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Man, some people, sheesh.
Not too sure about the 2st Gen but the 2nd Gen (Dark Fire and newer) are pretty reliable 5 or so years in and most of the small numbers of failures were within the first few weeks and were mainly down to Gibsons cack handedness.
Tronical were great at replacing warranty ones as opposed to the big G.
After warranty if you are unlucky to have a failure you can get a spare/spares from Tronical, I bought 2 fvor my Dark Fire as a precaution and never needed them after 5 years.
They were easy to change and maintain because the Dark Fire user supprot group we set up shared all the relevant info making it easy for even DIY newbies. We did that in answer to Gibsons indifference.
Tronical on the other hand were stars for any pilot error issues or small tech glitches, on the whole though they were very reliable and I gigged, rehearsed and well used my Dark Fire plus I even naughtily mounted a GK3 on it for fun and wierd shizzle.
The tuners pop off the PCB and the only gotchas are making sure the contacts are clean (Gibson never hence early issues as well as cracked PCBs from over torque nonsense) and not over torque the robo tuners, they have torque figures and they are at the DF support site (now an archive) too as well as some circuit maps and such.
I doubt they will last forever but the signs are good so far.
@guitargeek63
As far as I am aware as with the older Gen 2 kit you have user locations and can overwrite the presets too if you wish.
The new ones are now a very mature tech and thriving now Gibson do not have exclusivity on Tronical's wares.
The templates are great to make sure before comitting to a purchase and well worth using.
No worries you are very welcome and thanks. For once my experience hopefully gives an idea of the systems capabilities.
Slightly sad they removed the ability to overwrite the presets because I preferred to replace ones I knew I would never use with my own. It was so easy to reinstate them in any case it was a no brainer.
On the plus side they are lighter, need a smaller battery etc so not a bad pay off. Not that the 2nd gen ones were overly heavy and caused no neck dive. But every little helps weight wise at my age LOL.
Only the JTV-69 is officially listed.
But as the JTV-59 is made by World Music it may be a similar model of theirs for other manufacturers may work.
Download the templates nearest the same shape and then check the dimensions to be certain.
http://www.tronical.com/downloads/
If not trade for JTV-69 if you like them as much as the JTV-59.
EDIT
Meant to say ping them an email because as new guitars are fiund to be able to use one or other set they test and add as I understand it. A set may work but has not been officially added as yet.
They have indeed and here is a link to the PDF's.
http://www.tronical.com/downloads/
The 4th PDF down is the one that has a table of the tunings but bear in mind you also have 6 user location to save your custom ones too for the same easy recall. If you need more than 6 it will be an issue which is why it is a shame they never allowed overwriting of presets in this iteration.
Worth checking these vids especially the one on custom tuning.
http://www.tronical.com/tutorials/
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
It held tune well so it mostly just a quick tune for ultimate comfort of being in tune and it could be done easily in between every song if you get OCD about it..
In busy and noisy places being silent etc it was great, plus when playing Marquees and pubs with side doors that get opened and closed by smerkers easy to compensate for temperature differences acting on the strings.
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