Gibson's limited-edition
Robot Guitar was undeniably cool when
we played with it last year, and it looks like the sequel's going to be even hotter -- say hello to Dark Fire. The flame-red axe features a second-generation Robot tuning system can get up to pitch in less than a second -- and not only is it smaller and lighter than the weighty original, battery life has been significantly extended to 500 tunings on a single charge. Once you're in tune, you'll be able to make almost any noise you want with the Chameleon Tone system: in addition to a P90 and a bridge-mounted humbucker, there's a third piezo pickup in the bridge that can be blended with the standard units for what Gibson called an "incredible array of tonal possibilities." In case that's not enough for you, the Dark Fire also ships with the Robot Interface Pack, a powered breakout box that lets you integrate your axe into almost any digital audio workflow you can dream up: there's two quarter-inch balanced line outs, headphone out, FireWire (sorry, MacBook owners), and a special hex connector that carries the output of each string from the piezo pickup -- these can either be broken out into individual quarter-inch outputs or used to control MIDI guitar controllers with an adapter. Original Robot owners aren't being left out: Gibson says it'll upgrade them for "close to cost," after the Dark Fire launches on December 15th. Pretty wild, all in all, but we'll wait for pricing information to hit before we consider trading in our battered old Tele.
[Via
Music Radar]
posted November 11th 2008 6:06PM
Oh boy, oh boy! One more year until the self-playing guitar!
OK folks...here are the facts from a guy who just BOUGHT a Dark Fire:
Gibson couldn't take the time to debug the circuitry enough to make sure that the guitar could actually be charged enough to work. My Dark Fire (the one that I sold another guitar to buy and paid $3200 for at Guitar Center) sits in it's case...unusable...because the wiring has some kind of problem and prevents the guitar from being charged with the supplied charging unit.
This is A BRAND NEW GUITAR!!!
I'm dissapointed and disgusted that Gibson is putting hype over substance...I'm old enough to remember how Gibson used to be...and when the pearl-inlaid name on that open-book headstock meant that you were getting the best guitar in the world when you laid your hard-earned green down.
Gibson is NOT a musician's guitar any more...it's a trophy for Wall Street bankers to hang on their walls.
Thanks Henry!!! You just sold another guitar for Paul Reed Smith...and I'm going to be the one buying it...and don't think I've forgotten that STUPID lawsuit you waged against his innocent name. My Dark Fire will be Guitar Center's problem as of tomorrow, December 31st, 2008. NEVER AGAIN!!! My advice to players...stay away from this one...you WILL be disappointed!!!
Does anybody know what the price of it is? I really need to know so I convince somebody to buy it for me!!! I love that guitar!!! I can tune it by ear but it use my tuner my mom got of rme for band... Seriously does anybody know where I can find a price for this amazing guitar????