Wow - fun little vid! I demoed these for Roland New Zealand when they were released - lotta fun. In the end I took the Strat 'controller' over this more 'SGish' one because I already mainly played a Gibson 1968 LP Custom and figured it would be nice to have a Strat style guitar (I think Ibanez made the 2 Roland guitars to go with the GR 300?). Still have it and occasionally fire it up for the filtering / octave thing it does that is very intuitive and analog. I love the way PM uses the octave jump on that album - around about the same time Fripp & Belew were both using it on a few tracks. Altho 'that' Offramp sound is immediately recognisable there are a lot of subtle things you can do with the 300 that are unique to it.
Guitar synths, especially earlier ones, were tricky. The tracking wasn't 100%, often some latency. Pat and Allan Holdsworth (Synthaxe) seemed the only two who really mastered it. Even Holdsworth kind of ditched it eventually. But Pat REALLY mastered it. His solo on Are you going with me? from the live album Travels is an example of his mastery of the instrument.
@@non_brewed_condiment I do and your name is one of my favorite tracks. Allan also made horrible sounds with SynthAxe at times even though I love the man. Also AAL first 2 albums are amazing.
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Pat and Andy Summers were the reason I HAD to get a GR-300 in 1988. I still love it!!
Shawn Lane used one of these bc of Pat. Wild to see one up close!
My buddy scored a GR300 and hex pickup years ago. He's had it set up on different guitars over the years. About to go on a tele.
No matter what Pat plays he's going to make the best of it.
Wow - fun little vid! I demoed these for Roland New Zealand when they were released - lotta fun. In the end I took the Strat 'controller' over this more 'SGish' one because I already mainly played a Gibson 1968 LP Custom and figured it would be nice to have a Strat style guitar (I think Ibanez made the 2 Roland guitars to go with the GR 300?). Still have it and occasionally fire it up for the filtering / octave thing it does that is very intuitive and analog. I love the way PM uses the octave jump on that album - around about the same time Fripp & Belew were both using it on a few tracks. Altho 'that' Offramp sound is immediately recognisable there are a lot of subtle things you can do with the 300 that are unique to it.
Pat truly is a 1 of 1 creature
1992 Roland GR1. Vast improvement. Easy installation of the GK2 pickup.
In my humble opinion the guitarist who made the most out of the GR300/G303 Roland guitar synth, is Robert Fripp.
Guitar synths, especially earlier ones, were tricky. The tracking wasn't 100%, often some latency. Pat and Allan Holdsworth (Synthaxe) seemed the only two who really mastered it. Even Holdsworth kind of ditched it eventually. But Pat REALLY mastered it. His solo on Are you going with me? from the live album Travels is an example of his mastery of the instrument.
Nice
Really interesting video about a unique iconic piece of gear. Comments: complaints.
Thank GOD we didn't get to hear it.
As much as I love Pat, he has produced some of the most horrible and cheesy sounds with that. Should have stayed with acoustic or semi hollow.
@@HenritheHorseobviously you know much better than him
@@non_brewed_condiment I do and your name is one of my favorite tracks. Allan also made horrible sounds with SynthAxe at times even though I love the man. Also AAL first 2 albums are amazing.
It goes to 11
Beautiful sounding instrument in the hands of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew
Clean it up bro