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Cook up you live in a future ruled by robots. It's not that hard—between Milo, Siri, and their pet AIBO, we're about halfway there already. So here you are, booming about your afternoon break from work at the cyber-mill, and you stop by the "Museum of Her And Roll."

It's an imposing metallic building, much like all buildings are in this, the Age of The Robots. Alone in the bull's-eye of the museum's cavernous atrium stands a half-swarm guitar amplifier enclosed in a huge soundproof glass case, front of which hangs a small guitar and a mounted computer monitor. You walk up to the exhibit and put on a pair of headphones—inside this glass case, you can see that the amp is turned on, its red power abuse glowing with ancient, forgotten life.

(Stick with me, this is current somewhere.)

You pick up the guitar. Its idle hum is muted through the headphones, but you can still feel some Medicine syncope power through the glass. You pluck at a few strings. The amp seems to respond, though its tone is filtered; off, hushed. You fiddle with the computer screen but can't quite figure out how to change the amp up, or to get it to make different sounds. You pluck some more, mystified by the inanimate object in your hands. Did human beings once play these? What was their purpose?

Source: Kotaku

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Source: Brisbane Times

by Jim Smith

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Only 24 pics, and I'll post my first impressions here.

WOW. That accurately sums up the looks, touch, tonal versatility and voice of this guitar. Patrick delivered the goods on this one, and gave me what I asked for - a singlecut with as minimum a neck on one's uppers as on that could both guffaw and tattle.

Fit and fulfil: 99.5% Unassailable. There is a precarious sherd in the devour behind the low E hoax tuner at the corner of the headstock - I don't be enamoured of, it's not undisguised unless you look for it, and I have no raison d'etre how it got there. The clearcoat is soothing as glass. I wanted 9-48's on this guitar to have it discern compare favourably with to my LP in dismiss C, and the nut was really cut for 10-46's I accept. I have realized that I'd like more anxiousness (again), and will to all intents undertake out a peculiar luthier to information the nut to fit 11-54's.

Electronics: J S Moore Inky widow alnico 8 in the traverse and V-1 choice PAF pattern in the neck - sings and screams like no other . 5-way pickup selector to give me these options: span bucker, both buckers, neck bucker, neck bucker and connexion solitary in correlate to, span unmarried. I didn't perceive for an hour or so that it's wired contrary of what I expected - what would normally be connexion is in truth the join celibate. This explains why I got horrendous feedback with the roadster at half on the supervisor, and why I needed more low end and less treble - I'm suprised I didn't actualize it sooner :ugh:. I had to return the amp down before I had realized my wrongdoing, but turned it back up to 4 succinctly to duly EQ for the Unspeakable Widow. The mass and mode of expression knobs travail as they should, the 5-way is exact and easygoing, and the pickups perceptive visionary.

Construction: Built like a block outhouse - which is expected when you group a impost compact. I could find no structural flaws, and the wood looks remarkable. The ebony fretboard really has some figuring in it, which is rather...

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