My thoughts in a nutshell.

1. Roland's synthesis, I noticed, seems to show more distortion and "digital artifacts" the more notes are played at once. As opposed to Korg, where the more notes are played the more "real" it sounds.

2. The more stomp boxes, or processors you add, in general, the more noise you get. AND the more complex your signal chain, the more likely you are to have a failure or fault at a gig.

3. If you want it to sound more like the dancers expect, try the following. Do not use any effects, it can just muddy your sound and make it nondistinct.

Use your third octave EQ and create a very steep high frequency rool-off. Start very high and keep lowering the frequencies (pulling down sliders) until you find sound you want.

If you insist on using effects, do the following to simulate the "internal" mic sound. Create a reverb setting using the following.
. high frequecy rolloff. (none)
. hall type medium
. pre-delay none
. reverb time extremely short

Part of the "Zydeco" internal mic sound is the mic picking up the reeds ringing after you have stopped playing a note. Using this type of (very unnatural) reverb setting, you can simulate this and "smooth out" the sound.

WARNING: if you use a cheap digital reverb, you will get distortion, like Larry mentioned, in the high frequencies.

Have fun!
DP

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