Plug Any Guitar Into Your ‘Puter with LightSnake

Music — 26 April 2006

The LightSnake from SoundTech allows any musician to hook their amplified instruments – guitar, bass, keyboard – directly into any USB based Apple computer running OS 9 or X. The cord features a built-in analog to digital converter, a signal booster, and glows green when in use. In the past, a sound card with the appropriate input was required for such a connection, but for a mere $70 any musician can record digitally. Included is a quarter-inch mini-adapter, and quarter-inch male to dual quarter-inch female splitter.

Product page here and available here for $40.

LightSnake slithers onto the scene [Macsimumnews]

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Christen Costa

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."

http://www.ait.it Luigi Caffaggi

Great! No need to buy an amp or other hardware, but this gadget is not available in Europe thus far…
Probably an international dealers list will be available on manufacturer’s site later this week.
Best regards
Dave C

I have had nothing but problems with the one I just bought. I can’t hear (monitor)what I am playing, which makes it worthless to play an electric guitar or keyboard. Soundtech is giving me possible solutions, but none have worked so far. I think they perhaps released this without enough testing.
Billy Davis

I have not been able to use mine with ANY degree of success with any of Macintoshes. Sure would like to find out how to maximize this thing. So far I feel I’ve wasted my money.
steve

i recently bought this for 40 dollars andwasted my money to find out it woulndt run on a dell unles i downgrade to 98 which would mess up my computer……so if you buy it make sure it meets the requirements
Jim

I bought it yesterday and am returning it today. If you want to record one track by yourself, it actually works pretty well, and the latency is then not an issue – you can monitor it outside of the computer. The recording quality was pretty decent. I have win XP and it was truly plug and play into Audacity. HOWEVER, if you plan to use it for any multi-track recording, forget about it. The latency will kill you. Therefore, it has limited utility for me – but it may be handy for those wishing to lay down a single track. I’ll stick with my zoom PS04.