Back to the Future: Circle Guitar feels like it's the guitar of NAMM 2055

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  • @rosvolinna5995
    @rosvolinna5995 2 години тому +9

    If you can make it. It doesn't necessarily mean that we need it.

  • @brizzieleif5258
    @brizzieleif5258 14 годин тому +38

    So its every song by The Who

  • @euan724
    @euan724 4 години тому +12

    If this is the future of music ... you can keep it.

    • @user-im8gv6eh2y
      @user-im8gv6eh2y 54 хвилини тому

      this isn’t meant to replace normal guitars. it’s just one more tool in the arsenal of musicians’ creativity.

  • @RyshusMojo1
    @RyshusMojo1 5 годин тому +10

    All this machinery
    Making modern music
    Can still be open-hearted
    Not so coldly charted
    It’s really just a question
    Of your honesty

    • @adolfocarmona2300
      @adolfocarmona2300 Годину тому

      Esto es un juguete para gente que no es musico . Tienes algo de sonidos mientras te rascas la barriga .

    • @augmented2nd666
      @augmented2nd666 13 хвилин тому +1

      Alphagetti lee

  • @calwells5612
    @calwells5612 21 годину тому +54

    The engineering behind this is nuts. Really outside the box kind of stuff. I can't imagine he'll sell more than a handful, and even then to some more wealthy folk who might want it for a novelty item, but best of luck to him.

    • @AaronFrederick843
      @AaronFrederick843 15 годин тому +2

      I'd really like to see the gearing/motor behind the pick wheel. When it was doing that start/stop routine halfway through the motion looks really accurate and smooth. This definitely has limitations, but I wonder how many of those could be overcome with footswitches and pre-programmed controls. At that point though, I wonder how much this becomes "Guitar DJing".

    • @guitarcomet5
      @guitarcomet5 13 годин тому +2

      You’ve said what I think. Exactly.
      It’s nothing more than a novelty. Might be used on one song that exhibits all its features and wonders, but nothing a learned player would want. Buckethead might like it.😊

    • @Charles-Darwin
      @Charles-Darwin 12 годин тому

      I could see it be used in rap music, like a with a new approach

    • @wolfgangdevries127
      @wolfgangdevries127 11 годин тому

      Looks like a MLP design. Somewhat unfinished, though

    • @RyshusMojo1
      @RyshusMojo1 5 годин тому

      @@wolfgangdevries127 More like a DARPA project lol

  • @JpeterZoom-gt3pn
    @JpeterZoom-gt3pn 16 годин тому +24

    This is a one handed guitarist dream!!!

  • @passdasalt
    @passdasalt 15 годин тому +31

    Perfect for when you can't find your pick.

  • @Soundtrack-Audio
    @Soundtrack-Audio 10 годин тому +14

    For years, as a keyboard player, I've been searching for a computer program that really sounds like a live guitarist ... and then along comes a guitar that makes a live guitarist sound like a computer program ... oh the irony! ... wish them well with it though, this is true innovation at work ... if this is the first of it's kind, just imagine where it will go with the proper investment.

  • @jimmyhawke
    @jimmyhawke 10 годин тому +11

    This is great for anybody that wants to sound like they actually play guitar.

    • @Mark70609
      @Mark70609 5 годин тому

      I thought it was somewhat mechanical

  • @isaacness2647
    @isaacness2647 14 годин тому +24

    Finally anyone can play like robert fripp

    • @Mark70609
      @Mark70609 5 годин тому +1

      I think Fripp is more musical than that.

    • @RyshusMojo1
      @RyshusMojo1 5 годин тому +2

      Still can't get a girl like him though...

  • @michaelsmith8453
    @michaelsmith8453 2 години тому +3

    When making music on your computer isn't cold and impersonal enough

  • @winstonschwarz1636
    @winstonschwarz1636 5 годин тому +4

    Prince would've loved that and probably based a whole album round it.

