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What news from Summer NAMM 2013?

HeavyJazz

HeavyJazz

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#1
Can't find a site that offers a decent rundown. Warwick's latest Jonas-inspired head made an appearence, but that's about all I spotted.

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#5
Chef said:
Remember when there were pages and pages of folks reporting on cool new stuff from namm?
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Sign of the times with the economy still in the crapper. Nobody can afford to take the risk launching anything new and innovative when people don't have the cash to purchase and recoup the R&D costs.

This past Winter NAMM was a dud, too, for the same reason. Hell, even the gadget world hasn't seen anything new or cool in a couple years now...
 
#7
I'd imagine nobody could afford to be stale... innovation at NAMM would be awesome. GK just came out with a bunch of products. Genz is in flux, Baer & Bergantino still have newer stuff etc

I think we are just inbetween product cycles with a bunch of stuff.
 
#8
I guess we're waiting on Apple as usual, eh? Give it time and we'll have an iRig with the overly compressed tone of modern day iPods and the portable convenience of a Tylenol. Heck, with the success of the RockStar video game, air guitar is probably making more dough these days than the real ones...
 
#9
I went last Thursday and meant to do a more in depth follow up Saturday, but a last minute fly date came up...

The Warwick amps looked cool. There was some nice studio stuff, pres, converters, etc.

Strange to walk through a place with so much bass gear and not really GAS for one single thing. More coffee table basses that look like they should be played only by wizards :)

Tons of new pedal companies...most of what I heard was the same old thing, with cooler, or newer graphics.

Wampler and Earthquaker Devices did have some serious pedals though. I could go for a couple of those :bassist:
 
#14
CAW said:
Sign of the times with the economy still in the crapper. Nobody can afford to take the risk launching anything new and innovative when people don't have the cash to purchase and recoup the R&D costs.

This past Winter NAMM was a dud, too, for the same reason. Hell, even the gadget world hasn't seen anything new or cool in a couple years now...
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I think that's part of it. Also, though, it seems like fewer companies are actually going to NAMM.
 
#16
I saw a couple basses in Tom's pics that didn't look like they should be played by wizards. Digging on those oddball Kay reissues with the weird pickguard. But yeah, mostly Mark seems right ;)
 
#18
Jimmy! Some of the Kay and Harmony reissue stuff looked pretty cool...I kinda thought the Kay stuff looked better then they sounded or played, sadly.

I assumed I'd be coming back, but had I known I'd be flying out Saturday, I would've taken a more serious look on Thursday.
 
#20
Actually, there were more cool things than I typically expect at Summer NAMM. I'll talk about more of them later, but we gave out three Bass Gear Magazine Best of Show Awards. These went to Keith Roscoe, for a very killer P/J 5 Century Standard, to Traynor, for the (now permanently reissued) YBA-1 (and 2x12 cab), and to Eventide, for their super awesome H9 pedal, which can basically run any of their other pedal effects, and can be controlled by an iPad/iPhone.
 

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