I've played a few musicmans over the years and all were outstanding. Not really sure why I don't own one :roll
But back to the original post ...
Game changer looks a great idea. Is anyone using one especially the midi changing of the pickups along with an Axe FX preset change seems a great idea. Especially the version with piezo would give a lot of flexibility. Is this technology going to appear on other models, it just seems to be the reflex model at the moment.
Any thoughts welcome ?
I've been looking at this with interest as well. The plusses and minusses I see are:
- This is such an obvious thing to do, all guitars should come like this
- Customise your favouriute tones and put them where you want them
- The guitar is also a great guitar
- It comes in black .... or black
- Vague documentation on how Z bank works in practice (does it reset if you use the selector switch? How do you know where you are in a live situation? etc)
- The biggest downside for me: It uses a computer interface, dependant upon current hardware (USB), firmware and software (browser editor interface), all of which will eventually be unsupported leaving you with still a good guitar ... until something eventually goes wrong. Guitars are regarded by many as lifetime purchases that improve with age. Computerised guitars need to be thought of as disposable.
btw, there are some quite hilarious misunderstandings around on how this guitar works. I especially liked the explanation of how the connection matrix shows that some connections only have certain strings working!
