ToneGear’s The String Cleaner™, has created a second instrument to its repertoire... The String Cleaner for Bass Guitar. Like the original, The String Cleaner for Bass Guitar utilizes a 360-degree cleaning process to preserve and maintain the tone and integrity of guitar strings. This newer entry features an advanced design that additionally and simultaneously cleans the fret board.

“Our mission is to become the go-to manufacturer of innovative and quality-driven stringed instrument cleaning tools,” says Dave Chiappetta, founder and president of ToneGear. “Our goal is to improve musician’s lives by providing thoughtful and effective solutions for maintaining and preserving the life of stringed instruments, thus allowing users to concentrate on creating music and not maintenance.”

The patented SpiderCapo from Creative Tunings, Inc. is a fully adjustable guitar capo that allows you to capo each string individually, making hundreds of open string tunings possible, without de-tuning your guitar.

You can play all the barre chords and riffs you already know, plus unlimited new chords not possible with standard tuning. It is the world's first full capo with fine tuning for each individual string. This looks like a great creative tool for songwriters and guitarists, and the SpiderCapo fits all guitar fingerboards, is easy to use, and you can even change settings mid-song.

SpiderCapo is precision engineered, with six individual "fingers" for use as a full or partial capo on any string or combination of strings. Fits any six-string guitar, electric or acoustic, nylon or steel string, wide or narrow neck, flat or radiused fingerboard.

IK Multimedia just launched AmpliTube® iRig™, mobile guitar amp and effects rig system for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.

AmpliTube iRig is a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad mobile devices, and the new AmpliTube for iPhone software for guitar & bass.

With AmpliTube iRig, you can plug your guitar into your iPhone* and jam anywhere with world-class guitar and bass tones. Simply plug the iRig interface into your iPhone*, plug your instrument into the appropriate input jack, plug in your headphones, amp or powered speakers, download AmpliTube FREE for iPhone and start rocking!

You’ll have at your fingertips the sound and control of 3 simultaneous stompbox effects + amplifier + cabinet + microphone just like a traditional guitar or bass stage rig! 

Alfred Music Publishing has just released a new iTunes applications called  iGuitar Chord.

Alfred’s iGuitar Chord is designed for guitarists of any skill level, from the beginning player looking for an interactive chord dictionary resource to the advanced guitarist who is always on the go. Complete with a built in tuner, iChord Guitar allows the user to play any chord by note, chord type, and chord variation.

Blackbird Guitars, creators of unique carbon fiber acoustic guitars, has teamed up with Elixir Strings to outfit the latest version of the company’s Super OM guitar. Designed for players seeking robust guitars that can be used in a variety of settings ranging from typical indoor stage concerts to performances on the docks of Antarctica, Blackbird Guitars have traveled the world over.

Like all Blackbird Guitars, the full-size Super OM acoustic guitar is built from carbon fiber materials which allow the instrument to be incredibly durable. When looking for strings to complement the guitar line, the company selected acoustic 80/20 bronze light gauge Elixir Strings with NANOWEB® Coating.