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I'm definitely of the attitude that most of what we guitarists obsess over, particularly in regard to live sound, isn't noticed by the average audience. Stereo?...Check...Pure tube hand wired amps?...Check...Broken in perfectly matched to the amp speaker cabs...Check...Exotic custom effects?...Vintage classic electric guitar?...Check...Oxygen free, gold plated guitar cable?...Check. Guitar player experience with all of this? Nirvana. Average listener experience with all of this? Same as listening to the same guitar player plugged into a Peavey combo playing an Epiphone SG with a tube screamer wah and a chorus. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's mostly about the notes you're playing. Give a Stradivarius to an average 8 year old...nuthin' but noise. Give a world class orchestra violin player a "Dandy-Note" violin. Nice.

In answer to your "rum" question. Are you using both paths? Each path uses the same amount of RAM so if you run out of RAM on path A, just connect it's output to path B and continue on your merry way. If you are using both paths then no, there is no hardware. Make sure any effects that don't have to be stereo are mono. Making them mono uses less RAM.

It is an interesting subject to me but, since I'm just sticking with the Helix for my IR usage, doesn't have real world applications to me.

Another distortion based on the Distortion + is the KWB https://benadrianaudio.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-kowloon-walled-bunny/

To answer your power question, the problem has to do with how the circuit distributes current and with both a regular (TS no R) guitar cable and VDI it distributes the current in a way that will more than likely blow it up. I say more than likely because you can get lucky and it won't blow it up. But if you keep doing it, it will. Why is the circuit designed that way? Don't know. And using the cabled power kit with the VDI would, I assume, have even more dire effects. So no matter what you're doing, VDI only or 1/4" whatever only. NEVER both at the same time. Same time BAD!!!!!

From my first Pod to now, I've always figured I would need to spend at least a full day with an amp to try and get what I can out of it. Saving whatever I thought was interesting and listening to them again one or two days later. Just to have new ears listen to it from a fresh perspective. It is time consuming but it's been the best way for me to learn really what the amps can do.

Here it is on ideascale for what it's worth. https://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Total-control-and-editing-of-JTV-Variax-directly-from-Helix-only/952735-23508

If you read my statement I said it would cost NO MORE than any other firmware upgrades. NOT that it would cost nothing. I've already commented that I was probing to see what the interest is and that there appears to be little interest and that I didn't know IF there were enough resources to do it. It's in the post you're responding to. Not to be too snarky but did you read it? The length of time it takes to load would be another "are there enough resources" to do it question. I know it takes awhile to load models from a computer but is the same true between the Helix and the Variax? I don't know and that's one of the questions I have n regard to is it even possible. Please read my posts carefully as I feel like I'm merely restating what I've already said. I'm sorry if they weren't very clear but I thought they were. And AGAIN, it all seems moot since, as I stated before, there seems to be very little interest in it.

I know all of that. Correct, the workbench software isn't running on Helix. I'm absolutely sure it is not capable of running on the Helix platform since it runs on the mac and pc operating system which the Helix doesn't run on AND that's not what I was looking for. I am looking for the same functionality the Workbench has on the Helix. Not to have the same exact program run on Helix. I would assume that would be ridiculous for various reasons. And of course, incorporating it would require programming effort. The zero I was referring to was hardware additions and costs. Not time spent programming. Boy, I guess I'm not making myself very clear here.

If it's possible, it would add no more to the cost than any of the other firmware upgrades. In other words, none. Wokbench is just software. It's the device that connects the Variax to the computer, that costs money. Since you can connect to Workbench via the Helix, that connectivity is already there in the Helix. What I do not know is if there are even enough resources to do that in the Helix. If there aren't, and it would require adding more hardware to provide those resources (which is what I think you were alluding to) then I would not want them to implement this. I just don't know if the resources are there. And I was way more trying to see if anyone even had any interest in this. That's more what would be the incentive to invest the time it would require to do implement this. Provided it's even possible with the hardware currently in the Helix. Given the responses I've gotten so far, the interest doesn't seem to be there.

I am aware of all of that. I want to be able to create a guitar like I can in workbench and save it on a per patch basis. I thought I made that clear.

