07.19.11
What’s worse than iKit music app rubbish?
This.
While various tech nerds think it’s cool, it’s virtually unlistenable. You have to endure a little more than you’ll want to get to the robot guitar part.
You’ll hear it’s patently awful but a good pick for a robotic contraption being as it does away with 98 percent of the expression present in typical electric guitar performance. It’s the guitar line for Marilyn Manson’s “The Beautiful People,” a machine-like and very stiff riff that doesn’t require the device to do anything real guitarists more frequently do — like bend notes, use finger vibrato, work the volume or tone knobs, etc.
As something meant to sound mechanized one supposes it could be called good. But that ain’t saying much.
Chuck said,
July 20, 2011 at 8:00 am
Sure George, but then you don’t have LEDs on your fingers either…
George Smith said,
July 20, 2011 at 8:06 am
I know. That depressed me for awhile, too. Maybe I could use glow in the dark paint on my fingernails. But it still wouldn’t be quite the same.