Sunday, November 11, 2007

Gibson Robot, crap name, cool features!

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars

Gibson Robot
Gibson have some of the coolest named (not to mention sounding and looking) guitars in the business, the Les Paul, the Firebird, the Explorer to name but a few so whoever came up with the name “Robot Guitar” should be sacked! Nobody wants to play a guitar called the “Robot Guitar”! Thats as bad as called it the iGuitar, oh sorry Brian, I mean iAxe… oops sorry Behringer! Well anyway…

Names aside this guitar has one of the coolest features on a guitar to date, and most of you have already read about this because it was announced a while back but since they just launched this microsite it is worth mentioning again, this guitar tunes itself. What? Yes it tunes itself, how lazy is that!? And it will tune itself 200 times before you need to recharge the battery. Check out the video page if you’re not convinced though and watch the video titled “instructions” it is pretty amazing! Not only can you select from presets such as open tunings or dropped D (ok probably takes longer to press the button than do it yourself in this case) but you can also check the intonation and the LED’s will tell you how many half turns to adjust the bridge screw for that string!

Personally I would prefer a guitar that helps with tuning than fakes alternate tunings like the Fender Stratocaster VG, I just hope they change the name and the finish!

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James on 11/11 at 08:57 PM

Probably bad for your strings though, I can imagine the strings snapping as you switch between open D and open G for the fortieth time in the day...!

Grand Weepers on 11/20 at 04:11 PM

I agree with you on this one.  This is a much bigger improvment over the VG’s alternate tunings feature. Of course, you know that this guitar is getting all kinds of flack from purists who say that kids won’t learn to tune on thier own.  Of course how many newbie kids can afford a $4000 guitar?  But, yeah, I don’t see how it can’t be horrible for your strings.

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