Re: Re:Re: Best Cheap Guitar Synth

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>
>Sent: Mar 21, 2006 11:51 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Re:Re: Best Cheap Guitar Synth
>
>I'm weighing in really late on this, but I've been deep into the Boss GT-3
>(guitar multi-fx pedal) ever since it first came out. The GT-3 has an
>excellent synth-like feature (actually *four* if I remember correctly) 
>which
>tracks really about perfect (in mono) in one mode. Along with numerous
>*deep* filter and distortion sounds and a gajillion blank patches to build
>your own custom creations, the GT-3 is a powerful effects processor that
>could do some serious synth-like sounds. I've got a few patches stored 
>that
>do the mini-Moog thing stupidly well. Toss a Digitech Whammy into the
>outboard FX loop and you're living in synth city! I know the GT series is 
>up
>to the GT-8 and GT-Pro, but that's my point exactly: I'll bet you could
>score a GT-3 (or GT-5 or GT-6) for maybe $150 on eBay, then grab one of
>those "unpopular" second-edition Whammys for $50. There's your guitar 
>synth
>simulator for $200!
>    As for me, I'm dreaming about buying five more GT-3s and using an RMC
>piezo bridge pickup to split my guitar output into six signals. Send each
>signal/string to a seperate GT-3 and we're talking polyphonic mutated
>sickola heaviosity!
>
>Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
>coyotelk@optonline.net
>
>"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
>hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs. 
>There's
>also a negative side."
>--- Hunter S. Thompson
>