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If the heel is made for a Strat, then I can't imagine why it would matter...the rest of the guitar won't care how long the neck is. Intonation on will need adjusting with the shorter scale, but that shouldn't be a big deal.

Don't think the Tele heel joints are the same specs as a Strat. May or may not be possible to shoehorn one in there. Aside from the position of the bolts, anything that fits a Strat is a drop-in replacement.

Tube screamer is not my favorite...Plus I'm really not looking to create a problem when there is none,lol. If ya try hard enough, you can make the best rig in the world sound like boiled arse...but why would you? Pulling apart a problem guitar until it works as advertised is all well and good, but unless there really is one single, as yet undiscovered cause...and I really don't think that's likely...all they will have accomplished is fixing one axe. Won't help anybody else if there's a combination of things that might go wrong. That being the case, they're just gonna continue to do what they're doing...evaluating problem instruments as they appear. Sometimes there's only one solution...and sometimes that solution sucks.

You mean there's more to sounding like SRV than just buying one of his "custom" Strats?!?!?! Say it ain't so, Flava Flav...

No, everyone does not have the problem. I have no plunking, and I never did. I use a lot of fairly high gain tones, and I play 11's. So if heavier strings with higher tension were the culprit, plus lots of gain, this thing should be "plunking" me right out of me chair. But it's not. I suspect that there is more than one cause, perhaps sometimes a combination of things that contribute to it, and that's why we see it in some guitars and not others. I seriously doubt that there's ever gonna be any epiphanies, or "ah ha!" moments until the technology gets a little more consistent. Seems that either you get lucky or you don't. Not a terribly satisfying realization, but it's no less likely than any of the other guesses that get thrown around.

I have no affiliation with Warmoth whatsoever...just a happy customer, but there is this pervasive myth that one has to spend more than $300 for one of their necks. Now you certainly can spend that much if you're so inclined. And I've seen some that are pushing $1K for some of the exotic woods they offer. However, there a always a multitude of things to choose from that are $200+, and I've even seen some that they drop below $200 if they've been sitting around a while. There are always dozens of "in stock" necks to choose from, and the search feature lets you filter by any and every spec they offer, so you can search for exactly what you want. They only start to get really expensive if you're adding the fancier woods, nuts, and inlays, or stainless frets (which are magnificent for anyone who hasn't tried them). I have not noticed any issues with the neck joint. The "squared off" heel that you referred to doesn't really protrude past the body at all. Higher fret access is actually more restricted on my actual Strat, because Fender doesn't the contour the body at the neck joint like the Variax does. The neck itself really ins't the issue at all, it's the guitar body.

No idea what equipment Warmoth uses, but I can tell you that they' re not all as expensive as you think. There are plenty to choose from in the $200 neighborhood. Just gotta choose from what they have in stock. Cheaper than having them build one from scratch.

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken..." -Tyler Durden

Yup...in a nutshell, you have just explained why guitarists, as a species, are never going to be happy for more than a few fleeting moments (perhaps hours if you're lucky) at a time. Oh well, Take what you can get. :P

Amen...Warmoth makes really nice necks.

This is now officially the weirdest thread on the forum. Wouldn't surprise me if a cinnamon bun recipe appeared next...

"Authorized service centers" are mostly a joke. Telling you that they've never heard of the problem is the official first line of defense. This is universal and has nothing to do with L6, per se. Just went thru the exact same thing getting an L2T serviced, but I digress. You might not be anxious to spend any more money, but just bite the bullet and throw a Strat replacement neck on it. The stock neck is a baseball bat anyway.

Get 10 guitar players in a room, and the only thing they will all agree on is that they'd all like to be able to play a little faster. If you like it, it meets your needs, and doesn't burst into flames on stage, then it's good. The average listener can't tell a screaming Strat from a rusty chainsaw anyway.

Corporate espionage...probably a mole working for Fractal. All those patches will self-destruct and crash your hard drive. :P

Line 6 and the Case of the Vanishing Poster.... a lost novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :o

LMAO :lol:

My favorite part of this thread is the fact that it's still got traction, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. The OP blurted out a largely incoherent rant about his substandard product somehow being the culmination of an elaborate, racism-based plot to sell him a crappy guitar. Hollywood struggles to come up with stuff this good...Then he vanished, and hasn't been back since Christmas day, yet it's still being discussed, :lol: .

This might help: http://originalguitarchair.com They're not cheap, and they're made to order, so it takes a while. But they are really nice, and the design shifts you right into the "tradional" playing position. The back is nicely padded and provides good lumbar support. I've gotten so used to it, I almost can't sit with the guitar on my right leg anymore.

I understood you just fine. You want a ready-made solution to click on, and expect the work to end there. Unfortunately that doesn't exist. I tried the customtone route at first, found it almost entirely useless, and wasted a lot of time. I was trying to save you the trouble of wandering down the same fruitless path. But if you'd rather be obnoxious, thats fine too. Best of luck.

You are not likely to find a "drag and drop" solution to this problem. Nothing is ever gonna sound the same from bedroom to gig volume, or from one room to another...I don't care who's gear you buy. There is usually a long learning curve to the HD units...many things to adjust and experiment with. The only way to tailor your patches to the 3 different rigs you mentioned is with your ears. Patches that someone else created with a different guitar, in a different room, and their own preference for what "good" sound is, even if they used same amps you listed, are not likely to translate into a usable tone for you. Too many variables...all you will end up doing is wasting time. There's now way out of the experimental phase, and no shortcuts. Just the nature of the beast.

The "hum" parameter seems to create some odd sounds for me, particularly playing through headphones. I noticed fairly early on that with any sustained note, I would hear an odd overtone. Low, but audible. Sometimes above the note being played, sometimes lower, but never at a consistent or predictable interval. I could reproduce it with any guitar I plugged in, so it wasn't some weird Variax anomaly. Turning "hum" to zero made it disappear, so I considered it problem solved. Didn't concern me much anyway...I've spent 25 years being annoyed by all the extraneous noises that amps and pickups produce, and trying to find ways to eliminate them, so I was a little puzzled as to why one would want to add more aural roadblocks in the first place. So I just set hum to zero by default now. No negative impact on tone as far as I'm concerned...silence is golden.

I can't complain because she scares me... :P

First we'd need a definition of "good". We could spend the next millenia trying...and failing utterly...to get even that far. Almost as useless as asking Bill Clinton for a definition of "is". :P

I'd start with GC. Unless they sell all their used gear "as is", then I'd think that there would still be a window to return it. Start over with a new one. See if L6 is still doing the $150 rebate on the JTVs...you might get closer to that price than you think...you'll just have to wait till 6 months after Armageddon for the check...

I've said it before and I'll say it again...I don't think anybody really knows (inlcuding L6) why it happens to some guitars and not others. Otherwise, after 4-ish years on the market, this problem would have been dealt with, provided that there was one or more universal causes. Likewise, the solutions that some have come up with are just as variable as the problem...works for some, and not others. I've got 11's on my 69, and no "plink"...so much for fatter strings making it worse. It's all a grand and glorious mystery...glad you found a work-around though.