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You might just need a little more time to play around with it. Anything you run it through will require tweaking, be it an FRFR speaker or more traditional guitar rig. I wouldn't expect patches designed for use with a DT amp, or studio monitors to be instantly usable on something else. Even two different FRFR speakers aren't gonna give you identical tones.

I love this game of "Gotcha!" in which our society is perpetually engaged. Get's us nowhere, but oh how satisfying nonetheless. OK...so after we dethrone one shyster, then what? There are a billion others...like every ad agency in existence. If you don't like what he does, don't purchase whatever he's peddling, and don't watch the videos. Problem solved. Even the blithering idiots among us eventually shut up when they realize no one is paying attention. Rat him out to the YouTube Police if you like...he'll just post another video if the "offending" ones are removed. Freedom is fun, isn't it?

AES is as close as you're gonna get, assuming that it still shows up at the Javit's Center...last time I went was the late 90's, but that's where I heard of L6 for the first time. They were pimping the original POD Farm, as I recall.

Lol...and now begins the official debate on what "by the end of summer" means. Is it August 31st? Labor Day? The first day of school (if so, in what part of the country),the first day the local temp dips below 75? It's not hard to understand why nobody knows. There are a million variables, involving countless people, all doing different jobs. It'll get here when it gets here. Wanna cut down on the whining? Make the "official" release date 3 months later than your most conservative estimate. Then everybody will be pleasantly surprised at the "early" ship date. Of course, the inevitable result of this strategy would be the blaming of the first confirmed bug on the "rush to ship a product that wasn't ready"...choose your poison, lol. I don't envy your position...you guys can't win. ;)

Lol...well that leaves just 31 glorious days for everyone to speculate on. Place your bets! It's better odds than roulette! I'm gonna go with the 17th @ 11:18 AM PST.

No one knows with absolute certainty. This will not stop any number of people from professing to know, however...for any one of a thousand reasons..."inside" sources, "trusted" friends, relatives, or sales reps, or because they read it in tea leaves, or the Ouija board said so, or visions inspired by recreational pharmaceuticals, etc etc. The first batch of Variax Standards sat offshore because the guys running the port thought a strike would be fun. There are more reasons for a target release date to come and go with no product, than there are stars in the sky. When it shows up at your front door, or the showroom at your local Mega Huge-O-Riffic Music Emporium....then we'll all know they've been released.

If you play with any frequency, the frets will eventually need replacing anyway...you can grind and polish a couple of times to deal with fret-wear, but eventually they have to go...if you have no other issues with the guitar, you could always bite the bullet and have it re-fretted now with whatever size wire makes you comfortable. The money will eventually get spent anyway....

Whoo hoo! I finally won something... ;)

An electric guitar amp is never going to produce satisfactory results with an acoustic guitar. They have a very narrow frequency range...way too narrow for the range that an acoustic guitar produces. You can tweak setting for the rest of your life, and it's always gonna sound like a clean electric...electric guitar amps are just too mid-rangey, with a response that's anything but flat. You really need an FRFR speaker (PA, monitor, or specifically designed acoustic guitar amp) if you want any kind of usable acoustic tone. Straight to the PA is always gonna be the easiest option.

Well...so far it's sample size of one, lol. "They have not yet begun to b1tch"... :P

Just so we're all on the same page here. .. I'm neither an environmental apostle, nor a conservationist. Frankly, I could care less, and have never given so much as a moment's thought to my "carbon footprint". And the only agenda I have is not wasting money, be it a small amount, or a large one (especially when the beneficiary of my forced largess is some utility company's CEO and his annual 7-figure bonus)...which was made painfully obvious by the second half of the sentence you quoted. FWIW, I'm not a big fan of seat belt or helmet laws either...and as for the society-wide, relentless tobacco shaming, that's asinine too. We tried the same thing with booze nearly a century ago, and all that accomplished was making Canadian distillers rich, and giving Al Capone a job. Personally, my favorite part about all the tobacco BS, is that the same government that professes to care so much about my health, is still prefectly happy to collect the perpetually increasing tax revenue that tobacco products generate. I'm sure that it's financing the "greater good" and all, and not $20K toilet seats at some government facility...but I digress. So smoke if you got 'em, doesn't bother me. ;)

If you were to leave the looper playing in a forest... ;)

I'm not surprised that this happened...sunlight, even indirect, can mess with all kinds of sensors. My living room faces west and gets a lot of afternoon sun. If the shades are up and the sun hits either the cable box or the surround sound receiver, you can forget about trying to use the remote...nothing registers.

