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Nice Per! Right after i sent the mail i saw in youtube a guy comparing the variax and the GR55 It seems that the variax cannot get rid of the warbling when trying to do harmonics on the acoustics But the GR55 tracks way better,however the overall acoustic sound seems to b better on the variax or so it seems! |
| Hi Luis, I have only tried out the Variax system briefly at guitar fairs, so I can't say I have any hands-on experience with it. But I have owned a GR-55 for some time and had a fair chance to get down with it. The sound is ok AFAIK but the nice thing with the GR-55 is all the effects that you can patch up in different configurations (well, according to two optional global routing schematics). You also get a good chance to sign up pedals and other controllers for effect parmeter control. As long as using the GR-55 pedal I can not feel any latency in the sound. Even though I know it is the synthetic COSM modeling, not the physical vibration from my strings, it feels totally real and musical to play a guitar through the GR-55 using only the COSM sounds (a few, that are good... some suck). The COSM + synths track pitch well OMO, here is a demo recording using a Sitar COSM sound where I play glissando well over a fifth's range: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/gr55_fretless_demo_sitar.mp3 All the synths that comes with the packages is something I value too. You can stack two synths behind the COSM, and even blend in the real pickup output too if you want - but since I use a harp guitar I bring out the harp strings through the real pickup channel. The guitar neck is fretless and uses an active EMG humbucker and I don't mind replacing that sound with the COSM guitar sounds. But when using a Chapman STick I wouldn't dream about loosing out on the real magnetic pickup output, because Sticks have s Telecaster like single coil that gives a shimmer to the sound that just doesn't exist within the COSM world. I saw last month at a guitar biz fair that Roland now has a GR-55 Stratocaster type guitar as well, but I think I prefer the GR-55 pedal with a GK-3 pickup on the guitar. Hoping someone else has some hands-on experience with the Variax to post. Would be fun to read :-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Luis Angulo <louie.angulo@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Gang, > im really curious about this guitars,on videos they really seem amazing,im > really surprised how good the acoustics sound > ive been ignoring them since i didnt like the first Variax guitars,they > seemed to be another gimick > wow but this ones look and seem to sound really good! > I guess the only thing to fear here is electronic reliability,i would guess > that if that went bad you can pretty much throw it in the bin > so has anybody tried one? are they better than the GR-55 guitar modelings? > any comments? > thanx! > > http://www.myspace.com/luisangulocom |