Wrinkle #247864 in the Gibson saga

Lerxst said:
Without knowing what the basis for the lawsuit is, it’s kinda hard to comment or speculate
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Since I’ve never seen those tuners anywhere else, I would assume they have an exclusive agreement with Gibson. Anytime you commit to one partner you would want guarantees as far a units sold. Since they don’t seem to be available anymore it’s safe to assume Gibson is not meeting their minimums. Just my guess.
 
reverend1 said:
Since I’ve never seen those tuners anywhere else, I would assume they have an exclusive agreement with Gibson. Anytime you commit to one partner you would want guarantees as far a units sold. Since they don’t seem to be available anymore it’s safe to assume Gibson is not meeting their minimums. Just my guess.
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Tronical signed an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with Gibson that preceded the release of the first Gibson Robot guitar. That's going on about 10 years now.
 
I’ve never seen a robot guitar. I know they were not popular, but did they have any fans?
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
For the record, I really wanted to like it.
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It's not the worse idea in the world. Like I said, I've never seen one and have no idea how they work. I don't think I've ever seen a positive review of the system. You would think Gibson would have spent sometime field testing them before jumping in head first.
 
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I saw the system work well on a strat style guitar before they did the exclusive thing with Gibson. I think the tuning problems stem with Gibson’s headstock and string break angle away from the nut. I venture to guess that the same system applied to a PRS headstock would work better.
 
Just another example of Henry J running an American icon into the ground using poor market understanding and being an all around asshole.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
For the record, I really wanted to like it.
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Ditto, some of the cool stuff Transperformance was doing like 30 years ago seemed really amazing. Gibson tried to make something like that, but it didn't work. I wanted to like the robot tuners, but in the end if they are not accurate, who would want them? I can tune close enough by ear, and if it can't do accurate standard tune, I don't want it doing my alternate tunings for me.
 
I watched a guy tell a hilarious story about the auto tuner just yesterday. He said they were doing a demo and when a big A chord was strummed it would tune itself to DADGAD. LMAO
 
MonkeyZero said:
I watched a guy tell a hilarious story about the auto tuner just yesterday. He said they were doing a demo and when a big A chord was strummed it would tune itself to DADGAD. LMAO
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So you don’t need to activate them in some way? They just tune whenever?

Please say this isn’t true.
 
baimun said:
I saw the system work well on a strat style guitar before they did the exclusive thing with Gibson. I think the tuning problems stem with Gibson’s headstock and string break angle away from the nut. I venture to guess that the same system applied to a PRS headstock would work better.
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This is very correct.

As posted in the guitar forum a few months back, I got one of those String Butler things, and since then all of the tuning problems on my LP magically went away.
That guitar already had new locking tuners and a Graphtech nut installed on it.
That's all the confirmation I needed.

Peeps can say what they want, but it IS a design flaw that Gibson has absolutely no intention of ever fixing.
 
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