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We have a great addition to our team. Our trainee Sander Sinijärv studies electronic engineering in Tallinn Technical University AND plays guitar, both by himself and in local metal bands. Here are two demo videos that present hexaphonic / multichannel / polyphonic distortion provided by Spicetone’s 6Appeal pedal.

The first demo is more on indie / pop rock side. 6Appeal set to modulate controls (drive and volume mostly), resulting in luscious vibrating harmonics. The sound reminds a polyphonic synthesizer set to arpeggiato or sequencer mode. It’s all played in one take, using Roland GK-3 on a Schecter Ultra III guitar and 6Appeal polyphonic distortion pedal. The signal goes in stereo into two tube amps, and is picked up by trusty SM-57 microphones.

Continue reading “Polydistortion in Indie and Metal Rock”

One of the greatest avant garde / folk / jazz of our time, Mr Paolo Angeli now uses 6Appeal as the center distortion piece of his multichannel guitar setup.

Continue reading “Paolo Angeli with 6Appeal distortion”

Do you know a hex player from Africa or Antarctica? 6Appeal is are already in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia but not yet in Africa and Antarctica. If you know anybody who’d be interested, link us:)!

Photo: On Friday, Taivo was assembling yet another patch of 6Appeal in our Tallinn laboratory.

Mr. Matthias Grob, a music tech guru and guitar hero visit us in our laboratory! Matthias lives in Brazil, so having him here was really something I’d never have expected a couple of months ago:)

Matthias is the inventor of Paradis Polydistortion, Echoplex digital, the earliest looper, Firewire guitar, many excellent VSTs and other stuff driving inspiration in musicians all around the globe.

Sure we introduced him to our hexaphonic 6Appeal pedal, and gave one of these to his enjoyment. We also got lot of interesting stuff from him:) Continue reading “A Guru in Our Laboratory!”

Our trademark is finally registered! It’s been protected for more than a year when we applied but the whole process too while…

Our friend Joel from Cycfi is almost ready with super exciting hexaphonic guitar pickup system (see http://www.cycfi-research.com/). This is as innovative as you can get with electric guitar technology!

He’s also got a 6Appeal pedal:
http://www.cycfi.com/2015/04/spicy-gadgets/

“We share a common ideal: Hexaphonic processing is the future!” Joel says.

We’re looking forward to build a guitar with brand new XR series pickups!

Good news: we got a better deal with a door-to-door delivery service, and offer now free shipping for 6Appeal hexaphonic distortion pedal!

/ unfortunately this was a temporary deal… /

We have published a white paper, explaining the concept of hexaphonic processing and polyphonic distortion. The paper is focused on the technology behind Spicetone’s 6APPEAL™ hexaphonic guitar pedal. The 13 page illustrated paper is free to download as a pdf file:

http://www.spicetone.com/pages/white-paper-on-hexaphony

Hexaphony is one of the very few underexploited innovations that guitar players have yet to discover. The cutting edge of the technology is to combine fully analog sound with post processing capabilites in a digital audio workstation like Ableton Live, Cubase, or Logic Pro. Along with the white paper, a series of short demo videos are published in Youtube. Continue reading “All You Need to Know about Multichannel Guitar”

We invited our friend Mart Pauklin over to shoot some quick demos. Thanks Mart! Only standard gear used, no boutique hand made pickups or strange pickup positioning.

First of all a jolly Fernandes guitar with a Roland GK-3 pickup system attached. No permanent modification need, not a scrath on the guitar. And the positioning of the pickup is standard, close to the bridge. The sound a is rather thin in that position, but this is not the end of the world! Just plug it to our 6Appeal analog distortion/overdrive, and switch on our Root Boost circuit that adds tons of fundamental harmonics.

So, a divided pickup (hex or hexaphonic pickup) is not only for MIDI syntheziser and so on, but it also opens up the gates to multichannel guitar processing! In this video, the strings are panned in stereo; you don’t have to pan it so hard, but this time I did just to make the difference.

Continue reading “Multichannel Guitar: Standard Godin Synth Access and GK-3 Divided Pickup”

It appears we’ve made the Mercedes of Hex Fuzz Boxes. Really impressive way to make a compliment here on Carvin Forum:

http://tinyurl.com/qdzeclu

We are flattered! Thank you!

PS Hopefully it’s OK that I copy the original text:

“There’s a reason Roland’s GR-D hex distortion is being blown out for $99. The GR-S is a steal at that price to me, but many think of the D as the far weaker twin of the two.

But, you say you want SERIOUS HEX DISTORTION done the RIGHT WAY? Are you addicted to the BEST? Do you get to screen your credit card bills before your wife sees them???
Look no further:

http://www.spicetone.com/products/6appeal-polyphonic-overdrive-for-hexaphonic-guitars
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21507-spicetone-releases-the-6appeal-polyphonic-overdrive
Continue reading “Fantastic Metaphors:)”