14 DAY TRIAL // Yes, SPL did it again, this time in co-operation with Tonehunter: they hunted and hunted tone until they have put up the perfect tool for actually getting the tone we're speaking about. They have managed to put up a guitar/speaker box which will not only model you axe's sound according to the sweetest and most precise parameters when it comes to environment, but will as well protect hearing (such as in level increases when wearing in-ear monitoring systems).
It basically works as any guitar speaker box would, but it allows for more and better control over your guitar's tone, in any kind of environment, be that a live, studio or even private circumstance. The main advantage of using such a device is the absolute independence it gives to the guitar player when it comes to adjusting the tone - the Transducer allows tweaking in complete disregard of environmental/room acoustics: technically, the player will be capable of defying the room acoustics because they have really nothing to do with the interaction of air and solid materials (i.e. Speaker's or mic's membrane).
These parameters can be adjusted using the Transducer's ample setup-knobs: Speaker Action will adjust the way the speaker cone reacts at different volumes, Miking Level adjusts the "captor's" behavior while choices of alnico or ceramic speakers, closed or open housings, condenser or dynamic microphones or adjustments to miking distances complete the tweaks-array.
The almost perfect guitar speaker box will even allow a guitarist to include distortion in the primary chain so no impediments in sound-creations are spotted, except for one: even if SPL openly declared they are trying to keep the Transducer's price as low as possible, it will still drill some $1,500 hole through your wallet. (Still, remember it's an SPL piece of gear!)
