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Any of you got any experience with the VG 99?


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you guys think I would be alright just getting some $200-$300 monitors?

 

 

Monitors aren't really meant for live performance because the "throw"/projection is short compared to powered speakers. I got my ZXA-1 for $450 btw.

 

Are you going to be playing big or small clubs? Are you playing in a band with loud musicians (loud drummer, 2nd guitarist)?

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You can do that in mono with the VG-99.

Cosm guitar out one side of the VG-99 into your pedals and back into the guitar input

on the back of the Vg-99.

Then through VG effects and out the un-used output side of the VG-99.

 

I believe I put directions and a patch for this up on the VG forum...

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it'd be nice to patch my Paul Trombetta Tornita fuzz between, say, a virtual baritone guitar, and delay/reverb in the VG-99, but I've already gone down the path of splitting my guitar signal and having one going into a pedal rig, in parallel with the VG-99.


I know at least one of the TC Electronic multieffects pedals has an effects loop, which is pretty cool. I think it's the model Steve Vai uses, and he patches in his signature wah pedal or something into it. But I don't feel compelled to invest in yet another multieffects unit when the VG meets so many of my needs already.

 

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Monitors aren't really meant for live performance because the "throw"/projection is short compared to powered speakers. I got my ZXA-1 for $450 btw.


Are you going to be playing big or small clubs? Are you playing in a band with loud musicians (loud drummer, 2nd guitarist)?

I consider my bedroom to be a small club :idk:

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I started doing that immediately :thu: I'm still overwhelmed by what this thing is capable of. this thing has so many features, its going to take me a while to master it. Does this thing have the capabilities of most synths? I noodled around on a microkorg vocorder today and dug the presets. Is tis thing capable of getting those tones?

 

how do i gain access to drums? Is that a feature of the vg99? I could swear i saw it in the promo videos :idk:

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It can produce sounds indistinguishable from synthesizers even though it is not primarily a synthesizer. I'm working on a demo right now I might upload so you can check out - all sounds were from the VG-99 except drums. Drums is not part of its pallette really unless you are triggering drums in a guitar-to-midi fashion.

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Thank you, sir!!!

 

I'll give all this a try sometime soon.

 

 

You can do that in mono with the VG-99.

Cosm guitar out one side of the VG-99 into your pedals and back into the guitar input

on the back of the Vg-99.

Then through VG effects and out the un-used output side of the VG-99.


I believe I put directions and a patch for this up on the VG forum...

 

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Does this thing have the capabilities of most synths? I noodled around on a microkorg vocorder today and dug the presets. Is tis thing capable of getting those tones?


how do i gain access to drums? Is that a feature of the vg99? I could swear i saw it in the promo videos
:idk:

 

No vocoder, and no drums on the VG-99. Well, Bill Ruppert made a Caribbean style steel drum patch for VG-99, but I'm guessing you'r talking about usual drum sounds like snare drum, cymbals, etc. If you want to play drums on your guitar, you'll have to connect something to the VG-99's MIDI Out.

 

If you want virtual analog sounds like the MicroKorg's check out the GR300 synth model in the VG-99. Bill Ruppert made some great sounds layering the GR300 model with the Brass model.

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or consider the Roland GR-55

 

 

sfarsky received his VG-99 already on 1/21. Since he likes the Microkorg sound, perhaps he could take a look at the Korg Electribes (used or new) for drum sounds as well as the Korg style of virtual analog sound.

 

sfarsky, there are two kinds of Electribes - the "synth" type and the "sampler" type. Since you're new to all of this, I'd go for the "synth" type.

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It can produce sounds indistinguishable from synthesizers even though it is not primarily a synthesizer. I'm working on a demo right now I might upload so you can check out - all sounds were from the VG-99 except drums. Drums is not part of its pallette really unless you are triggering drums in a guitar-to-midi fashion.

 

 

yes, I would like to hear it!

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sfarsky received his VG-99 already on 1/21. Since he likes the Microkorg sound, perhaps he could take a look at the Korg Electribes (used or new) for drum sounds as well as the Korg style of virtual analog sound.


sfarsky, there are two kinds of Electribes - the "synth" type and the "sampler" type. Since you're new to all of this, I'd go for the "synth" type.

I'll have to check it out when funds permit

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I tried for some time earlier but I couldn't seem to get this tone. The staccato picking guitar during the verse. I can hear some reverb, and delay. The tone seems somewhat clean to me :idk:

 

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also, how do I program the damn ribbon in the editor? I changed all sorts of settings on the editor and nothing seemed to happen. if i have a have a delay in the chain how do i set up the ribbon to control the output/volume of the delay?

 

 

I'm gonna have to go to college to use this awesome piece of gear :facepalm: Good thing is I won't have gas for a loooooong time :thu:

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also, dont judge my music please :lol: I'm on the spear of creativity with my roots seated in 200 AC. I'm just a normal melody and harmony guy like you. I study the classical/romance/whatever fellows and the newest pop club.

 

I think the andy griffith tune is one of the best ever!

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