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Amen...

I doubt it would even be that much...

Unless you're just not a tremolo guy, then you won't care one way or the other. I hardly ever touch the bar...one of the first things I did was throw a Tremel-No in my 69. I like the feel of a Strat-style guitar, and never could warm up to the LP scale length. So the 59 wasn't an option for me...but the 69, now effectively a stop-tail, suits me fine...I suspet I would have been just as happy with the 89 minus the Floyd.

Warmoth will do stainless frets for a $90 up-charge. Well worth it for frets that will last essentially forever.

It's not like putting in a set of aftermarket fuel injectors. Whatever the next generation of hardware turns out to be, you're not gonna be able to just dump it into a JTV.

A Warmoth neck (or any other Strat replacement that suits you) will solve all your problems. Forget the warranty...stock neck is a crime against nature anyway, unless you have tiny little fingers. I bought my JTV pretty much knowing that the neck wasn't gonna stay long. I looked at the specs, and I know what I'm comfortable with...the math was simple. Ordered my Warmoth neck a month or so later. I had no intention of suffering through 2 years (Sweetwater warranty) of the absurdly narrow nut width when there was an quick and relatively inexpensive fix available. If the warranty matters that much to you, find the nearest "authorized service center" and have them do the work for you, then there should be no warranty issues. The alternative is to do the return/replace dance...sometimes that dance lasts forever, and requires multiple spins out on the floor. My legs get way too tired for that crap. Plus the next one might show up with a worse problem. Buying ANY guitar sight unseen is always a crap shoot. If all the electronics work as advertised, just keep it and get a different neck. Makes it a much improved instrument. You won't be sorry. If nothing else you'll get a headstock that doesn't look like the hideous love child of a cricket bat and a field hockey stick. :)

You should have both pre amp and full amp versions.

FRFR has nothing to do with power amps...it's the frequency frange that the speakers in the cabinet are capable of producing that matters. PA speakers (powered or otherwise) and various wedge monitors will work, and increasingly some more "guitar-amp looking" FRFR designs are starting to appear, but there isn't a power amp in existence that can turn your Mesa into an FRFR cabinet.

Sorry, but you are mistaken. There's nothing ridiculous about it. A company is only required to collect sales tax for an online purchase if said company has a physical location in the state where the customer resides, because then they (the company) is operating a business within that state and is therfore obligated to collect the tax. If you live elsewhere however, you will not be charged sales tax. Amazon and Walmart are poor examples, as they have physical locations just about everywhere at this point...that's why they collect tax from you. Try it for yourself...make a purchase from a small out of state company. You're not gonna pay tax on it. CA residents who bought the model packs paid sales tax. If you live in one of the other 49 states, you didn't. No other state has jurisdiction over Line 6, as they are not based there...but if you live in Ohio for example, the state does have jurisdiction over you, and then sales tax becomes your problem, not Line 6's. As with everything else, specific rules and reporting requirments change every time you cross a state line. Some states have no sales tax at all. I have no idea what one does or doesn't have to report in Ohio, I just used it as an example.

I'm reminded of the old George Carlin routine..."If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you". $7500 for a pedal because Jerry Garcia sneezed on it once or twice? Please... As destined as I am to die in debt, I'd sooner tear up $7500 and use it to line a hamster cage.

I've played guitars fresh from the factory that needed a neck shim, so any replacement you get could conceivably need it, but it's far from a guarantee. I put a Warmoth neck on mine. No shims required, and no regrets. Infinite improvement. Never heard of a Jim Foote, but any decent luthier who's half awake should have little difficulty with the job. Aside from the offset bolt holes, it's basically a drop in replacement.

Is it a digital clipping kinda sound? The fan rattle is rather distinct...think "wind chimes in a Cuisine Art"...horrible sound. Volume of the rattle would vary on mine depending on what note I was playing, but all were on the low end...open A or below.

