3-position switching between synth, natural guitar or mix of both

Mounts on electric and acoustic guitars with steel strings

The GK-2A is a slim, hexaphonic pickup designed to fit on virtually any guitar. It is constructed of a durable material that is well-suited for road use.


Our Price:  £135.32 £159.00 Including VAT at 17.5%

Futuristic floor-based guitar synth with over 350 stunning instrument sounds (tones) including analog synths, fat basses, nylon string guitars, organs, orchestral sounds, various ethnic instruments, jazz scat, choir, and much more.

Sound source derived from Roland JV-1080 synth module - a worldwide standard.

Massive wave memory.

Ultra-fast triggering with any steel-string guitar via user-installable GK-2A Divided Pickup (sold separately).

Dedicated Chorus and Reverb processing, plus 40 Multi-FX including rotary, overdrive, etc.

Output Select switch permits use with conventional guitar amps or power amps.

Assignable onboard expression pedal.

Synth Harmonist feature adds "intelligent" harmony to a single note.

The World's Most Powerful 48-Voice Guitar Synth

The perfect match to the GR-33's impressive sound engine is its greatly enhanced tracking speed, which marks the GR-33 as the world's most powerful 48-voice guitar synth. This lightning-quick response and improved accuracy ensures the GR-33 will capture every note and nuance of a guitarist's performance, from subtle strumming to pounding rhythms and intense solos.

Tap into a Sonic Powerhouse

While similar in some respects to its predecessor, the GR-30, the new GR-33 Guitar Synth makes a quantum leap forward in GR technology thanks to its advanced sound engine, based on Roland's legendary JV-Series synthesizer module. This rich engine opens up a whole new world of sounds for guitarists--sounds that can be layered with up to four tones each. Everything from incredibly realistic strings, fat analog basses, vintage synths, nylon-string guitars or even sound effects can be used to transform any steel-string guitar into an entirely new instrument for recording, MIDI sequencing or live performance.

Tons of Great Effects with Realtime Control

In addition to its dedicated JV-synthesizer-quality Reverb and Chorus processing, the GR-33 offers an onboard Multi-FX processor with 40 insert effects including overdrive, distortion, rotary and much more. An onboard expression pedal makes it easy to bring in selected effects and sounds in real time. And better still, these effects can be completely customized and saved into any of 128 User Patch locations for tonal tailoring galore.

Packed with Helpful Features

The GR-33's intuitive panel layout makes navigation, operation, and editing easy. It features a two-line LCD display, dedicated function buttons, and a Value dial for immediate access to the most commonly used parameters. There also four on/off pedals and an assignable expression pedal for quick realtime Patch selection and tweaking. A new stereo return input makes it easy to route a guitar from an external effects processor to the GR-33, while an Output Select switch permits connection to a guitar amp or power amp. Of course, MIDI I/O is also provided for using the GR-33 in conjunction with sequencers or to control other sound modules and MIDI gear.

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Since its introduction several years ago, Roland V-Guitar technology has slowly become the "best-kept secret" of many of today's top performers and studio musicians. Today, the list of V-Guitar System users reads like a "who's who" of modern guitar... and with good reason. Thanks to Roland Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM) technology, the original VG-8 and new VG-88 guitar processing / modeling systems can combine multiple "sound objects" - different guitar bodies, pickups, vintage and modern amplifiers, speaker cabinets, microphone placements, effects algorithms and more.

But the VG-88 doesn't stop at modeling other guitars and amps. Its ability to model guitar sounds is paired with a host of incredible effects and polyphonic pitch shifting that can instantly call-up a variety of different tunings or string - assignable processing with the stomp of a footpedal. With HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling), the V-Guitar System can also produce some very unique synth-type sounds which are all its own - with none of the tracking delay often associated with guitar synthesis. Better still, the VG-88 lets users blend the output of their GK pickup and normal guitar pickups to produce interesting "combination" sounds like simultaneous overdriven guitar and brass or wind sounds and much more. The order of each effect - and even the point in the signal chain where GK pickup sound is inserted and blended with the "normal" pickup sound - can be totally user defined.

Upgraded COSM Guitar & Amp Selections and New Effects

Sonically, the VG-88 picks up where the original VG-8 left off, giving users an incredibly realistic new nylon string guitar, new brass sounds in HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) mode, and new polyphonic effects like a string-assignable octaver and a polyphonic Slow Gear. There's also tons of new guitar insert effects derived from BOSS' cutting-edge GT-Series of guitar effects processors. Rounding out this impressive new engine, the VG-88's tube amp and overdrive modeling has been enhanced, giving guitarists even more variation and color between warm, overdriven amp tones. And new to the VG-88 is its direct 1/4" guitar input, which lets users plug directly into its COSM amp models and effects sections using normal electric guitar pickups.

A Truly Friendly Interface

Even though the technology inside is fierce, the VG-88's refined interface is incredibly friendly. Various guitar body types, pickup locations, amplifier types, speaker cabinets, effects and more are represented with helpful icons and graphics. Increasing the size of a simulated acoustic guitar body, for example, can be done simply by turning the Value dial while watching the guitar body graphic expand in realtime. A new EZ Edit mode simplifies the sonic sculpting process even further, scaling down the number of user parameters while intelligently working behind the scenes to give users the best tone. And with its onboard assignable expression and control pedals and new Output Select switch (allowing for connection to conventional guitar amps or power amps), the VG-88 has made it that much easier to take the guitar into the 21st century

To summarise:-

Self-contained guitar processing / modeling system which recreates a wide variety of guitar, pickup, amp, speaker cabinet and microphone sounds using a standard electric guitar equipped with a GK-2A or compatible pickup.

Contains hollow-body and acoustic guitar models - including new nylon-string - for instant switching between electric and acoustic guitar sounds.

Extremely natural tube amp models and overdriven sounds.

HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) creates new synth-type sounds (including new brass sounds) while preserving a guitar's natural expression.

Polyphonic Intelligent Pitch Shifter instantly recreates the sound of user-defined and open tunings, 12-string guitars, bass guitar, string-assignable octave, slow gear, etc.

Onboard reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay, flanger and parametric EQ - all available simultaneously.

Onboard expression pedal for realtime parameter control.

Output Select switch allows for great-sounding connection to conventional guitar amps or power amps.

200 Preset and 100 User Patches, including newly-developed factory Patches.

Direct 1/4" guitar input provides access to COSM amp models and effects using normal electric guitar pickups.


Our Price:  £594.89 £699.00 Including VAT at 17.5%