This review is from: Gibson Robot Les Paul Jr. Special Electric Guitarreally cool system. amazing how it works...renews your faith in american ingenuity. Tunes the guitar and learns as it goes, always in tune, lifetime warranty, and Gibson Les Paul....
This review is from: Gibson Robot Les Paul Jr. Special Electric GuitarOverall I love the guitar, however, I find that the robotic tuning does not always tune all the strings. In my case the A & G string often need to be fine tuned after using the robotic tuners....
This review is from: Gibson Robot Les Paul Jr. Special Electric GuitarA nice guitar, for the most part fully operational on delivery, that really would have benefitted from some quality control before it was shipped. Name brand electric guitars are pricey, as a rule, and the fact that this Gibson is equipped with a Tronical tuning system adds, considerably, to the price of the instrument.The tuning system works beautifully, and the guitar plays well enough, in general. But Gibson clearly decided against 'last minute' touches, namely, the frets, and 'feel' of the fretboard & neck. Sliding ones hand up and down the neck the first thing you notice is rough edges, where the fretwire is protruding slightly from each side of the fretboard. More often than not, the frets are "dressed" (in the vernacular) before the neck is varnished or lacquered. So, whether they have the time/facility, or desire, to 'fix' something that should have been addressed earlier in the build process is not for me know. The "action" is uneven. The two highest strings are noticeably quieter than the other four, although this is only readily apparent when the bridge pickup is operational. (It also influences the 'balance' between the two pickups when the "middle" position of the pickup selector is used). Shabby stuff, Gibson.But the clincher for the "three-star" review is the potentiometer (the volume "pot") governing the volume of the bridge pickup. At full, or close to full, power (meaning, in reality, that no dampening is being put on the pickup which is, in reality, either full "on" or off), the sound almost completely cuts out, leaving a 'trace' of what sounds like seriously shorted, garbled noise in its place. Switching immediately to the neck position pickup shows normal full gain. As well, backing the volume pot off a bit will allow the volume and clarity to resume at perhaps 10 dB under the normalized full power. This is simply unacceptable.I'll memo back an update when I finally get the bill for fixing/replacing the potentiometer (and/or the harness). Perhaps it's covered under warranty, but chances are it isn't, or, in an even worse case/idea scenario, Gibson (through the shipper, Amazon) will suggest warranty work at a local Guitar Center. And that, of course, is totally out of the question, for numerous reasons.I'll cop to this: I probably should have had my head examined for even thinking of buying a guitar via mail order. In my lifetime I've had somewhere between 20 and 30 electrics, but this is my only guitar for now. Oh well, c'est la vie, I suppose....
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