MUMBAI: Gibson Guitars offered a rare opportunity for guitar enthusiasts as renowned guitarist Randolph Correia demonstrated Gibson’s latest the Gibson Dusk Tiger in Mumbai on 9 December 2009.
Among the musicians, Karsh Kale and Ankur Tewari tried their hands at this wonder guitar which is believed to be one of most astounding innovation in the history of the guitar.
Called the third generation of Gibson Robot Technologies, this guitar was introduced on 7 December in around 200 retail sites worldwide – it is leant that only 1000 units will be produced and that the guitar will be made available in 200 store sites – 100 in the USA and 100 in international markets. However, each store will only receive 5 units. No more will be manufactured or sold. As far as the price goes, the guitar is priced at US $ 4128.
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 Dark Fire’s ambitious level of innovation, however, caused enormous problems in manufacturing and some issues making it to the field Gibson stopped producing the Dark Fire after approximately 100 reached consumers and initiated a complete redesign. Virtually all of these instruments are sold, and Gibson does not intend to produce this model again.
At its heart, the Dusk Tiger succeeds Gibson’s innovative Dark Fire guitar: a Les Paul-shaped model which refined the company’s Robot Guitar self-tuning system and introduced a new tone modelling system plus a FireWire connection which splits the output from the axe’s individual strings into six separate channels. The Dusk Tiger appears to retain and improve on these features and also lower the list price by a few hundred dollars (presumably a result of sorting the manufacturing problems which so plagued the Dark Fire’s production). Like the Dark Fire, though, it’s a limited-run model.