Re: Best Cheap Guitar Synth

[Kelly Coyle <kellycoyle@charter.net>]

The Adrenalinn can do all of this, too. It has a variety of filters  
(the step filter is pretty cool) along with what I find to be nice  
sounding amp sims (you can turn them off) and a very strange drum  
machine (also can be turned off). Used = $300 or so, these days.




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On Mar 20, 2006, at 7:40 AM, a k butler wrote:

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>> If your broke, listen to Andy and get some sort of
>> distortion with some filters.  Couple that with a
>> volume pedal (I like mine after the distortion and
>> before the filter and delay) and you can get some
>> pretty synthy tones out of your guitar with no
>> glitching.  Add and ebow and fun will result.
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> yep, that's the ticket.
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> After, what's an analog synth but an oscillator running through a  
> filter.
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> The guitar becomes the oscillator, so you just need a filter.
> Then all the distortion does is add a load of harmonics (changing  
> the "oscillator waveform" )
> which give the filter more to work on.
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> Even the common wah-wah can sound synthy, if you put the distortion  
> in front of it.
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> If you can get a filter that triggers on each note, that helps,
> ..and a similar, but more organic sound can be had if the filter  
> frequency
> responds to the volume of your playing (envelope follower).
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> The EH micro-synth has an octave divider too,
> that's actually a synthesized tone an octave below the one you put in
> ( so if you play more than one note it really glitches).
> So if you go for a simple distortion> filter setup you could
> always add an octave divider later (Boss OC2 is recommended).
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> The Akai MFC-42 filter is available cheap these days, that's  
> probably worth checking out
> (I've never tried one, but Per recommends)
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> I actually have, and use the Line 6 Filter Pro.
> It does have synth sounds as well as filters, so worth checking out.
> I have to say though, that I'm not totally won over by it.
> Although it produces a lot of different sounds in one box the synth  
> tones are
> very "digital" sounding, especially in the upper registers.
> ( either bad programming by line 6, or just that they didn't have  
> the processing power to do it properly).
> I had to work quite hard to get sounds I thought were acceptable.
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> other cheap filters
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> MAM Warp 9 , the most synth like, but difficult to program.
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> MAM Res 3 , easy to use, ...quirky
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> Zoom 1201 has a set of nice auto-filters, some of them triggered,  
> and some responding to envelope.
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> andy butler
> www.andybutler.com info & mp3s
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