In the end it's all a game...trouble is, there will only be one winning team, now and forever. And we're not on it...

No worries...it's just a discussion. I don't expect free electricity. Services cost money. However, we could all be paying pennies on the dollar if we made more use of nuclear power, as plenty of other industrialized nations do. But we've decided that coal is more fun...and the rea$on i$ obviou$. So be it. And the fact that desperate people would be willing to overpay for the return of a service that has become a necessity of modern life doesn't prove a blessed thing. Desperation makes people to do all sorts of things...often tending towards the ugly. I was out for 27 days when Sandy blew through here 3 years ago. Not fun (on the bright side, I discovered I can still read ;) ). Any prolonged disruption of the grid, and little old ladies will be beating each other to death over the last box of Cheerios at Stop-n-Shop. Don't think it ain't possible. Nor does it change the fact that I pay well above the national average here in the People's Republic of NY. What costs you 12 cents, costs me just under 20. And it's always a monopoly. I've never met anyone who had a choice of power companies. You either pay the local Lord, or you sit in the dark.

Yes, thieves. Nobody wants to live without electricity...however, merely having a desire for something doesn't mean that one deserves to be robbed blind once a month. I'd shop around, but alas there's only one game in town. Haven't seen a door-to-door electricity salesman in these parts for years...;).

Fair enough...maybe cycling is worse, but whatever the finite number of cycles is, I seriously doubt I'll ever get there. I suspect that I (and probably the vast majority of users) will have replaced the 500X with something else long before we get to using up number ON/OFF cycles. I can't ever recall having hit that particular brick wall with any piece of gear (with the exception of suddenly deceased power tubes)...hell, I still have a KORG rack-mount tuner that's over 20 years old. God knows how many power cycles that thing has seen.

The only thing that anyone (inside or outside "the circle") will be able to tell you with any certainty is "it'll get here when it gets here". Any other response is blind guessing, wishful thinking, or outright lying...just like any other hotly anticipated product. Ask ten different sources, and you'll get ten different answers...most of which (if not all) will turn out to be wrong anyway.

Maybe it's me, but I don't quite understand how leaving a device turned on 24/7 when it's not in use most of that time, could possibly benefit anything. Hell, even if you're a 6 hrs-a-day player, it will spend the other 18 just sitting there sucking up power and getting hot. Heat is what ultimately wrecks electronics. Would you constantly flush a toilet just because you could? $15 or $1500...whatever the cost is, why give those theives the money if you don't have to? If I'm not using it...it's off.

I'd love a kit to install into other guitars...but I suspect the guts and associated hardware would cost considerably more than $100. Hell, the individual piezo elements are approx. $12-$15 each (somewhere in that neihborhood last time I looked).

I think that's because some of the "in stock" necks have the final finish already, and others are unfinished, allowing you to choose. Mine was unfinished...took about 3 weeks for them to finish it and ship.

If you tune any lower, you're gonna start getting fan mail from whales. ;) It's a great unit...versatile, and assuming there are monitors, you can show up to the gig with nothing but the POD and a guitar(s). Just be prepared to wrestle with it for a while till you get the hang of it.

Goods luck with that. They refuse to divulge "sensitive" info...(you know, like pickup height, lol). You might as well be asking for the CEO's social security number and home address.

I like the feel of the maple...actually in 25+ years of playing, it's the first maple fretboard I've owned. Everything else was either ebony or rosewood...but this suits me just fine. I doubt the choice of wood will help you with fret buzz on the acoustic models...it either buzzes or it doesn't, and the piezos are sensitive. It can be a hassle, but mine plays just great now. Either way, you should be able to get a nice one for that price range. As long as you don't add every fancy option they offer...they usually have a bunch of plain maple necks available, sometimes a little under $200. Good luck!

If I'm not mistaken, the stock 69 neck is 41mm at the nut. I didn't think that I'd notice much of a difference...1.5mm is not exactly marathon distance ;). However, in this case it might as well be. The resulting string spacing is cramped to say the least. Made open position chords a royal pain in the arse. I lasted a month or so and replaced it with a Warmoth (1 11/16"). IMHO, this contributed to the string slippage issues that many have had with the 69's. I think they tried to keep the spacing as wide as possible despite the narrow nut, resulting in a lot of guitars with E-strings taking a dive off the fretboard.