  • @davidt9513
    @davidt9513 4 години тому +4

    Sounded way better than I thought it would.

  • @monumento.f.501
    @monumento.f.501 День тому +15

    A raving guitar for deep trance.

  • @Koffieleuter
    @Koffieleuter 3 години тому +2

    1931: Rickenbacker Frying Pan.
    2025: Circle Washing Machine.

  • @レプタリエン
    @レプタリエン 15 годин тому +13

    Pretty wild. I love the inventiveness. Sad day when the moving components fail and it needs a pricey fix though.

    • @tom.m
      @tom.m 3 години тому +1

      True, but if built properly it should be able to last for many decades.
      If.

  • @poopoo-qz7sw
    @poopoo-qz7sw 6 годин тому +3

    Does it chug ?

  • @PorchBass
    @PorchBass 21 годину тому +10

    electromechanical charm with a human at the helm. Sounds timeless and futuristic at once.

  • @RobinBassett
    @RobinBassett 20 годин тому +12

    Steve Vai needs on of these on the Hydra!

    • @valentyndobrotivy9799
      @valentyndobrotivy9799 5 годин тому +3

      Hydra Is complete with this and no Linger needs Steve Vai 😂😂😂

    • @RobinBassett
      @RobinBassett 4 години тому

      @valentyndobrotivy9799 😀

  • @DMSProduktions
    @DMSProduktions 10 годин тому +7

    FirebirdX:Was I a JOKE to you?

  • @jokermtb
    @jokermtb 5 годин тому +4

    Nightmares are dreams too

  • @ericgabriel485
    @ericgabriel485 13 годин тому +6

    Can I dig it? Yes, I can. No whammy, though? Would be like a pitch wheel…. MarkII, for sure. 👊🏻

  • @kaindog1007
    @kaindog1007 12 годин тому +8

    Sounds like a banjo on speed.

  • @mattjadencarroll
    @mattjadencarroll 19 годин тому +10

    If he can bring down the price of this, it'll be huge. Plenty of conservative-minded types will criticise it, but they'll criticise anything new.

    • @mablesfatalfable6021
      @mablesfatalfable6021 15 годин тому +4

      Constructive criticism is more valuable to designers than loaded nonsense comments like yours.

    • @penguindrum264
      @penguindrum264 13 годин тому +3

      @@mablesfatalfable6021 Insults aren't constructive criticism.

    • @AgentEarth-r1h
      @AgentEarth-r1h 3 години тому +2

      I think like most MIDI controller guitars, this item is only for a very select number of MIDI geniuses out there, like the inventor himself. When he is talking here in the the video about how he programmed the sequences being played, it's obvious that most people are never going to begin the path of learning to make use of a device like this.

    • @michaelsmith8453
      @michaelsmith8453 2 години тому +2

      Or anything that sounds this bad.

    • @DetroitMicroSound
      @DetroitMicroSound Годину тому

      ​@@AgentEarth-r1hYea, a huge number of guitarists, who can really only play guitar, and maybe mess with a few basic effect pedals.

  • @andyracksthecams
    @andyracksthecams 3 години тому +2

    The coolest guitar I have ever seen.

  • @UmasPapa
    @UmasPapa 12 годин тому +7

    Johnny Greenwood needs one! He would do amazing stuff with this

    • @pyroguitars1296
      @pyroguitars1296 10 годин тому +4

      Totally. Sometimes, for The Smile, it sounds like he's already made his own.

    • @UmasPapa
      @UmasPapa 4 години тому

      @pyroguitars1296 yeah I was thinking the same thing

  • @kafkaspen
    @kafkaspen 22 години тому +15

    King Crimson would have loved this

  • @Stechamppn
    @Stechamppn 8 годин тому +7

    Kinda be fun for a while...then I'd get bored.... clever tho

    • @Mark70609
      @Mark70609 5 годин тому +1

      It needs a lot of imagination.

