Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument company and leader in music technology marked the December 7th global launch of the Gibson Dusk Tiger guitar with a little help from Ranie the Bengal Tiger. The Dusk Tiger introduces Gibson's 3rd generation robot technology and delivers unrivalled tonal flexibility and performance. The Dusk Tiger is now available for sale at only 200 retail sites worldwide. A limited run of only 1000 guitars have been produced. There will be 200 store sites – 100 in the US and 100 in International markets. No more Dusk Tiger guitars will be manufactured or sold. The Gibson Dusk Tiger is already set to become this Christmas’s most wanted guitar and a must for any gigging musician or collector.
Watch the new Gibson Dusk Tiger teaser here - http://www.youtube.com/gibsonguitarcorp#p/a/u/0/Ay-B8LIjNDE
Last year Gibson introduced the Dark Fire guitar, which followed the first generation Robot Guitar. This single model was hugely successful, with most stores worldwide selling out of the instrument in one day with a worldwide stock out in two days.
The Gibson Dark Fire introduced three significant innovations:
· The Robot 2 tuning system, which increased both the accuracy and speed of auto tuning.
· Chameleon Tone Technology which allowed the guitar to achieve all the classic guitar tones, with 7 classic tones immediately available.
· The first guitar that came as a complete system to harness the power of a computer recording environment, as well as computerized live settings.
During the year Gibson’s R&D labs have been working on taking the technology introduced in the Dark Fire instruments to an entirely new level of performance and ease of use. The Gibson Dusk Tiger guitar will have all three of the above features in a newly enhanced version at a an affordable price!
Gibson’s break through Dark Fire introduced a full color matrix Master Control Knob to allow the player to harness the power with guitar like movements. The guitar also enhanced the pickup toggle switch to serve as a blend control allowing the mixing of a piezo pickup with the traditional pickups. These controls allowed the player dozens of unique sounds as well as many traditional sounds, all in pure high definition analog. The Gibson Dusk Tiger takes this control scheme and makes it even easier and more intuitive to use while adding more tones and tunings.
When not using the RIP computer interface, the Dusk Tiger guitar simply works without the need to think about two channels, turning on pickups manually, or even charging. All controls on the guitar and pickups remain on when the guitar is turned on. The guitar remembers exactly where you were when you turned the guitar off (or it turned off due to inactivity to save your battery life). The software for how the Master Control Know (MCK) works has been refined making accessing tones and tuning presents much quicker, easier and more intuitive. You will wonder how you got along without access to these many creative options on stage or in the studio.
The Gibson Dusk Tiger comes with a software editor program that allows you to create your own presets for the guitar. The program enables saving presets as a computer file so you can store and/or share your special tones. The editor allows you to replace the standard tones in the guitar and change the order (switch position) for each tone present. With a second bank of 9 presets that are specifically for the user to program, you now can have 18 unique sounds instantly available, with a library of thousands of tones. Chameleon Tone Editor Software with ability to develop, load and save presets. Each preset will set the pickup coil selections, pickups and control 2 four band parametric equalizers built into the Dusk Tiger. All tone controls and blend knobs work while playing or recording.
The Dusk Tiger comes with an updated RIP firewire computer interface. It continues to bring out every string on an independent channel, the traditional pickup signal and the piezo mono signal over a stereo quarter inch cable. It will no longer be used to charge your guitar, simplifying its use substantially. The audio stream has been improved to achieve more fidelity and further increase head room (reduce noise floor). Software always gets improved, so the Gibson Dusk Tiger comes with the latest full version of Guitar Rig and the Gibson version of Abelton Live recording software.
Gibson is pressing the boundaries of what an exceptional guitar is both on an esthetic level and performance level. Gibson has continued to refine the physical instrument, the materials used and the dimensional tolerances held. From the computerized Plek machine which set up every guitar, to individual components, this is one of best performing, most road worthy professional instruments available. Gibson has been able to squeeze out more sustain and resonance while being able to make the Dusk Tiger one of the lightest Gibson has ever made using a patented construction technique.
For more information on the Gibson Dusk Tiger and to locate your nearest Gibson dealer, please visit - http://www2.gibson.com/Gibson.aspx
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