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January 30, 2005
gibson releases digital guitars...
Now it depends what you think of Roland's GR-33 & 20 Guitar synths. If you've had a chance to fiddle with it you'll know that you end up not playing it like a guitar for most of the very interesting sounds. You'll also know that latency is a big issue with it and makes it very disconcerting to play. They've improved that issue with each new version but it still aint fixed by a long shot. Mac Central brings us news of the new Gibson digital guitars. They feature digital hex pickups in the standard Les Paul body shape. They have 2 outputs, one regular 3/4" jack and the digital output. I had a bit of a listen to the testimonials on the Gibson Digital site and it sounds like it actually ofers quite a bit tonally above and beyond just digital recording options.
What I'd like to see is a cheap digital guitar that can help people learn the guitar. With sofware that coaches you based on the mistakes you make. It obvioulsly couldn't correct your fingering position issues but could maybe detect common mistakes based on the fret buzz and the like. I'm sure that there' massive potential for Gibson to really do something special here - they could use a cut down version of this learning version digital guitar and sell it under the Epiphone name to boot. I want a cut if this actually happens!
Posted by funnelbc at January 30, 2005 11:40 AM
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