Anybody know how to recreate this amazing guitar tone on a Variax?

[patricknathan]

 Hello Everyone,

 

I have a JTV 69 and would love to play with or at least approach this amazing guitar tone (see video below). 

Does anyone know how to get this sound?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[silverhead]

I haven’t viewed the video but I can say that a Variax guitar can only produce raw guitar signals. It does not do any signal processing beyond that point. Comparing to the real world a Variax guitar provides the signal that comes out of the guitar’s 1/4” jack. Any other signal processing is done by external equipment such as a guitar amplifier and various FX. It is highly unlikely that the guitar tone itself can recreate anything like the (probably highly processed) tone in your video. 
 

From the video you can probably tell what kind of guitar he is using. Choose the Variax model that comes closest to that. The rest is all non-Variax signal processing.

[soundog]

Looks like he's playing his Collings 470JL in that vid ....closest Variax model would be the Les Paul. Not sure what amp or amp modeling you're using, but as silverhead sez, you'll have to take it a step at a time (guitar, strings, amp, etc). Beautiful tone, though. Good luck in your pursuit of it...

 

This article has good info on his gear https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/julian-lage-interview

 

[brue58ski]

Fire up Workbench HD call up a Les Paul body and replace the pickups with the ones in the video. He's using the neck pickup in the video. I cannot recall what they are but there are pickups that at least look like the ones he's using.