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Roland GR-33 with GK-3 pick up Guitar Synthesizer Multi Effect Pedal

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Brand: Roland

Type: Guitar Synthesizer Effect Pedal

Model: GR-33

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by phatjbp
Sep 16, 2020Top favourable review
cool guitar synthesizer with some decent features
i got addicted to roland guitar synths years ago, and had an opportunity to pick up a roland gr33. while its NOT my favorite of the "modern" rolands (i have gr300,700,1,09,20,30,33 and 55 synths) it IS probably one of the easier ones. the tracking is pretty good, standard guitar synthesis caveats apply. YOU are your tone and its your fingers.. that said, i found some patches needed quite a bit of tweaking to really get tracking to work well. but once dialed in, it tracks nice and fast, with a hint of noticeable latency on your lowest notes. its not the deepest interface i've seen, but you can get some serviceable and useful tones for live use. very much plug n play. honestly, for all it can do, this is pretty similar tonally to a gr55 imho, minus the effect processing power. i haven't ... i got addicted to roland guitar synths years ago, and had an opportunity to pick up a roland gr33. while its NOT my favorite of the "modern" rolands (i have gr300,700,1,09,20,30,33 and 55 synths) it IS probably one of the easier ones. the tracking is pretty good, standard guitar synthesis caveats apply. YOU are your tone and its your fingers.. that said, i found some patches needed quite a bit of tweaking to really get tracking to work well. but once dialed in, it tracks nice and fast, with a hint of noticeable latency on your lowest notes. its not the deepest interface i've seen, but you can get some serviceable and useful tones for live use. very much plug n play. honestly, for all it can do, this is pretty similar tonally to a gr55 imho, minus the effect processing power. i haven't tried this with midi yet, so can't comment on that, but i did use my gk4p splitter to run it wired up with a few others (gr09/gr20) and it performed great. if you're just starting out with these mongrels, i'd probably go gr20, but this is .... more of a lateral step than a step up. they're like apples and orangutans in that respect. but anyways, for the price you can get these at on ebay these days, its a no-brainer. they work well, track well, look cool, the exp pedal is a really useful feature and they are a lot of fun, once you get used to them. take the time to download and read the manual. that will help you get the most from this unit. it was definitely worth the price.
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by crispybutt
Mar 21, 2017
Good value for older guitar synth
This is the only guitar synth I've ever had or played, so I'm no expert. Has great functionality and pretty easy to use and set up. The default patches were not very useful to me, but it was easy enough to figure out how to change them and move them around. The pianos, organs, synth sounds, and synth bass sounds are very good, but the acoustic guitar and 12 string sounds are not very realistic. The tracking seems pretty good to me once I got the pickup set up right and the sensitivity dialed in. A used GR-33 seems to be a pretty good way to get into guitar synth without spending lots of money.This is the only guitar synth I've ever had or played, so I'm no expert. Has great functionality and pretty easy to use and set up. The default patches were not very useful to me, but it was easy enough to figure out how to change them and move them around. The pianos, organs, synth sounds, and synth bass sounds are very good, but the acoustic guitar and 12 string sounds are not very realistic. The tracking seems pretty good to me once I got the pickup set up right and the sensitivity dialed in. A used GR-33 seems to be a pretty good way to get into guitar synth without spending lots of money.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: travelingriverside
by billbenjamin1969
Aug 09, 2014
Disappointing - recommend only if you know what you're getting
I'm frankly not impressed with the Roland GR-33 guitar synthesizer I recently bought on Ebay. No fault of the sellers. I have a Godin electric with a 13 pin connector and I wanted to be able to connect to MIDI synthesizers. Roland made a box which does just that - converts the signal from the 13 pin output to MIDI and nothing else. I've seen them on Ebay for about $100. However I thought I might as well pay more and get the synthesizer since it promised to deliver quality sounds and foot controlled functions. It falls short on both counts. The sounds are mediocre at best. I think the basic synth engine is good but, as other buyers have suggested, you'll have to tweak the sounds a lot to get anything usable and, like many presets included with synthesizer, some are just silly and useless ... I'm frankly not impressed with the Roland GR-33 guitar synthesizer I recently bought on Ebay. No fault of the sellers. I have a Godin electric with a 13 pin connector and I wanted to be able to connect to MIDI synthesizers. Roland made a box which does just that - converts the signal from the 13 pin output to MIDI and nothing else. I've seen them on Ebay for about $100. However I thought I might as well pay more and get the synthesizer since it promised to deliver quality sounds and foot controlled functions. It falls short on both counts. The sounds are mediocre at best. I think the basic synth engine is good but, as other buyers have suggested, you'll have to tweak the sounds a lot to get anything usable and, like many presets included with synthesizer, some are just silly and useless unless you're playing in the Star Trek band. As for the foot controller, the patch layout is bizarre to say the least and the foot controller does not simply advance from one patch to another as you'd expect. It is not at all user friendly. Luckily I have the manual so I'll be able to figure it out. On a positive note, the guitar tracks well right out of the box, no adjustments at the synth necessary. In summary, don't expect to just plug in and start playing great sounds and have immediate access to everything from the foot controller. But if you need to MIDI your 13 pin guitar and have some synth sounds, they are about the only game in town, other than the Axon guitar synth, which I haven't tried.
