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Craig Evans Offline




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Posted: Sep. 10 2005, 08:28
From about 2:21 to 4:00 in "Weightless" behind the piano chords, bass guitar and the vocals the Sunburst Fender Stratocaster plays a different sound instead of the familiar muted piano-like sound from "The Sentinal" 1:18 to 4:48.  Is this sound in "Weightless" a Great Highland Bagpipe sample from the Roland GK-2A guitar modeling unit?  :)  :)

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Posted: Sep. 10 2005, 13:38
The GK-2A is a hexaphonic pickup, and has no "modelling" capabilities on its own. The modelling unit you're probably referring to is the VG-8/VG-8EX which was fed an input from the GK-2A pickup. Each string essentially had its own pickup, and this is then fed through a series of digital signal processing algorithms to shape the sound, so no "samples" are involved.

However, the VG-8 modelling unit wasn't introduced 'til 1995/1996.

The sound in the recording is also very much unlike the Guitar-Sounding-Like-Bagpipes sounds of TB/TB2003, both of which were created through different means. It sounds to me more like a clean guitar with single-coil pickups going through a bit of a phaser effect, though I might be completely wrong as well.

EDIT: Now that I've listened again, I think it sounds more like a bit of a double-speed guitar effect.

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Posted: Sep. 13 2005, 08:24
Quote (ktran @ Sep. 10 2005, 13:38)
EDIT: Now that I've listened again, I think it sounds more like a bit of a double-speed guitar effect.

That is what I was thinking of.  Thankyou ktran  :)  :)

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