I purchased a James Tyler Variax recently after trying it out in the shop and being impressed, particularly with the Strat sounds. Got home and upgraded everything to HD version 2. Great acoustic sounds, good 12 string and dobo. Then I tried the strat out, 2 and 4 position. Oh dear, not only a volume drop but thin sounds. in my humble opinion totally dead. I tried all the suggested changes on this forum, compressor, downloading patches, blending in the magnetic pickups, still no joy. I then began to realise that almost all the electric sounds were to my ears very weak. There was definitely a volume drop from the magnetic pickups on most electric sounds as well . I began to think I would keep my 59 JTV for magnetic pickups and acoustic sounds, after all a great combination. One more thing to try, roll it back and see if it is just my imagination. Well not to my ears it is not. Back came all those good electric sounds and no volume drop, or thin sound. The acoustic sounds are not as good, but I now have the whole guitar working almost the way I want. It is a shame I cannot have 1.9 for electric and 200 for acoustic.
I fully appreciate that 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder', so I am not writing this as a complaint, more an observation
