Those are dope though.

lol I was about to say sounds like and EQD pedal!

this thing is absolutely nuts, Simon, like, look up Pat Metheny playing his Roland GR synth

Well this actually seems to be POLYPHONIC!? Pat Metheny is the king of these!

Buy one and circuit bend it 😱

colinfurze yeah!!! Haha oh man I was trying to remember some muse! Turns out I can’t really remember how to play!!!

Industrial is lo-fi by default! Or used to be.

@@HenritheHorse True

That's exactly what I thought after hearing that first distortion

I was thinking industrial accident!

Something like NIN maybe would've used something like this, perhaps?

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Imagine SRV or JM on this badboy too

Hendrix was a master at sound experimentation. He really doesn't get much credit for it because he was such a guitar player

@@the-engneer thats one of the reasons why i would call him a musician and not a guitarist, guitarist is like a dirty word as many are not musical at all.

I saw Jimi and have a very good idea of what he would do with this equipment, and that's not much. Back then, synthesizer tracking was horrible, no string feel, just pushing strings for a lot of noise. You can see it when he uses just fingers on the frets, moving them around to get continuous sound. That "not much" was for onstage. "Jimi Hendrix" was a corporate response to the British Invasion.

Wolele knowing him ? Set it on fire . What a plank

biddy fox something like hexaphonic pickups. Each string signal through drive-distortion.

You might be able to stack a Super Fuzz variant into an EHX Pog and get something similar. It's an awesome sound.

That is actually one of the features of the GR-500 - hexaphonic distortion. Each string gets its own distortion circuit and is processed separately, so you get chords which are harmonically rich. IIRC, you can also pan each string in the stereo field. I know the later GR-300 and GR-100 boxes featured a similar hex fuzz circuit.

Gimme one lol

I was getting more of an ironman, vibe from this. Or Spider-Man on his first time out.

3k$ used on ebay. That's actually a lot less than I expected for a freaky, made-in-the-70s guitar/synth thing. A current 2019 Les Paul Standard is more expensive then one of these.

Chris Kostelec also the guitar itself was not a commercial success to begin with despite of the controller/ guitar made in Fujigen factory

Hey, you can find a non-working one for repair for... oh... no... nevermind.... sorry

You can get this capability any guitar for £300 nowadays with the Fishman triple play. While it's an awesome relic, it's definitely been surpassed now.

@@Breadgoods no way, both the guitar itself as well the 6 voice is still definitely great stuff, listen to Pat Metheny on the GR 300...

That's what I was saying!

Sounds like a Zevex Fuzz Factory

@@nstrug That makes sense considering St. Vincent uses a Zevex

Ym2612 chip is still advanced

inb4 manson makes him a signature model like that

How_Do_I _GHL yeah manson should hire this guy😂

Gašper Šavle Steve hillage, green.

i'd love too omg

King Crimson used the gr300 on Discipline

Heroes by Bowie features Robert frip using one on a few songs (including the title track).

Different version the G707 but it’s used on this entire album kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtCAq8Z_m8u7eZs.html

Exactly what I've thought of!

Ha ;]

just what i think, hearing that acid modulation...

Love me some Squarepusher though

I pictured the other Dexter for a moment when I read this.

Well he kill it !

oOooh, what does this button do?! :D

elemental draco Oof

But then logically, as a bass player you must surely like this : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gr6qiZufrbvOqYE.html

Imagine if it was a baritone 😁

Then don’t play bass. Or join a jazz band.

Mike Rutherford of Genesis used a GR500 to play bass on and he did so because back then, there wasn't a bass version of this controller yet.

As a bassist, I like it. Mike Rutherford used one for It’s Gonna Get Better.

I just replied to another comment that these cables were not made anymore, glad to hear somebody is making them available again!

Also "Everyone's a winner" by Hot Chocolate

And dust to dust

I think most of the “Scary Monsters” album used this.

toitoitoy Robert Fripp

Also used on Powerman 5000's "Dragula" by Marilyn Manson

No. but way, way back it tnejd. only the once, though, apparently

I remember seeing a guy demo this back in the 70s and he was getting polyphonic brass and string sounds as he played it through four amps with reverb.

For sure... that don't seem right. Clippy McClipperton

its hexaphonic fuzz, each string its own distortion circuit - you can play it by itself, a little nasty sounding, or you can run it through the filter, which sounds great. Later Roland guitar synths each string gets its own VCF its a little prettier.

@@pdxfunk but i liked that clipping sound lol..

I have a Roland MKS-7 which is basically a Juno-7 midi module. I had to replace the VCA/VCF filter "chips", which are known to fail and this thing appears to have the same or similar parts. They are the unusual epoxy-covered single in-line parts that he mentions there are 6 + 2 extra (1 per voice). There is a fellow making very good replacements of these chips for a reasonable price (not affiliated, I bought several of them) at www.analoguerenaissance.com . It's a bit of a labour to replace these things, but you might not have to calibrate it like you would a synth after at least lol. This thing is wild. The giant cable suggests that all the guitar controls are just "off-board" wiring for the synth, it's basically a bunch of pots and switches that are directly in the synth signal path, no digital controls or anything!

I’m a massive Rush and Alex Lifeson fan. I’ve seen alot of photos of Alex during that era between 1978-1980 using that guitar. My guess is that he used it live for Hemispheres during that era. It’s a really neat looking peace of gear. I think he might’ve used his ES-355 for the studio and the GR-500 as well, but maybe for live he used the GR-500 for the song between that 1978-1980 period. That’s my theory.

It probably looks like a guitar tech's worst nightmare.

I've seen one of these things in person. It has to have a separate pickup for every string and whereas later Roland and Casio guitar synth controllers would have a single device with six coils, pole pieces, etc. this one actually has a row of what look like cassette deck heads and to accommodate that, the string spacing is crazy wide. I don't know if later Roland controllers used the same cable as this one but to reproduce the same controller front end in a different guitar you'd be stuck with the different guitar's closer string spacing and you'd have to either fabricate a new hex pickup or use some other one which may or may not work with a copy of the original's electronics. Not worth it IMHO.

@@hubbsllc The cables stayed the same through the GR-300 and GR-700 and the GK-1 and GM-70 (guitar to MIDI converter). The cables are stupid rare and expensive and nobody makes the connectors anymore. (Note: I had recently heard somebody was making the connectors but only selling the cables fully built)

JopesTV me too

@@kirkmckim2685 great show. 38 special opened for them, and I was tripping my brains out not more than 30ft. away form Geddy & his massive Oberheim wall of modules.

shaggy baggy Yes, I was about to say the same thing. Nice avatar, btw.

somebody is getting round with a portal gun shooting at guitar picks that have just landed on the floor

I've been playing guitar for 15 years. This is the first time I've ever heard a guitar pick called a plectrum. Damn, I need to get out from under my rock more often.

MLprole That’s the Latin word. The UK still uses it.

... and socks

Yep, it's in the promo video and it sounds like a synth "fuzz" in the original recording