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jingle_jangle wrote:Werner, did your birthday have anything to do with the change of release date on this fabulous, game-changing product?

Jus' askin'...

It was on my ex' birthday, so it must be the latest trick she's pulling me!

WOOF!
Nice video....
What a waste of bandwidth!

cassius987 wrote:Did I only see a truncated presentation or was that the most boring, uninformative thing ever?

Yes!
Good thing we just watched it on a vid. Imagine being there expecting to see a cool presentation.

Thanks John, now it makes more sense to me (although I still think it's ugly ).

So, it a guitar with a built in effects processor, including delay loops and everything. Am I correct?

I guess it eliminates the need for pedals. Seems similar to the line 6 Variax with more stuff.

Danotron wrote:I guess it eliminates the need for pedals. Seems similar to the line 6 Variax with more stuff.

Except that the guitar comes with two pedals to control it.

Though I don't care for the bulging upper horn, I personally am not so revolted by the looks. But after hearing that demo, I am underwhelmed.

One of our local kids has played better sounding riffs than that thing manages and he only has a cheapo $200.00 Squier guitar and a couple of $60.00 pedals to go along with his 10 watt practise amp.

I think I need to change my username now

Esthetically awful. I love the Firebird, prefer the reverse but still, it's a classic design. They managed to make it ugly now. Ugly control layout. Ugly tuner thingie. The inlays clash badly with the fret board wood. The head is garish. Also, I'd rather have my effects separate, thank you. Here you're stuck with these forever.

If I try to say something nice, I like the neck heel and the piezo. That's about it.

The corvus, The RD, The Moderne, The Nighthawk, The MIII...
The Firebird X is just following in the tradition of....

Gibson always hold their best cards back (because they want you to pay a custom shop price for that) And it now seems that they want you pay a premium for their latest mistakes as well...

emac.

Maybe the Thunderbird X bass guitar will generate lightning?

Let me know when Gibson makes a guitar and bass guitar that carries it's owners gear to gigs and rehearsals and sets it up. I might be interested.

Wait until ya see the acoustic version of this!

That's just really sad.....

Henry should have just smashed his head. It would have been a LOT more interesting and probably would have been the "Salvation on Gibson"!