With the last installing of this year ’s Eddy Awards appearing today , it ’s the culmination of months of piece of work by the editor atMacworld . And since these awards are passing crucial to the family line who make Mac hardware and software , it ’s a process we take very earnestly .
Ah , but what do you do when one of your favorite products gets swerve from the inclination on a technicality ? You make your own awards .
I ’m a big fan of PodXT Live — a guitar digital stompbox fromLine 6 . And , throughout the conscientious Eddy selection cognitive process , I argue on behalf of giving it a statue . It was all set to materialise , too — until our cross - checking indicated that PodXTLive shipped in October 2004 , outside of our November 1 , 2004 - to - November 1 , 2005 eligibility period .
It ’s a shame , since , in terms of a guitar ironware product , nothing can compare to the PodXT Live . So I ’m taking a sales booth against The Man ( or , more accurately , my boss ) and giving my own award to PodXT Live . And , lest I be accused of discrimination for honoring just one winner in the first yearly Jimmy Awards , I ’m selecting several recipient :
•PodXT Live : guitarist have been invite to go digital for their effects , but have resisted since most digital effects central processing unit ca n’t correspond the phone from traditional foot pedals . The PodXT lively pedal board eliminates that resistance forthisguitarist — it assembles more than 80 stompbox and studio effects combined with 36 amp models . I ’ve been able to produce a seemingly unlimited miscellanea of tones . In addition , you may edit every aspect of a tone on the pedal board , allowing you to sum up effect or conform an live effect . For fine - tuning an effect , the included OS X 10.4 – compatible software lets you manipulate sounds and outcome right down to how far aside the mike is from the amplifier .
•Zakk Wylde : Zakk win because he is just the practiced damned guitar player in the human race .
•Gibson Guitars : They make Zakk ’s usance Les Paul . Even if they did n’t , there is nothing like a Les Paul .
•Boston Bruins : Well , they ’ve got to winsomethingthis year .
•Heineken Beer : Without you , my dear friend , many of these awards would not have been possible .
