shedshrine
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Modeling and robotics: where are guitars going
This line of thought occurred to me during the huge storm that came through the bay area last week, filling our reservoirs from "here comes water rationing drought" to normal levels in one go. That and a scodiddly post. Power was funky, lights dimming, branches slamming into the windows, whistling wind through wires, trees, under doors, not to mention bridge closures and trucks turning over.
My display screen went down at one point, for like a split second, then came back up quickly enough to where the computer didn't shut down. There was a new mail received, which I at first assumed was a glitch as it was from myself. I opened it and along with a date in the heading of November 22, 2027 was amazed to find it was indeed from me. No deLoreans exceeding 88 miles per hour were involved.
Anyway, myself says, Hey, I'm not going to ask "how are you doing" because I already know. THis will be a good year for you, but i'm not going to tell you why because you'll overthink it and screw things up. In any case, I thought it 'd probably be okay to let you in on some cool stuff that's coming, guitarwise.
The beginnings of the changes to come start with Line6 and its modeling guitars in concert with the physical changes of Gibson releasing a thing called the Robot guitar with automatic alternate tuning. It gets panned, as radical changes tend to, but Gibson is thinking ahead.
With patents in place, they, soon joined by other manufacturers, continue to refine the "robotic" guitar to a point where having a guitar that can play multiple tunings even within a song becomes undisputedly the new paradigm. New string manufacturing techniques provide incredibly resilient to breakage even with constant retentioning.
String transport is smooth, accurate and can basically be instantaneous, or tap tempoed in to change tunings over a rythmic interval, or manually via expression pedal. New bands appear, shot to the forefront through capitalizing on this technology. Across he world, guitarists become accustomed to the sensual feel of playing shifting strings under their fingers.
From metal to the blues, experimental jazz to rootsy bluegrass, there are hotshot guitarists droning taught strings while simulaneously playing bends with monstrous range and control on opposing strings in slack key. Further possiblities are offered with pitch shifting pedals and guitars with sophisticated built in pitch shifting to augment possible setups. Acoustic instrumental guitar music becomes hugely popular as fingerstyle playing is taken to an entirely new realm with subtle shifting panoram...
Thats all that got through.
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This line of thought occurred to me during the huge storm that came through the bay area last week, filling our reservoirs from "here comes water rationing drought" to normal levels in one go. That and a scodiddly post. Power was funky, lights dimming, branches slamming into the windows, whistling wind through wires, trees, under doors, not to mention bridge closures and trucks turning over.
My display screen went down at one point, for like a split second, then came back up quickly enough to where the computer didn't shut down. There was a new mail received, which I at first assumed was a glitch as it was from myself. I opened it and along with a date in the heading of November 22, 2027 was amazed to find it was indeed from me. No deLoreans exceeding 88 miles per hour were involved.
Anyway, myself says, Hey, I'm not going to ask "how are you doing" because I already know. THis will be a good year for you, but i'm not going to tell you why because you'll overthink it and screw things up. In any case, I thought it 'd probably be okay to let you in on some cool stuff that's coming, guitarwise.
The beginnings of the changes to come start with Line6 and its modeling guitars in concert with the physical changes of Gibson releasing a thing called the Robot guitar with automatic alternate tuning. It gets panned, as radical changes tend to, but Gibson is thinking ahead.
With patents in place, they, soon joined by other manufacturers, continue to refine the "robotic" guitar to a point where having a guitar that can play multiple tunings even within a song becomes undisputedly the new paradigm. New string manufacturing techniques provide incredibly resilient to breakage even with constant retentioning.
String transport is smooth, accurate and can basically be instantaneous, or tap tempoed in to change tunings over a rythmic interval, or manually via expression pedal. New bands appear, shot to the forefront through capitalizing on this technology. Across he world, guitarists become accustomed to the sensual feel of playing shifting strings under their fingers.
From metal to the blues, experimental jazz to rootsy bluegrass, there are hotshot guitarists droning taught strings while simulaneously playing bends with monstrous range and control on opposing strings in slack key. Further possiblities are offered with pitch shifting pedals and guitars with sophisticated built in pitch shifting to augment possible setups. Acoustic instrumental guitar music becomes hugely popular as fingerstyle playing is taken to an entirely new realm with subtle shifting panoram...
Thats all that got through.
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