Nobody's talked about Fender's personality cards yet?

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I could imagine that in the future, you can program your own card. I like the idea of the player defining what the tone knobs do, what they affect, and how the 5 way switch is wired. While it is a little clumsy now, I can imagine in a few years, when more cards are available (and a 'blank' card) that it would be a pretty cool system. Add 3rd party cards, and a system that could fit under the trem cover, and it would be a blast. A great way to see how different wiring schemes sound. You could always hardwire your guitar later. I am not afraid of technology- and I don't think guitar wiring is knowledge that should be guarded with myths and voodoo. People who buy this thing are not going to force you to rip the wiring out of your Strat.
 
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DrNewcenstein said:
I don't see these coming with a handful of cards. You buy the guitar and pick the one card you want, then buy the others for $30-$50 each, depending on the dealer and complexity of the card.
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The video says it comes with a folder of cards.
 
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Wow, I for one see this as a great idea!!!

Remember, not all players are tweakers so this is a good thing for a lot of guys out there!

That said they pulled a play from the Duncan play book...personality card is as bad a name as jazz or distortion for pickups!!!

Why not just call them mod cards?!


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Mincer said:
I could imagine that in the future, you can program your own card. I like the idea of the player defining what the tone knobs do, what they affect, and how the 5 way switch is wired. While it is a little clumsy now, I can imagine in a few years, when more cards are available (and a 'blank' card) that it would be a pretty cool system. Add 3rd party cards, and a system that could fit under the trem cover, and it would be a blast. A great way to see how different wiring schemes sound. You could always hardwire your guitar later. I am not afraid of technology- and I don't think guitar wiring is knowledge that should be guarded with myths and voodoo. People who buy this thing are not going to force you to rip the wiring out of your Strat.
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The cards appear to just make electrical connections, there is no programming that can be done on them. The closest you get there are the dip switches, but again, those are just mechanical connections. The proprietary nature of this architecture means that Fender would have to license it to third party manufacturers, something I don't see them doing.
 
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Right, which means someone will reverse engineer it, or take the concept further into something that the end user can customize. Fender might not let other people make those exact cards, but someone will come up with a more elegant and user install-able system for existing guitars.
 
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I gotta check that out! That's a thing of beauty!
 
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I'm an older guy...and I think it's pretty cool. I have nothing against new technology. Hell, I had a Robot guitar, and I wouldn't hesitate to get one of the newer Etune (or whatever they are called) guitars. And YES, I can tune my own guitar. Get a Robot and that's all you hear all day. And to those that used to love to throw that line at me....they all used tuners! I gigged in the 70's when there were no tuners.
 
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If it sounds good, actually works and holds up over time there is no logical reason to hate on this idea at all. Time will tell.
 
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I like that they've built the guitars with slots large enough to accommodate a 9v battery: future cards could include active things like the Clapton Strat setup and stuff like that, I'd imagine.
 
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PFDarkside said:
The video says it comes with a folder of cards.
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And yet dealers will say "no, they come to the DEALER with a folder of cards, which we have the option to include (if we're selling at full MSRP) or sell separately (if we're penny-ante bastards that wouldn't even include the gig bags you were supposed to get when you bought your USA Charvel SoCal from us a couple of years ago because we had that option muahahahaha)"

As for user-made mods, that will be the next step: completely programmable and using off-the-shelf mini-USB or micro-SD camera/phone cards. While that will require a battery-powered system, it will be small enough to run off a couple of watch batteries, or maybe a cellphone battery. No more proprietary system of overpriced cards, and with patches you can download from the web if you don't want to do it yourself.
Add into the mix active pickups that have tone-shaping EQ built into the onboard preamp, and you can have a set of humbuckers that get realistic single, P90, lipstick, PAF, Filtertron, rail, bar, hot, medium, low, A2-A8, mis-matched coil, series, split, parallel, tapped, RWRP, OOP, 1M, 500K, 3xxK, 250K, 0.22, 0.47, bumblebee, germanium, or ceramic caps, linear or audio taper pots, Varitone switching, and Sustainer options out of a guitar that looks and feels like it fell out of a 1957 wormhole.
 
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I think he does a great job of summing up everything about the guitar. I hope the release a HSS set of pups. I hate a rosewood fretboard and for the HSS strat plus it only comes with rosewood.
 
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Awesome.... :eyecrazy:

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