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Re: OTHER THOUGHTS ON GEAR IN GENERAL (gear lists)



Matt,

In a message dated 5/26/04 8:17:34 PM, mmccabe@finleysound.com writes:

>Can you get that 80's Andy Summers/Robert Fripp 
>guitar synth sound with the WP-20G?

Hmmmm. Which sound would that be? I haven't listened to 
"I Advanced Masked" in a great while. Seems they made
a lot of different noises with those early synths. 

Basically the WP-20G only does a few sounds and only
a couple of them are "synthy" sounding 'cause it's not 
really a synth device but a hexaphonic processor. Think
of it more as an extremely simplified (and limited) VG8
type device and you are closer to reality. It's meager
collection of patches are:

Saw Lead
Square
Ring Mod
Slow Gear
Sitar
Acoustic

The first 2 sounds on its dial are distortion(ish) and kind
of synthetic sounding saw-tooth and square wave sounds.
The unit has chorus and delay too and if you ad a dab
of those it begins to sound a bit like some of my least
favorite GR-1 patches. 

It has a fair "ring modulator" patch up next on the rotary
dial -- a little tough to dial just the right in though. Like I 
said, I use it mostly for the "Slow Gear" soft attack sound.

The "Sitar" is absolutely, ridiculously useless. What were 
they thinking? The acoustic is little better. It sounds like
the trebliest bridge piezo pickup in the world. It's of some
slight use if yo mix it with the guitar's magnetic pickup
signal though.

Hope this helps,

tEd ® kiLLiAn

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