cruisinon2
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Also, when in doubt, reflash the firmware. It seems to be the magic fairy dust in many cases.
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So I did get the replacement and even though it wasn't missing any part I can't get the guitar to sound good as expected. And since "expected" is a very relative term what I actually mean is that when I load up presets on my HD500 that I created using my much cheaper guitars (Squires and Epi), I can't even get the JTV to sound anywhere close to those guitars. e.g. the distortion and sustain on the lester comes no where close the Epi LP standard. Same with comparing between the Spank model and my Squier Standard (with Seymour Duncan pickups). The tele and the acoustic are the only models that sound decent. The guitar came loaded with 2.0 FW.
I wonder if I am doing something wrong...
Relative prices of the other guitars have nothing to do with it. If you had three different Strats in front of you, they will not all sound identicle. Ditto for any other kind of guitar...so don't waste any more time comparing it to other guitars.
If you already know the ins and outs of the 500, then you're probably not doing anything wrong...the JTV is just a different guitar, actually a very different guitar.
Let the tweaking being...Right out of the box, mine sounded much like what a boiled landfill would smell like. You'll need to spend some time with it to get it to sound the way you want.
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Help needed and appreciated.
On my jtv 69s, after changing gauge from original 10s to 9s, I lost completely the intonation of the E string (the 09 mm)
I lower the action as much as possible, and extend the piezo as much as possible.
The E string sounds on the 12th fret 1 tone down (flat)
If only you had taken it to an authorized service center... ;)
It's odd that it's off by an entire 1/2 step, and that's gonna be a pretty big saddle adjustment, but it should be fixable. If I understand you correctly, the fretted E at the 12th fret is flat compared to the 12th fret harmonic? That being the case, the vibrating length of the string needs to be shortened, so you would adjust the saddle by moving it towards the nut. Do it incrementally, and check the fretted note against the harmonic after each adjustment until he tones match.
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Sir Radatats of the Knights who Say Ni! ;)
"We want a Shrubbery!"
"We want another shrubbery! And place it beside the first one, so we shall have a path..."
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As cruisinon2 says - the click is present with JTV firmware v2.0 and rolling back to v1.9 does get rid of it.
I have a support ticket open with L6 - they tell me they can't reproduce it - even though many on the forum have reported the same problem - so they want me to upload an audio/video demonstrating the problem for them to pass on to the engineers -
I believe "rubbish" is the term our friends across the pond would use in a situation such as this. If you're actually playing mid-patch change, it's as clear as day. If you mute the strings, then switch, it's less obvious, but still there. I suppose it depends on exactly how they're "testing" it...
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Yes - Workbench HD default is to upload and automatically save a backup of all 60 presets. However, if you don't want it to do this then you can simply CANCEL the upload by clicking the cancel button. Saves a bunch of time!
I don't know about the noise you are hearing though through headphones when adjusting volume or tone controls. Maybe someone else has experienced that and knows a solution.
You'll hear that if you're listening/tweaking while connected to Workbench. Don't know why.
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I just watched a quick youtube vid on it. Looks OK.
It has taken another step to "user friendly" a.k.a. let us do it for you.
I would like a side by side review.
Would be like reviewing a Ferrari vs. a Honda Civic. Both are cars, both will get you from A to B...but that's about where the similarities end.
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Yeah, it's pulling whatever models are currently saved to the guitar into Workbench. If everything you have in there is stock, then it doesn't matter and you can hit cancel...but if you've messed with anything [string volumes, creating cutom models, etc] and want to keep what you have, let it go through the motions or you might accidentally overwrite changes that you've made.
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I have owned this set up for a few months and need a little direction….The songs that i write have acoustic guitar and electric in them ( 1 guitar player) i am having a tough time getting a nice acoustic sound out of my DT50,pod 500,and variax. I always have to set up an amp in the pod 500 which when i need the volume that i need it sounds like an electric guitar on clean am i way off base any ideas. also i need to go from an acoustic sound and with the flip of the 500 foot pedal go to a more distorted marshall type sound but i get a nasty noticeable click to do so any ideas??? Thank You
If you're running 2.0 on your JTV, that click you are hearing when you switch patches came as a free gift with the firmware update. Everybody hates it, but it ain't going anywhere until the next update...maybe, if they feel like addressing it. There are other threads discussing it somewhere on here. Rolling back to 1.9 gets rid of it...at the moment thats the only fix I know of.
As for the acoustic sounds...its a long wait for a train that ain't coming. No electric guitar amp is gonna be convincing. They just dont't have the frequency response.
