Adventures with boutique pedals

[jazzyvee]

I bought GR33 for my guitar when I was touring working with Apache Indian to use the Asian and other ethnic patches on some of the songs. The only thing I really disliked about the Roland is that the guitar only sound that came via the 13pin plug was shockingly bad and took out the meat of my sound. I emailed Roland and they pointed me to their rep at a local music shop. He told me that if you use the 13pin cable to transfer the guitar signal to the floor unit, it is digitised so that it can be mixed with the synth sounds for output and the AD/DA signal is what comes out of the GR33 guitar jack socket. So I decided to use two cables taped together. Guitar out via standard Jack lead to my pedal board then guitar amp and the synth only sound from the GR33 to DI or another amp. It's more fiddly balancing the guitar and synth sound levels but the guitar signal is back to what it should be.

[peoplechipper]

The B9 has a blend knob, but I had it at full organ(heh heh, he said organ)as I wanted to hear the sounds; I'll try blending the guitar and organ sounds later to see how well it works...truly amazing for something that fits in a Hammond box, and needs no guitar mods...Tony.

[lbpesq]

Tony, I was curious about that blend knob.  I'll be looking forward to your report on how well it works allowing you to play both guitar and organ at the same time.  With the GR-33, I find that I can hit a chord that will fill out the organ sound, then add little arpeggio type flourishes that are heard in the guitar signal but still sound like the chord on the organ side, if that makes any sense.
 
Bill, tgo