Classic guitars, modern tech

Gibson Guitar Corp., maker of some of the best guitars ever, is looking to move those annoying cables hooking guitars to effects boxes to pre-amps to amps to mixing boards from dowdy old analog to digital with a new open, royalty-free software standard that runs on plain old Ethernet cable called MaGIC: Media-Accelerated Global Information Carrier. This very cool stuff (look for guitars with Ethernet ports in the next 12-18 months) was developed by a group of 12 Gibson engineers right here in Silicon Valley over the last two years. “MaGIC provides a single cable solution that is trivial to install, requires little or no maintenance, and offers a data link layer that supports a simple yet sophisticated protocol, capable of offering a superior user experience.” Author’s bias note: I’m more of a Fender Telecaster fan. Via Slashdot.