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Well tried alt tuning last night with the guitar strings tuned to Eb. In short it was a mess !!! So best not to use the Alt Tuning dial unless the guitar is tuned to E !
That's kinda what I figured...lol
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I've never heard of anyone being warned against changing the string gauge as far is pertains to the warranty coverage. Changing sting gauge can affect the way the modeling sounds, for sure, but there's no reason someone should be afraid of switching gauges as far as I know.
I only know what others have posted:
http://line6.com/support/topic/4917-jtv69-alternate-tuning-issue/
It's towards the end of the first page in that thread. This guy posted what he claims was the official explanation that accompanied his repair. He says that he was advised to keep 10's on the guitar. This is what I was referring to above. NONE of it are my words, nobody at Line 6 ever told me that the string gauge couldn't be changed...as I said, I can only go by what I've seen others post. Maybe he made it all up...I have no idea.
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I think that FRFR is the only solution. You can tweak until Doomsday..if you're running into any kind of electric guitar amp, its never gonna sound like a true acoustic. I can get some really convincing acoustic sounds through headphones, recording direct, or straight to a PA...but through an amp? Never been able to get there.
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3. There is a 2.0 firmware that is supposed to be high def (HD) . Sweetwater does this for you so the guitar you get will be the latest/greatest.
Actually, if I had to find a gripe about Sweetwater, this is it. Got mine at the end of December, and it came with 1.7 firmware, so check when you get it to make sure it was updated, cause it might not be. Minor issues tho, and wouldn't stop me from ordering from them again.
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1) Its hard to find these guitars in stores, at least where I am (buried in suburban sprawl, with a mall every 8 feet and 2 major music retailers minutes away...even so, nobody stocks them around here). So I had no choice but to buy online. I get your apprehension tho, its the only guitar I have ever bought that I hadn't played first.
2) Mine is a Sweetwater scratch n' dent. Whatever flaws they have are cosmetic, and generally very minor. Unless you play with little white gloves on and never take it out of the house, you're probably gonna scratch and/or dent it worse yourself at some point.
3) Earlier guitars seemed to have more issues than later ones. Also, the bridge was redesigned at some point to fix some cable-routing issues from the piezos. Not sure when this was changed...mine is a 2012 (I forget the month...not near the guitar right now), and has the new bridge.
In my experience, Sweetwater is great to deal with. 30 day no questions asked return policy, plus they give you an extra year of warranty on top of the factory one on most things they sell. I've contacted them about a couple of issues before, and gotten a return email (from an actual human, not an auto-reply) within a few minutes, and never more than a couple of hours later.
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I am running 2.0 on my JTV and the model levels are not lower than the mag levels on any models. The Lester models are the loudest. It sounds like you don't have things right somehow. Try reflashing with 2.0 or even try going to 1.9. I have not bothered to level my models yet - they are not all the same levels but neither are the guitars they modeled.
I agree...I haven't touched the model volumes either. Don't see the need. I expect the LP to be louder than the Strat. The JTV's mag humbucker is louder than my real Strat...that's how the ball bounces, right?
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Hi, I recently bought a line 6 spider 3 half stack, and while the amp sounds terrific, when i turn the amp up around 4 the bass strings on my guitar create excessive vibration at the back cover, and the cover seems to be on tight...I havent yet taken the cover off to check the conditions of the speakers. Its just a loud vibration and sound like the back cover is vibrating real loud. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
Thanks, Beatles Steve
Lotsa things can rattle inside a speaker cabinet. Without taking a look, it's hard to guess at a fix. Had similar issue with an old Marshall cab years ago. Turned out to be a wooden support post that rests dead center against the back of the cab. Little piece of cloth between the end of the post and the back of the cab tightened things up enough that it stopped vibrating. Might be something that simple. Gotta find what's buzzing first.
"In life, you really only need two things to fix stuff...WD40 to make them go, and duct tape to make them stop"
saw that on a bumper-sticker once...lol :P
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I'll try reflashing it later and recheck the global volumes, thanks for all your advice today guys, still very new to variax, just in the process of building up an hd500x using the four cable method, which has been a lot of head scratching :)
Oh... if you're using the 500x, then there's another solution. Just level out your volumes in there. I tend to have different patches, with different amp/cab combos set up for different guitar models. Sounds like a lot, but I mostly use the strats, LPs, and the occasional tele model...so once you get everything dialed in it probably wouldn't be an overwhelming number of patches on the 500x...there's plenty of space anyway. You might find that easier than tweaking every guitar model in the Variax...food for thought. Unless you're doing a lot of switching between models, or mags/models mid-song, that should work too.
