About a year-ago I bought (on a whim) the Adrenalinn 2 guitar effect – it’s a remarkable little device that combines a simple drum machine with a guitar-amp modeler and a bunch of tempo-synced effects. So, instead of setting a delay to be 410 milliseconds long, you can set it to be a quarter-note long. And if you speed up or slow down the tempo of your drum beat, the delay automatically adjusts itself to fit. You can create amazing textures by processing the drum machine through the FX modules along with the guitar. Anyway, I loved this unit, and built it into my performance system. Turns out the unit is built by Rodger Linn – the inventor of the sampling drum machine back in the day. His LM-1 machine was used by everyone from Peter Gabriel to Prince.

I had a few technical questions, and on a whim called the company. Who did I get on the phone but the extremely helpful and friendly Roger Linn himself. Anyway, after a chat R invited me to help beta-test the then still in-development Adrenalinn 3. [ This is pretty much like a guitar player calling some company and getting Les Paul on the phone. ]

Over the next few months I experimented with the unit, hunted bugs, and even made a few feature requests which got incorporated into the final product. I’m pretty psyched to be able to take partial credit for the dedicated drum-distortion feature (thank you, thank you).

Anyway, my point is this: if you play any kind of electric instrument – guitar, bass, keys, YOU WOULD BE RETARDED TO NOT CHECK OUT THIS BOX. I’ve owned pretty much every rock gadget I can get my hands on, and this doodad is the most musical little rock contraption ever. One of these and an instrument and you can put on a very cool show.