by *star*lord
Feb 16, 2011
Roland Gr-33 Guitar Synthesizer
The short story 10 out of 10 - I'm having a lot of fun, makes me smile often. Revitalized my 60-year-old playing! I love it!! Wasn't sure about this idea at first. Originally I wanted to buy a VG strat (better guitar, MIA - maple neck) - the MIM Roland Ready strats have Rosewood F/B's. But I came across a "project" guitar: MIM body (black with white P/G) and MIA maple neck with jumbos - perfect ($799 plus shipping)! The drawback of the VG system is: there's no 13 pin output! Stupid, seems like such a simple option...whatever, the VG is very limited IMHO. The detuning I suppose (can't be duplicated by the GR-33, at least not easily). So while I waited for the R/R Strat to arrive, I also bought a GR-33 for $400 plus shipping (in hindsight I would buy the GR-55 now that I know how ... The short story 10 out of 10 - I'm having a lot of fun, makes me smile often. Revitalized my 60-year-old playing! I love it!! Wasn't sure about this idea at first. Originally I wanted to buy a VG strat (better guitar, MIA - maple neck) - the MIM Roland Ready strats have Rosewood F/B's. But I came across a "project" guitar: MIM body (black with white P/G) and MIA maple neck with jumbos - perfect ($799 plus shipping)! The drawback of the VG system is: there's no 13 pin output! Stupid, seems like such a simple option...whatever, the VG is very limited IMHO. The detuning I suppose (can't be duplicated by the GR-33, at least not easily). So while I waited for the R/R Strat to arrive, I also bought a GR-33 for $400 plus shipping (in hindsight I would buy the GR-55 now that I know how great this system is). The guitar arrived about a week later...and after rewiring (someone was a dolt!): Wow! What a combination...even though I have the older Roland pup in my axe (GK-2) it tracks beautifully (some newer GR-33's have the GK-3 addon pup). Really suits my straight-ahead playing style. Learned to play the theme from Pink Panther right away - using "Breathy Sax" voice on the GR-33 - with your eyes closed you'd swear I was playing a sax. There are plenty of 'sounds' included and lots of room for adding your own. The footswitches are handy, T-wah; Glide (octaver); Hold; and Control (adds the Arpeggiator or Harmonicizer depending on the voice). The GR-33 footpedal mostly works as a volume pedal, on the organs though it controls the 'leslie' rotation speed. The switches on the guitar enable scrolling through the banks & voices - I've bought some programmable foot switches to duplicate this (so I can use my feet for scrolling instead) the Boss FS-6 is perfect for this. The GR-33 has stereo output (I run it through my 600 watt home stereo, sounds superb) and a separate feed for the guitar if you want to run that to a guitar amp (I do). Or you can use the guitar out for an effects loop and return it to the GR-33 (in stereo if you wish) - it's all mixed in the GR-33 and controlled by the two volume knobs on my Strat. The only drawback is that it's not Bass compatible - although if I had a GK pup for my Bass I'd try it out - I'm sure something would come out of it!
by just4me411
Apr 01, 2011
Roland GR-33 Guitar Synthesizer and GK3 Pup
With a 90+ page manual this isn't for the faint of heart. If you are looking to get into guitar synthesis it would be hard to do better then the GR-33. The unit works extremely well with the GK3 pup and when adjusted correctly the latency and glitching are all but undetectible despite some occasional comments to the contrary. The amount of control over the unit is impressive, the sounds are really nice even when put into a tube guitar amp. When it is run into a stereo it can be pretty stunning as the samples are very dense and lush. This instrument really needs the full spectrum of 20-20k to reveal itself...if you are a tweaker you will have reached Nirvana. The unit itself is well constructed and will survive all but the most Neanderthal handling. I have a GK3 pup although it is my ... With a 90+ page manual this isn't for the faint of heart. If you are looking to get into guitar synthesis it would be hard to do better then the GR-33. The unit works extremely well with the GK3 pup and when adjusted correctly the latency and glitching are all but undetectible despite some occasional comments to the contrary. The amount of control over the unit is impressive, the sounds are really nice even when put into a tube guitar amp. When it is run into a stereo it can be pretty stunning as the samples are very dense and lush. This instrument really needs the full spectrum of 20-20k to reveal itself...if you are a tweaker you will have reached Nirvana. The unit itself is well constructed and will survive all but the most Neanderthal handling. I have a GK3 pup although it is my understanding that the main change from the GK2 is more ergonomic than anything else, I wonder if that might be part of the solution to the latency/glitching problems I've heard of with some slight improvement in the GK3 pup itself. When patches are adjusted to personal playing style they are VERY convincing and a real joy to hear. So the sound is aurally impressive...here is the secret though. This is a different instrument than the guitar and as such it will necessitate some changes to playing style to really make full use of the unit...there are almost 400 different sounds...128 can be tweaked personally and stored...this is a pretty impressive palate of paints to use. It's like having the BIG box of Crayola's when you were a youngster. The guitar becomes the orchestrator while you do the conducting. If this sounds like a convert...I confess LOL. It makes me wonder just how much of the sound we hear on TV, radio ect has been done by one of these or something similar.***added 04/01/11***make sure to use a good QUALITY GK CABLE (preferably Roland) to connect up with and save yourself some grief.

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