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The new Roland GR-D demos show a sound pretty close to the Metheny synth horn thing. It’s $300 but more if you don’t already have a GK hex pickup. But no.. if I had money to blow I go for a Strymon Lex rotary pedal. For right now, the Trombetta Minibone will have to do. Rockett Pedals is now offering the Trombetta pedal design within their new WTF Fuzz. Maybe Bill Ruppert can be enticed into figuring out the easiest way to get this sound with EH pedal… easiest & cheapest, that is.
CellomanglerParticipantQuote:…looking for a less expensive option (than Roland GR-55) to get the sounds somehow similar to the one that PM uses with his synth guitar…I haven’t found any solutions yet. I need to experiment further with Trombetta’s Mini Bone v2 pedal which I own (see YouTube link in above post). Though it is a type of distortion pedal, I believe that if I split my initial guitar signal -one part cleaner and then the other part through the Tone Bone with lots of short tail reverb and then mix both back through a filter or autowah of sorts. If I just got paid to experiment with pedals!
CellomanglerParticipantIt should definitely include some envelope functionality similar to the Pigtronix Tremvelope. It speeds up or intensifies according to your playing dyanmics. Either parameter can work inversely to dynamics. Also add a “defret” option, to put a quick attack ramp for a fretless sound.
CellomanglerParticipantI’ve got auto wah and filter pedals -there’s definitely more to the brass voice than that. And yes, you can get close by chaining several pedals together with the right settings, but isn’t that what we are trying to do with any new pedal design -make it simpler, specific and more compact ? Really it’s a matter of demand, and there just aren’t that many folks out there interested in a milder, jazzier voice. And I am targeting in particular the sound of the GR-300 as touted by Pat Metheny. Roland’s GR-55 is the cheapest way to get there that’s not using MIDI and other synth modules. The brass voice is distinctive as it begins with a slight sputter attack, has a rapid amplitude and rapid decay but can definitely sustain and has an envelope on the filter which, should be controllable, at least by attack characteristics of one’s picking. Check out this mini bone demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKoHsmkgAuA
CellomanglerParticipantA lot of folks seem to have read my post but I wish I’d get a few opinions as to whether or not you think this pedal would be a worthy endeavor for Electro-Harmonix. Somebody might be listening.
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