[PAUL PLAYING A GIBSON ROBOT GUITAR]

JASON DONNELLY: Hi. This is Jason with Gearwire.Com and I'm sitting here with Paul. Thanks for jamming with us Paul. It sounds great. We're here with the Robot Guitar, which the Gibson Robot Guitar. It's a limited edition first production guitar that has a self-tuning mechanism built into it and a really cool piece. One of the unique things about this is the color and kind of obviously the fact that it has all these tuning capabilities.

So, I guess it took about 10 years to produce the technology and it was developed by a gentleman by the name of Chris Adams, so I don't know. Paul, what do you think? What's your take on this guitar?

PAUL: Well, I'd like to consider myself pretty old school in the sense that I trust my ears when I'm tuning and I also use a floor-mounted tuner, a tuning pedal for precise tuning, but I can imagine if I'm on stage and the band has started the song without me and I'm trying to catch up to tune it, this would definitely come in handy I believe.

JASON DONNELLY: Certainly yeah. Based on the experience that I've had with it, it tunes itself pretty quick, and I can definitely see it working really well in that application. Another interesting that I found was that it's really quick to string this guitar. I didn't know what I was doing right away so I popped the D string and basically all I had to do to restring it was to run it through here, tighten this little guy up here, snip the string, make it a little taut, and then hit, you know.

PAUL: And it tightens it up itself?

JASON DONNELLY: Yup, and it tunes. It's really great, and I mean super fast.

PAUL: Yeah. That'll save a lot of time on stage like if you're in the middle of the song.

JASON DONNELLY: Definitely. Yeah.

PAUL: The only thing I thought that was -- Here in Chicago, we play a lot of gigs where, you know, in the middle of winter which is freezing in venues and that really affects the tuning. I mean, you know, guitars are not going to stay in tune during the winter, and that's one less thing I have to worry about on stage if this can take care of that.

JASON DONNELLY: Definitely yes, and it's great too for like I can imagine using this in the studio and you're paying for studio time so what do you got to do when you tune your guitar? Well, you have to, like you said, bust out the conventional guitar tuner. This seems to me that it tunes a lot quicker than doing it the old-fashioned way, so. See a bit. Why don't we just dive in and give a little demonstration about actually tuning this guitar with the robotic tuning mechanism.