RogerZ wrote:

 

Wonderful review! Seems like the original Tele and LP have a bit more bite... but the JTV does a good job! I also really like the color 'Lake placid blue'. In other pictures it seemed more 'lighter blue'. I ordered a 3 tone sb, hm, I hope my guitar store has also a blue one to compare. Maybe I will switch. 3 More weeks to go?

I am not a big fan of the demos where they try to come up with a single amp setting to demo all the guitars. This guys sounds was better than the anderton guy's at least. To me it sounded like the variax was actually hotter than the mags of the orginal guitars. The tele bridge sounded cleaner on the real tele and the variax sounded like it was pushing the amp into more overdrive which would result in less bite. That sound was not a great way to compare teles etc.

I also found it odd he didn't really do any strat comparisons as that is where variax I tended to be weakest.

The more I think about it, variax is really made for using with a POD. Having 25 different axes in your hand is cool but if you are gonna run all of them through a JCM800 you are really not gonna get the benefits.

If I am playing a tele I want twins,matchless bmans and voxes. Strat I want fenders, cornfords, matchless, budah and even the clean side of a JCM900 etc. LP I want plexi, lead and soldano etc etc etc etc.

The lake placid blue does look cool. If they made one in purple I just might have gotten a 69 in addition to 2 59s. . .. but would change the neck.