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Brian Moore's iGuitar

The iGuitar features: Comfort contoured body, Unique scuplted headstock, Bolt-on Neck construction, Kalantas Mahogany body and highly figured maple top, 22 fret, Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, 25.5" scale 15" radius, SeymourDuncan Magnetic pickups, Chrome Hardware, Sperzel Tuners, Innovative output jack location, RMC piezo (via stereo 'Y' cable) for warm, authentic...

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Great addition to the studio!

Sound	I'd purchased my iGuitar (an 8.13 model) at a local dealership about four years ago. They'd had it set up in their showroom connected to a Roland GR-33, on which I was able to demo the guitar's unique MIDI capabilities. What did I say? "MIDI"? Yes, built into the guitar is a special pickup integrated into the bridge which gives it the same capability as the Roland GK-2A MIDI pickup. Any sound from any string is detected individually, both in attack and intensity, and translated into digital data that can be sent to whatever device you have which has a 13pin RMC input. In my case, I ended up purchasing a Roland GR-33 online as well. Just attaching it to a Roland GR-33 floorboard can giveyou a ton of sound capability, as there are various sound samples and models that can all be triggered right from your fretboard. However, there's a MIDI output from that floorboard that lets you directly drive other MIDI instruments in real time, or pipe MIDI data directly into your DAW. This means that just like a MIDI keyboard, you can use your iGuitar as an input device to your MIDI sequencing system. Plus, the MIDI pickup tracks very nicely; it seems really responsive and accurate. Routinely I use it for recording bass lines that I'll end up sending to one of my studio sound modules to play back any bass sound I want, which I can change on a whim. Are you starting to see the flexibility here? The integrated MIDI pickup doubles as a piezo guitar pickup as well. The guitar is supplied with a stereo Y-cable which has the output from your magnetic pickups split off to one cable end, and the output from the bridge piezo pickup split to the other cable end. I've created a layered guitar sound using this method, where I was using the regular guitar magnetic pickup output going into my GT-10, and the piezo output going into either my Digitech GNX3 or Boss ME-10 on a patch that is appropriate for enhancing acoustic guitar sounds. It can sound like you're playing two types of guitars at the same time, like an electric plus an acoustic/electric. Combined with a nice synth-pad on my Roland GR-33 that has a very slow attack, I can strum a chord which sounds electric & acoustic at the same time plus have a string chorus build in the background simultaneously. Talk about a one man band! ;-) Well, it doesn't stop there. The 13-pin connector also has your regular magnetic pickup sound split out onto that cable as well which is getting sent to your Roland GR-33 (or equivalent). And the Roland GR-33 has a send jack for routing that regular guitar sound to yet another amp or guitar effects unit. This means you get all of these simultaneously: * Magnetic pickup signal -- routed through the guitar's Y-cable to your amp or effects unit * Piezo pickup signal -- routed through the guitar's Y-cable to another amp or effects unit, for more "acoustic" like sounds. * Magnetic pickup signal -- routed through the 13-pin connector, through your Roland GR-33 (or equiv) to yet another amp or effects unit * Digital MIDI signal -- routed through the 13-pin connector to your Roland GR-33 (or equiv) for synthezied sounds from that unit, plus a MIDI output to drive another MIDI instrument or to go direct into a MIDI sequencer/DAW The controls on the guitar are pretty straight forward: You have volume and tone for your regular magnetic pickups along with a standard 3-way switch for those, and then a volume control for the piezo bridge pickup. Then, you have your synth (or MIDI) volume control used to control the sounds being generated by your digital MIDI output. There's a second 3-way switch used for controlling how sound is mixed on the 13pin connector: synth only, synth mixed with magnetic, or magnetic only. And then there's an up/down switch to let you change MIDI patches on your sound device. I should mention that I do really like the sound from the Seymour Duncan humbucking pickups. The volume & tone controls pull up to engage single-coil taps for each pickup, offering a ton of tonal possibilities. For a guitarist that spends a lot of time in the studio recording, this guitar is an incredible addition to your arsenal. Plus, its just fun to play with a guitar/synth that can expand your sound capabilities even for live situations.
Action, Fit, & Finish	I had to take my guitar back to the dealer from where I'd purchased it to have the intonation adjusted. Other than that it was set-up very nicely.
Reliability & Durability	It has performed very well so far and seems quite reliable. About the only issue so far has been the need to tighten the nut on one of the 3-way switches as it had come loose.

Liked about it	Extremely flexible routing of sound from this guitar, with two feeds of your magnetic signal, one of the piezo, and one of the MIDI/synth. * Good craftsmanship, well made. * The guitar is also comfortable & light.
Didn't like	I wish a Floyd Rose tremolo had been available at the time I bought my iGuitar.