Imagine the hardest, fastest guitar solo that is now able to be slowed down to half-speed. The new Tascam CD-GT1 does that and much more!
Firstly, it's a fully functioning CD player...drop in your favourite CD, put on a pair of headphones, plug in your guitar, keyboard, or microphone, and jam along with your favourite musicians. An onboard multi-effects processor enhances any instrument that you plug in. Wild guitar distortions to soft vocal reverbs and compressors make any performance amazing. The learning aspect of this amazing product is where it shines. You can take any CD and slow it down to 50% in REAL TIME! You can also change the pitch of any song. This really helps vocalists who want to learn songs in a lower key. Add in a fully automatic guitar tuner, a loop function for those really hard sections and a footswitch option. A truly amazing educational tool that actually makes practicing fun... well, as fun as it can be!

In 1994, Howard and Robert Silagy started a small guitar strap company in Hicksville, N.Y. Their approach to business was simple: make attractive, durable straps using high-quality materials and people will buy them. Over the next four years, the company grew, with sales skyrocketing because of the growing popularity of Planet Waves colourful, attractive designs and the line's thick, heavy-duty leather tabs.
In 1998, D'Addario & Company, Inc. acquired the Planet Waves line and it joined D'Addario's world-renowned family of musical instrument accessory brands. D'Addario envisioned the line as more than just accessories for guitarists, but for musicians as a whole.

Shadow Electronics stands for high quality and absolutely reliable pickup systems for many stringed instruments – and this since 1971. Because of the successful bond between music and technical competency, Shadow today is not only one of the oldest and most experienced manufactures, but also the biggest. In 2004 we produced more than 250.000 preamps and over 750.000 pickups in our modern facilities. We have a distribution centre in Jupiter, Florida and more than 40 service centres around the world. With this global network we are in position to manufacture a wide range of high quality products. Our products span preamps and pickups for acoustic, classic and electric guitar, violin, cello upright bass, mandolin, banjo and many other ethnic instruments.

But Shadow is not only a manufacturer of pickup systems. Many products that are now "standard" in music instruments were developed by Shadow. Just think of the endpin connector, piezo bridge pickups, magnetic-piezo mix pickups, magnetic-piezo & microphone mix. In addition Shadow was a pioneer in guitar-MIDI conversion. Today it would be difficult to imagine the music industry without Shadow products.