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cruisinon2

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  1. Ok, I'll bite. What does a steam pipe sound like? Honestly, I have no idea... all I can picture is a lot of loud white noise, and I'm trying to undesrtand how that would ever be even remotely usable or desirable in a musical setting...
  2. That might have accounted for some of it, but I think it was a tough sell for a lot of reasons, and it's a bit of a stretch to blame the whole thing on a "Big Retail" conspiracy, lol. The Variax is/was a rather quirky beast that requires a great deal of tinkering to get everything just right... and even then they're tempermental, prone to going on tilt if anything is the slightest bit out of whack. And that's just not something that the masses generally want to get involved with. They want the instant gratification of "plug and play" gear... and the Variax just ain't that. Not to mention that they also require an additional investment in other gear that a lot of players didn't necessarily have, if they wanted to take full advantage of what it can do... specifically with regard to the acoustic models. I think a lot of people bought them under the mistaken impression that it would make their favorite traditional guitar amp pump out tones indistinguishable from the raw sound of their favorite Martin or Gibson Jumbo, not realizing that it would require a further investment in FRFR speakers to get there. Imho, Variax was always gonna be niche product.
  3. Wow...I've been wanting something like this for years, lol. This should accommodate the 3 or 4 other pedals I use along with the Helix quite nicely. Thanks for sharing!
  4. Helix debuted sometime in 2015, if memory serves. Given that they haven't gotten around to cranking out an iPad editor during the first 9 years of the product's life cycle, then the smart money says that it's gonna be a long wait for a train that ain't coming...
  5. I've never understood the obsession with having the latest and greatest "Product X". A device either fulfills your wants/needs, or it doesn't. I have a 5 year old phone in my pocket. Why? Because it works. How different could the brand new one that Verizon wants to sell me for $1K possibly be? Who cares if an even newer one is coming out in 3 months? SPOILER ALERT: We live in a disposable economy. Something new is always coming out in 3 months. Couple that with a buying public who: A) Has been conditioned to believe that they're "missing out" if they don't treat themselves to every shiny new toy that hits the shelves, and B) Often has the attention span of a house fly... And the result is discussions like this, lol. At this point the "next big thing" IS just around the corner... and that ain't gonna change anytime soon....whether it's from L6 or somebody else, whatever it is, it's coming. You can play the waiting game if you want, but if you get sucked down that rabbit hole, you'll never buy anything... because "what if the next thing is better?" Oh, the horror...;) Buy whatever you want/ need, and can afford. But waiting with bated breath for extended and/ or unknown periods of time for some future, even more magical device, is just an exercise in self-denial. Just my 2 cents...
  6. So choosing to read instructions instead of forging ahead blindly with a multi-step process, assuming that you won't f*ck it up, now qualifies as "special logic"? There's actually another term for it: common sense... but I digress. That aside, how much time do you think you've wasted getting miffed at words on a page? Words that were not even directed at you personally. Or are you just cranky because you screwed it up, and then got called out by a memo? If this kind of thing gets your knickers in a twist to this degree, then what sort of short circuit is precipitated by somebody giving you a dirty look in person? Life's rough... if you can't develop a thicker skin, especially for things that don't actually matter and can be readily dismissed, then you're gonna be miserable for the rest of your days. And by your own choice...
  7. I crack walnuts with mine...
  8. Can't say I'm surprised... and with the official demise of all things Variax back in October, don't hold your breath for any help from L6.
  9. I checked out the Full Compass link... seems that ordering it here in the states is a crap shoot, too. Says "Out of stock, lead times vary". If you ask me that's code for "we have no f*cking clue when this thing will be back in stock", lol. I can try ordering it for you if you want, but for all we know, I might be firing up the BBQ for the 4th of July before it gets here. Your call...
  10. Really? They kept the absurdly overpriced US models and discontinued the ones that 99.97% of people might actually buy? Lol...That's among the more bizarre business decisions I've seen.
  11. Are you having issues with the modeled sounds, or when using the mag pickups? If it's the models that are the problem (as they often are with the piezo saddles), individual string volumes can be adjusted in Workbench. Adjusting the mag pickup height, or the height of individual pole pieces won't help you... the mag pickups are disengaged when using the models. They have nothing to do with the string volume of modeled tones.
  12. Well let's see... 1) Semi-awesome 2) Awesome* 3) Graphically challenged 4) Virtually knobless Let the games begin... lol
  13. It's anybody's guess of course... but in my experience, companies that wake up one day with a bug up their a$$ to "reinvent themselves", tend to regret it. Now where'd I put that bottle of New Coke? Lol... They either go back to doing what they do best, or they end up in Chapter 11. Being one of the pioneers of amp modeling, I can't see them abandoning the market completely in pursuit of some untested gamble as their new "flagship" device. I doubt Yamaha would be on board with that sort of financial Russian roulette, either...
  14. Could be two weeks, could be years away... the only ones who know, ain't talking. But the smart money says it's still a ways off, so tuck in, as it's likely to be a while.
  15. No can do... from what I can see that amp has no FX loop
  16. These things happen in threes... try not be the first one through any open doors for a while. Let somebody else take the next hit...;) All kidding aside, it is odd that you'd get two lemons back to back, but I suppose anything is possible. It's definitely out of the ordinary, though... the Stomp has been around for some time now, and I don't recall any widespread reports of brand new units failing.
  17. There's a lesson here: All the time you've already wasted trying to get somebody else's patch to work could have been spent creating whatever it is you want for yourself. Even if you get it working, the need to tweak it is as inevitable as the tides. On your end, with your gear and your fingers, they never sound just like the description or the demo you heard on YouTube, anyway.
  18. This right here is the rub... unless you're using the Ramones Tempo Method, where the vocalist screams "One, two, three, four!" at the beginning of every song, then it's the drummer who's in charge of setting the pace. He should be the one triggering the samples, and he absolutely has to play to a click track for this to work. Somebody else might be able to get away with it triggering them as long as the tempo is already established and rock solid, but if the drummer is winging it without a click, you're asking for a train wreck, because you'll never sync with the samples properly. Some guys can do it and some can't, even if they're decent drummers...
  19. I applaud your work ethic, and what you want to do may very well be possible, I honestly have no idea... but for one tune at one gig? You're a better man than I, lol. You could learn 10 other songs to take its place before you get this sorted out.
  20. I lost consciousness about a month into that post... no idea how long I was out. Who's the President? ;)
  21. You'll have better luck (and probably and easier time) ripping the inards from a Tesla and cramming it all into a '72 Pinto chasis...
  22. Just seems like much ado about nothing to me...I'd get it if the devices that have pictures of each modeled unit allowed the user to tweak parameters on the image itself, "turning" a gain knob on a touch screen, etc... at least that would be closer to the tactile experience of working with actual amps and pedals... but that doesn't seem to be how it works. They just give you a big silly graphic to drag and drop onto your "pedalboard", and that's it... then you're right back in the digital realm, scrolling through lists of parameters to tinker with. I fail to see how that's any more "creatively stimulating" than doing the exact same thing without the image of the fuzz box on the display. Just my 2 cents...to each their own, I guess, lol.
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