Something for the avid pluckers - The 100-Megabit Guitar

Keep on plucking Wired 12.01: The 100-Megabit Guitar.

Auric

 

fascinating auric, thanks for that.

Here's a rather contentious quote from the article

"Culture critic Walter Benjamin famously claimed that art had lost its aura in the mechanical age. But ever since the first digital-analog converters for audio appeared in the '60s, proponents have said the technology might recapture it. They insist that digitizing sound, an inherently transformational process, actually does a better job of preserving it, because no information is lost from the moment audio is captured to the moment it's played back. "

Hmmm. Not so sure about that.


As for the success of the technology, it will rather depend I feel on the quality of sounds that you can get with your processed digital signal. This in turn will surely depend on the level of achievement that the software programmers manage. It would have to be truly exceptional I feel to pursuade guitarists to jack their gear in and go with another solution.... its a long way from whacking some 1950's technology through a valve amp!

Chris

 

How do you continue to advance the technology of a product, when the vast percentage of its consumers wants it to remain fixed at a standard developed 35 years ago? A good question posed and answered by this link via TCS: Tech Central Station - The Guitar's Technological Crossroads.

Is newer always better?

Auric

 

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