The new TonePrint iPhone app from TC Electronic almost has to be seen to be believed. It's fortunate, then, that we have a video all about it.
Now here at TG, we're not exactly technophobic. We've reviewed (and liked) the Fret King Supermatic, which bedazzled us with its subtle self-tuning capabilities, we've championed the rise of Fractal Audio's Axe-FX II and we wet our tiny pants over the recent arrival of Garageband on the iPhone.
None of that, however, prepared us for the pure magic technical prowess of TC Electronic's new TonePrint app, which allows the transfer of TonePrint presets from the iPhone to your TonePrint pedals without the use of wi-fi, Bluetooth or wired connection.
Instead it uses magnets to transfer a signal from your iPhone to the guitar's pickups, which is then sent along the cable to the pedal and loads the new TonePrint preset.
All you need to practise this dark art is a TonePrint pedal, the latest firmware update and the TonePrint iPhone app (there's an Android version on the way), of which the latter two are free.
it's kind of a similar idea to the way you could back up/restore data with tape in the 80s, just that the guitar pickup 'hears' the noise rather than using a cable to transfer it.
Pens wrote:Yeah, I get how it works, but how does the iPhone transmit it? Pickups aren't microphonic.
Isn't it just using the speaker on the bottom? Pickups will pick up any electromagnetic shit, especially that of a speaker.
I guess in the "listen" mode, the pedal is super sensitive for the frequencies it's looking for, so it doesn't need to be a mad-strong signal. I'd imagine what we're hearing in the video is what's coming out of the iPhone rather than what is actually being picked up by the guitar/amp.
Witchcraft!!!
