Aug 25, 2012 10:07 PM
After all the drama is over, it's nice to let loose.
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If you are still struggling with your Variax... hang in there! It's worth it. After spending a lot of quality time doing set-up work on my JTV, and even more quality time in Workbench, I'm think finally getting to where I want to be with the JTV. I even got motivated enough to put together a recording tonight.
i tend to agree with the poster on your youtube page... drums a bit too loud to appreciate the tones... but what i could make out was very nice...
thanks for sharing.
I thought that was good input. I took the suggestion and remixed the audio. Re-posted with a new link:
much easier to hear the tones... nice work... a bit more than just the JTV going on there... amps/fx/whatnot
what work did you do in workbench??
I've made probably over a hundred different models in Workbench, and organized them into folders so I can use my computer as a digital storage locker. I keep thinking that L6 is really not fully promoting the Variax when they say there are only "28" guitars. For the most part, if you can dream it up, you can make it. Beyond that, I also have settings so that I can basically emulate having switches for series/parallel, high/low output, coil splitting, swapping capacitor values, etc. Getting the string volumes to an appropriate level was also an important task. They were too loud and distorting even clean signals at the original 100% setting. After a lot of A/B testing and comparing to my other guitars, I found that around 50% is actually where the unity gain seems to be. On the 12-strings, I dialed back the volumes and detunes of the virtual strings slightly, and they are much more pleasing to my ears this way. I also made 6-string versions of all the 12-strings, which adds a few more options.
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