Prototype Acoustic Guitar Synthesizer

[bigshot]

Check out this article...

 

http://gizmodo.com/5994116/how-inventor-paul-vo-created-a-little-black-box-that-could-change-guitars-forever

 

An inventor has come up with a guitar synthesizer for acoustic guitars. No amplifier. No speaker. It uses magnetics on the fly to modify the vibration of the strings. Very weird!

[BigKahune]

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Interesting tech.

 

I'll have to watch that one.

 

 

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[bigshot]

Here is the sample video

 

And another one... complete with the obligatory Blackbird and Stairway to Heaven

[BluesKing777]

Cool!!!!!

 

 

Though it looks a bit like the baby Alien that sticks to your face in the movie, but I imagine the undersaddle pickups started the same way - perhaps one day it will be shrunk to u/s pickup size/addition?

 

 

Current look, it isn't going on my Gibsons, but my beater Gibsung Humsung Hummingbird copy would be a willing donor organ.......

 

 

 

BluesKing777.

[j45nick]

Sounds like something Orville might have come up with if he'd been born 100 years later.

 

Think of the great guitars we would have missed out on.

[RusRob]

It is pretty cool. It seems like a spin off of the Ebow but for each string.

 

http://www.ebow.com/soundclips.php

 

I always wanted to get one to play around with but that is probably all I would ever do with it. I guess I prefer the sound of a well broke in acoustic more. If I want to make those kinds of sounds I will plug my Fender Strat into my Art 2000 Express and start piling on effects.

 

Still it is a pretty cool invention.

[MR GIBS]

Aaaaahhh! G A S!!! I want one immediately!!!

[ParlourMan]

Quite spooky, sounds like a mix of a hammond and the organ sound the fella from the Inspiral Carpets used. They do seem to demo only one sound though, so could get tired quite quickly... cool idea, needs refining to make it look better though.

[zombywoof]

Geez, more toys out there these days.