NAMM '11 - Gibson Firebird X Demo

http://www.premierguitar.com PG's Jason Shadrick is On Location at the 2011 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, where he swings by the Gibson booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear from Gibson's newest invention--the Firebird X.

The Firebird X features all new electronics with a Pure-Analog Digital Signal Processing engine with Goldtone FX. The Firebird X features a 2.3 pound chambered Ash body, one-piece asymmetrical maple neck, 23-fret Angelim Rajado (Brazilian Marblewood) 24.75" fretboard with abalone inlays. The guitar feature robot tuners, Tune-o-matic piezo robot bridge, and stop bar robot tailpiece. The Firebird X is loaded with proprietary FBX pickups: alnico II in the neck, ceramic middle, and alnico V bridge humbuckers. The Firebird X electronics control the guitar's built-in effects and include an 11-position Gear Shift Knob rotary knob, effects faders for Modulation/Echo/Reverb (blue) and Compression/Distortion/EQ (red), and three three-position toggles with wet/dry blend: Modulation/Reverb/Echoplex (blue), Compression/Distortion/EQ (red), Pickup programming/Piezo/Tuning (silver). The guitar comes with an accessory pack unique to its electronics including a Bluetooth number controller pedal, Bluetooth continuous pedal, and battery power converter for the rechargeable Lithium Ion battery. The guitar also ships with a unique FBX case and Ableton Live 8 and Guitar Rig 4 Pro.

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[ZenDriveSeven]

sorry...can't make the gig tonight. My guitar has a computer virus.

[Wezzcott]

Please Gibson don't make anymore of these types of garbage fad guitars, it really tarnishes the Gibson name!

[sonofgod316]

Hey Gibson, whatever happened to your first line of robo-guitars? Oh yeah, they failed and so will this!

[laskjghlksjghlakjshg]

Sounds like crap XD

[nuspacestate]

The guitar is too ugly & complicated to be fun, auto tuning really is the only good thing about it.

[KRPunK77Guitarist]

auto tuning is the only good thing

[DRS5193]

8:22 This guitar will never go out of style. Until they create Gibson Firebird X 2

[Alkinoos7]

buy a Schecter. I wouldn't buy that one even if it costed 1k...

[DoctorAxe]

Henry has spent millions to jam this guitar down the throats of the guitarists' world.... Only one one thing.... real guitarists want an instrument, not a technological toy.

Thank you Henry for destroying the once proud name of Gibson in the guitarists' musical world..

I will now sell all the Gibsons I own, including 7 vintage models...

Henry, thanks for fucking up the legacy of a great company...

[1skullduggery]

i have an 84' firebird 2. i'm also unemployed and broke. anyone know what i might ask for the gib?

[squadronslog]

they better not do it to the explorer..

[papisNY]

it is a shame to call it a Firebird....