The tonal consistency also applies as you move from low to high pitch. Bass notes are tight and strong, the highs clear and full. The Me 2 shows none of the crossover effect that makes some guitars sound disconnected from treble to bass. My only complaint is a slight bump of resonance between the lowest B and notes. Advanced Electronics While the Practice app isn’t perfect, it’s crazy cool. Choose from one of the five headings – Chord Transition, Strumming, Scale Training, Ear Training and Single Note – and then try to perform at a given tempo. The actual sounds are presented in the form of "effects" - preset patches that are loaded using the touch screen. They all have very cool (if slightly ambiguous and uninformative) names like "Moon Jumper" and "Frog Prince" and exciting graphics. There are a few fairly standard sounds like Reverb and Chorus, but the majority of these effects are WILD. Auto-wah with pitch-shifting delays. Cavern reverbs with square wave tremolo and bit crushing. You get the idea. They're clearly designed to spark creativity with the minimum of time spent tone-chasing, but I did find myself wanting some more traditional tones to go along with these more outlandish sounds - but then again, I'm an ageing Millennial with several tube amps, too many, so take what I have to say with a pinch of salt.

Progressive players will flip for it the way so many car owners flip for the Tesla. On the other hand, so much of what’s on offer here relies on that flexible HILava system, with its amazing apps. Now you’re a member of Lava’s online community, where players around the globe share trending grooves and original recordings created with the onboard Loop and Record apps. HILava delivers an immersive experience without a mobile connection, but for activation it immediately asks the user to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi. In 2020, Lava Music collaborated with a fashion brand, Chemist Creations, and introduced a limited edition acoustic-electric guitar. [15]Most of the carbon instruments I’ve seen are dark and industrial. Not this particular Lava. The limited-edition red model I tested makes a powerful visual statement. (The guitar is also available in a range of other colors.) Because it looks like a fashion industry design exercise, it might be tempting to dismiss the instrument as a prop better suited to a music video than to sensitive musical performance.

Lava Music's new carbon-fiber acoustic-electric promises "bright, dynamic and open sound at a fraction of the size" ". Guitarworld.com. 24 March 2020. Lava Music Inc., stylized as LAVA MUSIC, is a music technology company based in Guangdong, China. [1] History [ edit ] For now, suffice it to say that Lava may be an outlier, but if the smart guitar takes off and the company plays its cards right, the sky is the limit. Given the organic nature of actuator-induced acoustic effects and the wild inclinations of Lava’s programming team, the resulting tones have a natural foundation with radical enhancement. The processing becomes much more prominent when you plug in, and that takes some getting used to. CONTROLS: Volume wheel and on/off/sleep/wake button inside sound port, 3 ½” multitouch screen on top side with status, menu, and app iconsPOWER: 8,000 mAh/3.8V lithium-ion battery (up to nine hours of playing time), USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables provided, 15W USB-C charging adaptor not included In short: a very promising concept that could be worked out a bit better in places. But as with the Ipad, the beauty is that it receives upgrades, adding new capabilities to the guitar. Lava Music Blue Lava If you are looking for a guitar that is different, you will definitely find it here. The guitar has a great concept and is a lot of fun to play. It is well made and very comfortable to play. The sound is also surprisingly warm and balanced for the size of the guitar. It sounds acoustically really good and if you switch on the guitar, it offers many possibilities. Running time lasts about four to five hours per full charge and will diminish over time. That’s a concern, especially for gigging pros, but the Blue is definitely designed with more of the hobbyist or beginner in mind. That said, ace engineer and Go-Go’s guitar tech Travis Kasperbauer was way into it, and he dug it equally for being a killer acoustic.

A short scale length combined with high action makes chords a bit difficult, but using a capo at the second fret helps a ton. HILava is the most advanced smart system we’ve seen to date, and it’s easily the most fun to operate. ELECTRONICS: HILava system with L3 smart preamp and FreeBoost 2.0 effects actuator, 4G memory, 32G storage

The era of the smart acoustic-electric guitar is upon us and this progressive instrument is a game-changer.

You can change the EQ curve, choose a line out-only effect like Slow Soul, or ditch the effects altogether and go with one of the impulse-response presets designed strictly to shape the line signal. While the effects can sound excessive at extreme settings, I found that a moderate amount of onboard amplification and some tasteful reverb really made the Me 2 bloom. But I was even more impressed by the sound when I turned the effects off. Carbon Copy