JOE WALLACE: I'm Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com with Bart Walsh of Gibson, and we're talking about getting started with the Gibson 5.1 guitar system. And tell me, for a new user, somebody who's never had the ability to send one string to one channel and get six different channels of audio out of one guitar, what's your advice for getting started and getting started quickly and just helping out a new user?

BART WALSH: Well, one thing the guitar comes bundled with Sonar Producer software so it has 5.1 built into the program, so that's an advantage in and of itself but you can really, if you look at Bob here, it's so easy to set this thing up it's ridiculous. You plug the guitar in here and you take the outputs there and plug them into whatever you want. So, and if you plug it into channels one and two, it actually will just split strings one, two, three, four, five, six automatically, and you can also, you know, like put maybe, if wanted to put one and two a Gibson 212 Gold Tone and, you know, the other one it's a 412 of sorts, you can get, you know, like distortion on one and clean on the other, and the skies just really the limit. You can do anything that you want to with this.

JOE WALLACE: Okay now, what about for live applications? How do you like this live?

BART WALSH: Well, it's great. Like I said, you can take outputs one and two and split left and right, one, two, three, four, five, six, and you got clean on the top, dirty on the bottom and vice versa. If you really wanted to go crazy, you can use six different amplifiers and have six different pedals in front of those amps. Front of the house guy can mix it, you know, pan across the whole studio field of the PA if you're just in stereo, or you can pan them hard one, two, three, four, five, six. It's really the answer to every question that you would ask about this guitar, the answer would be yes because you can do anything that you want to with it and there are limitless possibilities.

JOE WALLACE: Thanks very much. I've been talking with Bart Walsh from Gibson. I'm Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com.