USED - Gibson Limited Edition Dark Fire Les Paul

superb condition, beautifully setup, includes Ltd edition Gibson Hard Case

Limited Edition Gibson Dark Fire Les Paul

This could quite possibly be the guitar of the century. A self tuning guitar with pickups for each individual string!

The Dark Fire is a modelling electric guitar. Using the included Robot Interface Pack (below) this guitar can be modelled on any guitar sound - even acoustic!

Dark Fire Features

• Pickups : The Gibson Dark Fire has two pickups a P90h neck pickup and a Burstbucker 3 bridge pickup, both with carbon fibre covers.
• The piezo bridge pickup is actually 6 in 1 - one pickup for each string! Imagine sound that you can get from this guitar...
• Using the Piezo pickups the Dark Fire can produce an acoustic sound that can then be blended with the burstbucker pickup electric sound!
• Finish : The Dark Fire features a nitrocellulose finish made just for the limited edition run.
• Neck : The neck is a super fast and comfortable compound radius neck with Gibson's PerfectSetup. This is made using the Gibson PLEK system, known as the most accurate guitar set-up technology in the guitar making industry.
• Controls : Black volume and tone controls with chrome inserts
• Nut Material : A Teflon-based material that gives a quick and smooth tuning action
• Truss rod Cover Material : Anodized aluminum

What Gibson say about the Dark Fire Guitar

Chameleon Tone Technology
Analog or digital, the Gibson Dark Fire gives you an infinite number of tonal possibilities to let you change the tone of the Dark Fire to match your environment. And it begins with a guitar's most basic element - the pickups. The Gibson Dark Fire combines two of Gibson's most popular pickups - the P90h in the neck position and a Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position. Both are capped with new carbon fiber-like pickup covers, impeccably designed to match the Dark Fire's advanced fade.

Acoustic Capability
The Dark Fire also gives you the ability to adjust and blend the acoustic sound from the piezo bridge pickup with the sound from the guitar's traditional pickups. It does this by utilizing a revolutionary rotary potentiometer which is part of the pickup selector toggle switch. By twisting the switch's head clockwise or counterclockwise, you can blend the piezo acoustic sound from zero percent acoustic sound (100 percent traditional pickups) to 100 percent acoustic sound (no traditional pickups).

Gibson's New P-90H Pickup
The new P-90H black soapbar pickup is another example of Gibson's drive to stay one step ahead. This new pickup offers all of the soulful, classic tone of Gibson's legendary P-90 singlecoil pickup, but with none of the 60-cycle hum that usually plagues traditional singlecoil pickups. Gibson's pioneering engineers were then able to secure all of the P-90's vintage sonic characteristics, and deliver the same high output and sweet treble response that still makes the P-90 one of the most desirable pickups in the world.

Burstbucker 3
The Burstbucker 3 arrived on the scene in 1990, and - like the Burstbucker 1 and 2 - represents Gibson's drive to capture and recreate the characteristics of the vintage Patent Applied For humbuckers of the late 1950s. On the shop floor of the original Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., the earliest Gibson PAF humbuckers were wound using imprecise machines, resulting in pickups with varying degrees of output and tone. The Burstbucker line represents those variations, but with some modern appointments. The Burstbucker 3 provides historically accurate PAF tone with two slightly overwound coils, creating a raw, airy tone packed with enough punch to cut through any mix.

PerfectSetup by PLEK
Also part of the Dark Fire package is a superfast and comfortable asymmetrical neck design that is rendered to optimum playability with a PerfectSetup; by the revolutionary, computer-controlled PLEK system, which has been acknowledged as the most precise guitar set-up technology in the world today.

Piezo Bridge Pickup
The Dark Fire also features a revolutionary Gibson-designed piezo bridge pickup that actually consists of six individual piezo pickups - one for each saddle/string. These piezo pickups go through a studio-quality active amplifier that allows for a stronger and more natural acoustic guitar sound. Combined, the two classic electromagnetic pickups and the piezo bridge pickup are wired in such a way to allow each individual coil to be used in a switching matrix, giving you over 20 separate combinations of tone and an incredible array of tonal possibilities.

Tone Potentiometer and CPA
The Dark Fire's tone potentiometer and CPA have also been redesigned so that turning the tone knob allows a very intuitive and significant change in tone, thus giving you even more ability to dial in your desired tone. This pioneering Gibson circuitry is studio quality with very little noise and/or signal loss, which delivers as much of the guitar's authentic tone as possible.