Charlie_Watt

All music has latency. Sound travels 1 foot in 1 msec so if you are 5 feet away from your amp speaker, you have 5 msec of latency just due to the sound path length. A pitch shifter by it's nature has to have some latency. It has to measure the frequency of the note before it can shift it. Physics!

Too early to rate mine. I received my JTV69-S today from Sweetwater. They had already flashed it to 2.0 so I did not have to deal with that. The action was a lttle too low on the Low E and A strings but it was nice after I raised them a bit. Everything seems to work properly and there are no visible flaws. Not bad for a "Demo" unit! The Strat Models sound pretty good to me. Positions 2 and 4 do have the normal Strat sound to them. (I have not dared to try Workbench yet since we all know what that does to these models) I downloaded the patches that fix it but I will do more experimenting with the guitar before I try Workbench. I have plenty of experience with my old Variax 500 and Workbench. I have never had any issues with that guitar. I played it with the mag pickups while I charged the battery and they sound as good as my American Strat pickups. There is some hum which is to be expected with single coils. I tried all of the models after the battery was charged and I can say for sure that they are a big improvement over my 500, especially the acoustics. I think I will be very pleased with this guitar.

Just turn them up (or the others down in Workbench!

If it acts up this way, you probably have a grounding problem between your computer and your amp / pod. I have seen this cause the USB connection to act up.

That would happen if there is any DC level shift in the output between models. Not a good thing.

Me Too! I still have one of those Stereo's (Stereo is pretty dated too!)

I think you have to put the alt tuning dial in the Model position from what I have read.

I would gladly pay for new models that could be downloaded in place of others or in the custom banks!!!!

Sorry! It's called Transcribe! (by seventh string I believe)

I'm not sure why but virtually every recording I try to play with is not quite in tune. I load them into my Transpose software and it's easy to see that they are slightly out of tune. When I adjust the pitch slightly, they sound far better with my in tune guitar. Transpose makes this very easy. You can also slow them way down without changing the pitch to try to learn the licks. This makes playing along much more enjoyable. (most of the stuff I like to play was done in the 60's so that might explain the out of tune) (old analog recorders) Very cool software package - and it's not that expensive.

I have been reading all of this and I have only read about one dead JTV after trying to upgrade. (and some that took more than one try to get it done) Given the way Firmware upgrading works, some of them are going to have problems. That is to be expected when you are blowing away the brains and loading new ones. There is a window where things can go bad and there is no recovery. It happens to me every so often in my Day Job developing Hard Drives.

I deal with this by modifying the recordings to be in tune with my Guitar (Use a program called Transpose) Works great.

Just ordered my JTV69-S. I have one of the early 500's and I still play it more than my other "real" guitars. :-) I would really like to see "Model Packs" for the JTV. Not for free of course but like they did with the Pods. That way we could have more options (maybe at the expense of some we don't use). It seems like this would be a way to make everyone happy and really expand the capabilities of this fantastic guitar! I am sure that Line6 has thought about this and for some reason they have not done it. Comments????

Sounds like maybe a grounding problem to me. Is your stuff all plugged into the same power strip - including the PC????

Great Video! Good comparisons with not a lot of effects! V2 sounds better to me. What is that gismo on your strings just above the nut? I assume it's for damping the strings above the nut but I can't quite see what it's made of in the video.

A regular cable (not crossover) works fine if you are very careful plugging it into the guitar's digital connection. I have used one with workbench and my X3Live. It's not recommended because it's too easy to damage the plug on the guitar if the cable isn't a decent one and if you yank on it without the support of the extra case around the connector that is on the Variax VDI cable.

This is an unfortunate fact of life with pitch shifting. A normal guitar resonates at the frequencies that are being output so everything is working together. With pitch shifting, this just can't be the case. The strings and the body resonate at their natural frequency and the output is shifted so any feedback you get from the output to the guitar isn't at the frequency that the strings are ringing at. This isn't ideal but pitch shifting is still cool.

On a serious note, I am waiting for 2.0 before I purchase a JTV. I have a 500 and I do want to upgrade but I am going to wait and see how folks like the 2.0 models.

Hi - this may be a dumb question. (I have not bought a JTV yet) I do own an original Variax 500. My question is can you run the conventional pickups out the 1/4 jack and the modeling on the Digital cable? Just curious since I have a POd X3 live with both interfaces and dual tone.