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Turn Tapes ’N’ Tapes to MP3s ’N’ MP3s It’s time to take a trip down to pop’s basement and dig into that box of dusty demo tapes you recorded with your high school metal band in the ’80s. The Alesis TapeLink USB has arrived, making it easy to transfer tunes trapped by the obsolete cassette format to CD digital quality, forever to be archived as WAV or MP3 files on your hard drive. TapeLink USB’s dual-cassette deck connects directly to your computer, has no need for drivers (for most computers, anyway), and comes with all the software you need to keep your magnetic tape dreams alive and rockin’ for eternity. For the street price of $199, you get the deck along with all the cords and software to help you transfer, edit and clean up those old tracks, ushering them into the 21 st century with ease. MICHELLE LANZ Laser Guided Rock Star When wanting to break down a song from their favorite bands, guitarists know they can either go through the pain of figuring it out by trial and error, or conversely, forfeiting their pride by pulling the tablature from the web. But thanks to the new Maestro laser and mp3 guitar guide, there is another solution. The designer of this soon-to-beon-shelves contraption figured out a way to make songlearning easy. All you do is upload songs to Maestro, attach it to any guitar, and then it casts laser lights on the guitar fret board to guide you where to play. With this little gem, there should be no reason why you can’t nail your audition for that ’80s cover band. JOSE VARGAS Discover the legend of the Zodiac race at onitsukatiger.com 4 FILTER GOOD MUSIC GUIDE
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