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Behringer announced a gaggle of inexpensive guitar stomp boxes today, all of which are in the $25-40 MSRP range and mostly look like alternate-reality Chinese copies of classic Roland pedals. Notable among these is the V-Tone Guitar GDI21, which promises identical functionality and an interface eerily reminiscent to a SansAmp GT2 — but for $40. I have been interested in a cheap guitar amp simulator for some time (in the $150 range, the aforementioned GT2 and Behringer’s rackmount V-Amp Pro are both appealing), but there hasn’t been one this cheap yet.

Tom Whitwell at Music Thing gets the hat tip for this story; he also snarkily summarizes Behringer’s new line:

I imagine that Uli Behringer thinks of his company as the Ikea of music technology. But Ikea design their own furniture.

Ouch.

I’m currently listening to Siloti, Chaconne from partita BWV 1004 from the album “Bach transcriptions for piano” by Risto Lauriala