If you're a Radiohead or Muse aficionado, you've probably considered matching some of their Korg Kaoss Pad-generated sounds with your own guitar prowess. The Kaoss Pad generates all sorts of space age effects that can be naturally controlled through the touch-sensitive pad, and works fine right out of the box, but guitar hackin' Phil wasn't appeased. He found the effort to reach away from his guitar and fiddle with the Kaoss to be too immense, so instead he drilled a hole into his Epiphone Les Paul and mounted the touch pad right next to the bridge for ultimate access. The pad connects to the processing part of the Kaoss via a serial connection, but Phil did mount the box's "hold" button on the guitar for locking in effects. If none of this is making any sense to you, peep the YouTube video after the break and watch Phil shred on his new hacked-up axe.
Of course its already been done commercially. Matthew Bellamy uses a guitar with the pad in it. I just saw Muse. He has a guitar with the same thing in it.
Na I did the same thing with an iPAQ a few years ago. Its pointless on a guitar - anything you can do on the pad you can do with your foot. Anyway its a guitar, you need your hand for plucking the strings. Nice gimmick for the LEDs though.
FYI thats not a Les Paul per se. Its a LP Special II. A cheap piece of junk, but Im sure thats why he picked it to ruin. I dont really see the point in having this ON the guitar because your not doing both anyway. POintless but cool none the less.
I second the notion on that guitar being a piece of crap. What's more, is that the guy can't make any decent music with that contraption or he wouldn've on the video. That was a geek-fest of a guitar hackjob if I ever saw one. Good idea about mounting FX on the guitar, why something so lame?
Actually this is a two vector controller, so you could control two variables at once with this. As far as I'm aware you can't do that with a foot pedal.
Wow. I'm supprised at the level of dickery on this thread.
Just because you cannot understand, or imagine, what one may do with something, doesn't mean someone else may not have the imagination to come up with a novel use for it. I see this as being usefull for industrial, trip-hop, or other hybrid analog/digital music.
And the guy's playing? Wow. What a bunch of jerks. He wasn't making one of those "I'm such a guitar bad-ass" you-tube videos, he's demoing an electronics project.
I'm kinda suprised at you guys. I'd expect this level of ignorance from digg, but the discourse (baring video game threads) is usualy a little higher here.
i'm pretty sure that matt bellamy's manson has an x-y midi controller pad that can control an external kaoss pad or whatever effect he wants to use, not a kaoss pad built into the guitar directly
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posted Sep 8th 2006 5:08PM
Muse .> now just make it a mirror finish and ill take three
Bah that was suppose to be
Cool, but it's already been done commercially...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ022eXOK2Q&search=manson%20guitar
Of course its already been done commercially. Matthew Bellamy uses a guitar with the pad in it. I just saw Muse. He has a guitar with the same thing in it.
Man at a Muse concert a couple months ago Matthew was rocking this and had LED lights embedded. It was amazing.
I was hoping someone was going to mention that Matt from MUSE had one of these things on this guitar :)
Nice work, but wouldn't this wreck the awesome sound that a Les Paul is supposed to make?
Na I did the same thing with an iPAQ a few years ago. Its pointless on a guitar - anything you can do on the pad you can do with your foot. Anyway its a guitar, you need your hand for plucking the strings. Nice gimmick for the LEDs though.
FYI thats not a Les Paul per se. Its a LP Special II. A cheap piece of junk, but Im sure thats why he picked it to ruin. I dont really see the point in having this ON the guitar because your not doing both anyway. POintless but cool none the less.
I second the notion on that guitar being a piece of crap. What's more, is that the guy can't make any decent music with that contraption or he wouldn've on the video. That was a geek-fest of a guitar hackjob if I ever saw one. Good idea about mounting FX on the guitar, why something so lame?
Good idea. Too bad the guy can't play worth a damn. Give this thing to Tom Morello and see what he could come up with.
Actually this is a two vector controller, so you could control two variables at once with this. As far as I'm aware you can't do that with a foot pedal.
Wow. I'm supprised at the level of dickery on this thread.
Just because you cannot understand, or imagine, what one may do with something, doesn't mean someone else may not have the imagination to come up with a novel use for it. I see this as being usefull for industrial, trip-hop, or other hybrid analog/digital music.
And the guy's playing? Wow. What a bunch of jerks. He wasn't making one of those "I'm such a guitar bad-ass" you-tube videos, he's demoing an electronics project.
I'm kinda suprised at you guys. I'd expect this level of ignorance from digg, but the discourse (baring video game threads) is usualy a little higher here.
Sweet, too bad i don't have a les paul (SG) or koss pad (clapton crossroads), but i wish i could have that.
Muse & Radiohead = best
Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything, but this guy: 1) can't tune a guitar, 2) can play worth a crap. Sorry, just doesn't do anything for me.
that's *can't* play worth a crap. And I can't write, either ;-)
i'm pretty sure that matt bellamy's manson has an x-y midi controller pad that can control an external kaoss pad or whatever effect he wants to use, not a kaoss pad built into the guitar directly
New demo for late readers, this one demos one of the delay effects in more detail,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jks09pKu3bU
would anyone else like to see king crimson (or whatever they will call themselves when they return) with one of these?