  • @boergeling93
    @boergeling93 23 години тому +5

    Somehow the part at 4:20 reminded me of Muse with a less distorted tone. Matt Bellamy is no stranger to new coming up tech or gear and I bet he could whip up something unique with this.
    Edit: Of course later in the video Matt Bellamy gets name dropped and is actually involved with this. I wrote that comment before watching it to the end, but only fitting that he's in on that.

  • @kpopalypseoppar
    @kpopalypseoppar 9 годин тому +4

    And here I was complaining about Strat switches being too complex

  • @GretschenMunch
    @GretschenMunch 14 годин тому +9

    I can appreciate the engineering and inventiveness that has gone into this, but I can't see it appealing to guitarists to be honest.

    • @turdrhinofiend
      @turdrhinofiend 10 годин тому

      it looks great as a songwriting tool, if it was 5000 I'd get it right now.

    • @jjcale2288
      @jjcale2288 4 години тому +1

      Nevertheless it will be praised by a hurdy-gurdy player😉

  • @sazma
    @sazma 5 годин тому +1

    No one: Skiffle is too difficult!
    This dude: I got you fam!

  • @epilpstd1
    @epilpstd1 3 години тому +3

    Amazing engineering.

  • @vintagepipesnightmares
    @vintagepipesnightmares 13 годин тому +5

    Where do we go for its oil change and maintenance ? NASA ?😂

  • @donbratton
    @donbratton 3 години тому +1

    Have you approached any top talent and request they spend a private weekend alone with your guitar? The goal would be to return and make a critique video?

  • @ikestoddard2458
    @ikestoddard2458 22 години тому +3

    What is he doing with his hand on the bridge??? I get the six presets. What do all three of the smaller knobs do? Besides wheel speed? Is that a master volume way out on the upper treble bout?

    • @AgentEarth-r1h
      @AgentEarth-r1h 3 години тому +1

      I think hes muting some strings.

  • @KeithMilner
    @KeithMilner 10 годин тому +3

    Or get a power drill like Paul Gilbert.

  • @fredfloyd68
    @fredfloyd68 10 годин тому +3

    Yeah regular guitar is dead...This will break out a new set of players...looks like a danelectro...which i really like.
    Very cool.

    • @Mark70609
      @Mark70609 5 годин тому

      I don’t think it will take off. I think simplicity is the guitars strength.

  • @HumanVsRobot
    @HumanVsRobot 15 годин тому +3

    This thing is wild

  • @pepesixstrings2243
    @pepesixstrings2243 3 години тому +1

    Just one question, when will you play the guitar?

  • @TheM00ndawg
    @TheM00ndawg 19 годин тому +2

    could be a neat thing for people with limited use of one hand? quite the price tag though, understandably.

  • @pAkdAHollywoodrecords
    @pAkdAHollywoodrecords 3 години тому +1

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  • @charlesflint9048
    @charlesflint9048 5 годин тому +1

    The Boss GM-800/GK5 does this sort of stuff already.

  • @clarkeblacker
    @clarkeblacker 5 годин тому +1

    Future? This is the next Guitorgan. We all remember what an important development that was for guitar technology.

  • @wiederkehrofficial
    @wiederkehrofficial Годину тому

    This is great for everybody with just one arm left. Would definitely buy it.

  • @mariobajardi
    @mariobajardi День тому +3

    Strategic composer--- i like

  • @rodrigomoraes2305
    @rodrigomoraes2305 35 хвилин тому

    Incredible, I'm very impressed.
    But cannot stop thinking that this thing spinning fast could lead to some type of accident

  • @michaelclancy4957
    @michaelclancy4957 21 годину тому +3

    Jonny Greenwood getting excited rn

  • @llllllllllllIlIllllIIlllllllll
    @llllllllllllIlIllllIIlllllllll 2 години тому

    I was about to mock it, then I saw what it could really do. This is insanely complex machine, just amazing

  • @search895
    @search895 9 годин тому +1

    Oh this is a commercial refined version of the 3d printed hundred picks a youtuber made.

