We’ve all been quite excited since guitarist Brian “Head” Welch rejoined Korn earlier this year, after he quit in 2005 to pursue a solo career.  The excitement and anticipation grew when the band went into the studio earlier this month to record their 11th studio album.  But, we were all still waiting for a release date to bring it all home.

I popped into an Apple store on the weekend and was intrigued to see a MacBook Pro setup, connected to a guitar with a built in USB interface.  I unsuccessfully tried to get it working in-store with GarageBand, but to satisfy my curiosity, I Googled it and found that it was none other than the Behringer iAXE393 USB guitar.  This $100 Stratocaster copy comes with a software pack from Native Instruments, with multi-track recording and editing, and amp simulations. For those…

VOX has come up JamVOX, with a brilliant integrated monitor and software system that extracts the guitar parts from any MP3, and allows you to jam along to your favourite tunes!  Now guitarists can enjoy what karaoke systems have been doing for wanna-be singers for years. The JamVOX system consists of two parts:   Software which lets you cancel or extract the guitar part of an existing song, an also has a effects processor with 19 famous guitar amps and 54…