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v2.21 is the current firmware. If you connect to Monkey, the Firmware version should all come up and a notice of the current version would be displayed.

Yes, Audio Master out of the Minibrute to the Line In.

That too,... what Charlie said. Both options work. Either way, it will come back to me for TLC.

MIDI is a control signal and protocol, MIDI is not audio. You can't use MIDI on an audio line.

Could be one of four different things. Get with Line 6 Custom Support, not something you can fix yourself.

There are 3 different lengths of locking stems, so as a result it comes as a set of six. You might try special ordering from Full Compass.

The wire might look good from the outside, but it might have disconnected or intermittent connect to the piezo element on the inside. Don't spray anything on the piezo. 99% isopropyl alcohol, on a moistened not wet, cotton swab (squeeze out any excess),... go over the piezo very gently with it. Rock On!!!

Zen,... impressive dissertation. The advice I give here is a result of having serviced and repaired about 1,500 of mostly JTV's (the odd Variax, Variax Standards and some custom work for the boss for high profile users/endorsers),... +/- a half dozen. And four decades of being in the audio world. Though I am up on my theory, what comment on is out of experience with this gear, and knowing it's capabilities and limitations, what it's design to do and not do. Good commentary on your part Zen. Would like to look deeper into it when I can. And Silverhead being a tech and all, he knows his stuff. Rock On!!! Oh, and Iwilliams,... use the Line 6 VDI cable, CAT5E would not be the right impedance for the bandwidth region of frequencies this gear is happy with, that's more for ultra high speed applications. Standard VDI cable with the Canon casings on both ends, is the best bet.

-- 57110 fret wire. -- Workbench HD (for JTV's with Flash v2.00 and higher), when you connect, the guitar type is displayed while the Workbench HD is connecting. -- http://line6.com/support/manuals/jtv59 , for all sorts of info on the JTV-59 and Workbench HD.

I was going to suggest Mark Wright Music in Northampton, but you're way up there. Mark was a repair tech for us, my opposite number, back when we had a location there in Rugby. He knows his stuff, and he knows these guitars.

Just remember that putting JTV electronics into a different body will result in different body resonances, and that there will be slight tonal differences in the colour of the sound (EQ curve will change). Some more, some less, depending on the body.

They come in 300 Acoustic and 700 Acoustic, there was no 500 Acoustic version. It's an easy one to forget. eBay is a good source, maybe Amazon UK. Also check with the guitar shops on Denmark St off of Charing Cross Rd, Macari's at Charing Cross Rd and Shaftsbury Rd, if you're ever up London way. Servicing of Variax guitars could be done at Mark Wright Music in Northampton. Mark used to be a service and repair tech at Line 6 in Rugby, when there was a location there. There would also be the usual factory authorized service centers.

2008. If it's a MkII, then it will say so on the front labeling. Yes Billbee. I'm in between repairs, so I have moment.

No. GX, UX1 and UX2,... I have several for my set-ups and I leave a set with my music partner, we're running desktop Mac's with OS 10.4, I haven't tried it with my OS 10.6 Mac laptop yet. Laptops and desktops get treated differently with the same OS. They're subtle, sometimes I notice it.

SONET is still out there, and a whole host of future stuff in the pipeline, coming on line soon, so much so, I wouldn't know where to begin. So much new stuff coming in that area.

Monkey is up to v1.72 now. Log a ticket with Customer Support.

http://line6.com/support/manuals/fbvsmkii ... for the Shortboard MkII manual. Down near the bottom of the manuals section.

For future reference, there is,... Hanex Service Waaier 36 2451 VW Leimuiden Take the A2 north, turn west onto the E35. ... near Amsterdam. They have a good reputation with my counterparts at Yamaha Europe in Germany.

He would have to be an authorized service center to get access to the service manual. Sounds like what ever he did, it worked. Very good.

There's still some out there. CATV satellites using bundled services is more of what they try to sell on some of the newer satellites. Stuff I read about in my IEEE journals, and the IEEE Communications journals.

There are a few satellites for commercial public use of the internet. Along with some public access to down-streams of NOAA sea temperature and weather info. Some of the more northern Euro locations get their internet cable runs via a satellite down-link then land-line distribution from there. Some mobile phone services also use that. But yeah, being satellite requires Mil Spec grade Rad-Harden chips and electronics.

Satellite internet is a whole other animal.

Is this tech a Line 6 authorized service tech? "... turned out the masterpot was physically worn out...because of the channel volume pot."--- Might be possible, though I've worked on hundreds of Spider Valves and haven't seen this yet. "... channel volume should be low at all times, so that the masterpot can be turned way up"--- Channel volume all the way down is a default position. It's to control effects/pre-amp levels before going to the power stage. Though I can see why he would see it they way he does. "... the channel volume is a 'digital' setting, it's part of the moddeling infrastructure"--- That is incorrect. I can't say any more than that on that subject. "The masterpot however gets an actual load to bear, the more it's turned down, the more tubepower/current it has to 'block'. So turning the masterpot down will wear it out sooner"--- Incorrect, there is no load there in that part of the circuit. That's as deep as I can go on that. For the pot to fail as suggested, the pot would have to overheat and have a catastrophic failure from a high current. That would occur if there was a short on a power tube. And even then would be highly unlikely to fail any control pots, since the controls are isolation form the power tube stage. If that pot failed, it would be for some other reason than he thought. Knowing how these amps work, I can comment on this. I can see how this other tech might think the circuitry is they way he describes. If I were in his shoes, I might conclude the same. Good observations on his part, he just drew the incorrect conclusions from that. Are you using 5881WXT power tubes? Are the power tubes biased to the correct bias voltage?

I take it you are all doing the following, but here's a reminder, just in case,... -Also, don't use any USB hubs. -Use the VDI/USB interface device direct to the computer (preferably a rear USB port). -Don't use a multi effects board as an interface between a JTV and a computer.

Processor boards come already Flashed, programmed and ready to go. You would have to specify which Variax, as these are programmed for specific version of guitar. There is a 300 Electric and a 300 Acoustic, these are not interchangeable boards. Also, that would depend on availability of the particular circuit board. JTV's,... each has a separate program that is not interchangeable with other versions of JTV. You can't take a board from a JTV-59 and put it in a JTV-69, it won't function correctly. And since the topic here is piezos, the early Variax piezos won't fit in the JTV saddles, and vice versa.