The Performer system is the work of a genious. I am the lucky owner of one of his guitars. It was perfect for me, since I play in a lot of different tunings. If you're a guitarist, you know the practical problems involved when taking several different guitars to a gig. No two PU's have the same output, and if you have severeal DIFFERENT guitars (as in a Tele, a Les Paul, a Strat, etc) the output signal will be very different. Which in turn will make the FOH engineer's job a living hell. In the end, you - the guitarist - will suffer if he can't make all the different guitars sound equally good. Then there's the time it saves between songs. The audience go to a gig to HEAR the band. Not to stand and watch while the guitar player changes guitar between every other song. Oh, and he'll need to tune as well...
The system is expensive. It's not for everybody. If you play 3 chord punk rock there's no point (Sorry Neil). But For me, and people who are in similar situations, it makes perfect sense to invest that kind of money. Coming prepared to a gig is a virtue. Those of us who bought the Performer system just went a step further :-)
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The Performer system is the work of a genious. I am the lucky owner of one of his guitars. It was perfect for me, since I play in a lot of different tunings. If you're a guitarist, you know the practical problems involved when taking several different guitars to a gig. No two PU's have the same output, and if you have severeal DIFFERENT guitars (as in a Tele, a Les Paul, a Strat, etc) the output signal will be very different. Which in turn will make the FOH engineer's job a living hell. In the end, you - the guitarist - will suffer if he can't make all the different guitars sound equally good. Then there's the time it saves between songs. The audience go to a gig to HEAR the band. Not to stand and watch while the guitar player changes guitar between every other song. Oh, and he'll need to tune as well...
The system is expensive. It's not for everybody. If you play 3 chord punk rock there's no point (Sorry Neil). But For me, and people who are in similar situations, it makes perfect sense to invest that kind of money. Coming prepared to a gig is a virtue. Those of us who bought the Performer system just went a step further :-)