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  1. clay-man's post in Is flashing 100% safe or is it possible to make the Variax a "brick" (power outage e.g.)? was marked as the answer   
    For those saying "anything can be bricked", there's a difference between bricking a device because hardware craps out, and bricking a device because the design doesn't allow recovery from a failed flash.
     
    I've had my POD500 fail multiple times and it always can be reflashed because there's a hardcoded bios that can communicate with Monkey even if it didn't flash anything. 
     
    I can't say the same for the JTV though. I don't know if it has any hardcode or bios or if it completely depends on the onboard flash memory. 
     
    I've had a Variax flash failure before when trying to roll back and roll forward, but it still flashed afterwards. My last update gave no errors either.
  2. clay-man's post in JTV – 89F alternate tuning knob selection light question was marked as the answer   
    No.
  3. clay-man's post in Do the types of strings matter? was marked as the answer   
    Of course it cares. The audio you hear out of the guitar is 100% the audio you hear for your strings. It is 100% signal based audio, and the way it emulates bodies and pickups is by putting the incoming audio processed by convolution captures of the actual pickups and bodies. 
     
    It's why they use piezos, because it's the closest thing to the sound of your strings raw without the pickups coloring the tone.
     
     
    In a sense, the Variax is extremely reliant on the sound of your strings. Without the piezo pickups, it cannot make the guitar sound like a humbucker, a single coil, or any of the other nuances it needs.
     
     
    I actually tried acoustic strings on the Variax once, and since it's piezo and not magnetic, it will pick up the sound. The sound ended up very different. Electrics were unusable. Acoustics actually sounded better though, because, it's acoustic strings.
     
     
     
    I actually made an audio sample demonstrating the difference between Modeling (Variax) and MIDI (synth or sampling). A MIDI guitar is what doesn't need to know the sound of the strings, but the pitch and velocity.
     
     
    https://soundcloud.com/clay-man-2/guitar-modelling-vs-guitar-midisynthsampling
     
    First clip is the Variax, second is the same clip going into Audio-to-MIDI. Third is Variax on the left speaker, and MIDI on the right.
     
    You will hear why the Variax is not a synth guitar, midi guitar, or anything like such.
  4. clay-man's post in Variax Recording Question was marked as the answer   
    The USB hub is not an audio interface. It is a data interface for workbench and monkey only.
     
    You need to buy an audio interface to use the Variax. You CAN however get a POD and send the digital audio to the pod via VDI cable.
     
    The problem is that the USB device is not an audio device so it can't work as an audio interface.
  5. clay-man's post in Rotary Model Selector Switch Removal was marked as the answer   
    It does lift. Just pry it carefully. I removed mine just fine, the only problems I had is that it kept sliding off again so I put a very small dab of superglue on it so it doesn't lift off anymore.
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