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Gibson Guitars and Ethernet
Gordon_Cabaniss writes "Gibson, the country's second largest guitar manufacturer, teamed up with twelve Silicon Valley engineers and modified the ethernet protocol to link audio between instruments and the mixer. Gibson is calling the technology MAGIC and they are boasting 'both a cleaner sound and a simpler setup.' 'Gibson's Magic carries up to 64 signals per cable, thus saving space and time.' The technology is licensed royalty free and tech giants Sony, Phillips, and Cisco are already showing interest. Gibson also says to not be surprised to see Ethernet ports on guitars within the next 12 to 18 months." I love the idea of my SG having 100mb/s ethernet on it. I'm sure all 3 of my chords would sound ... well, just as bad, but digital.
you may have Ethernet on your Gibson, but I have NetBSD on my Fender.
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It takes a real genius to both start a huge multinational guitar company AND at the same time start the cyberpunk genre. Who knew?
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Now someone can root my six-string and play some good music, since I have no talent for playing.
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Q: How was the concert? A: Fine until some jerk started a denial of service attack on the band over 802.11.
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Next thing you'll see is 802.11a capable so Van Halen doesn't trip over his ethernet cord.
Bruce :-)
Bruce Perens.
Guitars are "DIGITAL", which means operated by fingers.
Their sound isn't yet DIGITIZED!
Let's not all suck at the same time please
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with DLT's. The latency is horrible though...
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I can see the headlines now:
"Unnamed Hacker 'ownz' Ted Nugent - 200 fans hospitalized for serious inner ear bleading.
"The Nuge was not available for comment as authorities are investigating allegations that a hacker had broken security on Ted Nugent's favorite guitar. Apparently, the attack caused the amplifier stack to overload, drawing about 800,000 watts for approximately 10 seconds. The resulting decibel levels were off the scale and one spectator described it as "WHAT? WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? WHAT?!". Several fans were hospitalized in critical condition - surgeons are even now trying to figure out how to re-sect bones that have been 'pulverized by hypersonic forces."
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Yeah, and a lot of those same musicians want a volume knob they can turn up to eleven.
A good crack would be to break into someone's guitar and make it play 'Starway to Heaven" over and over and over...
"As soon as you plug the guitar in to the Ethernet port or whatever instrument it is, it'll come up 'Nate's guitar,'" Yaekel said. "Just like in Ethernet, when you plug into an Ethernet hub, you're going to see your computer's name on the network."
When's the last time this guy tried to set up a network in real life? And where the hell does he think he's going to get ethernet savvy roadies?
The last roadies I worked with exposed a port every time they bent over to tape down a cord, but it wasn't ethernet.
Disclaimer: MINAA (Mummy! I'm Not An Animal!)
But this one goes to 802.11!
Or, by reversing the process, a Postscript file can become an eight-minute fusion solo...
-Does anyone know where I can download Gibson-Linux?
-"Yeah dude, we were like ROCKING wembley stadium... But then we got slashdotted"
-Cant play tonight.... guitar got a virus.
-This Guitar has caused an illegal operation and will be restarted.
-"Hi, looks like your trying to play Johnny B. Goode. Would you like me to help you with that?"
-This guitar sucks. It only has two notes: 1 and 0
-Hey, I cant get broadband. Do you think they will release a modem version?
-Token ring on the guitar string?
-Packet loss during the thrash-metal guitar solo?
Was the big bang louder than drum & bass?
"These go to 802.11!"
Now what we need is some kind of Napster-type client so we can bypass CD's and steal Metallica tunes directly from James Hetfield's guitar!
I guess my license plate reading "I hacked the Gibson", in reference to the awful movie Hackers, will have an entirely new meaning.
I dunno. I still think the best sound is a mic in front of the amp. Line-out's on amps just don't sound right. I seriously doubt that ethernet out would sound any better.
Now...if you could place an ethernet mic in front of the amp with the syncing on it, that'd be cool - at least until:
"Illegal Operation: device eth0 detected "Stairway to Heaven". Port disconnected.
No Stairway - denied!
circa 1983: "check check 1 2 check check 1 2"
circa 2005: "traceroute traceroute"
They can take my '71 goldtop Les Paul Deluxe and Fender Super Six when they pry them out of my cold dead hands....
Cold and dead because that damn Fender amp fell over, crushed me half to death, and finished me off with thick chunky voltage from the shattered soviet surplus tubes.... but dead nontheless!
Hell, a cheap amp in a fish tank is all Duane Eddy needed.