I'm in a six piece jazz standards band which sometimes plays as a trio (guitar, bass, drums) and I'm trying to get some electric piano type sounds into the set to keep audiences interested over two hour sets. The EHX Key9 looks absolutely perfect (and I think it sounds great) but I don't buy EHX stuff - it always breaks.
So, I'm trying to find another way. Should I get a Boss ME-80 and try and get close to the sound with compressor, auto wah, phaser and octaver? I could do with the chorus for some other stuff I'm doing too, so this seems a good option. Or are there any individual pedals I should be looking at? Can one of the FB people build me something for the job? Or should I just forget it/learn keys?
I'm not at all a pedal-type person, so bear with me.
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OP, if you are able to play even basic keys parts, a second hand Microkorg probably isn't much different in price and can be fiddled with to do an impression of an epiano type thing
Otherwise, you could just try tweaking your eq and adding some tremolo, and adjust your playing to include three note chords instead, different accents on the single note playing etc, and you might get something different that is a more natural sounding than a digital approximation?
I think you're right @thecolourbox that an approximate sound might have to do. I've just bought an ME-80 to experiment with. I'll probably use it once and sell it a year later judging by past form. But worth a go.