Gibson Dark Tiger: 'The World's Most Advanced Guitar'

Is this "The World's Most Advanced Guitar"? Gibson of course thinks so, and going on the amount of tech squeezed in to the Les Paul-shaped body of the Dusk Tiger , it only might be true.

First, the body. It might look similar to a Les Paul, but the tip is flat, not contoured, and the mahogany back of the marblewood body covers a chambered interior that reduces weight and tweaks tonality. The neck is flattering standard, done from mahogany and featuring tiger-tooth shaped markers on the fretboard.

But let's obtain to the actual meat, that is inside the guitar. This thing has sufficient gadgetry to put a tin-can of people up on the Moon. The tuning keys are not as big versions of Gibson's "Robot Tuners", and can rapidly switch between assorted swap tunings on-the-fly, or only melody the guitar for you (500 times on a singular battery charge).

The overpass is flattering ample a typical Tune-o-Matic bridge, but incorporates a piezo pickup in to any saddle, and has well-defined outputs for all 6 strings. God know what type of diabolical belongings that will allow.

The periodic pickups moreover deviate from the Les Paul typical setup. The neck pickup is a hum-canceling single-coil model (P-90h), and the overpass pickup is a Burst Bucker 3, a somewhat over-wound humbucker.

Then things go crazy. You obtain an inner pre-amp and parametric EQ, and if you offshoot up the Dusk Tiger to its confidante "Robot Interface Pack (RIP)", a small box of magic, you can send a FireWire outlay to any computer. Software, similar to Ableton Live Lite 8, is even enclosed in the package.

But most appropriate of all is the Master Control Knob, a singular round doorknob that not only controls the guitar but lights up similar to a Daft Punk steel sheet interjection to an entire LED display.

All this doesn't advance cheap. For this large square of gizmo-stuffed craftsmanship you're seeking at $4,150. We indicate you glow aroadie or two.

Dusk Tiger product page [Gibson]

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