The Gibson Robot Guitar is a self-tuning guitar with presets for different tunings e.g. DADGAD. First video is a promotional video based on a spoof of the Hitchcock movie Psycho and suggests that Fender, Gibson’s long time rival, is going down with the introduction of the Robot Guitar. The second video shows how the Robot Guitar actually works.

Psycho

Demo

See below for videos on the Fender VG. I still think the Fender VG, released earlier, presents users with more options. The best thing about the VG is its ease of use, something that really appeals to me. I got a POD XT Live but hated going through the manual and up till now, I still don’t fully utilise the POD XT cos I can’t be bothered to read the manual. The only downside for the VG as far as I can tell are the 4 AA batteries to power the digital functions e.g. different tunings, different tonal options (e.g. tele or accoustic). I understand the batteries last for a maximum of ten hours.

The Fender VG Strat Demo

The New Fender VG Stratocaster Guitar Demo

Fender® at Winter NAMM 2007: Demo of the VG Strat®

Sigh. I guess I should feature the Variax too, which came onto the scene before the VG. First see the videos from line 6 here.

Custom Variax Demo

And here are some videos of pretty impressive playing on a variax by an unknown guitarist, on youtube. He has too many good videos for me to link here. This guy’s playing is really inspiring. I need to practise more and also seriously consider buying a Variax guitar.

Variax Drivin South

Line 6 Variax 300

New Old Strat Rise N Shine

Variax I Can’t Quit You Pagey

Clean sounds in the videos below.

Variax Clean Blues

Variax Roxanne

It easily took me 4 hours to find and view all the videos for this post. I’m spending way too much time on the net and blogging. I don’t get enough online ad revenue to do this and my eyes get strained from being in front of the computer so much. I’m not sure if blogging this post is the best way to spend my time. I just hope someone finds all this useful or interesting.

I should get back to practising or reading.