Written on December 17, 2008 – 5:36 am | by Maria Mihale |


Musicians are a very special type of human beings, if you ask me, because they use their imagination and their inspiration more than other people. The result of their work is based on ideas that suddenly flash up and go away even faster. They have no time to waste and every second is important.

For those who have already experienced this type of problems, the iDea guitar might be just what the doctor ordered. The guitar was designed and developed by Ovation, a Connecticut-based guitar manufacturing company that distinguishes itself from any other similar companies due to the composite synthetic bowl of the guitar, which is far from the traditional wooden back and sides of the modern ones.



iDea comes with a unique feature, that you can’t find in any other guitar, an integrated MP3 recorder which is meant to capture the inspiration every time it comes. On the other hand, the instrument does more than just recording your music. The device can play back songs so that you play along and it also slows down the music for you to easier learn to sing it.

More than that, there is an integrated condenser microphone that allows the user to record vocals along with the notes coming out from the strings. When you consider that your job is done and that the song is finished, you can always transfer if to a Mac or PC via a USB port. The USB connection is placed on the side of the guitar, together with a control panel with a LCD display, a microphone input and a 4-way controller that lets you navigate the menu.

This MP3-recording guitar coming from Ovation is available on websites like Zzounds.com for approximately $600. Maybe it’s a little bit expensive, but if you think about the musician that lives somewhere deep inside your boyfriend’s soul, then think no more about the money. You know how they say, his happiness is priceless.

(Source: Dvice)