The Gibson Dark Fire is an electric guitar with lots of tech that will be released on December 15th. So, what’s the big deal?

At first blush, the Dark Fire just looks like a damn cool Les Paul, but there’s more under the hood. You can change tunings and the combination of pickups with a simple turn of a knob. It’s supposed to tune faster than Gibson’s first attempt at a robot guitar and should be able to produce lots of different tones. More after the break.

I first wrote about HDtracks originally in October and I thought it was a pretty cool service. At that time, I wasn’t able to test out their HD music.

Recently, Gibson partnered up with HDtracks to offer their own special album in HD and I quickly jumped on the opportunity to listen to the music in HD. Before I start talking about the quality of the music, I want to briefly go over the download and installation process. This way if you want to purchase something off HDtracks, you will know how it works ahead of time. Continued after the break.