Tiny Amp Big Tone! - The Vox AmPlug Range

Perfect Tone From A Portable Amp

 

Happy New Year From Sound Affects!

Vox Amplug Combo

I hope everyone had a good new year, and to kick it off I want to share with you what I find to be an incredible little gadget that every guitarist should own. I got one for christmas and since haven't been playing through anything else (apart from gigging of course). I'm talking about the Vox AmPlug Portable Amp. This tiny amplification system comes in two parts - the head and cabinet - it's like your own mini half stack.

 

Brand New Charvel Pro Mod Guitars Coming To Sound Affects This September!

 

Hi there, Rich here and I'm here to tell you about these brilliant new Charvel guitars coming to Sound Affects. The brand new Pro-Mod line of guitars from Japan are just about to be released to a chosen few dealers which we are one of. The guitars themselves are excellent quality for the money and very stylish and included in the line is the 'Wild Card' theme that Charvel are known to add rarity and uniqueness to their production line. There're coming in the second week of September and they're absolutely fantastic guitars - definitely worth taking a look at. There's more detail about them below and I thought I'd just throw in a little bit of history about Charvel that I thought was interesting.

Roland announces the R-05 Wave/MP3 Recorder

ROLAND unveils the R-05 WAVE/MP3 RECORDER!

 

We're actually quite excited about this cool little gadget recently released by Roland. It's a tiny portable recording device that's easy to use and brilliant quailty. Check out our youtube demo of the Roland R-05 too!


This is an article from Roland's site, and here is what they have to say about this R-05:

Take It Away!


 

To be eligible to apply for a Take it away loan, you must be:

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    EITHER an individual over 18 buying an instrument for a child under the age of 18
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    OR an individual aged 18-25 years using the scheme to buy an instrument for themselves (or someone else, e.g. as a gift)

 

All applicants must also:

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    Be a permanent UK resident
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    Be working at least 16 hours per week
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    Hold a bank or building society account capable of handling direct debit payments

 

Applicants using the scheme to buy an instrument for an under 18 will be required to complete a customer declaration confirming that the recipient of the instrument is a child.

Unfortunately we are not able to support applicants aged 26 or over who are not using the scheme to purchase a musical instrument for an under 18.

Sound Affects Music in conjunction with the Arts Council, are now able to offer 
0% Interest Free Credit on all purchases of musical instruments from £100 up to £2,000