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gaming

Guitar Hero IV's Drums Will Have Six Pads, Two For Cymbals

Cymbals! That's what was missing from the Rock Band drum kit. Not missing, since some of the pads changed to cymbals whenever necessary, but it didn't have two upper pads dedicated explicitly to them. No more. Game Informer says the upcoming Guitar Hero IV will have a six-padded drum set, but a custom-designed guitar due to the legal problems Activision had with Gibson. You'll supposedly be able to create your own songs as well, but we're not sure if you can just import an existing MP3 and go from there, or if you have to create it from scratch. And by "scratch," we mean copying your favorite songs as best you can. [Primo Technology]

3:30 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Jason Chen
13,125 views, 60 comments

Latest by n/a: @tayng Neil Purt will be fucking pissed that they're ruing the drums and preventing young kids from learning legitimate music because they're distracted by simulations. If these games keep coming out, there might not be any musicians, and no music, more »

rocking

Guitar Rising for Real Guitar Heroes

I never got the whole Guitar Hero, Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie, which require so much practice to master that you may as well use a real guitar to become as good as Satriani. That's why I love the idea of Guitar Rising, which can use any real electric guitar, from a Fender Telecaster to a Gibson Les Paul. The software teaches you how to play actual songs, tracking your accuracy much like Guitar Hero would do, as their demo video shows.

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9:20 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Jesus Diaz
223,301 views, 125 comments

Latest by Gilbert: My old American Standard Strat is getting dusty in lieu of my Martin acoustic. I would buy this in a heartbeat. more »

musical instruments

Gibson Intros "World's First Robotic Guitar": Tuning May Be a Thing of the Past

We posted a video of the Robot Guitar in action early last month, but now we have some sexy pics and some release date info for guitarists the world over to get excited about. In case you haven't heard, the Robot Guitar can tune itself with a simple push of a button. Servos in the headstock can tune the guitar to one of seven presets; with default being A440, and the remaining six being based on hit songs. The guitar can also be tuned manually via a knob located on the body that doubles as a volume controller.
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4:40 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Sean Fallon
5,288 views, 41 comments

Latest by Step666: @carmen89: well, I can only go on what I can see... @nutbastard: a convenient excuse :P ;) more »

guitars

Gibson Powertune Automagically Tunes Up Guitars, Tin-Eared Guitarists Rejoice


Thanks to Gibson's Powertune system, now even tin-eared guitarists can push a button, strum the guitar a few times, and then it's as if a ghost has taken over the machine, turning the tuning pegs until the guitar is accurately tuned. It tunes each string to within .02 cent, which is pretty damn close to perfection. It can tune to the default A440, or it can tune the strings to pitches that are relative to a note of your choice. You can also store a variety of tunings and quickly call them up. Hey, this could really be useful. More »

Feature

11:15 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Charlie White
20,216 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: yes, it can do any tuning you want, not just the traditional ones, and being able to switch from one to another in the middle of a song is the feature that appeals to me. more »

guitarius giganticus

Huge Gibson Flying V Guitar In Action, Plus One That's Even Bigger


Some of our esteemed guitar aficionados and purists looked with disdain upon our post the other day about that limited-edition inverted Gibson Flying V guitar, but maybe this one will suit their fancy: Here's the biggest Gibson Flying V guitar we've ever seen anybody playing. It's positively humongous. And check out this guy, thrashing away on it. Although he does seem to have some chops, too bad this enormous ax is so far out of tune it almost hurts your ears. You might want to turn the sound down before you click the Play button. This one's big, but it's not even the biggest Flying V in history. More »

2:50 PM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By Charlie White
20,669 views, 21 comments

Latest by gadgetfanatic: I'd like to see someone play smoke on the water with that monstrosity. more »

ax contrarian

Gibson Pops a 180 with Awesome Reverse Flying V Limited Edition Guitar

Attention guitar players: Gibson just turned the guitar world upside down with its Reverse Flying V electric guitar, installment number 29 in the company's Guitar of the Week series. It'll be built in a limited edition of just 400 instruments. Even though purists who still worship the classic 1958 design might be soon calling this the Perverse Flying V, we kind of like the way the thing has been flipped around in a way that makes it look like a cursor on a computer screen. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Charlie White
11,777 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: i have to agree that it is on the wacked out side cool. owning one and hearing all this negative feedback makes me even happier i bought one. yeah its weird, but have you played one? have you even seen more »

gadgets

USB Gibson Les Paul Flash Drive

We've seen mini guitar USB drives before, but this is the first one officially licensed by Gibson. More »

6:50 PM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Jason Chen
1,238 views, 6 comments

gadgets

PC Recording Studio Guitar: Go Ahead and Jump Into That PC

If you don't feel like shelling out $4000 for that newly-released Gibson HD.6X-Pro $4000 digital guitar we tried out last October, check out the PC Recording Studio Guitar, a Stratocaster lookalike with a USB port that sends your guitar virtuosity into your PC. More »

10:16 AM on Fri Dec 15 2006
By Charlie White
1,686 views, 11 comments

ces

Live From CES: Gibson Digital Hands-On


Gibson is twanging about its digital guitar, and we spent some time strumming it today. This thing is amazing. It's a standard Les Paul axe with an RJ45-out instead of the usual amp line. Along with the classic pickups, it's got a HEX pickup (patent applied), which is really six discreet pickups (one for each string). The pickups sense both up-down and side-to-side motion—for each string. They also claim there is a separate of up to 90dB between each string. More »

4:50 PM on Fri Jan 6 2006
By Noah R
773 views, 2 comments

Latest by Peter Kirn: What??! $3900?? I'll pass, especially with plenty of great guitars with hex pickups around $1000. What does this give you? The ability to ADD a breakout box and deal with Ethernet cables? Not to mention, you have to translate back more »