Dear L1 Community:

Last January at the NAMM show in Los Angeles, Eve-at-Bose and I interviewed a number of industry leaders who worked on ToneMatch™ presets with us for their microphones and instruments.

The interviews were fascinating and informative.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be making these interviews available in chapterized form on the L1 wiki.

Here is a list of the individuals and their companies. Hyperlinked text below means the videos are finished and can be viewed.

• Rick Turner: Renaissance Guitars
  
  
• Dan Lakin, Lakland Basses
  
  
• John Hall, Rickenbacker, President, Rickenbacker International
  
  
• Rick Hall - Ovation Product Manager / Michael Markure - Takamine Product Manager
  
  
• Ned Steinberger, NS Design
  
  
• Chris Lindquist, Breedlove Guitar
  
  
• Brian Swerdfeger, Taylor Guitar
  
  
• Lloyd Baggs, L.R. Baggs
  
  

In addition to interviews with these partners, I sat for an interview. You can watch that by clicking on the link below.

Ken Jacob Interview

edited by Forum-Admin - new link for Rick Hall - Ovation / Michael Markure - Takamine Interview

[Ken-at-Bose added link to John Hall interview.]

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Nice Job Ken.
I enjoyed that and I can't wait for the others.
Rick

Hi Folks,

I'm pleased to announce that we've just added a wonderful interview with Lloyd Baggs, founder and owner of L.R. Baggs Inc., one of the world's pre-eminent makers of fine instrument pickups.

You can watch these four short chapters by clicking here .

Here's a link to all the Tonematch partner videos.

Enjoy!!!

Ken

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Hi Folks,

We've just added another interview to the wiki, this time with me.

You can get the Bose perspective on ToneMatch technology, and our work with our parnters, by watching.

Ken Jacob Interview

Sometimes, it's so hard to watch/hear yourself. In this case, I think I said what I wanted to say and so I am happy.

Ken

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Well said, my friend.

Hi Everyone,

I'm very pleased to announce the availability of the interview with Brian Swerdfeger, director of product marketing and one of the product specialists at Taylor Guitar.

He is part of the product development group that has produced the Taylor Expression system, the award-winning Taylor T5 and their first solid body electric.

Here's a link to the interviews on the L1 Wiki.

Thanks,
I appreciate the interviews.

Jim M

Hi Folks,

We've just added a super interesting interview with the great Ned Steinberger to the wiki.

You can watch it by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post called "Interviews with ToneMatch partners".

Or just click here to be taken directly to the Ned page of the wiki.

As always, we're very interested in your views on anything Ned has to say.

With best regards,

Ken

Ken -

Thanks for Ned's interview series. I have one of Ned's creations, the WAV4 EUB. It's a new member of my music family and I use it with the L1 Classic system and a T1. I must say, I certainly appreciate the NS-Design presets in the T1! They do allow for a quick and easy way to taylor your sounds with an electric instrument.

Since I am a relatively new "electric" musician, I can't comment a lot about the flexiblity that e-musicians like to have, as referenced in Ned's interview. But, coming from the acoustic side of the family, I can honestly say I still love the acoustic sounds of my upright bass and enjoy them each time I play it. To get something close to the sound of my acoustic upright, with my WAV4, is a pretty awesome thing in my mind. I truly love playing it and dialing in "my sound" with the T1. Will it ever replace my old acoustic upright??? I doubt it...but who knows what the next generation of amplification and "electric" instruments will bring. If someone ever re-creates that real "woody" sound with an "electric" instrument....oh boy....I'm there!

John

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Hi Ken,

Thanks for this interview of with Ned Steinberger.

Like John (above) I have one of Ned's creations and although nearly 20 years old now, it is still a stunning testament to design and innovation. I have seen several interviews with Ned and I have enjoyed his matter of fact way of approaching things in unconventional ways.

This latest interview that you posted is among the very best.

Thank you.



To all - Ned Steinberger Interview.

To All,

We have a new video in the wiki from when Rick Hall and Michael Markure (Ovation / Takamine) visited Bose to work on ToneMatch Presets.

Here is the link.

Rick Hall - Ovation Product Manager / Michael Markure - Takamine Product Manager

Hi Folks,

We've just added a really great interview with Tonematch(r) partner John Hall, president of Rickenbacker International Corporation.

Rick Hall, President, Rickenbacker International, Tonematch Interview