jetter gsr

[louis cyfer]

i liked the gsb so much, i bought the gsr. a very different flavored pedal, more low gain dumble tones. some say it is a copy of the zendrive, but i have friends who have both, and they say it is very different. i should have it by the end of the week.

[Michael-GnL-Michael]

i liked the gsb so much, i bought the gsr. a very different flavored pedal, more low gain dumble tones. some say it is a copy of the zendrive, but i have friends who have both, and they say it is very different. i should have it by the end of the week.

Louis,

Any idea how either compare to the GS3?

Please provide audio/video samples when you have a chance.

Thanks,

Michael

[Dave_P]

I watched a couple of demos, both very good sounding pedals

-Dave

[louis cyfer]

the videos don't even do them justice. the blue in person is much smoother with that violin like ej-esque bloom. it is fussy, have to play with setting it up, a few demos on youtube used some setting that do not work very well. also it takes a decent player, as the pedal is very revealing and is not kind to sloppy players. i will do a video when i get a chance and do a comparison.

[Michael-GnL-Michael]

the videos don't even do them justice. the blue in person is much smoother with that violin like ej-esque bloom. it is fussy, have to play with setting it up, a few demos on youtube used some setting that do not work very well. also it takes a decent player, as the pedal is very revealing and is not kind to sloppy players. i will do a video when i get a chance and do a comparison.

I have always been a fan of Eric Johnston but I have never liked the tone he switches to from clean. It has an awkward character to transition to from his clean tone. It is decapitated. It also sounds like it is phoned in from an old overseas phone line dating pre-70s. I realize you said the video demos are bad representations but one thing that I noticed was that something about it sounded reminded me of progressive rock guitarist Alan Holdsworth, not a bad quality to have. His violin-singing tone and expressiveness is something desirable. It is the muted topless tone that I dislike in johnson's tone. What do you think? Is it possible to get the Holdsworth tone with this GSR or GSB? The snippets heard on his site are not long enough for those unfamiliar with Holdsworth. Just relying on them may lead you to think of shredders which he is definitely not. He plays very unconventional note patterns and was one of the early pioneers of techniques that have been stripped of their context and grouped with what is known as shredding. This might seem premature and perhaps I should just wait. I was hoping you would comment and maybe play a little in the prog rock style when making your demo.

[louis cyfer]

i don't like that ej rolls off tone, his tone is too dull. but i like the singing bloom he gets. live much more than on recordings. holdsworth is actually a good example of the grb, i don't mention him as most don't know.

[Michael-GnL-Michael]

i don't like that ej rolls off tone, his tone is too dull. but i like the singing bloom he gets. live much more than on recordings. holdsworth is actually a good example of the grb, i don't mention him as most don't know.

Holdsworth is amazing. With all of those unique note patterns in his leads he does not use hybrid picking. He skips strings with his pick and does a lot of legato. He does use hybrid picking when doing chords though. He never wanted to play guitar. He wanted a sax but they were too expensive and his father bought him a guitar. He approached the guitar trying to make it sound like something other than a guitar, more like a woodwind instrument. His guitar often sounds like a sax with violin-like characteristics.

[louis cyfer]

i got it, and it is exactly what i wanted. a lower gain more articulate version of the gsb. it is not thicker like a lot of utube reviews claim, it is about the same. the gain is definitely optimized for lower to mid gain dumbleish, articulate, fat tones. very dynamic. lots of sustain, very little noise, but it still feels uncompressed, has a lot of dynamics left in there. a lot more sustain than what the gain and compression would suggest.