Namm 2025 predictions

I go hot and cold with my VH4 lately, but that's totally a me thing and not reflective of the amp at all. I had it stacked with the Mark V yesterday, and I fell in love with it all over again!

Mine was made in 2001, and I believe it is a bit different to the modern production ones. The modern production ones are a bit higher-gain and have more bite and cut to them. Mine is quite smooth and vintage sounding. Still high gain on channel 3 and 4, but nothing like a 5150 type of thing, for example.
 
Orvillain said:
I go hot and cold with my VH4 lately, but that's totally a me thing and not reflective of the amp at all. I had it stacked with the Mark V yesterday, and I fell in love with it all over again!

Mine was made in 2001, and I believe it is a bit different to the modern production ones. The modern production ones are a bit higher-gain and have more bite and cut to them. Mine is quite smooth and vintage sounding. Still high gain on channel 3 and 4, but nothing like a 5150 type of thing, for example.
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Mine is a 2007 el34 plenty of gain.
 
Almost there so far the rumours

Syn 20 Ir
Fortin Module , Toneking Module and a Big announcement about a new partner

Friedman A Jose amp
A new 20-25 watter with more switches and features he has ever done according to tone talk

3rd Power appears to be hinting at a lunchbox

Red Seven says they have a bunch of new products to show

Anyone else ?
 
ragingplatypi said:
NAMM might stay relevant if they move it September or October. It would set everything up for the holiday season.
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Afraid not. Lots of stuff announced for winter NAMM doesn't actually ship until summer or later. You'd have a bunch of Christmas hype that no one could buy until well into the spring.
 
Actually , Rhett Shill might not be to far off I predict a big return of tube amps this year based on the stuff leaked and mentioned

I don’t see much mention of modellers at all

Friedman / Jose / Be/dlx 20 IR

Red seven new amps

Marshall : Green Day mod and some other one likely hi gain that Fluff is demoing
Possible Synergy announcements

NDSP , Line 6 , Kemper not much mention
 
saarangnarayan said:
Not to derail this thread but announcing new amps isn’t exactly the same as expanding the tube amp market as such
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I don’t think of it as much as expanding but they definitely have more of a presence
Modellers have been all the rage last few years and I am seeing more amp stuff
 
Enchilada Jones said:
It is much more than a special pick up, I recall peeking at the guts of a Tyler Variax and abandoning that same line of thought once I saw the bulk of what is under the hood. There will be woodworking needed with any guitar I’ve ever had, Strats included.
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The technology comprising the "brains" does tend to get smaller and smaller every year, though. Something designed for Strat bodies with "universal" bucket routes might be feasible by now. Of course, the more restrictive you have to be about which guitars are or aren't compatible, the more you've defeated the purpose.
 
The internet will feed you whatever is trending in your interests. Isn’t Brhett literally just a talking head anyways?
 
mbenigni said:
The technology comprising the "brains" does tend to get smaller and smaller every year, though. Something designed for Strat bodies with "universal" bucket routes might be feasible by now. Of course, the more restrictive you have to be about which guitars are or aren't compatible, the more you've defeated the purpose.
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That’s an encouraging line of thought!
I just imagined a Line 6 product that fits in a standard Stratocaster routed body. Remove strings and pick guard and drop it in. Attach wiring harness adapter and reassemble. Result is serial cable hexophonic output along with any Variax mojo they decide to put in.
Not sure if they want to help Boss make the serial GK tech become industry standard but it seems like the future of all things hexophonic polyphonic (whatever the correct terminology is) would benefit with some industry wide adoption of a standard.
 
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Enchilada Jones said:
That’s an encouraging line of thought!
I just imagined a Line 6 product that fits in a standard Stratocaster routed body. Remove strings and pick guard and drop it in. Attach wiring harness adapter and reassemble. Result is serial cable hexophonic output along with any Variax mojo they decide to put in.
Not sure if they want to help Boss make the serial GK serial become industry standard but it seems like the future of all things hexophonic polyphonic (whatever the correct terminology is) would benefit with some industry wide adoption of a standard.
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You're kind of going in two different directions here. :)

To keep this discussion focused on a Variax replacement/ upgrade, it wouldn't necessarily have to be that complicated. The (audio) output of a Variax is standard monophonic instrument-level analog on 1/4" cable. Anything more complicated (VDI) is just too accommodate control signals and power.

If you wanted to make a product that converted e.g. a Strat to a Variax, you could just mount the processor, controls (knobs and selector switch), and a rechargeable battery under a pickguard. The "end user" would just have to connect 2 leads to the guitar output jack, and possibly one more for a ground. Of course a hex pickup would also have to fit into the equation, which means a magnetic pickup rather than piezo. Otherwise you're also asking the buyer to replace their bridge. In this regard, Roland would have a bit of a head start.

As far as sending hexaphonic signals from the guitar to an outboard processor... Roland's already doing so with a number of their products. And they always seem so close to getting it right. What they did with serializing hex over 1/4" TRS is great... if only they'd managed to squeeze audio (mag pickups) over that same line... and if only they hadn't dumbed down the switching on the (still ugly) guitar wart. If they find just a little more bandwidth, miniaturize and/or dress up the pickup interface so it either disappears or adds value, and then introduce the next gen of GP10 or whatever... they're essentially already there. (Line 6 is probably quite aware of this, and looking skeptically at the potential profitability of a 3rd generation of Variax.)
 
gumtown said:
Keep your eyes peeled for NAMM and a new Boss GK modeler, which could possibly be the GP-10 replacement with Serial GK.
There are new GK Serial internal kits available now which do 6 & 7 string pickups, guitar controls (GK Vol S1/S2, mix), and carry guitar normal pickups over the Serial GK 1/4" jack/cable.
What's interesting with the GK Serial, for further products down the line is the protocol (automotive A2B audio-bus) is capable of more than 8 channels of digital audio in both directions.
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All very good news! I will definitely be watching this space. :)

Thanks, gumtown.
 
Gazing into my crystal lettuce ball:

MXR's new Rockman pedal takes NAMM by storm and the entire music industry starts pumping out 80's tunes...

Guitarists begin to woodshed their chops and raise the bar on a level not seen since said 80's...

RATT, Dokken, Whitesnake, Badlands, Blue Murder, Journey, good Metallica etc all regroup and make new albums...

Michael Jackson & Eddie Van Halen collaborate in heaven and send a thumbdrive down to earth with the sequel to "Beat It"; Ed's new solo melts everyone's faces...

Weird Al finally goes Diamond status (10x Platinum) on his next album...

Hear 'n' Aid 2 makes an album that generates $2 billion in aid and has 20x the note density of the first...

...and World Peace® is finally achieved.
 
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