What Ever Happened To This Genius Instrument?

This guitar kind of reminds me of this:
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Gibson RD Custom. I quite like it, even though it looks like Gumby with a guitar neck up his butt!
If the Firebird X had a similar finish, I'd definitely consider it.
 
Ya know, I don't own a Corvus, but a couple of years back, I was asked to sit in with a friend's band at a local boite and that's what he handed me, a black Corvus with a tremolo. It played well for someone elses' guitar and sounded great. It didn't know it was ugly..........
 
guitarweasel said:
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Col Mustard said:
A closed mind is nothing to be proud of...
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Ha ha... that's right! Once I saw the pic of the Firebird X, I closed my mind... :steping:
 
Yeh I'd play it. But not for 4 k. It's looking for someone to claim it as their own. Not many guitars about now that haven't been claimed by someone and forever to be associated with. Maybe a dick headstock on an r9 could help some? Parrrrrrrrp
I like the paint job too. On first glance. Fret board not so much.
 
Col Mustard said:
A closed mind is nothing to be proud of...

To me, this is an interesting design, and the only thing I don't like about it is the price.
If they offered this for $1100, (and I don't understand why they couldn't) this thing would
have much more appeal to me. If I saw a used one for $750 I'd be intrigued, and would
want to try it out.

Maybe I get tired of seeing all the same designs over and over. The firebird tone is a classic in its
own way, but I've never cared for that body shape. So to my mind, this design is a lot more accessible
way to get the Firebird tone. I don't think body shape has any effect on tone. *grins

When I see those three mini hums, I think of the music of Johnny Winter. I like the maple neck.
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It's not the shape we are bagging on, that's purely subjective. It's the robot electronics and onboard modeling we are goofing on. I bet you would be hard-pressed to get anything approaching "Firebird" tone out of this thing...heck, you'd probably be hard-pressed to get anything resembling "electric guitar" tone out of it.
 
The way I'm wired... even if that guitar functions properly and plays nicely, even if it was much cheaper, I still can't get past its looks. A plain and simple, politically incorrect, shallow opinion... so be it... :sneaky:
 
Tony M. said:
Has anyone who has posted in this thread ever actually played a Firebird X?
Just wondering.
I have not.
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Yeah, played one purely out of morbid curiosity...it did not disappoint. Played fine, as any Gibson should, but the sounds were just godawful and unusable. You'd have to gut the thing and put normal electronics in it to make it a suitable instrument for a guitar player. All the built-in effects and modeling made it sound like an okay guitar played through a bad modeling amp. Even with everything ostensibly turned off and just playing straight it sounded "digital."
 
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I dig offsets, so its cool; not digging the finish mainly.
I really like the RD, but none at the price levels is even a realistic thought.

Out of the bunch of that Corner of the the Gibson universe, the hands down winner for me is a Firebird(s) like the ones Allen Collins played.
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or the Firebird I like Claptons:
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The Firebird 1 is a different animal than all the others. It seems to have.....more of everything.
Maybe it's because there is no neck pickup magnetic field pulling on the strings?
 
That Firebird X has way too many controls on it...you need a Masters degree in order to operate it. Keep it simple stupid.;)


;>)/
 
gball said:
A remnant of Hank J's obsession with advancing the "technology" of the electric guitar and attempting to dictate to guitarists what they wanted instead of asking them what they wanted.
Thankfully, he seems to have mostly learned the lesson that this experiment provided him and he is mostly giving us the products we are asking for now.
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I'll start to believe that when I can buy an HP fret over binding no nibs guitar without having the added price & inconvenience of a gimmicky automatic G-Force tuner attached to that new guitar purchase!
 
Relic said:
I'll start to believe that when I can buy an HP fret over binding no nibs guitar without having the added price & inconvenience of a gimmicky automatic G-Force tuner attached to that new guitar purchase!
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I did say "mostly"

I don't understand how those things are still standard on the HP's, but...what do I know?
 
gball said:
I did say "mostly"

I don't understand how those things are still standard on the HP's, but...what do I know?
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I know bro, it is dumbfounding really.

I personally think it would better suit someone that is not as particular as the guitarist looking for the more professional features of the 'HP' branded Gibson & be more at home & way more useful for the newer players on their guitars & the guitars that they buy. If that stupid 'T' didn't stand for Traditional, I'd say it was a better fit on that guitar! But like you say, 'Hey, what do I know'?

I'll tell you what I do know, there are few if any 'Professional' guitar players taking one of the G-Force tuner reliant guitars on stage for live performances. They simply aren't fast enough, reliable enough or good enough. There is also few if any players that would seriously attempt to use one of these during a live performance & try to use the G-Force to de-tune his guitar from A-440 to D natural & expect that guitar to then maintain pitch stability over the next 5-10 minutes or more!

Forgive my harshness but my personal disappointment leaves me believing the whole auto-tune G-Farce force feeding is nothing short of a gimmick being pushed on those most likely to pay for one to get the more professional & obviously more expensive guitar that they want.

So there, now I went there. 20 lashes from the penguin with her G string. Yuk!
 
guitarweasel said:
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If you only knew what that white Firebird does to me... :cry:

The year Johnny Winter died, I wanted a white Bird. And in a indirect way, I also wanted a white SG. So, I ended up with a Faded Tobacco Burst LP... go figure. The following year I got my white SG. That white Bird is still flying out there, with no room here to land... :cry::cry:
 
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