Mooer announces pricing on GTRS Intelligent Guitars, adds new demos
New hybrid digital guitar from Mooer
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UPDATE: Mooer has announced pricing on its GTRS guitar series launching now on Indiegogo. The GTRS guitar will cost US$ 510 as an early bird special with a discount of 15%. A bundle with a 4-way footswitch is $40 more at US$ 550.
Mooer has launched a new range of DSP-integrated guitars on Indiegogo called GTRS Intelligent Guitars. It’s touting these S-style instruments as bringing a unique new take on the electric guitar, with built-in effects and an accompanying app for iOS and Android. How new is the tech on offer? Let’s take a look.
GTRS Intelligent Guitars
The new Mooer site announcing these GTRS Intelligent Guitars is pretty light on factual information. We know it is called the S800 and they describe it like this: “The GTRS Guitar is the next generation of guitar products, offering a complete, lightweight digital and analogue guitar system built from the ground up”. The site also says there is an accompanying Bluetooth footswitch, plus an iOS and Android app to control everything.
The guitar looks like an HSS S-style instrument and with an American basswood body, roasted Canadian maple neck with satin finish and a rosewood fingerboard. It is described as having a “Custom S-S-H alnico pickup configuration” with what looks like standard controls for Volume and Tone as well as a 5-way switch. The blurb says you can “tweak your tone without worrying about battery life or other digital aspects of the GTRS guitar.”
GTRS Intelligent Guitars?
GTRS App for Android and iOS
What does it actually do?
Well, the website is a bit light on details. Yes, there is a funky light-up Super Knob where you would normally get a tone control, and yes, it has built-in effects and possibly amp modelling. Mooer does name the GWF-4 wireless footswitch, in one image. Among the features listed are a built-in tuner, a drum machine, a metronome and a looper, plus a multi-mode output – whatever that is.
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- Super Knob
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- GTRS with roasted maple neck
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- GTRS Intelligent Processor
GTRS Intelligent Guitars footswitch
And now for the details…
The S800 will come in four colours, white, pink, blue and pink. And that is the total extent of the information available at the time of writing. The accompanying promo video is devoid of any detailed specifications, so we’ll have to wait until we get some more in-depth insights about the effects, amps and accompanying smartphone/tablet app.
You can check out the video below and sign up for more information from the link below.
More Information
Video
- GTRS Intelligent Guitars?: GTRS
- GTRS App for Android and iOS: GTRS
- Super Knob: Mooer
- GTRS with roasted maple neck: Mooer
- GTRS Intelligent Processor: Mooer
- GTRS Intelligent Guitars footswitch: GTRS
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5 responses to “Mooer announces pricing on GTRS Intelligent Guitars, adds new demos”
No robot tuners??
Count me out.
What were they thinking?! Can’t believe that they want us to tune the guitars manually.
On a more serious note: to me, this looks like another Variax type of deal. It will probably never sell much and in a few years it will be remembered as a niche thing that nobody wanted. I guess the guitars could sell if they actually play pretty decent, but I would probably rip the digital stuff out and replace it with some good old analog pots and wiring.
Why would you do that? Just buy a regular guitar then.
You sound really stupid. The guitar can be used as an audio interface, on board effects, built in tuner, Bluetooth headphones and decent pickups. It can also be used as a regular 500 dollar guitar. So that’s not a sound argument. It’s really a good technology and I don’t see the down sides
Those replys sound like competitors that are afraid of innovation and its potential to paradigm shift the future of the guitar market. Lol scared pussies