{"id":507,"date":"2013-01-28T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:26:44","slug":"g-5-vg-stratocaster-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/g-5-vg-stratocaster-review\/","title":{"rendered":"G-5 VG Stratocaster Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"G-5 VG stratocaster review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/g-5-vg-stratocaster-review\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-508\"><img data-attachment-id=\"508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/g-5-vg-stratocaster-review\/g-5-strat-close-up\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?fit=670%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"670,274\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"G-5 Strat close up\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?fit=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?fit=670%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-508\" alt=\"G-5 Strat close up\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?resize=670%2C274\" width=\"670\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?w=670&amp;ssl=1 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/G-5-Strat-close-up.png?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Review by Michael Hodge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Roland and Fender got together and offered a Stratocaster with a built in Roland GK Divided Pickup system.\u00a0 I have one and love it for programming since I am better on guitar than keys. \u00a0You can also double stuff via <a title=\"MIDI - 30 years blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/midi-the-essential-standard-turns-30\/\">MIDI<\/a> and make cool layers behind chords and solos, adding synth tones to what is coming out of the amp.<\/p>\n<p>Roland and Fender have teamed up again, and the result is really cool!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/products\/productdetails.php?ProductId=1188\">G-5 VG Strat<\/a>\u00a0is to guitar synthology what the iPod was to mp3 players.\u00a0 It is streamlined and does just a limited number of things exceptionally.\u00a0 The G-5 comes in two models. One is black with a maple neck, and the other is sunburst with a rosewood fingerboard.\u00a0 Both models have alder bodies, Fender vintage ceramic pickups, a 22-fret neck with medium jumbo frets and American inline tuners.\u00a0 There is also a built in Roland <a title=\"GK-3 Product page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/products\/details\/651\">GK-3<\/a> divided pickup and a synchronized tremolo bridge.\u00a0 Focusing on just the guitar tones, the G-5 is powered by Roland\u2019s Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM) engine from the <a title=\"VG-99\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/products\/details\/849\">VG-99<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is unique to this guitar is that you just\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worship Musician Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/100845854\/Worship-Musician-Magazine-July-August-2012#page=8\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Continue reading this review in the July\/August issue of Worship Musician! magazine<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[jetpack_subscription_form]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review by Michael Hodge A few years ago, Roland and Fender got together and offered a Stratocaster with a built in Roland GK Divided Pickup system.\u00a0 I have one and love it for programming since I am better on guitar than keys. \u00a0You can also double stuff via MIDI and make cool layers behind chords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[22],"tags":[66,63,67,65,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - 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