Right here at Guitar World we’re all the time down for a good, weird electrical guitar mod, and YouTuber Look Mum No Laptop has fulfilled our wishes right now along with his Gibson Les Paul with a MIDI keyboard put in in the body.
As Look Mum explains in the video, he carried out the mod roughly a decade in the past, whereas enjoying in a band that required each guitar and keyboards.
“Why not save carrying the guitar and the keyboard and simply put them collectively?,” he asks.
Why not, certainly?
The hacked-up Les Paul sports activities two rows of LED-illuminated arcade-style buttons on its entrance, which act as a controller. The again, in the meantime, has additional routing crammed with a mangle of wires that hook into an Audrino-powered MIDI keyboard contraption.
“Some of it’s possible you’ll be saying, ‘Why the heck have you ever completed that to a Gibson Les Paul, why didn’t you do it to a cheaper guitar?,’ ” Look Mum asks.
“Properly, the factor is, why would you do it to a cheaper guitar? When you’re gonna be utilizing it, it’s possible you’ll as properly do it to the guitar that you just like enjoying. I do know it’s sacrilege, however what are you gonna do?”
Look Mum additionally put in a knob on the entrance of the body that modifications the MIDI channel, in addition to a five-pin DIN connector subsequent to the enter jack.
As for the way it sounds? Judging by the video above, fairly superior – even when Look Mum does admit that it’s onerous to play.
“These keys are actually small and they’re in fairly a clumsy place,” he acknowledges.