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Gibson's Top Secret Project....

BIR	Date: January 9, 2006 @ 12:20 PM Has been confirmed... Friday, January 06 Magical Guitar.... Many of us have heard rumors about the work Gibson has been doing behind closed doors, but now the news is out!! The company has teamed with a vertitable "who's who" in digital technologies to create.. The world's first Ethernet-based digital guitar. Gibson will be showing its new Les Paul HD6X-Pro at the upcoming Winter NAMM Show. The guitar makes use of a technology called Media-accelerated Global Information Carrier, aka MaGIC. Essentially, MaGIC enables devices to carry multiple channels of high-fidelity audio over a standard Ethernet connection. According to Gibson Chaiman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, global leaders in digital technologies such as Microsoft, Intel, HP and Cakewalk will be working with the company in addressing the growing creative needs of the music community, assuring continued advancements in bandwidth and reductions in cost - all over the same ubiquitous cable and connector. As soon as we get a look at the Les Paul HD6X-Pro at NAMM, we'll pass along any information about this innovative new instrument. That Info was from the in-sync news letter... http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/current/
GeneHilbert	Date: January 9, 2006 @ 12:36 PM Kewl.......
jd2theog	Date: January 11, 2006 @ 1:47 PM And some day we will all jam together!
Alecs	Date: January 12, 2006 @ 10:26 AM is this a joke?
psypig	Date: January 12, 2006 @ 11:02 AM So what you're saying is they've slapped an A/D convertor and an ethernet card in a les paul?
Bhairava	Date: January 12, 2006 @ 1:56 PM Yeah I've seen pictures around. Interesting I guess. The good thing about it as far as I can tell is you can record stuff directly into it as it ahs a preamp as part of it and send it to people and probably jam because of it too I'd guess.
Alecs	Date: January 12, 2006 @ 5:38 PM sigh and I thought my guitar was my one refuge from digital-age technology
Bhairava	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 11:00 AM No never the digital age will take us all!!!
Alecs	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 11:24 AM Mhmm. Soon even eating will be done for us by computers
DeadraveN	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 11:28 AM good, 'cause I hate eating. honestly dhooms, er.. alecs.. what's so bad about this? just another advancement, or do you hate electric guitars too because of their new-fangled gizmos...? heheh I think this will open up endless new creative possibilities....
AJPresentenseky	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 11:34 AM Some people thought that when gibson made the electric guitar first that he was taking away a one refuge from machine age and technology but now you think of that as not an electronical gizmo but as an instrument so this will be the same thing in years and you will maybe be an old man humming about you used to just play remember when it was all electric guitar.
hantu	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 11:41 AM hmmm could be great, could be complete crap
shadowself	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 12:41 PM Saw this in Wired about a year or so ago. I see NOTHING wrong with this. It's still a guitar. The signal is digital, which means no hiss from long unsheilded patchcords, etc. Go, Gibson!
Bhairava	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 2:07 PM I mean... I don't think I'd like to play with a screen on the otherside. I think it'd take away from the personal relationship with the guitar. I mean the sound would be the same I'm sure or at least no human audible difference in playing it. But also, I'd be afraid of scratching the screen.
Alecs	Date: January 17, 2006 @ 5:57 PM We'll see. I'm not denying that this could end up excellent. I'm just skeptical
BIR	Date: January 26, 2006 @ 4:51 AM ^shadowself...good point!

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