With a history of announcing technically advanced guitars at CES and not actually making them available, Gibson has a lot to prove this year. The new Dark Fire digital model was available for not only a hands-on test at the show, but should start shipping to dealers within a few weeks. The guitar uses a separate box for connecting the guitar to your PC using a standard FireWire cable. This gives you the ability to record easily using included sequencing software, but is – even more importantly – the method that you can use to create some fantastic tones out of the guitar. In a hands-on test, we found that the Dark Fire produces some crazy industrial-metal sounds, cool reverb effects, and a plethora of distortion settings – which you can adjust on the guitar itself using an LED-lighted knob. You can The Dark Fire uses the same robot tuner knobs that automatically adjust strings for you, and the improved battery for this feature now lasts for 500 tunings – or enough for at least one punk rock show. We also loved the fire-red design, sturdy construction, and subtle inlays on the guitar. Now, it’s back to the HDTV walls for us.
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MySpace Resurrects Comic Book Staple
The online social-networking site MySpace, already a purveyor of videos, music, and even jobs, announced Friday that comics will be the next site’s next offering. At the annual Comic Con in San Diego, MySpace revealed that Dark Horse Comics would revive its Dark Horse Presents anthology as an online feature for the site.
Originally, Dark Horse Presents ran as a hard copy comic book published between 1986 and 2000. In the comic world, it’s notable for bringing both Frank Miller’s Sin City and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete to popularity. The anthology mainly served as a medium for new comic authors to get their work read by larger audiences.
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