Elkton, MD, October 31, 2007 - After a successful five-year run featuring Elixir® Strings on its higher-end bass guitar models, renowned instrument manufacturer, Ibanez, will be ringing in the New Year by offering long-life Elixir® Strings with NANOWEB® Coating on its mid-priced models.

In 2008, more than 16 mid-priced basses are slated to be built with Elixir® Strings, including those within Ibanez‘s ATK, BTB, SR and SRX series. Strings with ultra-thin NANOWEB® Coating will be available in gauges .045 through .105 for four-string, .130 for five-string, and .030 through .130 for six-string basses.

“While Ibanez has been using Elixir Strings on its high-end Prestige basses and current mid-priced SR400 models, they have only been in limited quantity within our product line,” explains Ibanez Product Specialist Pete Chiovarou. “With consumer praise sparking more interest in Elixir Strings, Ibanez is now expanding its use of the company‘s quality strings to more of its mid-priced models.”

Chiovarou adds that the expansion of Elixir® Strings will give Ibanez the opportunity to share its quality standards with a larger audience. “As a premier bass manufacturer, we are committed to upholding exceptional quality and are always looking for ways to enhance our product. Elixir Strings‘ combination of great tone and long life makes it a perfect fit for both our high- and mid-range bass guitars.”

The special edition, Ibanez 20th Anniversary SR Prestige electric bass line is the most recent to be introduced with Elixir® Strings.

About Elixir® Strings

Elixir® Strings is the pioneer in coated string technology and is available in two string ‘flavors.‘ Ultra-thin NANOWEB® Coating provides the bright tone and punch of uncoated strings, yet keeps their lively tone three to five times longer than ordinary strings. The thin coating is nearly undetectable - providing the feel of traditional strings. Elixir® Strings with original POLYWEB® Coating also sound great three to five times longer than ordinary strings, have a balanced tone with smooth response, feel comfortably smooth, and reduce finger squeak. Elixir® Strings are available in a full range of gauges for acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, banjo, and mandolin. Today, Elixir® Strings are installed as original equipment by a growing list of discriminating electric guitar and bass manufacturers including Ibanez, Tom Anderson Guitarworks, Brian Moore Guitars, Carvin, Melancon Guitars as well as premium acoustic guitar luthiers such as Taylor Guitars, Santa Cruz Guitar Company, Alvarez-Yairi, Lakewood Guitars, RainSong Graphite Guitars, Carvin, and Goodall Guitars. Elixir® Strings are endorsed by popular artists such as Melissa Etheridge, Train, Dave Mason, Michael W. Smith, Jim Messina, Christopher Cross, Bob Seger, and Drowning Pool.

Elixir® Strings are manufactured by W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., the company widely known for such innovations as GORE-TEX® fabrics. For more information, please visit www.elixirstrings.com.

HOLLYWOOD – Users can get back to their dance roots with Zero-G Classic Disco, which features more than 700 samples of disco and funk sounds from the 70s and 80s. EASTWEST, exclusive U.S. distributor of Zero-G products, is taking down the velvet rope, giving users access to the period which paved the way for modern-day trance and R&B tracks.

Zero-G Classic Disco goes beyond song samples, allowing users to create new grooves using the collection‘s 35 construction kits in disco underground, funk’n’soul, proto house, Hi-NRG and funky disco styles from 107 to 125 bpm. To give a track its own special style, the collection offers additional piano, electric piano, guitar, bass, drum and percussion loops — all in pristine 24-bit audio.

The enormous construction kits were developed from the often-sampled sounds of The Salsoul Orchestra, SOS Band, Evelyn Champagne King, D-Train, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones, George Duke and Rockers Revenge. Each construction kit is also divided into individual instrument loops — down to every drum loop part. In addition to instrument sounds, the collection offers funky, disco vocal “whispering shouts” frequently used in Chic, Odyssey and Instant Funk chartbusters. Song samples are up to 16 bars long.

“Zero-G‘s Classic Disco successfully encompasses the fun and funk of the disco era,” says Doug Rogers, president and CEO of EASTWEST. “The huge variety of samples and loops provides producers all the tools necessary to add that retro feel to their dance tracks.”

Zero-G Classic Disco is available in the following formats: Acidized Wav files, AIFF Apple Loops, Stylus Compatible, Rex2 Files, EXS24 Instruments, Kontakt2 Instruments and Reason NN-XT. For more information, visit the EASTWEST Web site, www.soundsonline.com.