jhtang Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 (edited) Happened to get the guitar at a reasonable affordable price but found the Firebird X Visionaries Club forum down. Any idea where to get the softwares and update the guitar/accessories firmware? I think it is really an interesting guitar. Hybrid of Tech and Gibson traditional made. Henry was too way advance unfortunately. Edited October 26, 2019 by jhtang Amendment to grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 I'm hoping the affordable price was $0! There was a video and news story just a few weeks ago about Gibson just junking their inventory of these Guitars. https://www.metalsucks.net/2019/08/01/watch-a-few-hundred-gibson-firebird-x-guitars-get-run-over-by-a-bulldozer/ Judging from that, I'm not sure if Gibson still supports the guitar, may want to reach out to their customer service directly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhtang Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Oh ... sad to see that. Would have been great for these to be used as repair parts in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 I think the official explanation is that those guitars had defective parts. Anyway, best of luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhtang Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Keyboards with built-in effects have been around for many years and are now adopting tablets for bigger screen control. I believe electric guitar with built-in effects will be next. It's just a matter of what is the right price for the market. Going back to the original intention of this message, I found the software. In case someone needs them: http://legacy.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Firebird/Gibson-USA/Firebird-X.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I think it's a neat idea but guitar players are weird people...we don't like anything digital built into guitar and we don't like solid state amps. We want tubes and huge pedal boards full of analog pedals. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 24 minutes ago, deeman said: I think it's a neat idea but guitar players are weird people...we don't like anything digital built into guitar and we don't like solid state amps. We want tubes and huge pedal boards full of analog pedals. 🙂 Which we then cram into our disk drive-less cloud storage tablet, apply 47 different Analog Plug-ins, move out of tablet to mix in an all analog environment, and then digitize back into the computer machine in order to squish it into digital distribution to be listened to on $10,000 worth of all tube analog equipment or .75" Surround Sound Digital Dolby Real Feel earbuds. Man it's a weird fukkin world! rct 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhtang Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 Guitarists are rich! 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 On 11/1/2019 at 8:05 AM, jhtang said: Guitarists are rich! 😄 Guitarists used to be rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomKyle Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Referring to the junking of the Firebird X'es: I wonder what happened to the Les Paul X'es ... Probably the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Some guitarists are rich I am certainly not one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Speaking of on board effects; I owned a Gibson Les Paul Sully Erna Signature model for a couple of years. It had a single pickup in the bridge position, a Kill Switch, and (when you pulled the Tone Knob up in the Z axis) it featured an on board flanger effect. Great guitar, but too much of a one-trick pony sonic-ally, the digital flanger aside. I sold it last year. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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