tonality of the instrument as well as managing feedback issues.

ToneDexter is available for US$599 directly from Audio Sprockets and also from a select group of fine instrument stores in the USA and internationally. Shop for ToneDexter.