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PRESS RELEASE
Gibson's new
Powertune System rewrites the laws and frees
guitarists from the drudgery of tuning. To play in
tune, tell your guitar to tune up for you.
The Powertune System,
available as original equipment only on Gibson
guitars, is a fully functional, performance-ready,
and non-obtrusive automated tuning system. It is
operated solely from the guitar, with no external
connections or interface from a third-party device,
and no need to move your busy fingers from the
guitar strings and controls they are already
manipulating in the course of your performance.
Simply activate your guitar's Master-Control Knob (MCK),
strum the strings lightly, and within seconds the
Powertune's digital brain and Powerhead tuners work
together to put you perfectly in tune. Or to achieve
any open or alternate tuning, rotate the MCK to the
desired preset, strum, and you're ready to play in
Open E, Dropped D, Double Dropped D, DADGAD, Open G,
Hendrix Tuning (half-step down), or any of your own
custom tunings.
In addition to the
Powertune System's many capabilities, it is
installed on a genuine Gibson guitar that isn't
otherwise modified or compromised in any way. The
guitar looks, plays, feels, and sounds exactly like
a Gibson USA Les Paul, with all the genuine analog
tone, resonance, and touch sensitivity of the
world's greatest set-neck electric guitar. It
doesn't even weigh discernibly more than a non-Powertune
Les Paul model. Physically, the Powertune System is
virtually invisible.
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From the
audience's perspective there is nothing but
the subtle MCK to distinguish your
instrument from any legendary Gibson
electric, and when pushed down the MCK
functions as a standard Tone control.
(Perhaps even more important, tonally the
Powertune System is entirely, actually,
invisible—it tunes you up, but doesn't
change your tone).
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