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Anything that fits a Strat neck pocket should do just fine. Depending on your budget, Warmoth is another way to go. I have Warmoth necks on several guitars, including my 69. Never been disappointed with any of them, though they will typically set you back a few more shekels...

Use the global EQ...everything is in Hz and dB, as the good Lord intended. Some will say it's only to be used to EQ "for the room", but if you're finding that most or all of your patches are suffering from the same issues, then this is the quickest and easiest fix.

It's actually one of only a few pieces of gear that I'm sorry I parted with...simple, but sounded great. In 30 years, I seriously doubt that I'll have any of the gear that I've got now. Of course, someone will be changing my diapers for me, and I probably won't care...;)

You are correct, sir...it did have a chorus, lol. I had forgotten that, as its been many years since I've had the thing. And you're right about racks too. There's really hardly any weight savings at all, if any. Along with the MP-1, I had a rack mount tuner, one of several different multi-fx units, and a power amp. By the time you add all that up, it ends up weighing just as much, if not more than a tube head by itself.

I've been using this bundle for a while now. 2.1 Strat models is dreadful. Old ones didn't need changing. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel...

I once had the same hiccup, but in reverse. I was using the Eb alt tuning, and for no apparent reason, the guitar decided it would rather revert to standard tuning. At first it thought it was me being sloppy, but it wasn't. And I wasn't changing patches at the time, so I couldn't even blame it on the POD being set wrong. These things have a mind of their own sometimes. Fortunately it was at a rehearsal, not in front of an audience...hasn't happened since.

I once witnessed a Swiss Army Knife used to perform an emergency tracheotomy, but no one in their right mind would consider it a surgical tool. He could accomplish the goal of dragging around less gear by micing up a Pignose...doesn't make the Pignose a modeler.

Golf carts and Formula 1 race cars both have 4 wheels, but they're hardly the same thing.

Admittedly, I only scanned through that post, but what jumped out at me right away was the ADA MP-1 being referred to as a "modeler", when it was really nothing of the sort. It was/is a 2 channel tube preamp, with no onboard FX. It's MIDI controllable, and you could save individual presets, but all you were "saving" was clean or dirty channel, and bass/mids/treble/presence settings. That's about all it had in common with today's modelers. I had one for years, and was quite satisfied with the tones I got from it for a long while. But it's no more a modeler than the isolated preamp section of any head or combo amp.

Ears will always work, operating systems be damned....

I'd probably roll back too, if it didn't mean losing HD Workbench. It took me forever to adjust individual string volumes on the models I use most, and they're not all the same. Not willing to trade that for only the global adjustment string volume control.

And at only twice the price! You work in gov't? ;)

I wouldn't say that at all. 100 GBP is currently about $145. I've been using AKG K240S headphones for years, which are generally around a hundred bucks, and serve me quite well for creating patches and late night playing/recording. The tones translate very well to my L2T...not identical of course, but damn close, requiring only slight tweaking from one to the other. Just found this site: http://www.headphone.com/pages/build-a-graph They've got frequency response curves for dozens of different brands/models of headphones. You can compare up to 4 pairs at once, and see just how close to a flat response they have...pretty cool. The ones I've got are not profiled of course, lol...but I stand by them nonetheless. ;)

You're in good company...everybody is waiting in line weeks to months, pretty much everywhere.

Just play out of tune, and blame it on your pick...it'll be just like having a sax player. ;)

I sympathize with ya, and know it's not going to make you feel any better, but this response is Commandment #1 in the Warranty Repair Customer Interaction Bible: "Thou shalt feign surprise, and speak no ills of The Product, lest ye be Judged". ;) Never, under any circumstances will you describe your problem, and then hear: "Hold on a sec...We've got another one, Lou!"...

This was one of the more common complaints about the JTV69's, which lead lots of us to replace the neck entirely. I really don't understand why they're still keeping the string spacing so tight on a 1 5/8" neck, which is a pretty common width, and definitely wider than the 69's. They seem to be courting the tiny hands demographic...

That's not really the case...volume will always impact your tone, no matter what kind of speakers you're monitoring through, FRFR or no. If you're tweaking at living room volume and take that same patch and try and use it at stage volume, you're gonna have issues...usually a preponderance of bass, screechy highs, and the mids disappear. Volume affects how we perceive sound, and there's no way around that.

You can assign multiple FX to one footswitch within the same patch. When you save the patch, have effect A turned off, and effect B turned on. That way, when you hit the switch to which you've assigned them, it will toggle one effect on and the other off simultaneously. You can do exactly what you described above, with the 3 FX you mentioned, with one tap.

Resistance is futile if < 1 Ohm... ;)

Beware the Thread Police...;) I don't think anyone cares. I certainly don't, lol

Amen. Or go back to a one channel amp and a cable...the volume will always be the same til you walk over to it and turn the knob. Otherwise, on any rig with stored presets you will have have to balance volumes. Time consuming if you use a ton of patches, yes...but for 3 bananas and an apple, you could hire a gorilla to do it for you. Once it's done, it's done. After everything is dialed in, only minimal tweaks should be necessary.

You could probably go that route, but the results may be somewhat less than spectacular, depending on who's doing the repair. Plus, you'll likely have to refinish the whole body if you don't want to see the scars. That can get expensive quickly. Wouldn't surprise me if it ended up costing more than half the price of a new one. At some point, it's just not worth it to fix stuff...

Now I get it...you're looking to hear two distinct amps simultaneously. I don't use the dual amp patches like that. It's one tone or the other. I set it up this way because I loathe abrupt patch changes, and the drop out (albeit a short one) that always accompanies the switch...especially going from clean to dirty, or vice versa. A dual amp patch plus the expression pedal allows for a seamless transition from one to the other, a gradual morph, if you will. But if your goal is to hear two distinct amp tones together, you really have no choice but to run stereo. Otherwise you'll always be hearing a blend of the two...you need the physical separation. Can't get that with one box no matter who's making it, or how nice a toy it is. I'm not sure how feasible that would be live, anyway. If you're running straight to the PA, to get the effect you want, you're gonna have the two amps panned hard left and right. The two sides of the room are hearing different things. Stereo FX will get lost this way too. If you pan everything up the middle, now you've lost the two separate tones, and may as well have just left everything mono in the first place. For recording, this kind of set-up can be used to great effect...live, not so much. The sound will change depending on where the listener is standing. Gets ugly fast.

Not 100% sure what you're asking, but I'll take a stab. I run mono. Just the one L2T, and one XLR going to the desk...but I use lots of dual amp patches. Usually one clean and one dirty, and I use the expression pedal to transition between them, without having to switch patches. So a dual amp patch doesn't require 2 amps (or cabs) per se, unless you actually want to run true stereo. That is usually a mess live, unless the planets are aligned just right. Not worth the trouble for me.