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whether you're into cats or dogs beetles or stones acoustic or electric guitars you know there are some things that just won't fit or will they imagine a digital guitar that is much like your standard ax but due to the expanding neck provides the sound range of a full-size 6 stringer in a teeny tiny body that's jammy you'll take it anywhere your journey takes you in the places your ordinary guitar just won't ever squeeze Jamie will get you into the zone wherever you are no smartphone or tablet needed you're free to fiddle around discreetly using your earphone port block Jami directly into an amp and strum it out loud now you're jamming band can follow you in the glove compartment launch Jamie's mobile app pick the jamming mode select your genre and get an ass-kicking full band backing to Jen along with a range of notes you may improvise in is shown on your phone and can also be marked by the LED indicators on your jammies fretboard just combine any given notes from this set and you'll always sound cool mind blowing but there is yet another hot feature the songs mode is like a modern age karaoke for guitarists which helps you play your favorite songs let's top it off with a fistful of onboard guitar sounds what would you rather do cramp your backseat with a bunch of axes or have them all in one jammie to save some space who knows what you could use it for down the road hey my name is John Lange Berg creator of guitar Joe the product that makes your guitar sound like a banjo I live in a small town in Massachusetts that you've never heard of with my high school sweetheart and now wife Katie and I run a small website design and branding firm but really my passion has always been music so I started my very first band in junior high all we played was metal wood so banjo was completely outside of my sphere of influence fast forward to when Mumford & Sons first came out that's really when banjo started to grow on me and in the fall of 2014 I was asked to play guitar for the church band for a music night they were having there's one song in particular in the lineup that had a Mumford II sound to it so I thought this could use a banjo it had the time or money to buy and learn how to play a banjo so I thought maybe I could make my guitar sound like one so I tried searching for guitar pedals but I couldn't find anything and then I tried creating my own effects patches and I soon found that I just couldn't get the sound I wanted digitally so I learned that applying a fabric to the strings actually gave it a really 20 banjo sound I drew up some plans I went to my uncle's workshop and I created the very first guitar Joe sophisticated right so it worked well but I felt it needed refinement the first step in the refinement process was to make it look better so I tried out aluminum and that's about the time where I met Mike Mike's fresh perspective on guitar Joe really helped us to propel the design and try out all these different things with the resources Mike had we were able to really innovate I wanted to give more control so we made a design that had three individual dampening zones to give it a lower profile we tried going under the strings but due to the limited space we weren't able to get the level of control so our final design was over the strings lightweight and has individual control for each string here's how guitar Joe works you place it on the body of the guitar line it up with the strings adjust the dampening pads and then you're ready to pluck away this is fret zealot fret shallot is a state-of-the-art led addition to your guitar it fits just above the frets and shows you exactly where to put your fingers to play anything you can imagine let's take a look at how learning to play guitar usually turns out you head to your local music store and pick out a guitar it's beautiful you loved it and you couldn't be more excited to get started you get home and immediately try to play something you're prepared you have your books tablature online videos websites everything or so it seems after hours of dedicated attention the frustration sets in you've done everything right what's wrong the problem is simple human nature you naturally want to be shown exactly what to do so that's what we did add a fret sell it to your guitar and it shows you exactly where to put your fingers so all you have to do is strum or pick it cannot be any simpler use the smartphone app to select what you'd like to play and you're instantly ready to rock you can display chords notes scales and any key and of course any light show you can imagine for those fun times or use AI mode to have the next finger location displayed automatically after you've strung led technology has only recently progressed enough to make frets l it possible fret zealot is only half the height of your guitars frets that means there will be absolutely no interference with the strings or your hand you play fret zealot was engineered with musicians in mind you picked the playing style and fret cell it teaches you the connections between each fret are on the top side of the guitar where your hand doesn't slide but even if you get into some advanced playing techniques the sleek coding seamlessly aligns with your guitar neck so it isn't noticed fret cell it lets you learn guitar fast and intuitively whether you're a first-time player or experienced fret cell it works for anyone with any guitar what's next is up to you four years ago we invented the award-winning roadie tuner and help tune more than 2 million strings