Nov 26 2008
Second generation of robot guitar
The Gibson Robot Self-Tuning electric guitar
It has been just over a year since Gibson announced the first ever robot guitar and they have just announced a more refined, second generation version of the self-tuning guitar. The Dark Fire is already being hailed as the most technologically advanced guitar on the market with the improved robot tuning functionality and the introduction of Chameleon Tone Technology.
The groundbreaking robot guitar was introduced first to the Les Paul guitar then later appeared as an SG Special after tremendous success and buzz was generated. They introduced us a self-tuning guitar system that could be activated by pulling out the volume knob and playing a string. The powerhead tuners buzz into action and find the appropriate note for the tuning you have selected. With the Dark Fire, Gibson has shown us that this is merely the tip of the iceberg.
The redesigned powerhead tuners on the Dark Fire are significantly smaller and lighter, and more in line with the size and weight of conventional tuners. They’re also radically faster. You can now access any preset tuning in less than one second, which means you can realistically change tunings in the middle of a song. The tuners are now automatically engaged to operate both electronically or individually by hand.
As we can see in the teaser video for the Dark Fire, the ‘blue-eyes’ incidcator and black tuning machine keys make this a much sleeker, sexier version of the robot guitar.
