NAMM 2012
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Re: NAMM 2012
According to the NAMM website:
2012 NAMM Show
Start: 01/19/2012 - 12:00am
End: 01/22/2012 - 11:59pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT-8
Anaheim, California
Long days!
2012 NAMM Show
Start: 01/19/2012 - 12:00am
End: 01/22/2012 - 11:59pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT-8
Anaheim, California
Long days!
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Re: NAMM 2012
Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM
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Re: NAMM 2012
Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.Wildberry wrote:Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM
Re: NAMM 2012
jps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.Wildberry wrote:Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM
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Re: NAMM 2012
Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a jokejps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
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Re: NAMM 2012
Kind of intrigued...I have tinkered with Gibson's system a lot and I like the idea but I have found it to be pretty finicky. One of my students had a Robot LP and had all kinds of problems with it, and not his fault either.Wildberry wrote:Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a jokejps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
A simpler, less-intrusive Robot system on a Fender bass would be really cool to have for gigging.
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Re: NAMM 2012
John, think of something like this: a little print plate that is kept in place by the tuners. It has its own battery on board and the automatic tuners like Gibson uses them on the robots. The print plate comes with some sort of piezo PU that's used for the tuning. There's a couple of buttons on the print plate, alternative tunings at a few presses of the button, strumming twice (4 strings, the last 2 strings in tune)... and it also works on acoustic guitars! Basses I did not see yet, though.
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Re: NAMM 2012
Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year?Wildberry wrote:Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a jokejps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
The JETGLO finish name should be officially changed to JETGLO ROCKS!
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Re: NAMM 2012
Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing?rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year?
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Re: NAMM 2012
Hey, some of us have trouble with just one string...Wildberry wrote:Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing?rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year?
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Re: NAMM 2012
Who said anything about basses? It's the six stringers that all major guitar companies make a big deal about.Wildberry wrote:Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing?rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year?
The JETGLO finish name should be officially changed to JETGLO ROCKS!
Re: NAMM 2012
This guy seemed to do okay with one string: We saw him at the Sawdust Festival during RIC's 75th anniversary weekend.cjj wrote:Hey, some of us have trouble with just one string...Wildberry wrote:Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing?rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year?
Re: NAMM 2012
Dang, if that guy had bigger sunglasses he could almost pass for me!
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
Re: NAMM 2012
Do you have matching chaps?cjj wrote:Dang, if that guy had bigger sunglasses he could almost pass for me!