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 7 годин тому

      Yeah, Swedish Mattias Krantz. Really wonder if any of them influenced the other

  • @derelictconfusion9498
    @derelictconfusion9498 5 годин тому +2

    Looks like this would be in a toys r us store,if they were still around,not sure Id bother with it but Im sure someone would love it!

  • @dorrianstone7264
    @dorrianstone7264 2 години тому +2

    um, did he say it costs nearly $10,000?!?!

  • @farmboypresents9977
    @farmboypresents9977 Годину тому

    I think its great. Would fill a niche in my guitar collection and a hole in my abilities.

  • @davidcaro8217
    @davidcaro8217 3 години тому +1

    I like it. I love gadgets, gimmicks, and devices for guitar!. But it costs how much?

  • @JpeterZoom-gt3pn
    @JpeterZoom-gt3pn 16 годин тому +3

    Not sure who use this. Mechanical automatton of programming drums, strumming and instrument performance seems like a good idea on paper...not far from a robot playing a regular guitar...except the robot is in the guitar!!! Weird science!!!

  • @Javier-qk7ms
    @Javier-qk7ms 11 годин тому +2

    Give one to Bella Fleck

  • @cropcircle5693
    @cropcircle5693 14 хвилин тому

    A Matt Belamy signature model can't be far off!

  • @DetroitMicroSound
    @DetroitMicroSound Годину тому +1

    If you had made it in a bit of a different form-factor, without a guitar body, typical guitar neck, etc, the entire guitar crowd might have kept their jaded, 'everybody's an expert on what guitars are, or are not' opinions to themselves, and you may have avoided all the gazillion guitar players, who'll go on about how it's an abomination, instead of recognizing it's just it's own unique instrument with many very different things to offer, ABOVE a typical electric guitar. I do find it funny how so many guitar players will just assume nobody will want one of these wild instruments. There was a time when effect pedals for guitar were a no-no. Now, you can't find somebody who plays electric guitar, without at least a few. And many of those guitarists have no problem spending hundreds of dollars PLUS, for a fuzz or distortion pedal that has a very simple circuit inside, which costs less than $50 in vintage components to produce.

  • @BobbyH-ts3je
    @BobbyH-ts3je 7 годин тому

    Will it require a CDL to operate it?

  • @ramiroalvarez5397
    @ramiroalvarez5397 6 годин тому +1

    COOL 😎 guitar 🎸 at NAMM SHOW 2025!👍😯

  • @davidedwards7835
    @davidedwards7835 11 годин тому +2

    Insane.

  • @oceansiderecordingstudio
    @oceansiderecordingstudio 17 годин тому +2

    That is so wild ❤

  • @bikerjon8934
    @bikerjon8934 2 години тому

    3:33 is when they finally get to the playing DEMO

  • @beetle5000
    @beetle5000 2 години тому

    That looks like hours of fun 😎👌

  • @user-zi8hj5ne1z
    @user-zi8hj5ne1z 16 годин тому +2

    I feel like IGORR could use this

  • @robertsuitsjr6117
    @robertsuitsjr6117 4 години тому

    I'd like to see what this could do if it was a bass guitar.

  • @melvayne
    @melvayne 8 годин тому +1

    something Wes Borland would likely to use for big dumb face... LMAO XD

  • @Ee77Aa45
    @Ee77Aa45 11 годин тому +1

    i want RGB on that wheel

  • @timbaker1320
    @timbaker1320 3 години тому +1

    The most annoying musical instrument I've ever heard if you can call it musical.

  • @gordonray3091
    @gordonray3091 4 години тому +1

    I have absolutely 0 interest in this rig.

  • @janinee6733
    @janinee6733 4 години тому

    Now this guitar definitely needs a sister that does all the chord stuff on the neck on its own and you just strum along.....

