Gizmotron 2.0

[cuthbert]

New, redesigned, and coming in 2015. Yes, I want one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUaWlrbGjFA

And there will be one for bass, too:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKx5s2rDQ9c

I don't know how I never heard of these before? Apparently, it was invented by Godley & Creme of 10cc, and was later manufactured and sold near the end of the Seventies in the UK. It's similar to an e-bow in sound, but it's polyphonic and uses brushes/multiple motorized picks instead of oscillating magnetic field used in the e-bow.

Here's a vintage news piece featuring the inventors and product team, with more demonstrations:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyT6o3aT1a8

I will not resist the GAS when this new & improved model goes on sale...  

[64Guitars]

Awesome!  I'd heard of the original Gizmo but I didn't know about the Gizmotron 2.0. I wonder what the price will be?

Here's the official website:  http://www.gizmotron.com/

[cuthbert]

I signed up at the site for notification and also asked about pricing and mounting (I may need to pick up a beater electric guitar if mounting a Gizmotron is destructive).

Here's another video - this one's a promotional flexidisc demonstrating the original model from the 1970s:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkzzBoDnWfM

Sounds like Jimmy Page may have used one of these for the beginning of In The Evening:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6MIuXrFf8

[Blooby]

Very cool. Kind of like a Fernandez sustainer or the poor man's Moog guitar. The Pete Townshend Les Paul caught my eye as well. I clicked on the link expecting a marital aide. By the looks of it, I may have been right.

Blooby

[bruno]

Yeah - this is very cool.
But I really must stop buying stuff. But it is cool!!!!

[Bluesberry]

dear lord this is cool

[Geir]

Oh my, now i not only want an ebow ........

And a Fernandez sustainer.........

I really really need a Gizmotron 2.0 too

[Blooby]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3SsYQrgcyA

[Oldrottenhead]

i was a big fan of godley and creme. if i recall correctly they used it for their album "L". which was fabulous.

a lot of info on the gizmo's history here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gizmo

[alfstone]

Mmmmh....sincerely, I think that a Fishman TriplePlay or a Roland GP-10 (13 cable connected), using the "right" Kontakt or Omnisphere libraries, can obtain same (or even better) results...

my 0,0000002 dracmas

Alfredo