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  1. Charlie_Watt
    Be careful! HD500X will not work with WB on a 500! It only works with the JTV and STD with WBHD. I did upgrade my 500 to locking tuners shortly after I got it may years ago. I love the Planet Waves locking tuners. That guitar stays in tune better than most of my others. I also like the hardtail bridge. I eventually went with the ghost pickups. I did have intermittent problems with the piezos. I could bang the bridge with my hand to fix it. I still run mine on 6 rechargeable NiMh batteries most of the time.
  2. Charlie_Watt
    You can run the HD500X into the input of any amp including the THR. No I don't have one so I can't tell you how it sounds.
  3. Charlie_Watt
    If any crud gets in the pocket, it can isolate the ground on the Piezo and either cause a drop out completely or just a bunch of noise. If it happens, you can usually get it working again by wiggling things around the piezo on the bridge.
  4. Charlie_Watt
    It is usually a bad piezo ground contact if it comes and goes. I would pull the strings and clean the bridge really well to try to get a solid ground for each piezo. IMO the Variax design is very bad in this way. They should have used piezos that each had a ground like the Ghost ones. I had lots of intermittent problems on my Variax 500 until I went to Ghost Piezos.
  5. Charlie_Watt
    You may wait a long time since this was last updated over two years ago. :-(
  6. Charlie_Watt
    Signal is too large for that input maybe.
  7. Charlie_Watt
    It takes some skill to modify a nut to play correctly. I have gone through several nuts doing that myself. I always buy a few extras. If you get it wrong, it makes things ugly. You need proper nut files AND you need to get a good book on guitar setup to see how to properly adjust a nut. Even then the learning curve will consume a nut or three depending on your basic skill set. If you want to learn to do this go ahead. I did and I can do it well now. If you don't want to learn to do it, find a good guitar tech and pay him to do it. Should not be all that expensive.
  8. Charlie_Watt
    Most of these stores screw you on trade-in's. I would never do it. Sell it yourself and you get their profit that they factor into the deal. You should not expect to get a lot more than that for a used guitar out of warrantee that is based on modeling electronics.
  9. Charlie_Watt
    The battery will drain if you leave anything plugged into the 1/4 inch jack. It will last for months if you don't use it. You should get a good solid 6 hours of playing with a fully charged battery.
  10. Charlie_Watt
    The foam or Velcro or etc above the nut only dampens the vibrations of the string lengths between the tuners and the nut.
  11. Charlie_Watt
    Almost anything will work to quiet the short strings past the nut. I use a piece of foam. I use this on all of my guitars - not just my Variax.
  12. Charlie_Watt
    I want a guitar that plays itself since I suck as a player. :-) The Variax models have been basically the same from the get go. (500, 600, 300, 700, JTV's) I don't think Line6 has any development going on them. It's not one of their money making products IMO.
  13. Charlie_Watt
    Watch some of the Helix videos. There are some very good ones about how to build a very decent sounding patch.
  14. Charlie_Watt
    You can't beat Petersen tuners! I find them the best I have tried. I find that I get easier tuning on my JTV using the Mags - Neck pickup.
  15. Charlie_Watt
    I really like the color!
  16. Charlie_Watt
    Try it with the 1/4 inch guitar cable instead of the VDI (if you are using that now). The Variax does send both over the VDI and it's up to the Pod to use one, the other, or both.
  17. Charlie_Watt
    You can also try playing with headphones on. The louder you play the less you hear the strings themselves. Yes it is possible to blend the mags with the modeling but you have to go into WB to set that up.
  18. Charlie_Watt
    What bridge did you use? That is not from the 500 for sure.
  19. Charlie_Watt
    Very nice work!!!! Did you make the routing templates or did you acquire them?
  20. Charlie_Watt
    No issues if you keep bridge position consistent with the scale length. The margin of error has to be within the adjustable range of the saddles.
  21. Charlie_Watt
    It has been done well for many years but only by a small group of people. It requires some expertise.
  22. Charlie_Watt
    I don't recommend running both inputs set to Variax. It doubles your input signal. I would set input2 to aux or something other than Variax.
  23. Charlie_Watt

    Tuner

    Charlie_Watt replied to BigRalphN's topic in Helix

    Not tuner ratio. It's the way strings vibrate. It will jump around even if you don't touch the tuning peg. Pitch is higher at attack and it goes lower during decay. It's very obvious on a good strobe tuner.
  24. Charlie_Watt
    It may do that if you have the volume knob turned all the way down.
  25. Charlie_Watt

    Tuner

    Charlie_Watt replied to BigRalphN's topic in Helix

    Good tuners are "jumpy" because the string pitch changes rapidly when you pluck it. It starts out sharp and goes flat as the note dies out.
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