I actually asked Graphtech about this and this was their response 1) Yes, the bridge on your JTV 89F is one of our PN-0080-B0 ghost bridges 2) Yes, the saddles on this bridge are of the PN-0080-B6 variety 3) You can purchase the entire saddle (the price would be pro-rated) or simply the inserts themselves. 4) We don't have printed instructions for this process but I can spell them out very easily. If an order interests you, please provide a complete shipping address and I will generate a sales quote for your evaluation.

Wireless Variax VDI is not even close to as simple as a regular wireless guitar. Just to start with, a regular guitar doesn't have to communicate both ways. A wireless Variax would. The modeler would have to send any commands a patch would have for the Variax and the Variax would have to let the modeler know whether it switched to the correct guitar and the correct parameters. Then there's the Variax communicating to the modeler what model it switched to if you switched modeled guitars from the Variax's switch. That's double the transmitters and receivers of a normal guitar. That's just a start. Volume, tone have to be communicated as well. Both ways. Here's an old post of someone trying to do one for the original Variax. Just to give you an idea of what's involved. It would be cool but I don't see it happening. i seem to remember someone pricing out all the parts about 5-10 years ago and it was over $1,000.

Try here if you're still interested in an official Variax cable https://www.amazon.com/Line-Variax-Digital-Interface-Cable/dp/B000JLMXSC/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=variax+cable&link_code=qs&qid=1557511489&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-2

You're supposed to use the battery to do the updates. It could still mess things up.

Don't do it. It will mess things up.

I'm not hoping for anymore parameters other than what Workbench already provides. It is a lot but no matter how big the menus or whatever, unless you got into them, I would think it would have no effect on the ease of programming anything else.

One thing I don't recall being mentioned that would really open the Variax for me would be for the Helix to essentially have it's own workbench in it. It would be so cool to have various incarnations of Variax models be stored per patch in the Helix and not have to store them all in the Variax. One of the reasons I don't edit the models in the Variax much is it's just too much of a hassle. Workbench doesn't play well with HX Edit at the same time (I do know why and it's a good reason), there's no good way of keeping track of what model I changed and put where, and it would definitely open up the sonic palette that I would use a lot more if I could just have the Helix load up whatever Franenstein guitar incarnation I come up with, per patch, without having to store it in the Variax itself. I have no idea if this is something that is relatively simple to incorporate into the Helix/Variax, or a nightmare but it would be very cool. I'm going to put it on ideascale and I'll put up a link when I do if this is something that interests you. Curious, for now, what people's thoughts would be about this.

One thing I don't recall being mentioned that would really open the Variax for me would be for the Helix to essentially have it's own workbench in it. It would be so cool to have various incarnations of Variax models be stored per patch in the Helix and not have to store them all in the Variax. One of the reasons I don't edit the models in the Variax much is it's just too much of a hassle. Workbench doesn't play well with HX Edit at the same time (I do know why and it's a good reason), there's no good way of keeping track of what model I changed and put where, and it would definitely open up the sonic palette that I would use a lot more if I could just have the Helix load up whatever Franenstein guitar incarnation I come up with, per patch, without having to store it in the Variax itself. I have no idea if this is something that is relatively simple to incorporate into the Helix/Variax, or a nightmare but it would be very cool. I'm going to put it on ideascale and I'll put up a link when I do if this is something that interests you. Curious, for now, what people's thoughts would be about this.

No. If they were, it would be called HX Stomp. https://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/line-6-hx-stomp-multi-effects-processor-pedal

Go to Youtube and look up Jason Sadites. Then tell all your friends, family etc. goodbye. A ton of stuff there.

I had a guitar with two humbuckers. I wired it so each humbucker's coils could be series-in phase, series out-of-phase, coil one alone, coil two alone, parallel in-phase, parallel out-of-phase. This was accomplished with a 4 pole 6 throw switch for each pickup. I then set up one more switch that could do the same thing with both pickups. That amounted to (if my math is right) 216 different sounds/configurations. I was about to add a piezo bridge for acoustic simulation when the first Variax came out. I have barely touched my other guitar since and never put the piezo bridge in. For the most different sounds, noise free I might add, try a Variax. As stated before, it has it's quirks so it may not be for you. But if it does work for you, as it did for me.....Yahooooo. Get a JTV with pickups so you'll still have that option. The JTV's can also mix the modeled guitar with the magnetic pickups.

Well, I don't agree with your characterization at all!!

I don't think you can delete it but you can change the title/heading to ignore or delete or something like that.

I always though it was Herdapurr, not Herpadurr.