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Musikmesse 2018: Galli Strings

Musikmesse 2018: Galli Strings

Galli Strings is Italian producer of guitar and other instruments strings. Currently, they have really wide offer that contains not only strings for classic, electric, acoustic guitars and basses but also strings for other instruments, for example regional ones like bouzouki, saz, banjo or oud. Besides that, the strings are manufactured in Europe and Galli achieved to maintain really good prices. During this year Musikmesse, Galli Strings showed some great and interesting new products.
First unique product of this brand are acoustic guitar strings — GFS — targeted to finger style guitarists. They are original for their double nickel and bronze wound. Nickel upgrades magnetic properties of strings, which greatly affects their versatility, allowing to use them with wider range of guitar pickups — in particular magnetic ones. Bronze wound in other hand gives them proper sound and volume.

Further news is for electric guitar players in PN series, which is all-nickel wound strings. This strings sounds different from steel ones, they have soft, “vintage” tone. There is also other series of electric guitar strings named MS — steel strings with hexagonal core, it’s interesting proposal for guitarists who are looking for sharp, heavy sound.

At last, entirely new product, which should soon hit the market is black, nylon strings for bass ukulele. Synthetic core with black, nylon wound. No other producer offers solution of this type.

Aside from strings, Galli offers guitar accessories, like picks, pickguards, peg winders, capos and straps — nylon and leather ones. For more information check the producer site below.

Musikmesse 2018: Acoustic news from Prodipe

Musikmesse 2018: Acoustic news from Prodipe

Prodipe is French company which is well-known in studio and stage industry. Wide range of products perfectly unites high quality with affordable prices. Last company affair is to produce guitars. They’re made in Asia in cooperation with the best French luthiers.

On Musikmesse 2018 Prodipe was located in business hall, where all boxes for business meetings are located.
In case of Prodipe, place like that guaranteed great environment for guitar presentation, without need to break through the noise which was present in other parts of event. Producer used this very well, displaying lot of instruments that anyone was able to check and play without any disturbance.

Among all products classic guitars deserved special attention – besides great prices they also surprised with quality, comparable with more expensive instruments from other producers. First model – Primera, costs around 140 Euros, and contains lot of great solutions, like graphite enhanced neck, composite fingerboard and ABS binding. This guitar is available in three sizes – 1/2, 3/4 and 4/4.
The second model, Student has a solid cedar top, rosewood fingerboard, maple binding and is finished in satin.

Prodipe also offers more expensive models, directed to more experienced users – Recital 200, Recital 300 and Solist 500. Every of them shows classic constructions, perfect playability and quality for which we are paying half of a price that we would expect.

Prolight + Sound 2018: FBT new products

Prolight + Sound 2018: FBT new products

There are many solutions being presented by FBT at this year’s edition of Prolight + Sound, including some new products and updates. We’ll start with the new HORIZON VHA (Vertical Horizontal Array) series, composed of the VHA406A module (600W + 300W – 133 dB SPL), the VHA112SA (12″) and VHA118SA (18″) subwoofers.

The VHA406A module contains four 6.5“ woofers and 1.4” neodymium compression driver with 2.5“ voice coil. The central waveguide offers a horizontal dispersion of 90° and 20° vertical. It has been designed for perfectly balanced symmetric dispersion. Integrated hardware allows for the connection up to six VHA406A cabinets, with the possibility of adjusting the inclination from 5° to 20°. The system also allows for the creation of horizontal arrays thanks to the new anchor points and the special flybar, able to support up to three VHA406A cabinets.

The VERTUS series has been updated with two new products: VERTUS 406.2A and VERTUS CLA 206A. Both of them have clear improvements regarding portability, with new hardware that is even more robust. The 406.2A version is a Class-D 600W + 300W system, capable of delivering a maximum SPL of 133 dB thanks to the four 6.5″ woofers and a 1.4″ B & C compression driver, with 2.5″ voice coil. The waveguide allows for a coverage of 100° (H) x 25° (V). CLA206A is basicaly the same but with only two 6.5″ woofers.

At the very end we also have the new Vertus CLA 803TB & 403TB.

Check the links below for more Horizon series information and photos on official FBT facebook profile.

Musikmesse 2018: News from Ketron

Musikmesse 2018: News from Ketron

On Musikmesse 2018, Ketron presented two, new models of their flagship product, Ketron SD live station — the SD90 and SD60.

Both products are actually answer to Ketron customers wishes. SD90 is module version of SD9, and SD60 is basically SD9 with 61 keys keyboard and speakers.