Lava Cable has iintroduced a new version of its revolutionary solder-free plug. This new plug comes with a black anodized housing and gold-plated stem and grounding sleeve and is available in both right angle and straight versions. It is the lowest in capacitance of any like plug on the market and the gold plating offers a minor increase in conductivity over nickel to provide for slightly increased sonic performance. Like the nickel-plated version, this plug is also the smallest any like plug on the market allowing for the tightest spacing of pedal using solder-free plugs. The new Black Gold Lava Plug retails for $9.50 each and comes in kits with 10' of Lava Mini ELC Cable, 10 Plugs plus a stripping tool for $113.95 and can be purchased direct on Lava Cable's website or through Lava Cable dealers carrying this product. For more information, please visit www.lavacable.com This is a Press Release Related News: Vari-Cap Cable Lava Cable – A Unique Journey Video The Best Guitar Cables

PRS Guitars and Bond Music Research have introduced the PRS Signature Series Cables. In line with Paul Reed Smith's quest for uncompromising tone and meticulous quality, the new PRS Signature Series Cable line includes guitar and speaker cables manufactured to the most exacting specifications. These premiere cables make an ideal choice for performing musicians and vocalists—both on stage and in the recording studio. For guitarists, bassists, and keyboard players, the PRS Signature Series instrument cables are available in a variety of lengths ranging from 10 feet to 25 feet and ship in both standard quarter-inch phone plug and right angle phone plug versions. Amp to head speaker cables are available in 3- and 6- foot lengths and, for the discriminating studio professional, the PRS Signature Series Cable line also includes 10- and 20-foot length speaker cables. PRS Signature Series Cable employs an ultra low capacitance design that is ideal for use in critical audio applications. Because silver is a better conductor of electricity than copper, the PRS Signature Series Cable contains ultra-pure, silver plated oxygen-free copper elements (with the exception of speaker cables). This design helps counteract conductor saturation, improves signal transmission, and delivers vast, unimpeded high frequency performance with

AQD has added custom designed cabling and patent-pending electronics to their Zerocap guitar cable for what they say provides zero cable capacitance. Guitar cables have capacitance that reduces the high-end tone of guitar pickups, and creates an artificial midrange honk. The cable reduces this capacitance to a tiny fraction of other guitar cables and the resulting tone is exactly the tone of the instrument. The Zerocap also eliminates high frequency tone loss when rolling down the guitar's volume control. According to AQD the guitar will sound as good on 5 as on 10 and because of that, the tone control on the guitar has a greater range of effect. The cable is available in lengths from 5 feet ($79.95) to 50 feet ($169.95). The longer cables are designed for large stage use and studio use to remote amplifiers for sound isolation. The Zerocap guitar cable runs on a tiny, inexpensive battery that is reported to last for many hours of playing. For more information, please visit www.aqdi.com Related News: Buy The Best Guitar Cable Check out these Wireless Guitar Systems as an alternative to cables Vari-Cap Cable

Orange Amplification unveils the Orange Twister Cable, featuring new technology that prevents cable kinks and tangles. Related Feature:Orange Guitar Pack The company will be bringing this interesting new gear to the upcoming 2015 NAMM Show, it will available for testing along with their new amplifiers and other releases. The company claims that this is a world first, solving the age old problem that has plagued musicians since the dawn of electrified music. They had to think outside the box to make a working solution that will allow guitarists to move around the stage freely without worrying about cable issues, or opting for a digital wireless unit. The patent applied for “Twister module” is what makes this cable special. As the name implies, it freely rotates as the cable moves around, preventing cable knots and related damages. This innovative feature makes the Twister Cable an ideal choice for players that want to move around while still remaining tethered to their amps, removing the need to compromise tone by utilizing digital wireless systems. Orange Amps says, “The Twister module itself is machined from high quality, lightweight, aircraft grade aluminium, incorporating three sealed internal precision ball races ensuring a robust and reliable cable

UnderTone Audio introduces the Vari-Cap Cable, an instrument cable that lets you adjust cable capacitance in realtime. Related Feature:Gibson Memory Cable The ability to change cable capacitance lets you virtually change the length of your cable as you perform, which ultimately translates into distinctive changes to the resulting tone. Being a manufacturer of recording consoles, mic preamps and equalizers, UnderTone Audio knows the importance and effect of cables in the audio equation. And so they came up with a way to give guitarists real-time control over the cable’s capacitance, which is conventionally fixed based on its length. The press release goes: “After years of frustration trying to match the right cable with a particular guitar and amp combination to really make everything ‘sing’, producer/engineer Eric Valentine and circuit designer Larry Jasper devised a revolutionary solution which allows guitarists to vary the amount of capacitance imparted by the cable, resulting in a MASSIVE influence on the overall tone.” Getting tone variation from a cable maybe overkill for some but it can be valuable in making subtle tone adjustments especially when you’re playing at different venues. I can see it being used to add warmth, or to reduce brightness without using EQ

