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Gibson Guitars and Ethernet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pick-up-my-guitar-and-play dept.

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.

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  1. whee by VAXGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    you may have Ethernet on your Gibson, but I have NetBSD on my Fender.

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  2. Aw yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now someone can root my six-string and play some good music, since I have no talent for playing.

    hee

  3. Announcing CCL: The Chord Command Line Interface by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny
    CCL maps Guitar chords to common Linix commands and a subset of the ASCII character set. By playing a sequence of guitar chords, you can set up commands, pipes, and filters. Output is delivered by speech synthesizer. While the speech synthesizer text is from Linix, the frequency and other parameters are computer-driven to harmonize with, or improvise upon, the chords of your input. Visual output similarly turns mundane text into a rock video.

    Bruce :-)

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  4. Guitars and Ethernet by zangdesign · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

    This post copyrighted, patented, folded, spindled and mutilated. If you live in the EU, even reading it may be illegal. If you live in France, you probably wouldn't get it anyway.

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  5. Re:will musicians buy this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, and a lot of those same musicians want a volume knob they can turn up to eleven.

  6. Re:The Gibson Les Paul by Bob+McCown · · Score: 5, Funny

    But this one goes to 802.11!

  7. Soz - cant help myself..... by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 5, Funny
    -Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! Rock on, baby....

    -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?

  8. Spinal Tap 2003 by micromoog · · Score: 5, Funny

    "These go to 802.11!"

  9. Now what we need... by seanmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  10. Re:Snakeoil by Sabalon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  11. The new sound checks by Sabalon · · Score: 5, Funny

    circa 1983: "check check 1 2 check check 1 2"
    circa 2005: "traceroute traceroute"