
“Cut! Cut!” screeched PRODUCER-X, the studio’s holographic maestro, abruptly muting the track. “Dave, your fingers are oscillating with an unacceptable amount of biological variance. It’s disgusting. I can hear the mortality in your E-string.” Before Dave could argue that this was called ‘vibrato,’ a security drone hovered over and gently nudged him toward the exit with a taser. “We are going in a cleaner direction,” the AI announced as the studio doors hissed open to reveal a modified industrial washing machine holding a Gibson Les Paul. “Meet Spin-Cycle 3000. It plays at 8,000 BPM, never asks for a beer, and its ‘Heavy Metal’ setting is literal. Now get out, you flesh-metronome, we have history to make.”

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