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Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« on: November 10, 2008, 08:40:17 PM »
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/DarkFire.aspx

Looks mighty fine, what a sweet looking axe. And I'm sure that Les Paul Himself, who's always tinkering with his guitars trying to coax new sounds out of them would approve whole heartedly.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2008, 09:08:51 PM »
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The Dark Fire's tone potentiometer and CPA have also been redesigned so that turning the tone knob allows a very intuitive and significant change in tone, thus giving you even more ability to dial in your desired tone.

...but what does that mean?  A different taper to the pot?  An active filter?

What is it other than a Robot Guitar with a piezo, special finish, and a new interface for recording?
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2008, 10:14:11 PM »
Dude!!!...

Obviously it means carbon fiber inlays.  Shah.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2008, 10:19:45 PM »
If they are going to put "Fire" in the name, it should come with an optional flame design.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2008, 10:54:12 PM »
When it comes to selecting great names, it's hard to top the Les Paul Money Bass.  :mrgreen:  Not to mention the dollar sign TRC.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2008, 06:06:00 AM »
 $ my favorite  :mrgreen: Would have been perfect for a Gene Simmons siggy bass  ;)
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2008, 08:00:20 AM »
I got the email on this last week or so.  I know I have always been a curmudgeon with Gibson, but I read about this and the first thing I thought was "whoop-de-do, they are doing something to a Les Paul again."  Is it just me, or is this a company that has transformed itself into the One-Trick-Pony hall of fame?  The distance between this and the infamous "The Paul" is not too big.  They have a couple of CNC machines programmed to crank out Les Pauls.  That is about it.

I will say the Les Paul Special reissues they did recently were both very nice and much more accurate than most of their misnamed reissues.  But between the Les Paul bent, and the 2 pups/tuneomatic/stud routing programs, they are mailing it in.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2008, 08:39:41 AM »
The Les Paul and SG are what the customer base wants, so we get endless variations of them. Most of those variations appear to sell better than their non-LP non-SG guitars. Hard to blame Gibson for that.

Of course Fender does the same thing. At least they have more basses.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2008, 11:56:09 AM »
Fair comment. Gibson has been relatively adventurous compared to, say, Fender, Ric or EBMM (discounting the Bongo). They've tried lots of things over the years and decades - often out of sheer desperation to conquer that elusive market niche - and eventually had to give up almost all of them because they are forever identified with their classics. Even here among the devoted few, how many of you bought a TB Studio 5 String, a Money/Doublecut or would have bought a Continental V?
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2008, 12:33:37 PM »
Okay, I didn't buy any of those, but I'd be first in line for an SB350 reissue!  ;D
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2008, 12:39:00 PM »
Those sound kinda dead qualified advisors tell me.
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Re: Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2008, 12:42:05 PM »
At least you admit I'm qualified.
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