Xref: utzoo comp.music:3400 rec.music.misc:70951 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!dev0d.mdcbbs.com!pirk Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.misc Subject: Re: Guitar Sounds (Guitarists read this...) Message-ID: <1991Jun4.104901.1@dev0d.mdcbbs.com> From: pirk@dev0d.mdcbbs.com Date: 4 Jun 91 10:49:01 GMT References: Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA Nntp-Posting-Host: dev0d Nntp-Posting-User: pirk Lines: 38 In article , esuvn@warwick.ac.uk (The Mugwump) writes: > I have been doing synth/guitar home recording for some time now, and have had > some big troubles getting the electric guitar sounding groovy. I have wondered how the output of a basic guitar sound from a keyboard would behave like when fed into one of the many guitar processors around, ie: Digitech GSP 21 or a Roland GP-8 or GP-16. The Guitarist I play with tells me I will *NEVER* get my keyboards to sound like a "real" guitar. > There is a very standard 'smooth' distortion sound around, which as well as > obviously being very distorted, also has quite a 'pure' and 'clean' sound. No > matter how hard I try, I have not been able to get this sound. I have tried > DI'ing a distortion pedal, two distortion pedals, both the previous thru a > combo (miked up), and have still to try compression->distortion->DI or > miked combo. Haven't got a compressor lying about ATM. Has anyone got any > suggestions on these things? > Any ideas would be welcomed, It would seem to me that what we are looking at is a signal. Be it from a guitar or a keyboard, the signal is what gets processed into the 'groovy' guitar sounds. I should have metioned above that the Audio of the keyboard feed the input of the guitar processor. I guess the missing parts are the mechanics of the guitar, ie: the natural vibrado of the string and how this affects the output of the pickups. My budget at the moment precludes the purchace of a GSP....Anyone else tried this?? Steve -- .Steve Pirk.......midit.....Voice: (714) 952-5516......................... ..McDonnell Douglas M&E..Internet: pirk@dev0d.mdcbbs.com.................. ...5701 Katella Ave..........UUCP: uunet!mdcbbs!dev0d.mdcbbs!pirk......... ....Cypress, CA. 90630........PSI: PSI%31060099980019::DEV0D::PIRK........ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The opinions expressed herein, are probably not those of MDC, and I'm not sure if I can even call them mine......."