guitar synth

[Martin Czech]

All this guitar synth raving...

I played this axon thing at Frankfurt music fair, I thought:  damn well
done.  But so what? If I use an organ preset, it will sound like organ,
or piano, etc. If that's what I need I can play an organ or piano in
the first place.  Maybe that's because I'm able to play keys as well
(or bad) as strings...

If you listen to recordings from Jan Hammer e.g., you'll notice that
he can make a keyboard sound much like an E-guitar. Not because of the
waveform or anything, just because he imitates the playing style. Playing
style is very important, wave form etc. comes second.

(This works like those artists who can imitate Mr. Clinton, or Mr. Schroeder,
their voice will not sound much like the real one, but their style
of speaking does.)

You'll have to imitate the bending, the vibrato and the prefered scales
and licks as well.

Get home and exercicse instead looking for not working technical
solutions ;->

I do not see much use in guitar to something converters.  Maybe this is
because I'm into crunch and high gain sounds.  What could be more fun
then playing into a good tube amp at high gain?

Only one thing would be interesting to me:

individual pick ups , one for each string. Like distortion without
intermodulation.

Has anybody seen an audio hex pickup (not piezo)?

m.c.