Roland Les Paul

[Naturality]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Roland-GR-50 ... dZViewItem
I think the controls on the top non-cutaway look like a Jazzes and the bridge looks a bit like a mustang.
What kind of pickups are those?

[daydreamdelay]

did you hear that?


my brain just imploded 

[Jay]

Errr...  "I'll have a grey goose martini, dirty, with no portamento in the olives."

"Portamento's... The Freshmaker!"

"I'll have the chilailques with a side of portamento's please.  And a diet coke."

Anyone ever modded their JMs upper controls to include a "portamento" switch?

[Stereordinary]

No.  But now I want to!   

[StevenO]

And here is the rolands meth addicted cousin:
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[Naturality]

And here is the rolands meth addicted cousin:
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[fullerplast]

Errr...  "I'll have a grey goose martini, dirty, with no portamento in the olives."

"Portamento's... The Freshmaker!"

"I'll have the chilailques with a side of portamento's please.  And a diet coke."

Anyone ever modded their JMs upper controls to include a "portamento" switch?

I relly like them portamento mushrooms...

[djetz]

"magnets that fed the audio output back to the strings, thus creating an 'infinite sustain' system"

...sounds like BS to me.

[mezcalhead]

Isn't that essentially what an ebow does? It gives you infinite sustain using an electromagnetic field.

I'm not sure about feeding the audio out back via an electro-magnet though .. that seems to me like you'd get a positive feedback loop that would become uncontrollable pretty quickly.

Pullover?

[Naturality]

Sound's like a copy of the Fernandes Sustainers

[flatfiver]

Anyone ever modded their JMs upper controls to include a "portamento" switch?

Nope, but it's a beautiful thing on a monophonic analog synth!

[mynameisjonas]

Anyone ever modded their JMs upper controls to include a "portamento" switch?

Nope, but it's a beautiful thing on a monophonic analog synth!

hell yeah!

[pullover]

Isn't that essentially what an ebow does? It gives you infinite sustain using an electromagnetic field.

I'm not sure about feeding the audio out back via an electro-magnet though .. that seems to me like you'd get a positive feedback loop that would become uncontrollable pretty quickly.

Pullover?

Pushes nerd glasses up on nose (seriously). It probably just uses the output audio to feed the magnets power, less volume less magnetic force, more volume more magnetic force, no volume no magenetic force. So it would be like a sustainer.

Sound's like a copy of the Fernandes Sustainers

It's probably where Fernandes got the idea.

Just looked it up, this guitar came out around 76, and the Infinite guitar was patented sometime after 1985 ( Fernandes bought the infinite guitar units and just made some modifications for their Sustainers), So this guitar was really ahead of it's time.

[Naturality]

Sound's like a copy of the Fernandes Sustainers

It's probably where Fernandes got the idea.

Just looked it up, this guitar came out around 76, and the Infinite guitar was patented sometime after 1985 ( Fernandes bought the infinite guitar units and just made some modifications for their Sustainers), So this guitar was really ahead of it's time.

I've always liked those but assumed it was an original idea, I guess I was wrong Thanks for the info

[TheMilford]

This is the wonderful Roland Guitar Synth... Alex Lifeson used one on Hemispheres.

So cool.