Thanks to Gibson ’s Powertune system , now even tin - eared guitarists can labour a button , strum the guitar a few times , and then it ’s as if a ghost has take over the machine , turning the tuning peg until the guitar is accurately tuned . It tunes each string to within .02 cent , which is pretty damn close to perfection . It can tune to the default A440 , or it can tune the strings to pitches that are relative to a note of your choice . you may also store a variety of tunings and quickly call them up . Hey , this could really be useful .
It figure out by using piezoelectric pickups rather than the common charismatic pickup used on most electric guitars , and these pickup are able to isolate the strait of each individual string . Underneath the pickups is a processor that senses the pitch being played , and sends a signal to the tuning peg at the top of the guitar ’s neck opening to change the pitch until it ’s all tune up up .
Even though this machine may be perfectly accurate , turn a guitar can be a subtle art , where you’re able to slimly change some of the notes to check the key in which you ’re play . However , for instrumentalist who care to play various songs with the guitar tuned in completely different slipway for each birdsong , this technology could be extremely useful . In fact , the $ 899 it impart to the price of the guitar might seem like a bargain compared with buy two more guitars , each tuned in a completely unlike way . [ Technology Review ]
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