if you have ois mooers GE labs is free and rocktone cables are like 30 bucks mate. just need a usb to lightening cable adapter that has a built in headphone output
It’s an exciting idea. Probably a great choice for that dude/dudette that plays solo at a bar or cafe nightly, and just wants one less piece of gear to lug around/setup.
Thanks you always make me feel like chugging. Every video. Long time lurker. You've helped me love guitar more than ever and I've been playing since 1989.
What we really need is a product halfway between this and conventional guitars, midi pickup switching via bluetooth. Something akin to the Widi system, but integrated to switches and pots, so you can have the guitar change pickups or even wiring (parallel/series/coil tap etc) alongside patch changes.
@Lozek this is actually brilliant, have the guitar settings set to presets. I for one am so tired of having to use push pull pots in tandem with footswitches to get my clean single-coil tones
It's not the same. The purpose of the Variax was replicating the resonance curves or responses of several different kinds of guitars, with the idea in mind you only needed to carry one guitar with you. You still need the rest of the gear, though. A famous user is for example Adrian Belew, he has the circuit installed in his Parkers. The purpose of the GTRS system is simulating the whole chain: amp, cab, effects. You wouldn't need anything else, if so you wanted. For example, these guitars are popular among Chinese live streamers who play guitar, but guitar playing isn't the main part of their stream. It simplifies the whole chain. You could say about the Variax that «Gibson already invented it years ago: it was called Varitone». Actually I remember some people said that when the Variax appeared. But the Varitone was also a different concept based on high and low pass filters (which also alter the resonance of the guitar pickup, but the goal of the Variax is way more ambitious). Every invention inspires the next, brick by brick we develop a building.
@@riangariangaEven this concept was already done by Fernandes with the Nomad and Gibson with the Firebird X. The Nomad even had the guitar amp built into the guitar.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Not the same. Guitars with integrated amps existed since the 1960s, I remember a few Vox ones. Neither Fernandes, nor Gibson were the first. Vox also had guitars with integrated effects. This GTRS goes straight to the interface, with digital amp and cabinet simulation (a proper IR, not an old-school EQ curve), effects and stuff. External DI solutions for guitar existed before (Motown might have had the oldest and most recognised one). This one integrated in the guitar itself is a first, not needing anything else to send its output either to headphones, a sound interface or a PA. It can be controlled with an app, it's a first in our beloved guitar gear world, and it's not brand new as of now: it's been around since 2021.
I want that unit without that guitar. So I can build it into a guitar of my own. This sounds like a useful thing to take to go to a jam session, a band audition or if you want to noodle at home or on the road.
B for the concept, but C - for the execution. It's not terrible, but at least today, it's still better to have a regular guitar and a small practice amp with effects included.
O'la I love what Mooer has been doing for years. Always bringing innovation to musicians and wanna be newbies at prices that aren't insulting. I don't know how they do it?
Cool testing shit Ola👍 U as a solar guitar factory head with another brand guitar in your hands, awesome cool🙏✌ ...mh I love to take a swart solar one for my diezel next time...or should I built the next axt on my own like my last one...who cares? Keep on rock'in 🤘
Wow! Sincerely I think this is amazing! Imagine you started to study and play guitar and have everything with quality in one product! Of course for the majority of people who watches Ola’s this kind off equipment doesn’t make any sense! But for the beginner this is an amazing piece of equipment!
I was trying to work out who the market for this is, and then I realised it’s 100% the Instagram guy who drives around on that mono wheel skateboard whilst shredding. Bro would love this.
Wouldn't you be better off with a normal guitar and a Spark Go or equivalent? A little gimmicky but as a first guitar I guess although quite expensive, especially the premium models.
What's crazy? The Firebird X blows this away from 10 years ago, and I don't even have to continue with the vid to say it. The pickup selector knob was itself a potentiometer, Bluetooth connection to the foot controller with digital effects AND A N A L O G amp models. The control at your fingertips was just...beyond. Who decided to put this on a non-reverse Firebird instead of an LP or SG - or V, or Explorer, ANYTHING - should be flogged. NR Firebirds are just an acquired taste, a standard Reverse would have fared better. Hard to convey how disappointed I was to see it flop. A Gibson rep demo'd it at the Santa Monica Guitar Center, and I just happened to be in the amp room at the time. In case you feel like I'm a fanboi, the rep did NOT like me bringing up Tech 21 when he mentioned analog amp modeling. Major stinkeye, which I returned with a smirk - nothing wrong with copying the greats!
In a world before smartphones, Cort came out with a guitar called the "Effector". This guitar had built-in distortion and effects that was powered by two 9-volt batteries. Of course, the sounds were terrible and the buttons to activate the effects were bad about shorting out.😆
I actually thought it sounded good enough to gig with on my end of RU-vid. Great for a pop/rock cover band or other type of working/wedding/corporate band? Maybe not Metal enough for a Metal gig? I also like the ideas of taking less gear to a gig and shouldn't an electric guitar sound like an electric guitar when you plug it in, just like a keyboard or bass guitar? Keyboardists, bassists and vocalists all plug directly into a full range or PA speaker and the sound is correct. You always need an amp/pre/processor for an electric guitar.
I didn't think it sounded bad, but I don't want another guitar, I just want my Jazzmasters! Can't find a Boss Katana Go anywhere, so in the meantime I have a VOX UK Drive amPlug3 arriving today for my headphone use.
@@corycourtney8923 you can already buy a set of drum sticks which play an invisible virtual drum kit. I suspect a virtual guitar will soon follow. It would look weird on stage!
Those were my thoughts the whole time as well haha. Literally the only benefit, is being able to plug the guitar directly into headphones on the fly, and still have your tones. In a live situation, carrying a modeling amp with you isn’t a big deal.
Guys - what happened to the Shuriken Line6 "smart" guitar? I remember Stevic (from 12 Foot Ninja) showing the whole setup and I am amazed that it didn't make a big influence, as I thought it will.
Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, people in the Eastern Bloc didn't know how things work in the West, that there are stompboxes and preamps and amps with built in distortion and so on. They just listened to shitty quality postcards copied from illegally smuggled in vinyls, and then building overdrives and fuzzes into a guitar, that then gets plugged straight into a tube radio with hifi (for the local standards) columns, trying to replicate what they could hear for as much as possible. It's funny how things made a full circle now that stuff is built into the guitar again and it's being connected line into an FRFR monitor or a computer with proper monitors or something like that, lol.
Anything that requires a mobile app to work is problematic because if the company goes out of business or even just decides to stop supporting the app then you’ve only got until you update your phone far enough that the old app is no longer supported on your device. Then the main draw of the guitar, and the resale price, goes out the window. If they had a Windows/Mac version of the app at least you could feasibly continue to use that for much longer after they stop supporting the software.
Really considering the X1.6C solar guitar. (Carbon black) Just really wish there was way I could play one before buy. Guitar looks and from your demo sounded killer. Didn’t know if there were any stores that have them on floor in the states?
@@adamcogan211haha $1300 plus tax lot of money for a father and husband of three teenage kids. Dad hobbies always last in line 😔. Last guitar I bought brand new was ibanez rg565 back in 91 haha. Still have it
Great for recording and playing at home a little bit. Now if you are going to play a song like Alone Again by Dokken, how do you make those quick switches from clean to high gain?
That's a fear I share, as both my acoustic and my bass require batteries... But at the same time, I've never had a battery die on me in the middle of playing, somehow! (Still gonna rip the circuit out of my bass when I get a passive pickup set - very soon).
