Thomyorke575
Post your pedalboard/effects
Oh yeah I definitely know harmony central, I just never heard it referrred to as hc. How do you like that Roland piece? Do you think its worth the cost?
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# 1
Originally posted by Thomyorke575
hey dot-dot-dot,
However you posted your setup is cool, it looks like the setups in guitar player magazine.
Thomyorke575
A lot of the guys in HC do that. THis one is not my current setup, but close enough.
Then there was sound
# 2
Originally posted by Thomyorke575
How do you like that Roland piece? Do you think its worth the cost?
I love it, and I personally think it's worth the money. Bear in mind, though, that I've also spent half as much again on having an internal hex-pickup fitted. Hex guitar isn't a cheap thing to get into; I'm already looking at upgrading the hex pickups to piezos.
To be honest, there isn't another processor in the world that can touch the VG-88 (other than the predecessor, the VG-8EX). There might be better amp modellers out there (though the VG-88 is very good at that) and there are more snazzy FX units, but there simply isn't anything else that can do the real-time polyphonic pitch shifting. Getting that 12-string sound is just incredibly cool, and adding Nashville tuning, the dreaded drop-D and any other open tuning you want is just fantastic; especially when you can go instantly from one tuning to another by changing patch or using one of the footswitches.
Look at it this way; for £800 you can get a 12-string, an acoustic (and it actually sounds like it is an acoustic), several synths, a guitar tuned for slide, a bass, a 6-string Whammy pedal and much more, all in one box. There simply isn't any competition; even if you could afford to buy all of those as real guitars and effects, they'd just take up too much space on stage and in the studio.
The sound quality is superb as well. I sold my ART rack system, my bass, my other electric, my synth and my 12-string acoustic when I got the VG-88, because it genuinely does everything that they can just as well, if not better. I have every sound from just my one guitar.
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