sparkyERTW

I think he mentioned he was aware you could overwrite every model, but just didn't want to overwrite the 'regular' banks. I'm kinda with him; even though there are some I don't use very often, it's nice having them at my disposal should the occasion arise. There's definitely quite a few custom creations that get swapped in and out of my Custom banks, things like - '72 thinline (using ES-335 humbuckers; not perfect, but it does alright) - P90 thinline (something like Fender's JA-90) - La Cabronita - Gibson Nighthawk (Firebird neck pickup, Strat middle, slanted ES-335 bridge pickup, etc.) - Silver Jet w/ Filtertrons - Strat done with P90s (sounds great) - Neil Young's 'Old Black' (using Firebird and Casino pickups) - Jonny Lang's custom tele (P90 middle, LP humbuckers with the output cranked) - Sit-Dano bass (Dano body, Sitar pickups, octave down... wicked rumbling bass sound... found it in the custom bank of my pre-owned Variax 500 when I bought it, and I've kept the model around) - Frankencaster (Tele body with Tele bridge, mini-hum middle and P90 neck... or was that P90 middle, mini-hum neck... jeez, I'm going to have to go back and look at that... plus some series/out-of-phase combinations with those) - Custom of my custom (Recreating my Strat with wiring for bridge/neck series, bridge/middle series, and out-of-phase switch for neck pickup) I've also got some models done up with different tone capacitor values, essentially allowing the 5-way switch to act similar to a Varitone in conjunction with the tone control. So yeah... whole lot of crazy junk. When I see it all listed like that it makes me think maybe I need to stop tinkering and just play my damn guitar.

The pop - as Line 6 makes mention of somewhere in the documentation and I think has also been brought up in the forums - is the result of the amp re-configuring between Class AB and Class A (someone correct me if I'm wrong on that); the suggestion is not to set up your patches so you do a lot of that on the fly. Effects bypass during that process would probably be a good idea, but there may be some other complications that come with doing that.

As much as I'm curious to see the new "HD" electric models, I concur with the sentiment that repetitive "nearly done" announcements or extremely fluid ETAs isn't that useful, so might as well just sit back and relax. I will, however, suggest that Line 6 could be a bit more prompt about notifying JTV owners; unless your lurking in the forums or firing up Line 6 Monkey daily to check versions, it's often a week or two before Line 6 sends out a newsletter with "hey, look what got released recently!" It would be kinda nice if Line 6 sent out an e-mail to registered JTV owners the day it drops, or at least by the following day.