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Synth City: 10 Classic Guitar Synth Songs

Posted 06/05/2012 at 8:38am | by Damian Fanelli, Josh Hart

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Synth City: 10 Classic Guitar Synth Songs

Here's an ode to a piece of gadgetry rarely covered on GuitarWorld.com, something that has brought a whole new world of sounds to guitarists' fingertips: the guitar synthesizer, aka the guitar synth. First of all, exactly what is a guitar synth? To quote Norm Leet, who wrote an authoratative feature on the topic for Roland's UK website, "a guitar synth is a synth module whose input device is a guitar instead of a keyboard."

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