+1...You can spend the rest of your life trying, but if you're driving the POD through a traditional head and cab (or power-amp/cab), or combo amp, the acoustic sounds will always be disappointing. Electric guitar amps just aren't built for that frequency range.

I realize it's just my personal opinion, but you don't really "need" to have 10 different fx going at once...no one does, unless your goal is sound like a spaceship in a bad sci-fi movie...at some point it stops sounding like a guitar. As for, "it's popping up without too many effects in it"...not really sure what that means. Much of the problem also lies with the fact you're the only one who knows what you're really looking for. What works for me, won't necessarily work for you....and neither one of us is "right". Different guitars, string gauges, the other compnents in your rig, the room you're sitting in...it all makes a "one size fits all" approach pretty much impossible. Trial and error is the only way to figure it out...it sucks, but it's the truth. Just my 2 cents.

If it makes anyone feel better, I'm still waiting for a $50 rebate I was supposed to get on a cell phone I bought somewhere around 2003...I'm not holding my breath.

Here's what works for me: 1) Don't listen with tweezers and a magnifying glass...over-analyzing will lead to becoming obsessed with every minor nuance that your ears can discriminate, half of which are gonna disappear once you put the guitar in a mix with other instruments anyway. 2) Don't rely too heavily on FX...this goes for an traditional rig too. The more crap you pile on, the more processed and less "authentic" it sounds. Just start with whatever amp model you're gonna work with, and get a raw tone. No extra drive or distortion, no EQ except the amp's tone stack, no reverb, no nothing...then add the FX one at a time to see what each one does to the sound, before adding the next one. Most of my patches have just a distortion box or overdrive in front (depends on the amp...some don't need it), maybe a compressor...again it depends on the amp, and at the end a little reverb, and delay (usually only for leads). Clean tones I might add a little chorus...

I'll bet you $20 you could hand the same guy a bowl of Cool Whip, tell him it was vanilla mousse, hand-crafted by some celebrity chef at a trendy Manhattan restaurant that charges $47 for it, and he'll swear it's the best dessert that's ever passed his lips. The average person is painfully unaware that pretty much everything they think they "know" has been assigned to them by the advertising industry, and their palate is about as sophisticated as what is routinely found feeding at a hog trough.

Changing which tunings are assigned to each switch position "to make sure they work", is roughly equivalent to driving from NY to Philly "to make sure there's gas in the tank". There's no earthly reason to do that. I'd get my money back and shop elsewhere. Lord knows what would show up in the next box...

The crack, plus what appears to be some other wear and tear and crud in that pic screams "used guitar". Was it a demo model? The tuning knob issues suggests the same thing. Using Workbench, you can assign any tuning you want to the various positions on the switch. Sounds like someone changed things around.

I hate relying on batteries, ever diminishing life, and the need to constantly have 2 charged and ready to go for gigs just in case would drive me nuts, but I could live with it if I had to...it's really the ability to have the POD force model and tuning changes that keeps me connected through the VDI. I love being able to go from Strat, to Les Paul, to acoustic, to a Tele, and back again with just the tap of a footswitch. Trying to do that all live is way too much twiddling of knobs...ymmv.

Pretty soon no one will be able to say that anymore... :( I'll have to find someplace else that requires a set of fingerprints and a DNA sample to buy a 9V battery.

There's an Orange amp called 'Dark Terror' that is very cool...tiny thing, 7W or 14W (your choice...there's a toggle switch, and it's absurdly loud for that wattage). I've used it in the studio several times. You can get some really thick high gain tones. The one they modeled however seems more suited to Zeppelin-ish gain territory, although admittedly I haven't spent much time with it.

actd, we barely knew ye, may The Force be with thee. :)

Any amp parameter can be assigned to the expression pedal...channel volume, drive, anything in the tone stack. Sounds like you may have the channel volume assigned to the pedal inadvertently.

Everyone would have been happier if they were free...