Lukather Joins forces with ISP Technologies/Waller Amplification The 2004 Winter NAMM brought great things for ISP Technologies this year. The biggest news from NAMM was the fact that versatile musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger Steve Lukather decided to get on board with our Vector Active Cabinet™ line. “We are so excited to have Luke come on board,” said ISP CEO Buck Waller, “we fell out of touch for a few years and when we reconnected it was great.” Waller explains that Luke had come up with the original concept for using a subwoofer with a guitar amp, like our Vector cabinet, and because of this, what better combination to promote the concept than to get Luke involved. “Luke is an amazing guitarist, and someone whose playing I have looked up to for years. His Toto stuff is absolutely incredible and all the session work he’s done, Grammy wins…I was truly honored that he would CONSIDER supporting the ISP line.” One of the reasons Lukather was so high on the Vector Active cabinet is that it is high on innovation, incorporating novel Line Array geometry and the patent pending D-CAT™ Dynamic Current Amplifier Technology powering a 400- watt, 4-inch voice coil, 15” woofer. “Just like the old days when Buck had new technology at every show for his old company”, says Lukather. With two 12” guitar speakers in vertical Line Array geometry, ISP solves the problem of horizontal dispersion. A typical 4x12 guitar cabinet delivers poor bass response but the high frequency response also beams like a flashlight. Directly in front, your ears get shredded yet, move slightly off center and you lose all the high frequencies. The VECTOR cabinet solves this problem through use of Line Array geometry providing excellent off axis dispersion at the higher frequencies. The VECTOR Cabinet is flat all the way down to 50Hz, delivering enough low- end bass to match the frequency response of any 7-string guitar. Tune down as far as you want and the VECTOR continues to perform. The VECTOR cabinet can also be used with any existing amplifier. To all this performance add three-way power amplifier protection and you have the most reliable active guitar system ever made. The VECTOR’s internal D-CAT amplifier has global thermal protection, thermal protection built in the power transformer, and an on board distortion limiter circuit to eliminate the possibility of feeding square waves to the woofer. This means that, as long and hard as you drive the VECTOR, even to its maximum limits, you never have to worry about failures. Whether you use the THETA head or your existing guitar amplifier the VECTOR delivers a level of performance never before available. ISP is excited to collaborate with Steve Lukather on future cabinets in the Vector Active line. He brings his years of both live and studio playing experience to ISP for the absolutely best background to develop truly usable product for the working musicians. “I'd just like to be around for a long time and contribute whatever small little thing I can to whatever this whole big picture's all about, because I just love playing music,” Luke said in a recent interview. At ISP we know Steve Lukather will continue to make major contributions to the music scene and now, in the guitar gear scene too. Steve Lukather is a first class musician and one of the most humble guys we know. Thanks, Luke for everything you do! For more information on Steve Lukather, check out his website at www.stevelukather.net. For more information on the Vector Active Cabinets or any ISP Technologies/Waller Amplification product, contact us at 248-673-7790 or check us out on the web at www.isptechnologies.com. * For more information contact us directly at [email protected] or call us at 248-673-7790 .