I believe a friend of mine was one of - if not the first to break the news about a digital interface for electric guitars using standard Category 5 ethernet cable.
Yesterday, six years later to the date (did you get an existential chill up your spine?), Gibson finally releases the technology to the masses via the HD.6X-Pro Guitar System or the HD Les Paul.
I’ll probably wait for the bass version…oh and the price tag to go down a bit from it’s current offering of $8,000. But I’m going to look for it in some local music stores to learn more about the performance and how Gibson supposedly solved the long-time latency issue for analog > digital I/O.
I was just listening to The Stills - Yesterday Never Tomorrows