![]() The most famous of all Gibson guitars is the legendary Gibson Les Paul, with its classic single-cut body shape that is an icon among electric guitars. The Klusons on my Les Paul work just fine. Gibson guitars are certainly some of the most popular electric guitars around. If you change tunings a ton then it probably has a lot of utility, so I'm sure there are people that use it and are happy with it, but for me, I'm just fine spending twenty seconds tuning everything up every now and then. The amount of money I drop on a new guitar every now and then doesn't amount to much in the grand scheme of things, but if I'm going to spend thousands of dollars on a guitar that's promising me the future, I'll put that money towards the future that suits my needs. Gibson G-Force Tuning Machines 99.99 Used Very Good Add to Cart 1970's Gibson (Schaller M4) Single Bass Guitar Tuner-Tuning Key for D-G Strings 75 Used Good Free Shipping Add to Cart NEW Kluson Revolution 3x3 LOCKING TUNERS G-Mount Guitar Parts Gold KRGL-3-GP 144. There are ideas that I think are silly and don't really have any added practicality to them that I don't want to see the industry head in the direction of. The point is that there are ideas that I genuinely like and think are a great improvement to the instrument using modern technology. If I had the money, I'd probably buy a Game Changer guitar, and slap a MIDI pickup onto it. Branded by Gibson initially as Min-ETune and then as G FORCE, the Powertune system is designed to automatically tune strings via a servo motor within each machine head. I love things like the Music Man Game Changer, or MIDI synth pickups, things that are applying modern technology to the instrument, and have practical value to me. The whole "vote with your dollar" idea feels relevant here. Gibson Les Paul Robot Guitar Automatically Tunes Itself Mashable Mashable 1. It's supporting ideas that don't benefit me. On that note, if it does break, you're looking at at least $300 unless you want to go back to normal tuners, and given all six tuners are a single apparatus, you're stuck swapping it out if even one motor dies. With the robot tuners, like I said in #1, I don't see much benefit that I'm getting in exchange for that increased risk. ![]() It'd be one thing if it were something like an active EQ or a locking machine head where there's a legitimate benefit that I'm getting from adding that extra potential for failure. Guitars go out of tune, but unless you have an unlocked trem that you're hammering on, bending up a fifth regularly, or using eight month old strings, it shouldn't be that unstable. I don't switch tunings very often, so if my guitar goes out of tune often enough during a show or a session that I need to retune it regularly enough to justify having all that extra hardware, then I probably restrung it wrong. 90% of the time I'm playing in E, and the rare times I'm not, I'm playing in drop D. ![]()
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