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You're right. This is the ugly truth that most won't say out loud...technology is only a benefit for those smart enough to realize it for what it is, a tool to enhance inherent or acquired skills, not as a substitute for them. I think a lot of this stuff is gonna create a widening IQ divide, if you will, given a long enough timeline. Much like we will soon have only the uber rich and the dirt poor, something tells me there will eventually be a small handful of folks with an IQ above room temperature, and over-abundance of mouth breathers with the iThingy 9s surgically implanted in their forearm, blissing themselves out 24/7.

LMFAO :lol:... or train tracks, drainage ditches, off the end of a pier...lol All of these devices bestowing "convenience" upon us, are doing so at a cost. Over time will make us collectively dumber, and increasingly dependent on technology to accomplish even the simplest of tasks. We've already stopped teaching critical thinking, instead just teaching kids to pass an endless series of standardized tests, so that a school's "progress" (or lack thereof) can somehow be quantified, as a means of securing Federal $$. But who cares if they can think, as long as they have an app to tie their shoes? Welcome to the Idiocracy...an underrated movie btw.

Could I impose upon you to elaborate on this, or point me to the right thread? Are we just talking starting with an empty patch and leaving out the amp model?

Yes, I have noticed that...a bunch of TVs all playing the same thing with slightly different latencies sticks out like a turd in a punchbowl. Same reason I don't want to play in a 5 guitar ensemble...each guy is gonna have a different idea of where the beat is, and God help you all if you try and swing anything. But that said, with one guitar and one amp I've never been bothered by it. Just me I guess.

You're probably right...nothing's perfect. At one time or another, I've had a love/hate relationship with every piece of gear I've ever owned. Today's perfectly tweaked patch with sound awful tomorrow if you've been playing for hours and are tweeking with tired ears. Isn't that why we're always buying new stuff? Maybe this amp/guitar/cable/case/strings/picks will be "the one". Oh well, the search goes on...

Something does seem different with the acoustics. I've gone back and forth between 1.9 and 2.0 a few times now, and they never sound the same through the 500X patches I have after the switch...then again, I also mucked around with the string volumes whilst experimenting, so that may account for it, I suppose.

I hate the damn things, honestly. Lived just fine for the first 30 years of my life without one. Now, if you leave the house without it, it's almost as horrifying as if you'd forgotten your pants. No good...but oh, the revenue!

I suppose it would depend on the finger... ;) Seriously though, I don't think just tapping on the piezo is gonna tell you much of anything. String up the guitars with the same gauge strings, then play with the same model (from same firmware version), on the same amp settings, and see if one has more bottom end than the other. Then you'll have your answer. But even then, there may be discrepancies between the output of the individual piezos...it's hard to definitively A/B anything with these guitars, or any two guitars for that matter. Even two 59s may sound different.

I'm sorry, can you repeat that?...I wasn't listening. Ooh, pretzels! :D

Yes you did. Twice. Which is evidently your definition of "sloppy". And judging by the number of folks who are perfectly happy with the performance of their rigs, you just covered at least half of the people on this forum. Never said it wasn't there...quite the opposite, actually. .

No need to get obnoxious. Now where's that ignore feature...

To date, perhaps...10 years ago, smartphones were a fantasy too. I'm not sure the human ear can even be that discriminating. Mine certainly isn't, and I'm not sure I'd want to it be. Wouldn't want perfect pitch either...anything that's even slightly off must drive those people nuts...but I digress. I think the latency some claim to "feel" stems from the fact that intellectually, they know its there, since it can be measured with the right tools. After a while they convince themselves they hear it, top down processing...JMHO. We're talking about microseconds...less time than it takes to blink your eyes. Far less actually, and we can just barely perceive that if you pay attention to it.

Near as I can tell it's a 50/50 love -hate relationship wih the JTVs. Many guys who've had the older Variax guitars have gripes, and don't seem to like the newer guitars. Personally, I have nothing to compare the JTV to...I have found that this instrument has some quirks, and a few things needed getting used to in terms of pick attack, etc, especially for the acoustic models. But I like the strat tones on 2.0...some do, some don't. Very subjective and probably always will be.

I never bothered to look into headphone "requirements" as such, but I'm using a $50 pair of Sennheisers, as my AKGs recently died. They work fine. Plugged in my crappy cellphone earbuds with an adapter just for laughs, and they worked too...sounded like boiled sh*t, but it works. You can buy a $500 pair if you want, but it isnt necessary.

Unfortunately, it sounds like its bricked...shipping to Line 6 for repair/replacement might be your only option at this point.

When you save the patch, it allows you to select the "destination" switches A,B,C,D in each bank, corrrespondiong to the lower row of footswitches on the board. If you want to use the upper row of footswitches to toggle to an entire patch instead of using them to toggle various fx, I believe you need to change it in the menu settings. Press and hold the VIEW button, and you'll have access to 10 pages of other settings...it's in there somewhere. Not sure which page.

He must have tiny hands...

Same thing applies here...dunno about the impedance issue, but every pair of cans you plug in are gonna sound different too. Best to get a pair of decent studio headphones with the flatest frequency response you can find for the money you're willing to spend. Otherwise, if you spend much time tweeking through the headphones, and then plug into your amp, you're gonna have the same problems all over again. You might need 2 sets of patches, depending on how you're listening...

Yep...I puzzled over that for the better part of an hour the first time. And not even a hint that it's necessary to log in...

yeah...I'll wait till there's a problem too, but at least theres something out there that appears like it would work.

You're gonna find that many of the custom tone patches will be unusable, ditto for the factory presets...why? Beacause they were created by someone with a different guitar, amp, and fingers. Just because it sounded exactly like "Comfortably Numb" to the dude who created it, doesn't mean it's gonna sound like that in your hands. Then theres the issue of output selections...studio/direct, combo/front, stack/front, etc. Everything colors the sound one way or the other. The "correct" way based on your individual setup might sound like crap to you. You have to experiment...no way around it. I do everything the "wrong" way...studio/direct out all the time, cab emulations and all, even if I'm running through an actual cabinet...to me, the preamp only outs have all the appeal of a rusty chainsaw...but with the cab sims in place, I can get endless tones I like. It's all about what sounds good to you.

Nice...good find. Looks like it would work.

I'm not saying a strat neck wont fit. There might very well be a number of drop in replacements, I haven't tried. But I'm staring at the backs of the Jtv and an American standard strat and the strat neck has a heel that's quite different. Its fatter, and has a rounded "plateau" if you will that juts out past the body by the screwplate. Kinda hard to describe. But even a quick glance and the difference is obvious, and it absolutley feels different. I'll post pics tomorrow. It's not contoured into the neck pocket the way the jtv is...I actually find it easier to access the higher frets on the jtv as a result.

No...there's nothing wrong with mine, I was just thinking out loud. I saw the older piezos for sale directly from Line 6, but no mention of anything for any of the JTVs. Seems odd now that the line is a couple years old, as you said.

A strat neck might fit, but you'll have to do some sanding if you want it to feel the same. I've got both, and the heels are not the same at all.