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BART WALSH: All right. I'm here today with my friends from Gearwire. My name is Bart Walsh, and I represent Gibson Guitar Corporation. What I'm holding here is one of the latest technological advances from Gibson in a long line of products that have completely changed and shaped the music industry as we know it. Back in 1921, Gibson came out with the truss rod, which is a metal device and it keeps the neck straight. We invented that. It's in all guitars today. In '52, the first Les Paul came out, which has revolutionized the music business with the set neck. In '57, we invented the double humbucking pickup which completely changed rock & roll forever as we know it.

In keeping with the fine tradition, we've now come up with what's called the HD6X-Pro Guitar, and what that is is a guitar that is a fully functional Les Paul, hand rubbed finish on the back of the neck, satin finish, LSR tuners, a graphite nut, ebony board, faux carbon inlays, and a beautiful unique blue finish that's unique to this guitar in the Gibson family.

What makes this guitar special besides all that stuff is we have a hexaphonic pickup. Now, hexaphonic means we have six little pickups in here. There's six little mini humbuckers like these pickups but they're real small. What they do is they take the pure tone from each string and separate it and isolate it, and then we take an A-to-D converter on board over a CAT-5 cable, using our patented Magic Technology. Now, we own this technology and what it does is it enables 64 channels of binary data to be able to be transmitted over this cable. From there, I can take it into a breakout box. There's your closeup, Dave.

DAVE: Yeah.

BART WALSH: And the Ethernet goes into there and it separates each one of the strings, one through six, and you can designate that into an individual input. It could be six amps, six different speakers that we're using here with the digital audio workstation or six different channels or a recording console, skies the limit of what you can do with it.

Channel 7 is a classic but I can actually run the regular functioning Les Paul pickups here over a CAT-5 cable. That's what we'll do in the first example here. Regular Les Paul.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING REGULAR LES PAUL PICKUPS]

Everything works the same as a Les Paul does.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING REGULAR LES PAUL PICKUPS]

A little more volume on these. Next what I'm going to do is we're going to use an amp modeler called Amplitube, and we're just going to have kind of a rock tone using the Les Paul pickups over this CAT-5 cable.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING REGULAR LES PAUL PICKUPS RUNNING THROUGH AMPLITUBE]

Okay. That's just regular Les Paul pickups, 498-490 combo, going through the Ethernet cable into the computer using an amp model. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to split strings [POINTING TO HIS RIGHT] one-two-three, [POINTING TO HIS LEFT] four-five-six, left and right now. It ends sounding like this. Try putting that mic over there so you can...

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX]

...and actually these.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, STEREO CONFIGURATION]

Pretty crazy. Okay, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take each one of the strings and put it in a different speaker in a 5.1 field with complete isolation with no crosstalk, and we're going to give each one it's own discrete reverb per string. So, hear we have each string in a different speaker with its own reverb.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, 5.1 SURROUND CONFIGURATION]

That's every love song ever written. Pretty cool stuff. Never heard a guitar like that before I bet. All right, now were going to take each string and put a chorus on each individual string.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, CHORUS ON EACH STRING]

Pretty cool stuff. So now we'll take a delay and put it on each string, so we get deeper and deeper into ideas and things we can do with it. Okay, now I got a 366 ms delay on each string.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, DELAY ON EACH STRING]

So that's what you can do with a delay on each string there. Now, we're going to get even funkier with it. We're going to put a different effect on each string. So, you can imagine what this would do to your writing. For a musician, this is whole new palettes deliverable for the musician of ideas and creativity. Here I have a chorus on one string, phaser on another, and auto-wah on this one.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, AUDITIONING EFFECTS ON EACH INDIVIDUAL STRING]

Reverb, flange, and flange. Hit me. Let's get funky one time.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, DIFFERENT DISTINCT EFFECTS ON EACH STRING]

Here we have a different effect on each string. Pretty crazy, huh? Are you digging it? I'm digging it. Now, I always often ask myself, "What would Jimi do?" If Jimi was here, what would Jimi do? So, I think Jimi would put distortion on the bottom three strings and clean on the top three. You know, Jimi Hendrix, we have a Flying V Reissue. You know, Jimi played Flying V's and SG's and even a Les Paul in his later years but he only burned the Stratocasters.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX, CLEAN ON TOP THREE STRINGS, DISTORTION ON BOTTOM THREE]

So you can see that when you get deeper into it, it's just all kinds of things you can do with this guitar that have never been thought of before, and it's really the only pickup on the market that gives a really high output analog pure double humbucking sound out of each one of the pickups. So Gearwire, thank you so much for letting us do this for you. Hopefully we'll see you on the net.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH A GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING HEXAPHONIC PICKUP AND BREAKOUT BOX]

Thank you. I'll be here all week.