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Gibson has literally been trying to get this MaGIG technology off the ground since the early 2000s... I distinctly remember talking to a guy I worked with back in like 2001 or 2002about it. I just don't think it will ever go anywhere simply because people aren't looking to Gibson for these types of things. People really only want Gibson to make the classic guitar designs they've been making for the last 100 years or whatever.

I don't believe there is a driver, as the only functionality available to you with the Amplifi and a PC is to use it as a speaker. So I believe you have to go into the Windows Control Panel and the Amplifi should show up a Bluetooth device there. You need to hit the little Bluetooth button on the amp to turn its Bluetooth connection on.

One thing to remember is that any of the three blocks labeled Stomp, Mod, Delay, or Synth can be changed to any of those types of effects. So you can have multiple stomps in a tone, or multiple mods, delays, or synths. It's really pretty flexible.

They require a light touch, that's for sure. I don't use them all that often, but they have come in handy on occasion. My band was in the studio last year, and we had a song where we thought a 12-string part would work well, so I pulled up the Ric 12-string, and recorded it, and I thought it ended sounding great. I was actually kind of surprised with how well it turned out, to be honest.

I don't really hear anything... I'm just listening through my computer speakers, not headphones. Nothing is popping out as that bad to me.

What you're describing is called the 4 cable method, or 4CM for short. It's totally doable. There's a video describing how to set it up on Line 6's Youtube channel here:

I'd be surprised if the price is less than $1400... Not really an M13 killer... The M13 is also going on 6 years old. It's a senior citizen in the world of multi-fx. But back to main topic of the post - I don't see any evidence of the M9 being discontinued. Retailers' stock of things ebbs and flows.

Looking at the manual for the Mobile Keys 49, it looks like you can assign the expression pedal to any continuous controller number you want (in MIDI terminology - CC#), but to trigger your bass drum note you'd need an actual note value. So you could pretty easily, for instance, trigger the kick drum from the keyboard, but in order to do it from the expression input, you'd need to map that CC message to a note value. There might be some way to do that with software, but other than that, you'd need something like the MIDI Solutions Event Processor to map one MIDI command to something else. The other thing that I see as a problem is getting the expression pedal jack to work with a sustain type pedal (really, to trigger a kick, you'd probably want a momentary pedal which generally you don't use as a sustain pedal). If this jack is like the expression pedal input on other Line 6 devices, it will only work with an variable impedance expression pedal.

Those are actually correct. Positions 3 and 5 in the Special bank are a different guitar than Position 1 (actually a Les Paul Junior only has one pickup - the bridge, so there wouldn't be anything else to model for the other positions). It's the same thing with the Tele. There's three different guitars in that bank.

Don't buy the cheapest cables you can find, but don't buy the most expensive, either. Really, the most important thing, imo, is the quality of the connectors. That's what fails. Just make sure you get cables made with connectors where you can unscrew the housing to actually get to the solder joints if you need to. I hate the cables that have sealed ends. If they fail, there's nothing you can do with them. With good connecters you can at least repair them if you have to, but if it's a quality cable, you shouldn't have problems. I've had a lot of luck with Horizon cables, personally. They're relatively inexpensive, and they have a lifetime warranty.

Did you buy the 500X in your country? If so, I would think that this would still be under warranty, unless you're saying you caused this damage yourself. I don't think there's anyway Line 6 will sell you the part directly. You will probably have to go through a service center - http://line6.com/find/service_center/

You always have the option of calling Line 6 directly. Their number is (818) 575-3600, and press 2 for customer service. They're on PST, and their office hours are from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, M-F, so you need call within that window.

One thing to remember is that even when the extra banks are added to the 75 and 100, you will still only be able to access 4 with the Express. There's no way to switch banks with that controller. You'll need the FBV MKii to do that.

It's actually more than a hope now... From here: http://line6.com/news/general/1533 Additionally, AMPLIFi v1.1 firmware will soon be available for AMPLIFi 150 and 75. The update gives guitarists access to 100 onboard presets, sorted by banks, so they can access all the presets they need for any gig.

There two separate products. They're not meant to work together in any way, really. If you want a floor controller for the 75 or 150, you'd need to get one of the FBV controllers.

The one guitarist here is using a Variax 500 with an acoustic patch. Both guitarists use Variaxes at different point in this show. This is from her Afterglow Live DVD.

If you play music, you're a musician... Just like if you drive a car, you're a driver. Why complicate things?

Well, it's relatively flat and, technically, it is a full range speaker system, but I don't think I'd ever try to use it as as studio monitor. It's more like a PA system - pretty flat and good enough for amplifying a lot of sources. I think it would sound fine running a keyboard through it.

I call it "gear karma"... :) Some people just seem to have the opposite of the Midas touch when it comes to certain gear and certain brands. It's hard to understand, really. I've been pretty fortunate with the reliability of my Line 6 gear, really. I can't complain. I've had a few issues, but nothing major.

You get 4 presets overall - one for each footswitch. There is a default preset that's saved in each of the models so that when you turn the model knob to a certain one, the default will come up. But you can't change that. I used to have a DM4 on my board, and I gigged out with out for a number of years. Eventually, I replaced all my 4-button stomps (I used to have the DL4, MM4 and DM4) with the M13, and now the M9. I actually never used the DM4 to replace all my distortions, and eventually I went back to analog stomps. It wasn't necessarily because of the sound quality. I guess I just enjoy having a number of analog pedals, and I've found that with OD and distortion I will often tweak them depending on different things. So having presets can be a bit overrated when it comes to distortion, at least for me.

I haven't tried it with my HD500. I have used it in front of my DT25, though. I think it's a great little pedal. I like that it has a wide range of useable tones. You can go from essentially a clean boost to some pretty fat OD tones.

The previous owner can and should de-register it when he sells it to you. It's not a big deal at all. As far as using it to do the update, you don't even have to have it registered for it to connect to Monkey and do the update. That's the case with all Line 6 products. Firmware updates are never dependent on the product being registered. Monkey will ask you if you want to register, but you can say no and move on.

Well, two and half years ago... ;) Although, to be fair, I think they did announce the 2.0 firmware version at the last NAMM.

Well, I'm surprised someone who owns a Strat would say such a thing... ;) Seriously, I have owned quite a few over the years, and still do own a few, and I don't find anything wrong with the 2.0 Spank models. I like them a lot, actually. I've actually done an A/B test with the Spank model with a real Strat - a 2012 American Standard, to be exact - and I thought they sounded very, very similar. When I put the samples up here for people to guess which was the real Strat, more people guessed incorrectly than got it right. That to me is that point of the modeling. I also would say that I don't know that SRV is the benchmark for sounding like a real Strat. There's plenty of people with real Strats who can't get their guitars to sound like him. He had such a monstrous tone, it's not necessarily something that's easily copied. I'm not saying that JTV can't get you there. It should be able to through tweaking the guitar and amp, etc. But it just seems to me that so much of SRV's tone is attributed to the fact that, well, SRV was the one playing.

Not really, though... It's not quite the same. Yes, I suppose you can do the thing where you jumper Tone 1 into Tone 2, but that was always a little jenky with the X3. It adds noise, and it also means that all your tones have to be set up that way. The signal chain in the FX100 is actually quite a bit more flexible.