12.05.2007, 12:24 PM | #41 |
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to me tuning is a chore. I wanna rock.
Playing cello for years and years it was always a chore. I hate hearing bands tune on stage. hate it. even if it is sonic youth. it ruins the flow of rock energy.
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12.05.2007, 12:51 PM | #42 |
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Tuners that mute while operating take care of that problem. I have one of those. It was a hell of a lot cheaper than nine hundred bucks, too.
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12.05.2007, 11:48 PM | #43 |
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if you can't tune your own guitar, you can't rock out.
the process of tuning is essential for fine tuning the ear and becoming a good musician. period. |
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that takes the fun out of it!
i can tune a guitar like a motherfucker but i still can't change a string.
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12.06.2007, 01:43 PM | #45 |
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it's not about "can't" tune the guitar, it's that I don't wanna!
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12.06.2007, 07:25 PM | #47 | |
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12.06.2007, 07:34 PM | #48 |
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Just wait until some really cool band has a guitarist that uses the self-tuning in a really unique creative way to play his/her guitar differently than anyone before him/her.
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12.06.2007, 07:43 PM | #49 |
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Yeah, well don't hold your breath.
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12.06.2007, 07:50 PM | #50 |
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The only possible good scenario would be a guitar part for a composition that had multiple tunings. And I assuming in all of what follows that this thing works faster than most humans can tune.
So, the guitar player would, let's imagine, start off in one tuning and then lay back for a few seconds during another part while the guitar automatically assumes the other tuning and then the guitarist would start playing in the new tuning for a time, and so on and so forth. This new self-tuning Gibson cannot do that. All I assume it does is tune a guitar to standard. And the mechanism will not even be able to accomplish that feat all that well if the guitar isn't strung well in the first place. Basically, I bet this thing doesn't even tune all that great anyway. But hey, it'll be an improvement for people who never get around to tuning because they never learned, don't have a tuner, or for whatever reason. I've known a few lame people before who just bought a guitar and never learned anything of substance about stringing, tuning, or playing it. __________________ Oh, look, it's almost Bears at Redskins time. |
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12.06.2007, 08:58 PM | #51 |
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Since no one's used it yet, all the opinions thus far (even those I may agree with) have been ill-informed.
I read $600, by the way. I wonder if it can adjust while you're playing. If you bend a string really far, knocking it out of tune, will it automatically adjust? Know what I mean? How will that feel against the fingers? I'm excited. Tuning does suck a bunch. (How well one can tune, by the way, has nothing to do with how well one can play or how overall good a musican is. Apples and oranges, holmes.) But I'm going to do something radical. I'm going to FUCKING TRY IT OUT before offering an opinion. |
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12.07.2007, 09:53 AM | #52 |
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YES! I think the idea itself is dope.
everything I have read states that it takes just under 3 seconds to tune itself.
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02.06.2008, 06:23 AM | #53 |
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http://www.gibson.com/press/usa/Robo...deoPlayer.html
except for when you need to change strings in the middle of a gig while drunk, it could work :P
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02.06.2008, 06:35 AM | #54 | |
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yeah man who the fuck thought of putting electricity and microphones in a guitar, and then jacking them to million $$$$$$$$$ amplifiers. fuck those people maaaaaaaaan..... LUTES FOR TEH WINNN!!! |
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