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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.

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.

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.

That's kinda what I figured...lol

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody's a little Irish today...

Today only...lol And if you attempt to replace him with a balanced tension Leprechaun, you will void your warranty... :D

Good question...only one way to find out. Given the alt. tunings' tendency to be tempermental when the guitar is physically tuned to E, feeding the tuning algorithm Eb might cause the guitar to leap to it's death. Don't try it near any open windows... ;) And for God's sake man...don't touch the pickup covers! :P

first four number tell you the year and month of manufacture. YYMM...So 1202 is Feb 2012.

Careful now...lest you raise the hackles of the Latency Brigade, who will then tell you that if you can't hear it, your timing sucks, LOL.

Thousand dollar guitar....1/4 cent Chinese plastic knob. You do the math....sucks, but it is what it is.

This will be debated until the sun goes nova...purists will tell you that no modeling has ever [or will ever] come close to the real thing, others disagree. Lotsa good things being said about the Stagesource speakers though...considering one myself.

LOL...and just the other day we were all advised to not so much as change the pickup covers, for fear of mucking up the works. So much for that.