toasterdude wrote:

You can't be serious? I don't want a Jem model, and hate EMGs but I bet any potential JTV89 customers would want both.

 

So you are saying the Guitar Center sales rep who knows very little is better off telling the kid that he can connect to workbench and lay one pickup on top of another then add 6 DB of gain and the crank up the overall gain 6db, and don't worry the picture will look weird but it will sound great?

 

I am thinking a section on the knob for JEM and another for ESP/EMG etc would be a wee bit more intuitive and help sell way more variaxes.

 

I am sure a skilled mechanic can install an aftermarket turbo charger easily, but car manufacturers still have that as an option for people that want to drive and not work on the cars. Many people on this forum are tweakers of the highest order. I thought the point of JTV was to "dominate" the guitar world. . . . .never happen if you need to enter workbench just to have a JEM guitar or PRS etc.

 

 

Are you saying that you never use gearbox now and still have your x3l on a music stand?

What I was drawing attention to is that the line needs to be drawn somewhere.  Using a logic of what every conceivable potential JTV customer might want included, then the Variax would probably need a hard drive built in along with some UI that would enable quick access to hundreds of thousands of guitars.  How long do we want to wait for Line 6 to model every guitar ever invented before releasing the JTV series?

The fact remains that every user can have access to hundreds of thousand of models by saving their creations using Workbench.  There are pre-built guitar (and bass) models available on the Internet (Andy Z's Institute of Noise is a good starting point).  So, users don't need to be a guitar technician to access custom models if they don't have the skills to build them.

On to the Guitar Centre scenario.  I know you'll attack me on this point to, but as far as I'm concerned if the Guitar Centre gibbon or shred kiddie can't get their head around what is possible with Workbench and the Variax, then I would strongly suggest that they stick with the $75 guitar and 10 Watt tranny amp package deals.  One day, when they grow up, they might actually learn enough about the instrument to understand how to use a Variax and Workbench.  I guess I have become too much of a gutiar snob.

You know what?  I still prefer to tweak the X3 Live and Pro directly rather than use Gearbox.  I never was a fan of Gearbox, Edit on the other hand is cool and I still use Edit for the Vetta II.

I see what you mean about the JTV89 because it certainly appears to be directed to a different market.  I actually would have liked the ability to make my own model selector knob wrap around so that the selector shows what I actually have on my user presets.  With the JTV it would be cool to be able to do that with the model selector and the tuning selector.

Mate, I am so split in two worlds because I dig using the Line 6 gear (as you know) but I also build point to point hand wired tube amps that have no solid state components at all.  So, I do recognise that I may not be representative of the average Line 6 gear user, especially the shred kiddies.

Cheers,

Crusty