Gibson robo tuners fail

[Patriot54]

A friend of mine got an SG recently with the robo tuners. He'd been playing it at practices and I guess it worked ok there, but he just played the first gig with his new band that they'd been planning for months and the tuner system failed by their second song. I think it detuned on him while he was playing. Some things should be left to manual operation.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Is the earth passing through the tail of the Rea-M rogue comet? Are the machines coming alive to terrorize us? Do the machines prefer drop-tunings?

Soon we'll know ...  :evil4:

 

[Patriot54]

Is the earth passing through the tail of the Rea-M rogue comet? Are the machines coming alive to terrorize us? Do the machines prefer drop-tunings?

Soon we'll know ...  :evil4:

If we let them take over, soon we'll be forced to play what they want to play. Nothing but techno. :help:

 

[Cagey]

Let ME flatten your fifths! Muahahaha!​

 

[-CB-]

Those robotuners have been failing left and right.... this is not new news.

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, I'm not surprised, either. Servos are too tiny, power is insufficient, electronics are fragile, on and on. It's a solution looking for a problem.

I wonder why those who buy into such schemes don't wonder why the pros don't use such gimcrackery. The first thought that should come to mind is that one of the first things you have to learn if you want to play guitar is how to tune it. Then you need to develop your ear so you can tell if the bloody thing is even in tune. If you can't do those two things, you may as well hang it up, not buy into complex Rube Goldberg gadgetry and try to play anyway.

 

[stubhead]

The more tiny little things made out of metal (and steel nowadays is highly variable in quality) that you put on a guitar (or anything else) the more likely it is to fail. Especially tiny little threaded things... And if it's completely unnecessary... :icon_scratch:

:evil4: Gee whiz, HOW many Forum members are stuck with a broken micro-gizmo truss rod adjuster inside their Warmoth necks?  :evil4: Those things sell more necks for USACG and Allparts than everything else combined, and considering it's only on the modern double trussrods, which you'll only need to adjust three times maximum in your lifetime... :icon_scratch:

 

[jay4321]

I like the robo-tuner concept itself a lot but it sounds fairly risky. A decently well-built and properly cared-for electronic gizmo (these days) might last, what, maybe 15 years? Yet a decently well-built and properly cared for electric guitar might go... well I guess we don't know yet. There are probably still a fair number of early ones from the Depression era I imagine, certainly lots from the 50s in circulation.

That's a little too much to ask of mass-produced motors. Wood is tough to keep up with as far as longevity goes.

 

[DangerousR6]

Let ME flatten your fifths! Muahahaha!​

LMAO...that was a cool movie back in the day.... :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

Hehe! Yeah, SustainerPlayer got it started with the Rea-M comet tail. My memory isn't so good that I'd remember that name, but passing through a comet tail and causing mischief with machinery flagged it. I kept thinking "Who made who?" <grin>

 

[DangerousR6]

Hehe! Yeah, SustainerPlayer got it started with the Rea-M comet tail. My memory isn't so good that I'd remember that name, but passing through a comet tail and causing mischief with machinery flagged it. I kept thinking "Who made who?" <grin>

Maximum Overdrive...Had a cool soundtrack too... :headbang1:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Yes. Really cool movie. Written and directed by Stephen King. AC/DC and giant trucks killing people. What's not to like?  :icon_biggrin:

I now declare this thread totally hijacked!

 

[AutoBat]

http://cinemassacre.com/2012/10/10/80s-rerun-maximum-overdrive/
Probably NSFW language.