Wrinkle #247864 in the Gibson saga

reverend1 said:
So you don’t need to activate them in some way? They just tune whenever?

Please say this isn’t true.
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From what I can tell it just keeps you in tune...all the time. Or at least that's the idea. There's got to be a way to turn it off though. You would occasionally get weird pitch shifting and in a big bend it would probably freak out and explode. I don't know enough about them and have no first hand knowledge but every demo I've seen or heard about has led me to believe they are always on.
 
MonkeyZero said:
From what I can tell it just keeps you in tune...all the time. Or at least that's the idea. There's got to be a way to turn it off though. You would occasionally get weird pitch shifting and in a big bend it would probably freak out and explode. I don't know enough about them and have no first hand knowledge but every demo I've seen or heard about has led me to believe they are always on.
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Wow, that seems like a terrible idea.
 
MonkeyZero said:
From what I can tell it just keeps you in tune...all the time. Or at least that's the idea. There's got to be a way to turn it off though. You would occasionally get weird pitch shifting and in a big bend it would probably freak out and explode. I don't know enough about them and have no first hand knowledge but every demo I've seen or heard about has led me to believe they are always on.
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Think the later versions of those tuner thingies can be turned off when you don't want them to self-tune. Otherwise, playing would be a bit...awkward.
 
Just one more clang of the bell that tolls for Gibson and GC.

I read an article last week about GC miraculously securing a short term financing deal to keep them out of default, but that it was unlikely to do more than delay the inevitable for a few months. The article also mentioned Gibson's deep financial hole and pending BK while stating that both companies were so interwined that they are effectively killing each other/committing joint suicide.

The times they are a changin'
 
I think this is the article about Guitar Center on the edge of bankruptcy. Apparently Guitar Center is still in the hole for a billion dollars and just limping along from one renegotiation to the next, with a steadily worsening outlook.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/04/17/guitar-center-bankruptcy/

Here’s one with more details about exactly what is going on at Guitar Center, written for people who know more about finance than I do. Although I know enough to know that a company isn’t offering bonds at 13% if they expect to actually pay them off.
https://globenewswire.com/news-rele...fer-to-Exchange-and-Consent-Solicitation.html
 
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