[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...

[Scott Bernardi]

>
> The Line 6 Variax modeling guitar is coming out with a "Workbench" add 
> on that will along you to create customized tunings and save them as 
> patches in the guitar. I've got a Variax running through a PODXT as my 
> main rig.
> I belong to another forum surrounding Line 6 stuff. A couple people 
> there have transplanted their Variax guts into new bodies and added 
> G2KA pickups. Talk about a versatle guitar!
>
>>One VG trick that I used last night was an open A tuning. Retuning your
>>guitar to an open tuning by simply stepping on a footswitch is amazing,
>>liberating, cool, and just plain fun!
>>--
>>john
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>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
>>To: "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>
>>Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>>Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:38 PM
>>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...
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>>>john mahoney wrote:
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>>>>-But... I'm not interested in DIY for this because I think Roland have
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>>done a
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>>>>great job with the VG-88. In fact, last night was my first live gig
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>>using
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>>>>the VG-88. :-)
>>>>
>>>>The best filter to use? A cheap one! :-) Since you need one effect per
>>>>string, the cost of everything is multiplied by six. Band pass is a good
>>>>idea. The M'fooger filter pedal uses an LP VCF switchable between 12 and
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>>24
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>>>>dB, and it sounds good in both modes. I guess that more choices are
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>>better,
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>>>>so maybe you can use state variable filters -- if the cost can be kept
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>>down.
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>>>LOL... yes thats true.  A full system would be more complex than an
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>>Oberheim
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>>>SEM six voice unit.  however, DIY would give you the ability to control
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>>cost
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>>>quite
>>>a bit.  Hacking a Matrix 1000 is one approach... there are others.
>>>
>>>My only sadness is that the Roland patent of the Hexaphonic HUMBUCKING
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>>pickup
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>>>KILLED
>>>the market for guitar synthesis totally (well - killed it for everyone
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>>else :^)
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>>>The hex humbucker
>>>is the missing link, the major reason why everyone else's systems
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>>performed
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>>>poorly.  I would have
>>>liked to see a more open market.
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>>>OTOH the VG systems are quite interesting... but they don't do quite what
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>>I want
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>>>(not hackable enough).
>>>My simple hex fuzz ran 90 ICs so you need to be a REAL diy he-man  (or in
>>>Cynthia's case she-man :^)
>>>
>>>H^) harry
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