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Man, they can virtualize ANY thing these days!
http://www.gizmag.com/virtual-jeff-e...mmy-bar/41249/ The Virtual Jeff is not a mechanical vibrato system, but an electronic one. Players use it like a traditional whammy bar, but digital pitch control is used to massage the output for pitch-perfect, error-free shimmers, dips, dives and squeals. It can be retrofitted to almost any guitar, including acoustics and basses. "As long as it has a pickup (or any kind of analog signal output), you're in business," say its creators. Players could even have several instruments "Jeff-ready" for quick swap-outs from one to another. Details on what makes the Virtual Jeff tick are a bit thin on the ground, but we can tell you that the device is cabled to a floor control box about the size of a stomp. Signals from pickups on a host guitar are registered, combined with data from the whammy bar unit, and everything is run through a digital processor and then the digitally whammified sound is output €“ all in real time. "Virtual Jeff is a 'high precision' pitch controller," Peter Walker of Fomofx told Gizmag. "This, at first, seems technically trivial, but a simple analysis of what 'high precision' means in this context shows that it's quite a challenge. |