Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Guitar upgrades?

Well it is no real secret that I am in fact a geek, but some times I hate myself for it. I like to know how things work and have no real problem taking stuff apart to get it to do what I want. Some times it goes well and other times it has been an expensive mistake! This weekend I visited a music shop to buy some geeky music stuff and in the process found out that my guitar has software in it. If I had taken the time to think it through I would have realised, But as it is an acustic guitar all be it a fairly hi-tech one I have never really thought about the software and just played it. After returning from the music shop with a special cable, I plugged the guitar into my PC and “Flashed it” (upgraded its software). The upside is I can now change some of the settings (graphic equalizer, compression and mike position from the PC) the down side is I have just upgraded software on an acoustic guitar. Now I can’t stop my self thinking of the guitar of more of a computer than a musical instrument not a place I really wanted to be… never mind it still sounds good plugged into an amp and that’s all the really matters. Or is it?

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