Digital Les Paul

[loretian]

Does anyone know much about these new digital Les Pauls?

I was under the impression that it just transferred the signal digitally, and that was about it.  After reading this fox news article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118752,00.html, I found out it does a lot more.

It also allows the player to control the sound of each string. For example, the guitarist can have a heavy metal crunch on the low strings, medium distortion on the middle strings and a clean sound on the high strings.

That sounds really cool, I'd like to hear what that sounds like.  The guitars aren't cheap.  Has anyone here been lucky enough to try one out?

[Miz]

I saw this ages ago.  It looks pretty cool, but it won't catch on because of the price tag.  Yamaha do a similar thing, where each string can be sent to a different place.  EVH talked about it in the late 90's and I think Martin Taylor sends his bottom strings to one side and his top strings to the other side so it sounds like two people.

If the price came down and it was publicised more it could catch on.  Unfortunatly Gibson have failed to notice that the Les Paul is a 50 year old design and doesn't neccessarily suit the forefront of technological advances.  I mean you still can't use the top 5 frets without a stretch and there aren't even 24 of them. (Sorry..i get a little bitchy)

Downside is, uneducated vintage guitar diehards will probably turn their noses up at the word "digital".

Ah well...i'd like one anyway...