Hi everybody!
I have a problem.
There's a cover band I'm working with from time to time. It's a three piece, guit, bass, drums. we all sing, no keys or whatever non-pickup-string-finger actuated. Usually we play cheap blues covers, just because torontonians tend to have a neural excitation at the sounds of SRV being played by landed immigrant amateurs from former soviet union (that's us, you see).
We usually do requests, since a 12 bar is a 12 bar, and the lyrics can be made up as you go, the audience is quite boozed up so noone really cares, as long as the main riff is right. However, recently we had a very unusual thing happen to us. A guy asked us if we know anything by Kraftwerk. Now I know Kraftwerk; when I was 6, I used to listen to one of their songs (probably Das Model) on a disco compilation LP my father had back home. They're cool, minimalist and very funny, if you dig robotic impersonations.
My guitar doesn't dig robotic impersonations. Ring modulator is as far as the synth emulation goes in my case right now. :oops:
So my question, or request for that matter is:
please, recommend me a fairly simple guitar synth that could work without the MIDI pickup. I want to be able to somehow emylate those old moogish sound found in Hot Butter's Popcorn. And Kraftwerk, although that would be harder. :)
thank you kindly.
I don't know if they will get the popcorn sounds, but here are a few products that will at least make the guitar sound like a monophonic synth without a midi pickup:
Line6 FM4 or Filter Pro - contain a variety of synths
Many multi-fx units do as well - Boss GT6 has a couple, not very versatile.
Boss and Digitech make Synth Wah type products.
As far as building your own, there is an EH Microsynth schematic floating around. I don't know if anyone has built one of these before.