  • @TechOttawa
    @TechOttawa 5 годин тому

    A NASA engineer walks into a bar with a drum machine and a guitar and they all get drunk. Voila! 🤯

  • @CraigMcGill-u2o
    @CraigMcGill-u2o Годину тому +1

    Ideal for the person who cant play guitar then😂 sorry not for me, you cant beat the sound of a real guitar, was this made for corrie hame.

  • @Zemael
    @Zemael 2 години тому

    Sounds very unique.

  • @teknomanning
    @teknomanning 4 години тому

    If AstroBot had a guitar made for him

  • @mikeg2939
    @mikeg2939 Годину тому

    Street buskers may be interested in this.

  • @RcMcNutt
    @RcMcNutt 8 годин тому +1

    Me @ 4:12 "Sounds like the beginning of a Muse tune"......... Me @ 8:18 😲

  • @flapjack413
    @flapjack413 Годину тому

    Well, at least now history will remember the Firebird X in a more positive light.

  • @patmayer7222
    @patmayer7222 6 годин тому

    Who will be the first,,to run this through a stack😮

  • @AndrewJOliver
    @AndrewJOliver 23 години тому +3

    One for Danny Sapko

  • @Mondayman622
    @Mondayman622 4 години тому +1

    One of the most ridiculous things i ever seen and heard. This is for the untalented. Huge waste of money IMO. Just another so called instrument for a lazy untalented gamer. What has this world come to? I’m glad Im at the age I am. I wouldn’t wanna live in this world in the next 10 to 20 years if this is what music would be.

  • @bikerjon8934
    @bikerjon8934 2 години тому

    But can it DJENT?

  • @TimSuliman
    @TimSuliman 7 годин тому

    Sounds more like a MIDI banjo. Seems like it may be easier to just program the guitar part.

  • @Sonnytimesalways-lx7je
    @Sonnytimesalways-lx7je 6 годин тому +2

    Bonamassa has already ordered his

  • @kiezersosay49
    @kiezersosay49 13 годин тому +2

    Wtf just happened?

  • @JochenReulbach
    @JochenReulbach 23 години тому

    Chapeau! ;-) I wouldn't wanna play it ;-) but I like the thoughts behind it ;-)

  • @peterorany
    @peterorany 7 годин тому +1

    I jave headache already

  • @colforellenmann
    @colforellenmann 11 годин тому +1

    9995 apples or bananas?

    • @hotrodchris805
      @hotrodchris805 8 годин тому +1

      Didn't he say plus vat? He's British, so I suspect its basically £10k plus 20%, so £12,000. Dollar price would depend on exchange rate but currently that'd be circa $15k.

    • @colforellenmann
      @colforellenmann 6 годин тому

      @@hotrodchris805 thx chris. mainly i just wanted to drop the apples and bananas thing though :D

  • @matthewotremba9230
    @matthewotremba9230 2 години тому

    So Gen Xers can view their phone while playing

  • @gheart8278
    @gheart8278 2 години тому

    Very cool!

  • @AllanGildea
    @AllanGildea 20 годин тому

    Fantastic.

  • @tom.m
    @tom.m 2 години тому

    I can finally toss my under-used metronome! 😅

  • @MegaRomans01
    @MegaRomans01 3 години тому +1

    Feel like this is one of those things that shoulda stayed in the garage instead of production

  • @AbcDino843
    @AbcDino843 15 годин тому

    I would love to see what Jimmy Page would do with this.

  • @raggedrec
    @raggedrec День тому

    i hope Ed O'Brien is using his on new EOB album

  • @peekaboo4390
    @peekaboo4390 6 годин тому +3

    I now have a killer migraine.

  • @proequipments7210
    @proequipments7210 6 годин тому +1

    Reminds me of synth axe of Allan Holdsworth but fir nuts

  • @kenjiwhe
    @kenjiwhe 5 годин тому +1

    Uh, yeah. Ok. Nope!

  • @pulktheband9106
    @pulktheband9106 4 години тому +1

    Sounds awful to me 😮

  • @markking7889
    @markking7889 5 годин тому +1

    No thanks !