Gibson HD.6X-Pro Digital Les Paul Guitar Part 2 - The Demo

August 01, 2007
Gibson HD.6X-Pro Digital Les Paul Guitar Part 2 at Summer NAMM 2007
Earlier, we gave you a teaser with the Gibson HD.6X-Pro Digital Les Paul Guitar, and now we get to hear what the guy was talking about with the each-string-to-a-different-channel thing. That's right, you can assign each separate string a different effect, and then send it to a different point in a 5.1 field. On the one hand it may sound a little too nerdy, but - wait, what am I saying. No such thing. In this exclusive Gearwire video, we get a nice basic walkthrough and a great demo with multiple speakers. Check it out.
More info is at the Gibson official site.

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JOE WALLACE: I’m Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com. I’m with Bart Walsh of Gibson, and we’re talking about --

BART WALSH: The HD6X-Pro from Gibson.

JOE WALLACE: Now, one of the features of this particular guitar which uses a CAT-5 cable to go into a breakout box and then from the box into your DAW is the ability to take each string and send it to a different channel in the DAW. Tell me a little bit about that.

BART WALSHG: You’re correct, sir. Using the hexaphonic pickup with our patented MAGIC technology, with no light to, you can take it into the breakout box, and then we have six analog outs, a seventh out for the double humbucking pickups, and then one out for a microphone, we can take each one of those and put it in a different area of a 5.1 field and assign it with a different effect. So, here on this example I have chorus, phaser, auto wah, reverb, flange, and a different flange. Drums please.

[DRUM TRACK PLAYBACK STARTS]

You got to dance again. I can feel it.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH THE GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING THE HEXAPHONIC PICKUP SYSTEM]

JOE WALLACE: Now, what you probably can’t hear is that each of these strings is going to a different speaker, then that’s the kind of effect you can get with this equipment.

[BART WALSH PERFORMING WITH THE GIBSON HD6X-PRO USING THE HEXAPHONIC PICKUP SYSTEM]

JOE WALLACE: Now let me ask you. When you’re sending the signal to each of the different channels in the DAW, for someone who’s never worked like that before, they’re used to one signal into one channel or a stereo channel, why is that going to help them in the recording process? Again, for a newbie who is looking at this, they’re really interested but they don’t really see, oh, you know, five channels -- or six channels and six strings.

BART WALSH: Well because you’ve never been able to manipulate the guitar like that before. Here you have one string that has a pure tone with a bit rate probably about three times that of a CD, and you can take that one string with hardly any crosstalk that it’s negligible and you can put it into any area of a 5.1 field. So, even if you want to put one amp model on that string or one little effect, or if you wanted to put it into a stereo field or 5.1 field, if you want to plug it into a different live amp, the applications are pretty much skies the limit really. So, it opens up creativity and a palette of sounds that’s never been achieved in a landscape of musicians working before.

JOE WALLACE: We have been talking with Bart Walsh. I’m Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com.

I’m going to do another intro and then I’m going to ask you a couple of questions about the 5.1 modeling and – because basically I’m assuming that you can get one signal per string...

BART WALSH: Absolutely.

JOE WALLACE: ...into a different channel in your DAW.

BART WALSH: Absolutely. You know, this guy is smart. He should work on like an internet site.

JOE WALLACE: One day maybe they’ll let me.

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