Sigher Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I just picked up a Shuriken and I'm loving it but I miss not having any sort of Trem to smoothly alter the pitch of the strings. I remember seeing a video where someone from Line6 used the Tone Knob to shift the pitch up, but I think this was in conjunction with a Helix pedalboard and I don't know if you can just set the Tone Knob to do that on the guitar by itself. If this isn't possible, I guess I'm stuck with a foot pedal or something to get the same effect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 22 minutes ago, Sigher said: I just picked up a Shuriken and I'm loving it but I miss not having any sort of Trem to smoothly alter the pitch of the strings. I remember seeing a video where someone from Line6 used the Tone Knob to shift the pitch up, but I think this was in conjunction with a Helix pedalboard and I don't know if you can just set the Tone Knob to do that on the guitar by itself. If this isn't possible, I guess I'm stuck with a foot pedal or something to get the same effect? No, there's no "whammy pedal" type pitch shifting native to the guitar. The alt tuning functions in a Variax are all fixed intervals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigher Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 Would such a thing be possible with a firmware update/and update for Workbench HD? Would this be something worth submitting to IdeaScale? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 6 hours ago, Sigher said: Would such a thing be possible with a firmware update/and update for Workbench HD? Would this be something worth submitting to IdeaScale? I suppose anything is theoretically possible, but I seriously doubt the existing hardware would support it. The Variax platform is complicated enough as it is... adding onboard FX typically reserved for individual pedals or multi-fx units is just something else that can fail. These guitars are weird already.... personally, I wouldn't want them stuffing digital FX in there. Get a whammy pedal.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiRa Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I would bend the strings behind the nut or behind the fretting hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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