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Have you ever played a Line 6 Variax guitar or bass? Variax® is the one guitar that is a complete collection of guitars. No more dragging around multiple acoustics and electrics to gigs or recording studios. Variax gives you an endless variety of sounds from classic acoustic and electric tones all the way to sitar and banjo, all in one instrument. Moreover, the absence of magnetic pickups means that every note comes out crystal clear without any unwanted pickup noise.
Variax is the only guitar that allows you to plug into a computer and customize your tone or apply alternate tunings to any of the 25 presets. Line 6's exclusive Variax Workbench software lets you fine-tune all the details of each tone, or change your tuning to Open G, DADGAD, D-MODAL, Drop-D, or any tuning you can imagine, without ever needing a tuner. 25 guitars in 1 guitar. I'm thinking about buying a Variax 700. Your experiences?? Thanks. | |
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yes i have it would make a GREAT studio guitar i forget the model i played , but the one i did had a effect of a citar on it i was really digging..i only know of one effect ped that can do this and it is no longer produced...the one thing on the line six get a new neck for it the stock neck is a peice o shit..another thing i liked about it is u could drop D tune with the flip of a switch.. it has nice warm tones i would for sure buy one if one i wanted another studio guitar (will be needing to be modified ) or 2 i was a begining guitarist that wanted to get good sound/tone with a few effects built in with out spending hundreds more to get the effects it comes with [Edited 3/26/08 14:36pm] | |
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Too fake. And I find any non-Tele shaped guitar to be uncomfortable. Maybe we can go to the movies and cry together | |
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I had one for about two years. (the 500 sunburst) I liked it alot.
In the mix, it was a great guitar. The teles, strats and gibsons sounded authentic enough to cover duty on rhythm guitars and in live settings. After awhile, I came to appreciate it as a guitar with many tones, as opposed to a guitar that sounds just like many guitars. The playability was decent but in the end, there was one thing that bugged me to the point that I ended up selling it. The string-squeak. They use pickups similar to the ones on acoustic guitars - under the bridge - so while you might sound like you're wailing away on a strat or getting solid chickengrease on a tele, as soon as you moved your fingers, you'd get that squawk of a cheap acoustic pickup. BUT, that was a minor thing. I've used it live on many occasions, and other musicians start out laughing and ended up seriously interested in getting one for themselves. Hopefully they did a little work on the squawk thing. Another thing that sold me on the guitar - the hollowbody and semi-hollowbody tones are amazing. The acoustics are very nice as well. The guitar was extremely versatile for a home-studio, and very useful live. It was a little light, and if you used it live with batteries instead of the power cable, you're rolling the dice. But all in all, I was very happy with it. Here's a track I recorded, trying to test out the different guitars on the guitar. The rhythm track on the left is a tele, the auto-wah rhythm on the right is a rickenbacker maybe? (I might have those reversed), and the leads vary from a strat to a les paul. I've got other tracks where I used the hollowbody sounds, but this track really showcases the different tones well enough. (and augh you can hear the squawk in there occasionally) 
Okay here's the track with the big fat hollowbody sound. I loved goofing off with the fat hollowbody sound at live gigs. People would stare at my guitar (especially the guitar snobs) and ask me wtf was I playing. It has no pickups, so it baffles people. 
(yes the lyrics are goofy but hey what can I say I'm an artist). Also - I do remember - Variax made some real improvements when they did the 700, and one of those improvements was the neck. So there you go. [Edited 3/30/08 17:11pm] www.beaurocks.com Trees are made of WOOD! | |
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beauhall said: I had one for about two years. (the 500 sunburst) I liked it alot.
In the mix, it was a great guitar. The teles, strats and gibsons sounded authentic enough to cover duty on rhythm guitars and in live settings. After awhile, I came to appreciate it as a guitar with many tones, as opposed to a guitar that sounds just like many guitars. The playability was decent but in the end, there was one thing that bugged me to the point that I ended up selling it. The string-squeak. They use pickups similar to the ones on acoustic guitars - under the bridge - so while you might sound like you're wailing away on a strat or getting solid chickengrease on a tele, as soon as you moved your fingers, you'd get that squawk of a cheap acoustic pickup. BUT, that was a minor thing. I've used it live on many occasions, and other musicians start out laughing and ended up seriously interested in getting one for themselves. Hopefully they did a little work on the squawk thing. Another thing that sold me on the guitar - the hollowbody and semi-hollowbody tones are amazing. The acoustics are very nice as well. The guitar was extremely versatile for a home-studio, and very useful live. It was a little light, and if you used it live with batteries instead of the power cable, you're rolling the dice. But all in all, I was very happy with it. Here's a track I recorded, trying to test out the different guitars on the guitar. The rhythm track on the left is a tele, the auto-wah rhythm on the right is a rickenbacker maybe? (I might have those reversed), and the leads vary from a strat to a les paul. I've got other tracks where I used the hollowbody sounds, but this track really showcases the different tones well enough. (and augh you can hear the squawk in there occasionally)
Okay here's the track with the big fat hollowbody sound. I loved goofing off with the fat hollowbody sound at live gigs. People would stare at my guitar (especially the guitar snobs) and ask me wtf was I playing. It has no pickups, so it baffles people.
(yes the lyrics are goofy but hey what can I say I'm an artist). Also - I do remember - Variax made some real improvements when they did the 700, and one of those improvements was the neck. So there you go. [Edited 3/30/08 17:11pm] First of all, thanks for your detailed answer. I really dig your two tracks. Great songs! And WOW, what an amazing versatile guitar this Variax is. I've been listening to YouTube videos of the Variax lately. I think you are right about the squeak-thing. That's what I heard as well. But, if that's the only downside: where do you get all those sounds in just 1 guitar? This video got me sold: I think this guitar will be really useful for homerecording. That's my intention. I haven't had the time to test one in a guitar shop, but hopefully I'll experience the Variax myself next weekend. | |
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