Weird shit- calling HarrySeven

rsvmark

@HarrySeven - might this be of interest?

http://guitar-auctions.co.uk/portfolio-post/lot-25-1985-ibanez-x-ing-img2010-midi-electronic-guitar-system-made-in-japan/

Bridgehouse

A mate of mine had one of those back in a very early band I was in.

I seem to recall he got it as a special import from his music-industry connected father.

He used to connect it to his Amiga through about 500 different cable converters.

It sounded bloody terrible.

Bridgehouse

Slight addition.. we ALL sounded bloody terrible.

Octafish

Bridgehouse said:

A mate of mine had one of those back in a very early band I was in.

I seem to recall he got it as a special import from his music-industry connected father.

He used to connect it to his Amiga through about 500 different cable converters.

It sounded bloody terrible.

For some reason I love the idea of plugging a guitar into an Amiga - still got mine in a the loft somewhere.

Bridgehouse

Octafish said:

Bridgehouse said:

A mate of mine had one of those back in a very early band I was in.

I seem to recall he got it as a special import from his music-industry connected father.

He used to connect it to his Amiga through about 500 different cable converters.

It sounded bloody terrible.

For some reason I love the idea of plugging a guitar into an Amiga - still got mine in a the loft somewhere.

Nostalgia suggests it should have been brilliant. 


Reality was it sounded like a digital hamster fart

Funkfingers

The controller guitar doesn't make much sound without the matching rack mount converter module and a synthesizer.

At least it's in a colour that H7 does not have. I'll wager that he'll rail against the buyer's premium fees.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

The controller guitar doesn't make much sound without the matching rack mount converter module and a synthesizer.

At least it's in a colour that H7 does not have. I'll wager that he'll rail against the buyer's premium fees.

Ah yes I remember the "rack mount controller".

To be fair, the Amiga wasn't much of a synthesiser as far as I recall. Then again, we were like 15 at the time and the bodged together cabling rig was, well, somewhat special.

Funkfingers

Bridgehouse said:
cabling

Thirty five years on, the all-important 24-pin umbilical cable is probably more valuable than either the Ibanez controller guitar or the rack unit.

I tend to think of the Ibanez X-ING system as a halfway house between the Roland G-707 guitar and GM-70 Converter. Somebody must have imagined that putting a guitar maker's name on the headstock would attract more buyers than the name of a synthesizer maker. D'oh!

mbe

I never took Harry7 for a weird shit-caller. I thought was a really nice stand-up kind of guy.

Funkfingers

mbe said:

Harry7 ...weird shit collector.

FTFY.

Check his forum signature. "HarrySeven - searching for sh*t guitars so you don't have to." 

mbe said:

I thought was a really nice stand-up kind of guy.

A comedian? Could be. <Jewish shrug emoticon>

HarrySeven

Cheers @rsvmark - I do already have one (and as @Funkfingers says not in that colour), but my all-abiding dislike of GH and their exorbitant fees* means I may well avoid bidding.

NB. Trivia fact - the whammy on these is not connected to the strings in any way - it's MIDI data only...


*Plus their evident lack of knowledge re. the items they broker.