Your phone is already a versatile do-everything-convergence-tool, and it’s about to become a pocket guitar capturing studio, too.
When inspiration hits, sometimes you just need to stop what you’re doing and find some way to preserve it. For musicians and song writers, phones are handy tools for that.
Whip out your phone, grab the voice recorder, and record that song from in your head for working on later on. That’s been the process for preserving inspiration for some time, and something companies like Apple have been improving on over time with additions to the iPhone such as GarageBand on the phone.
But not everyone has an iPhone, and GarageBand won’t suit every purpose. As it is, digital audio interfaces aren’t usually the sort of thing you throw in your pocket and carry with you. They’re just too big and clunky.
Fender has a fix on the way, thanks in part to a bunch of products it showed off on the way.
For guitarists and musicians keen to capture ideas as they happen, Fender is making a compact USB-C audio interface called the Link I/O, and the idea couldn’t be any simpler: connect the Link to your phone, tablet, or computer, and then connect your guitar and lead to the Link.
And then just start capturing using 24-bit 96kHz high-res audio, with a mix controller and input meter, plus headphone support to monitor the sound.
Fender’s Link I/O is on the cards for later this year for $149 in Australia, likely in April or May, with the instrument maker also prepping a couple new electric Acoustasonic guitars for $1099 each, arriving in Acoustasonic Jazzmaster and Telecaster models around that time, as well.