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the mags are about the same height to the strings as my les paul, it was setup professionally, the balances seemed fine on 1.7, although the acoustics were a bit quieter and thin sounding, after the update the opposite has happened, the acoustics are almost louder than the mags and full bodied and the electrics are thin and quiet, pretty much everything besides the LP, although that doesn't have the same balance and body that it did have before
You jumped over 2 firmware versions, and many of the models changed from 1.7 to 2.0 (if not all of them...not 100% sure). The HD models are supposedly more accurate emulations of their real-world counterparts, which might account for some of the volume differences.
Many don't like the strat models as much in 2.0, particularly the volume relative to the LPs. I've seen that complaint...among others...on here more than once. Not sure why the volumes are so drastically different from your mags though...that seems a little odd. Then again, there are more than a few things that can get a little odd with these guitars.
Reflashing is worth a try...and perhaps doing it a few times. That has reportedly fixed a handful of different issues for some, including me. Nobody knows why it works, but it seems to...2.0 firmware appears a bit unstable.
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perhaps... but volume relative to the magnetics is never this prominent of an issue...
i'd certainly try a reflash or 2 or 6.
Maybe his mags are too close then...who knows? Doesn't seem like there are two identicle JTV's anywhere on earth. Everybody seems to have very specific issues, almost never exactly that same from one axe to the next.
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Ive recently bought a jtv-59 and was using it for jamming in my house run through an AC30 cc2x, as soon as I bought it I had it setup by a pro luthier I use and it played great, I don't think it had ever been updated so was running an earlier firmware, it sounded great, although some of the models were better than others.
I really liked the tel, strat and lp. The mags are really nice on it too.
I decided to update the variax and now the model volumes are all over the place, the LP model is a little quieter than the mags but the other electric guitar models are incredibly quiet, the acoustic models are about the same output as the mags, I cant see a way of balancing out and increasing the models to match the mags, everything seems to be at 100% in workbench, this has made the models unusable for me which kind of defeats the purpose of having a variax.
can anyone help with this, I don't really want to go back, also the models sound a little thin and high endy, its a total pain having to constantly adjust the vox for each models tone and volume
Many guys didn't like 2.0 for a whole bunch of reasons, realtive volumes from model to model being one of them. There is no magic fix except leveling them out in workbench, one by one. By default the individual string volumes for each model are set to 100%, but that's not what you need to look at...at the bottom of the screen you can raise or lower the volume of each individual model by "X" db, until everything sounds right, then flash everything to the guitar. Either that, or roll back to 1.9...lotsa guys have.
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so mine is W11210 - so thats October 2012.
Something's not right...it's year first, then month. YYMM.
So unless that's a typo, 1121 doesn't make sense. If it's 1112, that would make sense, and it would indicate that it was built in Dec 2011.
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1) Hard to say without knowing exactly why it's loose.
2) You can save a specific tuning to individual guitar models using the cutom banks on the model selector knob, and setting the tuning selector to "Model"
3) It's done with the Workbench software, which you'll need to download. There are two custom banks to use without overwriting the factory presets
4) Entirely subjective. Like any other guitar neck in the universe, you either like it or you don't. Most of the griping is about the nut width, which at 1 5/8 " is just about as narrow as it gets (that's what the spec sheet says, anyway. I measured mine, and it's slightly narrower than that). Even Fender hasn't made their necks that skinny since the 50's. The resulting string spacing on the lower frets is really close, and this can be a problem if you've got big hands (or fat fingers :P ). Some have also had issues with the E strings sliding off the ends of the frets, which I suspect is the result of the aforementioned narrow nut. In order to keep the string spacing at all playable on the lower frets, they seem to have pushed the two outside strings a little too close to the edge...at least on the earlier JTVs. Seems to have been remedied on later ones. I've had no problem with slippage on mine.
5) Don't get frustrated....guitar can be quirky. The piezos are much more sensitive than mag pickups....which can lead to all sorts of issues until you get used to it. Or, you may have no problems with them at all. Some are perfectly happy with their axes right out of the box...for others there's a bit of a learning curve.
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Everybody's a little Irish today...
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leprechauns?
Today only...lol
And if you attempt to replace him with a balanced tension Leprechaun, you will void your warranty... :D
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This might be stupid...but you're not in an alt. tuning right? Check everything with the mags to be sure there's not some funky JTV/DSP weirdness going on.