Re:EH MS/Boss GT-3

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I don't want anyone to think that I'm getting kickback from Roland, but the
GT-3 gives you all sorts of filter-happy bass synth sounds from your 
guitar,
plus you can tie it to MIDI clock or tap tempo.  And it's a fully 
functional
pre-amp to boot.  It doesn't have the vintage "mojo", but I still think 
that
it's got the highest price/performance ratio of anything under a grand.
Anyone looking for wacko analog synth sounds from their guitar should trot
down to their Roland dealer and check out presets:

73-1 (Synth Bass)
73-2 (Saw Lead)
73-3 (Square Lead)
73-4 (Gtsyn Brass)
72-2 (Reso Lead)
72-3 (Strings)
72-4 (Square Bass)
32-4 (Human Gate)
71-3 (Gate Synth)
71-4 (Synth+GT)
74-1 (Ring Trip)
74-2 (Ethnic Bell)
74-3 (Ring Echo)
77-4 (Phaser SFX)
82-3 (Trip Phase)

The expression pedal and option pedal add to the fun in almost all cases.
Oh yeah, it also does a host of fake amplified-acoustic sounds (banks 84 
and
85).  And it has a tuner.  $400 new.

TH


>

>    what the Micro synth does better (at least for me) is to reproduce the
> souns made by old analog synths, such as the rolad SH series and others, 
>in
> a limited  but cool way.
>
>   combined with a īrang and some delay unit, you could very well imitate 
>an
> old bass sequencer,some awesome analog sweeps by strumming all your 
>guitar
> strings (if thatīs what you play), and to make some bowed sounds.
>
>    there have been some discusions about distorsion here as well, where 
>some
> of the loopers use the MS to distort, cool as well :-)