I don’t know if the author of the post is still following this chain, but:

I owned a Coral electric sitar back in 1980 that I bought from Gary Talley (lead guitarist for the Box Tops). He used this same electric sitar to play “Cry Like A Baby” on the Johnny Carson Show. Unfortunately it was stolen from me. I just bought a used Ravish Sitar emulator, and it does far and away more than the Coral did. Although this does not sound exactly like the Coral, I would have to say that you can tailor it to genuinely capture the essence of the 60s electric sitar sound. Your audience will think it sounds just like the record, when in fact when they go back and listen to the original, they will find the original lacking. It is far more psychedelic and will open the door to not only doing the Stones, Box Tops, one-hit-wonder electric sitar tunes, but also sailing through the more esoteric ones. The droning scales in major, minor and “exotic” will take you to an all new “hypo-high”! You will get lost in time playing around with this. The Vinnie Bell model was basically a one-trick pony (but a great trick!). I just got the pedal yesterday, and here I am messing around with it on its simplest setting with the intro of BJ Thomas’s “Hooked On A Feeling”.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OXyAy35GO1Y

One other thing: the use of an expression pedal will exponentially enhance the capabilities of this emulator. You can buy a $30 M-Audio EX-P, and that will work just fine.