Comments on: GIBSON RELEASES SELF-TUNING GUITAR

By: NuMallCore Pwns YoMama

NuMallCore Pwns YoMama — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:11:32 +0000

This is nothing like the auto-tune used by vocalists in the studio.

I used to play in a band, and if you’re really into it, you NEED to tune up your guitar. This makes more sense for the dudes who play in bands and can’t afford a roadie to tune the guitars between songs. Granted, like Sammy said, it’s pretty lazy.

As a side note, I think the first thing a novice should do is learn to tune a guitar. If you can’t do that, you’re going to make an awful racket and you shouldn’t be playing guitar in the first place.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:27:47 +0000

I think the guitar player in my band has a mild case of OCD and generally spends 10-15 minutes every time we jam tuning his guitar. I think he tunes it, then “un-tunes” it so to speak. He’s a great guy and an excellent guitar player, but as a drummer, his tuning issues make me want to ram a drumstick through my skull. He blames his excessive tuning on the “explorer” he plays and that guitar strings go out of tune fast, and that he plays very heavy. Are any of these legit arguments? Does the dime influenced explorer and its unusually large bridge make the guitar prone to going out of tune?

Addendum: While recording an acoustic overlay on one of our songs, I counted that he tuned his guitar 47 times over a 15 minute span. This cant possibly be neccessary.

By: fearofbirdshit

fearofbirdshit — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:15:17 +0000

this thing is pretty expensive though… theres an article about just the tuning system in the decibel that came out a couple months ago… I wonder if it works properly with thicker gauge strings…

By: Martijn

Martijn — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:15:23 +0000

Not every ‘professional’ can afford a guitar technician or the bill for putting ten guitars on a plane. Your average Willowtip techdeath guitarist will probably love this thing.

By: fearofbirdshit

fearofbirdshit — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:12:38 +0000

I say mehhhhhh

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:34:58 +0000

I don’t think it’s much akin to Auto-tune. It is, however, pretty lazy. A good guitar, especially a Gibson, doesn’t go out of tune easily and for the normal of us, tuning a guitar takes, what, 8 seconds? And if you’re playing in multiple tunings, chances are you have multiple guitars ready to go.

By: Learn Guitar » GIBSON RELEASES SELF-TUNING GUITAR

Learn Guitar » GIBSON RELEASES SELF-TUNING GUITAR — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:13:16 +0000

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