I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
From Andy Summers
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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