Gibson Firebird X

Gibson Guitars announced a new guitar in it’s ever growing line of supposed revolutionary guitars.  The Firebird X is a new take on the Firebird design with some new twists.  The guitar features built in effects and some new effects controls as well as the now familiar robot tuning technology.  While it sounds enticing the price point does make you quiver a little. With an MSRP of $5570 this guitar is very expensive.  I’m not sure who the market is for this axe but as of this writing the popular opinion around the web is that Gibson has missed the mark again.

I can appreciate the nod to the original non reverse firebirds.  The triple mini humbuckers are a cool idea too.  But the design goes a bit of track with the exaggerated upper bout and the shrinking of the overall size of the firebird shape.  The headstock looks wrong to me too.  I know this is a new guitar, not a firebird reissue but man it just doesn’t live up to the cool of the original firebird design.