Sorry to break the flow and please feel free to ignore this as I'm posting this here instead of taking up valuable space on the blog Rich has for his new info regarding the Variax...

eugovector says:

August 9, 2010 at 10:53 am

Yeah, a sound sample is worth a thousand words. This is just a lot of patting the guitar on the back. And the one sample we get is the sitar…REALLY? The sitar was the first thing I took off my variax to make room for a “Strat” model that didn’t artificially chop off sustain.

I felt this needed to be try to get my curiosity quenched by quoting what was written elsewhere and discuss it here...

"eugovector says: The sitar was the first thing I took off my variax to make room for a “Strat” model that didn’t artificially chop off sustain"

Since you must have Workbench to remove and replace a patch, why did you remove any patch to modify a guitar model already in a bank? Making a new patch of a modified version of a guitar/guitars you're obviously unhappy with seems like a waste of space to me.  Why not just improve the Strats already in that bank so you can have an entire bank of Strats in each of the standard 5 positions with your desired longer sustain that you stated you've deleted the Sitar patch for?

It's seems **in my humble opinion** that you wasted a slot on the Vax for just one customized guitar that you could have easily done and left in its original bank slot - unless you like the

pre-loaded strat patches?  Just the thought I had reading your remarks.

There is also now a new thread started by "Crusty_Old_Rocker" that discusses all the reasons why Workbench and a Variax guitar can do many more things than most owners are aware of. Or perhaps even thought of by the original designers when they created both the guitars and Workbench.

Take care,

Neal

I see people are talking about pod X3 live. I want to buy pod x3 but I prefer the normal small pod than the larger live one. Will it offer the same functionality with a Tyler Variax?

I would like to have a stripped down version... all i want is a strat that sounds like a les paul.... i prefer a strat neck or an ibanez neck.... but i want the fat chunk of a les paul... but without naving to play a les paul... better yet, just give me a stomp box that will do that  :-)

Hey, I've got an American-made Fender Double Fat Strat that I'm selling. I wanted the same thing you want but I decided I prefer the Les Paul's neck.

lol... man, i gotta ask ya..have you ever actually had a les paul?   i do have an am. strat with a mo joe humbucker in the bridge... i also have a gibson les paul.. iput the humbucker in the strat trying to fatten up the sound.. it did... it's about like an ibanez rg now... but it's no where near my les paul... i even tried splitting the coil in my les paul to try an brighten it up like a fender scale guitar..didn't work.. i've found out that 24.75" guitar, like a gibson, sounds dark and thick.... and a 25.5" scale guitar, like a strat, sounds bright and thin... i want the neck and expressiveness of a strat and the thick chunk and punch of my lp.

i tell ya what i'd really like... i want the ability to mix the strat and les paul sound together at the same time. and maybe a balance between the two that will vary the mix. wouldn't that be awesome? :-)

Nah, just buy a JTV-59 or JTV-69 and feed the mag pickups to one amp and the Variax model via DVI cable to a Vetta or Pod X3 or Live! Close enough.