Robot kills Strat

[marsguitars]

Gibson Robot Guitar

Gibson's Robot Guitar... pretty cool, but what wannabe Hitchcock came up with the promo videos??

 

[TNT]

I kinda liked it, especially the very end where the tuners turn by themselves!!

They should have a Bongo at the end of it eating all the "other" guitar scraps!!

 

[KennethB]

I like the "Psycho" and the Strat-killer ones. Hehe, the out of tune Strat in the beginning there. I must say, they're even more upfront about their Fender-bashing in their marketing, Gibson. Before it was more like: "Set-in neck: great. Bolt-on: sucks." and so forth.

 

[greenwizard]

The top on that guitar rules!!!!!
Only Ernie Ball tops can truly suck!
erm...
Our terminology is confusing..

 

[guitarman23]

silly toy for bill gates, im not using my money on that! ERNIE BALLS FOREVER!


lol

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

When has tuning a guitar been a problem?!

 

[chrisglancy]

I think that this robot guitar is a fad, No player worth their salt will seriously tell you a guitar that tunes itself is going to really help their tone.

Save your money and just go and buy a bloody tuner

 

[Smellybum]

I use my fingers, the tuning system was recently reviewed in a guitar mag it's like £180 on it's own - so how little is the guitar worth !

Technology and guitars should be kept apart, unless it's like flashing lights or silent circuit.... what's next auto picking cruise control ???

 

[BigTony]

2 things I find boring. Tuning and changing strings, I spend so much time doing it, that if I didnt have to, I would be a happy bunny.

Fact is, musicians do not like change, but think about it, if it were free would you have it? Are you really saying that you don't like the idea of not having to tune your guitar, cuz to me, that just sounds silly.

When Ernie Ball said that guitar strings should be thinnner, did people not also shun that idea too?

 

[ekb16b]

can someone fill me in.. wot does that piece of crap even do?
just tunes itself and has LED's??

why would someone buy such a thing?

 

[pjc812]

it's a pathetic gimmick that's all. it's just another expensive and unsellable guitar henry can force his dealers to buy.

having been a gibson dealer for the past couple of years, i have come to understand that they cannot compete with a REAL guitar (read EBMM) and have to resort to obscene prices on archaic designs, way too much money spent on marketing rather than making their junk actually worth said obscene price, and when they can't sell a guitar they just make their dealers buy them. that way it's rotting in a show room somewhere rather than in gibson's warehouse.

 

[guitarman23]

I use my fingers, the tuning system was recently reviewed in a guitar mag it's like £180 on it's own - so how little is the guitar worth !

Technology and guitars should be kept apart, unless it's like flashing lights or silent circuit.... what's next auto picking cruise control ???

Pffft! auto picking well that one is funny..........
i would wana try that and see how accurate those things tune the guitar

 

[chrisglancy]

Dont get me wrong man, I have massive respect for Gibson!!

i just think that this is going to be another fad

just like the Synth Axe!

i would so buy a synth Axe. sooo 80's!

anyone remember the synth axe?

check it out! its groovy groovy

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9K-jFTTxgA&feature=related"]YouTube - Synthaxe[/ame]

 

[KennethB]

Hey, I´ll take the Synth Axe over a Robot Guitar any day!
I think this guitar will go the way of the dodo, simply because most people don´t need it. Or at least, the little you get is not worth the expence....in my opinion.

 

[chrisglancy]

Allen Holdsworth used to use the Synth Axe.

I would love to play it, It has some really cool sounds.

I love Guitar Synth sounds. Very cool stuff


In my opinion the Synth is a Dying art!!!

What else does this Gibson robot guitar do

is it just their version of the Fender VG Strat

 

[mesavox]

It's a novel idea... I mean.. I'd love to have a guitar that tunes itself... Brian May was once asked the one thing he would change about the electric guitar and he said "I'd make a guitar that tunes itself."

Making fun of this idea seems a little short sighted to me.

The problem is in practicality of durability. Those little servos will die one day... and probably sooner than Gibson has anticipated. That's where these ideas have always fallen short. They do these neato things, but just don't really last very long and you just have a bunch of leds that don't have any servos to tune with.

The robot guitar is not their version of the VG strat. The VG strat is a synth guitar that adjusts the tuning digitally. It also has the synth pickup and piezos.

If there is ever a way of knowing that the servos will last say, 20 years or more, and that there will still be support for them 60 years from now (since guitars tend to become classics ever so often), I'd say this could be a truly great thing for the guitar. Technology in those areas is getting better and better, so maybe it won't be long before this isn't a novelty, and is a practical, durable, and blissful thing.

The whole idea of technology and the guitar not mixing is odd to me too... The Humbucker is a result of technology... the pickup in the first place is... technology. Before the pickup... all acoustic guitars. EB's compensated nut, the tone block, the piezos, the 5 and 6 bold neck joint.... The truss rod, sealed tuners, the Floyd rose... locking tuners for those who hate the Floyd. Straplocks, coil taps, thinner yet stronger necks....

Compared to the Gretsch Frying Pan guitar, or the Les Paul Log... Technology has revolutionalized the electric guitar countless times over.

EB will not be losing any business from me to Gibson anytime soon... but I don't think it's really fair to bash this thing as a horrible idea and useless fad. A lot of fads are good things that die due to practical reasons. I have a feeling that the rapid technological achievements that are happening will keep this idea on guitar designers minds for some time to come.

 

[chrisglancy]

I still prefer the synth Axe!!!

somebody re-issue that thing!

 

[Smellybum]

Dont get me wrong man, I have massive respect for Gibson!!
YouTube - Synthaxe

Oh dear, and I so hoped you were going to fit in around here!!!!!!!

 

[SteveB]

Somebody posted a link to videos of this tuning system here ages ago.. I guess Gibby bought it. As I recall, the guy(s) who invented it were from Europe.

I think it's a neat idea. I'm not sure it would be worth a lot of extra expense though. I mean, it's not that hard to tune a guitar, so it would be hard to convince me to spend more than a few extra bucks for the novelty.

 

[greenwizard]

As I recall, the guy(s) who invented it were from Europe.

Great Steve,
Thanks a bunch...
Now I have "The Final Countdown" stuck in my head again.
"Ba-da-da-duh.....Bad-da-da-da-duh"
I hate you,
Greenwizard