clay-man

Make sure you tell him what it is so he knows there's delicate electronics inside and all.

Not if they're grounded properly..

You can balance on preset-by-preset basis if you have the HD firmware, otherwise there is only a global string option.

Not cool. They should have fixed the piezo BS with the JTVs, of course LR Baggs still is grounding the piezos through contract instead of a wire..

Did they leave out the palm muting enhancements in 2.0 and put them back in 2.1?

It's the Parker guitar right?

Maybe check the plug to the PCB as well if it's loose. Make sure it's all the way in and secure. I agree with Charlie, no way 3 piezos would die at once. Hope you can resolve your issue.

No.

No.. As someone stated before, it's the modeling engine that makes any of those sound different, and it's insane to ask them to put in 2 modeling engines in 1 firmware. That's even worse than asking to have 1.9 presets. It's obvious you like 1.9 more. Just stick to it..

So did they change the pitch shifting or is that only the Rickenbacker? I really like how the 12 string doesn't sound nasally anymore.

It just sounds like you're kinda advertising. The problem with BOSS is that, despite if they released the latest product, a majority of their products sounds insanely outdated. I've heard a demo of the GP-10. The guitar modeling isn't too bad, but it's not out of this world. The amp modeling and distortion is shameless and synthetic sounding as always (thank you Boss for being stubborn when it comes to innovating new techniques for making amp modeling sound good when there's clearly the technology there at your disposal to make it sound better) I will admit that I really like the string bending feature, and some of the other features that you can only do on a hex pickup. I really wish the Variax could do some of that with the POD. Regardless, I can live without those and prefer the stellar modeling on a Variax opposed to the Roland stuff.

I couldn't live with a bad switch, it's part of why I don't touch my SG anymore. My Variax 600 sometimes is stuck on 2 when I switch to 1 once in a blue moon and even that's too much for me. Luckily I'm not a gigging musician.

I can't fathom how BOSS has the "most strongest dsp on the market" and still manage to make their amp modeling sound like dated garbage.

that's not good if the bridge pickup isn't working all the time. My SG has that problem and I hate it. You should get your switch repaired.

Oh by the way, one of your links, the third one, proves my point. Lower latency will make the sound choppier and warblier. Has nothing to do with DSP, but with quality of programming (the algorithm)

Once again, it will not determine how fast the latency is. There's no disagreeing. What determines how fast the latency is is how the algorithm was programmed. It's just fact. Most signal based pitch shifters will splice the audio signal and resample it based on which pitch you shift it to. You shift it 12 semitones down, the signal will be resampled half as slow, which will make it sound an octave lower, but in order for the signal to not fall behind, given a frequency rate, it will jump forward to keep in time with the signal, basically keeping the sound in sync. For shifting up 12 semitones, it'll resample twice as fast, and now, it'll splice the signal up to basically sound an octave up, but since resampling will make it twice as fast, it stutters the audio so it keeps in time. This is just how pitch shifting works. The algorithm will be used to determine how smooth this function sounds, how it overlaps those splices together to make it sound smooth. This is why it needs latency, so it has enough of the signal to work with to know how to smooth the sound out to make it sound natural and not warble.

Incorrect. DSP will not determine how fast the latency is on a pitch shifter. Latency adds chance for a more quality sounding pitch shifting function. The more latency, the more of a sample the pitch shifting mechanism has to work with. Good quality sounding pitch shifters will have some latency. Low latency will warble and sound chopped up. It's just facts. Imagine a word suggester on your phone. It can't guess which word you're trying to type until it has enough letters to guess. Same applies with a wave form. It can't pitch shift something properly without enough data to smooth out the waveform correctly. Has nothing to do with DSP, and besides, the GP-10 sounds bad imo.

Trust me, I would, but I don't have rechargeables and can't get any right now.

So, after so much frustration thinking something is wrong with my guitar, I have found out that most of the noise and problems I've ever encountered are from the power supply unit. Random static, clicking, popping, radio signals being picked up (Yes, this is happening sometimes) These all stop when I bypass the XPS completely and use batteries. I even played regular guitars into the XPS and it still does those noises I described when it's acting up. So my question is, anyone else ever have an XPS crap out? What would cause this to happen?

I have elixirs on mine, those lasted about, 4-5 months. Still have them right now as I'm low on money, but even those go dead after a while. It's just physics. You slam on strings for that long and they're going to go out of tune and have crap intonation. Also they will sound like crap and make the modeling on a Variax sound bad. Change your strings. Set up your guitar properly.

Pitch shifting will never sound truly as good as actually retuning the guitar with proper gauge strings. It sounds like Line 6 got around to adding proper formant/timbre preserving, which basically means it changes the pitch but preserves the frequency and harmonic response of the original signal. It makes it sound more realistic, like for instance, pitched up vocals sounds like a chipmunk, and with formant preserve, it fixes that and sounds natural. This is me assuming though, based of how nice the 12 strings sound now.

I agree, I was talking about the other stuff though, like the Strat and 400, all the ones that are obviously supposed to be like the guitar they modeled in 2003, but was the closest option. The wide range tele is great. I do know the reason though. It'd cost too much to get the same guitars as before. They obviously don't have those guitars anymore, and a lot of them if not all of them are vintage guitars that are rare.

Listening to the quack demo again, I think it's very pretty much "spot on" but I CAN hear a bit of a dip in the frequencies that people like in the quack sound, but it's extremely, extremely subtle. I still agree with phil, but I also think, maybe Line 6 should have tried it's hardest to model the same guitar models as 1.9. It's obvious that there's a lot of different versions of those guitars were modeled for the HD version, some even have different pickups. I don't know. Have you tried tweaking in workbench, I mean, that's one of the reasons why it's there, to tweak your guitar to your liking... I thought the tele on my 600 could sound brighter and more further from the strat sound so I pushed the pickups towards the bridge a bit, and it was perfect. There's no reason why you can't do something like this with your Variax.

Yes, I've heard demos of the quack positions that sounded bad and good. Obviously if it's lacking quack your firmware is broke. I personally thought the old firmware has too much quack on the middle position on the Les Paul for my taste. I don't have a JTV though. Just my opinion based on what I've heard, and I honestly really want a JTV for the HD modeling and alt tuning knob.

No thoughts on my idea?