Can I Plug my other Guitars into RIP Box 1/4" Guitar Input?

[elantric]

I'd like to build my new 2009 live rig on the Dark Fire system with a Macbook Pro, RIP box , Guitar Rig, and Ableton, and a pair of JBL EON 15P full range speakers or Bose L1 system.

 

Can I Plug my other Guitars into RIP Box 1/4" Guitar Input - and have a functional mono Guitar Input via the RIP to feed my Strat into NI Guitar Rig 3?

[Anderton]

I just tested this out in Germany, and yes, you can as long as you use a standard (mono) guitar cable. Also, if you use this kind of cable with Dark Fire, it will "look" just like a regular guitar with standard magnetic pickups to the RIP. The piezo and hex outputs require using a TRS (stereo) cable for interfacing with the RIP.

 

BTW I'm not a Gibson employee so I suppose this isn't gospel, but I've seen the RIP work and I believe it is designed specifically to work as you describe in addition to doing all the Dark Fire tricks.

[elantric]

Craig,

Thanks for getting a reply so fast - I know you are a busy guy.

This news is fantastic!

 

BTW - In a round about way I have you to thank for helping me buy the Gibson Dark Fire, as it was due to your early articles ("Build a Timbre Gate) in Popular Electronics that I cultivated an electronics hobby in my teens which turned into a career as a EE - which presents a decent salary to afford toys - ahem - I mean "tools"!

[nolongermike@gibson]

It seemed to work that way for me too, Craig. Its a recording device for anything else plugged into it, like any other Firewire recording device. With Dark Fire plugged in, it does all the other things Dark Fire can do.