Charlie_Watt

It won't affect modeling as long as they are not set too close to the strings.

It normally takes many hours to fully charge the battery if it's nearly empty. The red light should be flashing.

Often it is just a problem of a bad ground connection. If you remove the strings and clean the piezo it my start working reliably again. It relies on the case for it's ground and it can get dirty and not make a good connection. The piezo itself is probably fine if it starts working again.

The Pop sounds mechanical with the floating bridge. If your bridge is hosed up, the modeling will be too.

Piezos require a charge amplifier to generate a signal so no you can't take a signal right from the Piezo. You would have to take it after the amplifier that is on the board. There is one for each piezo.

The string outputs are separate after the piezos so if you know what you are doing you can separate them. Don't expect any help from Line6 though.

Does not work. It's been tried. Wrong Battery ID code..

Guitar amps without a high frequency horn / tweater can't reproduce acoustic guitar sounds well enough to sound good. I real acoustic won't sound good through it either.

I don't know about the DT25 but mine sounds great through a PA monitor. I use my HD500x with no amp model and an acoustic patch I got from Custom Tone.

I'm getting really tempted! I really don't mind the stock 69 neck but I do like my Strat maple neck better. I may go for a Warmouth neck.

Does not sound like a short. Sounds like a bad connection.

It actually makes sense to me. Not drilling is special handling. Drilling costs nothing to do. Special handling costs $$ to do.

If you add a fret, it will be very close to the pickup. The scale length won't change.

Variax has not changed the models offered for a decade. They are not going to start now.

The Sony Camera battery would not work in the Variax. I did not try it but one of the posters did.

The batteries do contain a chip that makes them work in the Variax battery holder. They don't need that to work in the charger.

You can not use Workbench or update your Variax through Helix yet. You need the USB interface.

ALL magnetic pickups are going to pick up noise but single coils are the worst. That is what is sweet about the modeling. IT's dead silent! Fluorescent bulbs are terrible, light dimmers are worse. Speed controlled fans are terrible too.

You can adjust each string height with the saddles. Just like a Strat. I would not mess with the bridge height. My 69S was actually set slightly low on the Low E and A strings. Too much fret buzz. You do not want much fret buzz (like none) with the modeling. If you are not confident with a setup take it to a good luthier. All guitars need a good setup.

VDI won't drain the battery! I leave mine plugged in all the time. No it won't charge it though. Lithium batteries have the lowest self discharge rate of any on the market so they will hold a charge a long time if not being drained by the equipment they are connected to.

These batteries should not drain quickly on the shelf! Should go 6 months without much loss of charge. If they drain quickly when not used, they are defective.

Not really. Feedback is the interaction with the sound and the guitar. You need lots of gain - loud sound.

The cost of Variax repairs is not unreasonable! Compare it to what you pay for a new tail light for your car. ($500 for mine) Fortunately, the guy that busted it paid for it. A repair center has to make a profit like it or not. A new board is the whole electronics for a Variax. Stuff like that is not cost effective to repair.

I think the 900 was a prototype so there is no surprise that they had some manufacturing glitches. I don't believe that it was ever really offered for sale in volume.

Where is your data? How many failures have they had vs the number shipped? I have three Variax guitars the oldest is over 10 years. I have not had any failures of electronics. I replaced the Piezos on my 500 but they still worked when I did so. Line 6 has a reasonable warrantee on them that covers early failures which are common for electronic devices. If it works a year, it will probably be reliable. This forum will have very skewed statistics since most posters are trying to solve an issue with their guitar.