today we're proud to introduce roadie to and roadie bass to use roadie just select your instrument place roadie on the peg and pluck just like that you're in tune and ready to play roadie 2 is the world's first stand-alone automatic guitar tuner each roadie comes pre-programmed with your most-used alternate and open tunings even in noisy environments roadies built-in vibration detection allows you to tune perfectly it makes getting in tune faster and easier than ever before and this makes roadie the most versatile tool that you can put in your kit bag for bass players roadie bass sports an even stronger motor bigger battery and special programming to let it handle low frequencies it's not just a tuner the optional mobile app can be used to create custom tunings custom instruments and dig into some cool advanced features Brodie lets you keep track of your instrument health wind your strings when you re stringing and much more it's like having a guitar tech in your pocket really - and roadie bass can tune any of your string instruments with guitar machine head's seven and twelve string guitars ukuleles mandolins banjos you name it so no matter what you play or how you play Brodie will help you tune less and play more please back our campaign and in exchange we'll send you your very own roadie thanks Kickstarter if you're a bass player Rudy to go fund these guys and fun these guys I guess I'm going on give to this campaign give to technology give to startups and I hope you get to try it I created the jam stack because I felt like the process of playing the electric guitar was holding me back there were things I just couldn't do easily from playing wherever I wanted to to getting going with effects and recording right when I felt inspired four years ago I set out on a journey to create a more compelling guitar playing experience well our team has done it and now we're ready to bring it to you meet the jam stack the world's first attachable guitar amp and also the first integrates seamlessly with your smartphone our priorities were to create the best all-around guitar playing experience possible prioritizing the absolute best tone at practice volumes and complete and total portability the jam stack allows you to play the electric guitar anywhere by leveraging the awesome power of your smart phone and super lightweight speaker technology in the past acoustic instruments were the ultimate and portability being the only real option for travel or playing outside the jam stacks 10 watts of power easily outperforms acoustic guitars and hand drops so you can be a unique part to any outdoor jam session in fact your guitar and your amplifier can fit easily in the same case as well as being uncompromising the portable it's also the fastest way to play the electric guitar with layered effects at any price point James Tague snaps on to the back of any standard electric guitar body using the existing strap button unless you have something like a Flying V the jam stack can be attached with one hand in under three seconds we design the jam stack to work with all major smartphones including iOS Android and Windows phones as well as the iPod touch we have the opportunity to free the electric guitar and bring it out into the world in a way that has never been possible before we just need your help to make it a reality let me tell you more about how the jam stack works and why it'll be your new favorite way to play the electric the signal from your pickups travels through the output jack on your guitar and gets delivered to your phone through the headphone jack or lightning adapter for the iPhone 7 that signal gets modified by your smartphone travels back down that same cable and gets amplified by the amp because of this signal management system the jam stack really excels at allowing you to play with vacuum tracks or drum beats with no fooling around with levels the traditional guitar amplifiers aren't designed to handle multiple frequencies at once and the backing track will drop out of the mix when you start to play we've carefully selected our driver so that when you play it sounds like you're right inside the song playing alongside your favorite musicians whether that's your friends or your heroes with fantastic applications like AmpliTube and amp kit you can bring a song right in off your smartphone or iPod touch access practically any effect choose from dozens of amp models and because your phone is right there on your guitar body setting up loops on the fly performing with sequence samples recording and sharing music feels effortless and is also completely portable the design team at Jam stack went a step further with our phone mount allowing you to relocate your phone in seconds to a new position this allows you to watch incredible lessons delivered to you by use ition while hearing a clean bypass tone coming from your jam stack the potential for the jam stack in the classroom is something we're also very excited about the fact is the easier it is to set up the more you're gonna play the more you play the better you're gonna get as simple as that play lot of guitar no problem the James Tague can keep you going for eight hours on a single charge all of the contact surfaces on the jam stack have been lined with a super soft polymer at less than 900 grams it's less than the weight difference between a Fender Stratocaster and it Gibson Les Paul so you probably won't even notice it's there I created the jam stack because being an electric guitar player was part of who I was now I'm thrilled I can carry that with me anywhere