Gibson and TASCAM team up to create Memory Cable, an instrument cable with built-in audio recording. Related Feature:Gibson Pure Instrument Cables Described as “inspiration insurance”, this cable will let you easily capture your creative musical ideas with up to 13 hours of recording time and CD-quality resolution. Gibson and TASCAM were not satisfied by the many compact recorders available in the market, and thought of an even more convenient way to capture ideas. So they created a miniature preamp and recorder, and attached them discretely into an instrument cable! With the Memory Cable, musicians will have less and less excuse for not putting out their best musical ideas. With the cable plugged in, capturing ideas is as simple as grabbing your cable and pressing a button. Designing a discrete but powerful recorder is not a simple feat, thankfully TASCAM’s engineers were able to come up with one that can record over 13 continuous hours of your playing. And this extended recording hours is provided by the included 4GB microSD card, which you can replace for even more hours of recording. This means that you don’t have to wait for great ideas to come in before recording to save space, you

Radial Engineering Ltd. introduces the Radial JX62, a six input guitar switcher with two amplifier outputs designed for live touring. Related Feature:Wireless Guitar Systems This piece of gear is designed to help artists and technicians manage complex guitar rig setups reliably, with enough flexibility to handle a wide variety of signal chaining combinations. It will be on display at their Musikmesse 2014 booth, which is located in Hall 8, Aisle E12. The Radial JX62 has six guitar input channels with ¼” inputs that goes to its own amp or dedicated direct box. Each channel can be activated via dedicated switches and you can use all channels simultaneously. Each channel has a recessed ‘set & forget’ Trim control that will let you set all of the levels uniformly should the output from the guitars or wireless systems need to be balanced out. The trim control on channel 1 and 2 can also function as a “Drag” control – you can use them to adjust the load when using a wired connection to a magnetic pickup. This system is based on the class-A circuit topology as used on the Radial JD7, which is according to the press release is used by guitarists

Radial Engineering announces the availability of the full-featured amplifier attenuator and direct box, the Headload. Related Feature:Guitar DI Box This guitar amp attenuator is designed to let you reduce the volume level of your amp while still driving your amp hard to get the tones you want without being too loud on the stage or in the studio. Far from being an average guitar amp attenuator, the company equipped the Headload with a built Radial JDX Direct Box. This is the same JDX that is currently being used by big name artists that include Sting, Aerosmith, Radiohead, Megadeth, Rascal Flatts, and Evanescence, often used to remove the need for mic’ing guitar and bass amps. Together with the 6-position voice switch, this guitar amp attenuator offers tone shaping via amp and cabinet emulation. Further sonic tweaking is provided for by the 2-band EQ for the low pass filter, which you can use to reduce the harsh harmonics of some amplifiers. There are two JDX direct box outputs, which you can use for pre or post EQ configurations. This will let you control your stage or in-ear monitors to your preference, while sending a non-equalized tone to the FOH (front of house)

BluGuitar GmbH introduces the BluBOX, an impulse response speaker simulator with 16 cab models. Related Feature:BluGuitar NanoCab & FatCab It was first unveiled at BluGuitar’s Musikmesse booth A81 in Hall 11.0, and is expected to be ready for release within the fourth quarter of this year. While there really is nothing better than having a properly miked amp, it is not always convenient or even practical to have them. There is also the issue of consistency where even when placed at the same exact spot the sound will be different as you move from venue to venue. For this reason, gear manufacturers have been developing ways to allow amplifiers to connect direct to PA or recording consoles without the need for miking up speaker cabinets. To achieve this, BluGuitar decided to utilize impulse response technology, the same ones found on reverb plug-ins, but this time tweaked to properly emulate the characteristics of different speakers and baffles. BluBOX is developed to provide guitarists with a good sounding PA feed and direct recording solution that can work with any guitar amplifier. In designing this unit, Thomas Blug drew inspiration from his 30 years of session work and touring experience. The press release

BluGuitar introduces two new guitar cabinets, NanoCab and FatCab, both will be unveiled at Musikmesse 2015. Related Feature:Guitar Headphone Amps The two new 1×12 guitar cabinets are designed to complement the company’s BluGuitar AMP1 amplifier, and both will be on display at the Bluguitar booth H16 in Hall 4.0. To help their booth visitors better appreciate the NanoCab and FatCab, German guitarist and BluGuitar director Thomas Blug will be performing with the new cabinets on the Agora Stage twice-a-day, and the cabs will also be demo’ed at the company’s booth, set to an appropriate volume level. Speaking of volume level, one guitar manufacturer opted out of last year’s Musikmesse event because they feel that noise levels were out of control! Thankfully, there aren’t any news of complaints so it seems that both the organizers and the manufacturers are now more aware of reducing noise to a tolerable level. BluGuitar FatCab The FatCab is a 1×12″ cabinet that replicates the sound and tone of a 4×12″ cabinet at a lower volume, ideal for smaller clubs and stages. The press release says, “The BluGuitar FATCAB is the result of Thomas’ continuous research to reproduce the character of sound delivered by a classic