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Shred Your Guitar Into The Deep, Black Night With Amphones
This is a really cool product coming out for people like myself: a guitarist who is a night owl. The problem with playing guitar at night is that when you want to rock out, you can’t! Your neighbors complain, the cops get called, the next thing you know you’ve got a few bodies in the basement and the lies just keep piling up, making the story harder and harder to keep straight. Sorry, that escalated quickly.
Anyways! To help out those guitarists who love to shred into the wee hours of the night (or have roommates/parents/significant others that can’t stand the constant noodling) then VOX and Audio Technica might just have a solution for you: Amphones! Aside from the horrible name, this is a really cool product that combines headphones with amplifiers.
You see, the way that it works is you plug the amphone into your guitar and then fiddle with some knobs on the side of the cans to get the desired tone. There will be four different models: The AC30, the Twin (modeled after classic American amps like the Fender Twin Reverb), Lead (high gain), and one for bassists. The phones are self-powered and can be used with standard MP3 players by simply removing the 1/4″ adapter.
Below is an awfully cheesy video for the product as well as a picture of the four models. You can also hear audio samples here. Someone snag me a ‘Lead’ and an ‘AC30’ please?
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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.
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