Comments about:

USB Guitar by Behringer

...will it be possible to record each single string seperately? Otherwise is not interesting for me...

I'm pretty sure sound quality will be quite lousy (if you're after "true" guitar sound anyway). But at approximately 140 euros, it will be a bargain for those who can't afford a guitar-amp-mic combination anyway...

I generally think all the effort companies put into imitating "real" instruments is a bit pointless, since the only way you'll actually have the sound is owning the instrument and the amp itself, but on the other hand I've also been using some cheapo amp sims from time to time, in full awareness that it's a different sound, and got some interesting results....

I think there should be more of improving the actual digital aspect of such an instrument (with technology such as the one mentioned by doggg powder), than trying to make it sound like a 6000? combo...

Now it sounds like a Mesa-Boogie, yeah right

I still get annoyed I have to record my guitars digitally.. getting a digital guitar from the beginning? Er...no,thanks.

This type of product is the definition of the old adage, 'penny wise, pound foolish'.

I've never been a huge Behringer hater. They've made some ok products (the VAmp2 has some nice amp sims and the VVerb Pro is a GREAT value). But when it comes to an instrument, you are FAR better off making an investment in something decent than spending 140 euros on poor quality. You will NEVER learn on a poor quality instrument, and you'll constantly be making compromises to suit the instrument, and consequently never learning properly.

Even if you are buying a guitar for a beginning guitarist (say a young child), you're better off to buy something decent (even a Mexican Standard Strat is fine and cheap) so the child can learn properly. Instruments hold their resale value fairly well, so even if the child wants to take up the recorder or football or poker next year, you can still make back most of your money on resale.

Oh well.

a bit pricy, but thats what I mean: http://www.rolfspuler.com/

I´m sure Behringer could do his USB Strat for 50 Dollars more with that features...

Guitars with direct digital out is always puzzling me… I don't know what to think. Is it the "ultimate" level the guitar is going to take, or is it the moment gadget to surf on the digital wave before going back to basics.

I'm more in the school of learn first on a decent instrument, it's rewarding in the end. and a decent instrument is neither the cheap on the block of the old vintage for $$$, it's one sturdy, great on the touch, with a sound you can use and make better by yourself (by being better yourself) and that you can outgrow. And these qualities have nothing to do with the fact it's USB out or not.

I'd be very disturbed if the classical guitars I've used or the harpsichords I've learned on where USB or firewire… (a classic on harpsichord factor booths: people searching the power plug…) But what if these guitars are well made and decent for kids to learn their chords?

I'm still amazed at the price they can reach… And here, I have an ethical problem. I think about the people building them.