Korgscrew
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Posted: Jan. 14 2005, 10:18 |
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Ah yes, Nick Cooper does some very slick demos, the kind that make the gear sound amazing...they evidently work in selling the products too!
To add a bit more detail about the backed off wah idea, you'd be right, Phil, in thinking that it wouldn't give quite the right sound. There's a little more to the answer though - Mike has never used conventional Wah pedals (apart from where he uses one on the bass in the Tubular Bells 2nd House performance). In the 70s, he had what I believe was a custom built parametric equaliser, which could be controlled by a pedal (he once described it as sounding much nicer than a conventional wah). That may well be what he still uses live - in the studio he now does it using the EQ in his Neve Capricorn desk (presumably again controlled via a pedal).
I'd personally recommend plugging a guitar synthesiser direct into a PA system if you're able to (and for home use, a hifi system would do the job) - synthesisers tend to sound pretty horrid through guitar amps.
You might also find that the overdrive of the GT6 doesn't sound too hot when it's used in the effects loop, and wah could sound rather odd as well, if you're driving the Mesa's preamp at all. That said, people often prefer having effects like chorus after the preamp, and the effects loop is definitely the best place for reverb (though I still say the very best place for that is after the amp! ).
You'll quite likely not need the GT6 effects on the GR-20, as it has its own, of the kind that'll help to make the synth sounds more interesting. One thing to bear in mind if you do choose to run the GR-20 through the GT6 is it'll mean not only a change of guitar, but then possibly two button/pedal pushes before you're ready to play (one to set the right synth sound, one to select the right GT6 patch) - that could turn out to be one push too many! It depends how well you get on with such things, I suppose, I tend to prefer to not have so many things to think about on stage, but that's usually because I'm trying to keep my mind on several things already.
You might find there's a way to simplify that using MIDI patch change messages, actually, but if at least one of the devices can't be programmed to transmit the right ones, that would then mean using a MIDI pedal board, which is yet more to trip over in the dark!
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. Anyway - now I've got one I'll have to be enthusiastic.