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  1. Hi Saber, really hope you get this message. You did a guitar overdub on a song my brother Matia composed about 10 years ago. I know this is a long shot but I've lost the copy of it I had and the family would like to play it at a memorial service we are having soon. I dont suppose you still have a copy? It was one of the most beautiful bits of music to myself and my family thanks to you. If you do could you please send a copy to knottsolimited@gmail.com this is my work email address or cou...

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      Saber

      I hope I'm not too late. I don't come to this forum often. As soon as I read your message I dropped everything to look for the file. I found it on a backup disk and will send it to you (knottsolimited@gmail.com) in a few minutes.

      Take care,

      Larry

  2. For what it's worth, I have an old short-scale Fender Musicmaster Bass, and when I removed the pickup cover, I was surprised to find a 6-pole pickup under there. While not a high-end bass, I would never have guessed from its sound that it had a 6-pole pickup.
  3. I remember a thread about this. My answer was something like, "Remove all the strings from your guitar, plug the guitar in your amp, and knock on the guitar. You'll see that the guitar doesn't need strings on it for the pickup to pick up wood vibration."
  4. Sorry, my mistake... I meant the GR-20 is what I'm using. Even with that, I dare say you'd still have the same analog -> MIDI -> analog conversion happening, it just happens internally instead of spread over the signal chain. I've tried a GI-20 connected to a synth module and the tracking was much slower than my GR-09. And the GR-09 is an old model. The MIDI protocol is a modified RS232 so its speed is limited. While the GR-20 may have internal analog<->digital conversion, it's not the same as MIDI. Here's a quote from the GR-09 manual. "The response time (and other factors) can seem somewhat altered, and you may feel there is a slight disadvantage to using MIDI to play an external unit, as opposed to the GR-09's internal sound generator. This is caused by restrictions in MIDI specifications, not the GR-09 or your external unit." In the early days of guitar synths, I remember Craig Anderton writing that a less lively sounding guitar possibly with old strings tracks better because the fundamental tone is stronger since less upper harmonics have to be filtered out. I have also noticed that my mahogany-bodied Ibanez 540SLTD with a GK-2A pickup tracks a bit better than my basswood-bodied RG1520 with its piezo-equipped trem. So I would think that a lively guitar like a Strat might not be the ideal candidate for a guitar synth, and a more mid-heavy guitar would be better, even though Roland may have improved their techniques for filtering out the harmonics in recent years.
  5. The downside of the GI-20 is that your GK signal is converted to MIDI, which in turn drives a MIDI synth. The advantage of a dedicated guitar synth like the GR-20 is that the GK signal is processed directly by ithe GR-20 without going through a MIDI conversion. 1 conversion to MIDI and 1 conversion from MIDI means 2 additional conversions that you avoid using a dedicated synth. That results in faster, better tracking overall no matter what pickup system you use.
  6. Ibanez use a 330pF on the volume control of many of their guitars: Ibanez Humbucker Guitar
  7. Then you could use my SPDT circuit in your footswitch instead. You don't need 2 poles for that. However, you could use the second pole of a DPDT for your LEDs.
  8. If you use a make-before-break switch, the click shouldn't be too noticeable. On the other hand, I don't know how your guitar/bass is wired but couldn't you just do this with the selector on your guitar:
  9. For the push-pull pot/switch, you can always try e-mailing Rich at Ibanezrules.com. Don't go by what's listed on his website because he doesn't update it often. The pot number is 3VR1MA0001 and you can find it here: https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/i-public/faces/Login00.jsp
  10. Pete, that's exactly how I feel about creating and playing music. I was never motivated to learn famous tunes note for note. I learned Satch Boogie once but didn't bother to learn the solos note-for-note. I only learned the main riff and the tap solo, and winged the rest. I never felt any gratification in learning someone else's work to perfection. Of course, there's a lot of stuff out there that I couldn't play if my life depended on it. But I get more pleasure in creating my own stuff whether people want to hear it or not. One advantage that I may have is the fact that I've played a bit of drums before so programming a midi drum track is not too much of a problem.
  11. Thanks Pete! I guess it isn't really work when you're having fun doing it.
  12. Usually, I work most parts of a tune out in my head, first. I prefer doing that over writing with a guitar in my hands. That way I end up writing stuff that I can't already play, learn how to play it, and then record it on computer. This helps my playing to evolve. I write the drums and bass midi sequences in Cakewalk and play guitar and do vocals if the song has any. Sometimes I'll first program the guitar as a midi sequence before learning to play it, to hear how it fits. Then I'll do rough recordings of the different guitar parts, and once all the details are worked out, I re-record the guitar track properly. It's a lot of work but but I'm pretty happy with the results. You can hear the only 2 vocal tunes that I've written here: Larry O'Meara
  13. If the above is what you are trying to achieve, then you could do it with a SPDT in this way:
  14. Why didn't you just install it the other way round? That's what I did with my external GK in my JEM and it works fine. You just have to configure your VG box so it knows you're that way round. Or perhaps that's only possible with the VG-99? Was this not possible with the VG-88 and VG-8? Not all Roland guitar synths have that option, the older ones in particular.
  15. The thing I don't like about the typical installation of the GK pickup is that the long end protrudes above the lo-E string where it comes in contact with my picking hand. I reversed the six pickup wires so that I could place the protruding end out of the way below the Hi-E string.
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