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Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:25:25 GMT

The bext way to get the older Variax guitars to sound better is to replace the bridge (or saddles) with Graphtech. I use a graphtech Tune-o-matic type on one of my transplants and it sounds 100% better. I use Graphtech saddles on a Strat style bridge on another of my transplants and it, too sounds worlds better.

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:22:18 GMT

Resurrecting an old thread because this is important to me, too.

C'mon, seriously, guys; you could at least do a "band-aid" fix of a notch filter at around 1.6kHz on the low E string.

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:39:07 GMT

Bump...

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:32:33 GMT

it wont hurt to try but i did that till my fingers calused up for a tiny little usb driver. for well over a year..... and not just me alot of people chimed in.

most i saw was a couple of promises to take it to the top. but still no driver...... but good luck with it

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:12:12 GMT

Understood and agreed. Nevertheless, I'll insist a bit, according to the old proverb: "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Of course, I doubt to be able to embody the change but if I post again and again, maybe my faint voice will be heard...

Maybe some day I'll try those Graph Tech saddles, tho.

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:59:11 GMT

i know what you meant i didnt want to type areal long explanation but people here have been asknig for over a year for a usb driver for workbench for 64 bit systems. nothing happened

people here have been asking for an update version of workbench for vista nothing happened

people her have been asking for drivers for mac snow leopard nothing happened people here are asking for update version of workbench for snow leopard nothing happened.

see the pattern

now there going to ship workbench with the new guitar. will it be a new version or the old one no one knows

if it is a new version.......... will it be 64 bit compatable....no one knows

as far as the plink. thats supposed to be fixed with the new style pickup as well as the software in the gitar which isnt backward compatable

i dont have the plink in my 300 . but i have graph tech pickups not those lr baggs things.....

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:05:08 GMT

amx05462 a écrit:

the new software isnt compatable. and so i dont think youll se this.

Yes, I know.

I was asking for something else, adapted to the previous Variax and at least able to diminish the "plink" factor (if not to kill it). :-)

Re: Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:16:03 GMT

the new software isnt compatable. and so i dont think youll se this.

Anti "plink" software for first gen Variax models, PLEASE?

support@line6.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:55:54 GMT

Hi,

I own one of the first Variax (a 500 built in 2003) and it's a first hand model that I've bought brand new (it was almost twice the price of a Variax 600 nowadays). I often play it on stage for seven years.

Since the beginning, I struggle (in vain) with the "plink" issue, which is especially noticeable on my Variax. I've in fact renounced to use the electric models, playing only the semi-hollow, acoustic and reso clones. What a pity to be forced to have several of my guitars on stage, therefore!

Now, I see that Line6 has found a way to cure the "plink" problem, as it's explained is this QUOTE ABOUT THE TYLER VARIAX:

First-gen Variax® players helped us identify some of the features they wanted to see in the bridges of James Tyler Variax guitars. The big ones we looked into were eliminating clang-tone and maximizing reliability.

What is clang-tone? Clang-tone, or wolf tone, is a sound inherent in a vibrating string. A string vibrates in three modes: Torsional, Longitudinal, and Transverse. Torsional vibration does not produce a sound wave – it is the string just twisting like a drive shaft in a car. Longitudinal vibration is what the magnetic pickups on a guitar are “hearing” and reproducing. Transverse vibration is a wave going up and down the string as it is stretches and relaxes longitudinally. Magnetic pickups do not reproduce Transverse vibration, but it is the type of vibration that a piezo pickup “hears,” and it produces the clang. Some describe its sound as a “ping” or “plink.” It is there even on acoustic guitars.

Numerous times Lloyd and his crew met with a Line 6 team that included Line 6 co-founder and chief technology officer, Michel Doidic. We showed Lloyd and his people what we were up against and they took the bull by the horns to help us tackle it. They did a great job. Between Lloyd and Michel’s work on the clang-tone issue, and some slick DSP algorithms by our engineering and sound design guys, clang-tone has been essentially eliminated. (Big kudos to Lloyd and Michel for spearheading this.)

Could you, dear Line6 team write a "flash memory" 3.11 able to diminish this trouble for us, first gen Variax users?

Thx in advance,

FF, European customer

Footnote: an adding able to emulate the CABLE CAPACITANCE FACTOR would also be welcome - unless it enhances the "plink" issue, of course.