Curious: does hooking a Variax directly to Stadium XL do anything at all?

[Nos402]

Just curious, does hooking a Variax up DIRECTLY to the Stadium just do nothing now? 

 

I am NOT a fan of the fact that I will now need to spend over $200 for an outboard piece of gear (Expand D10) to have the same Variax functionality as I've always had with my Helix, on top of the $2200 for a Stadium XL. The cost is one factor but I also just like the all-in-one solution of my Helix and don't want to have to bring and hook up another piece of gear. If I keep my Stadium XL pre-order, I may just go back to using my Variax with the battery and 1/4" output, though I hate to do that as I currently have ever preset recall guitar/pickup/tuning in the Variax as well. And sometimes change tunings for a slide solo or such. 

 

Just trying to suss out if I want to lose some of my favorite functionality for the benefits of a Stadium, or deal with a D10, or maybe just play my non-Variax guitars more (though my JTV-69 remains my #1 guitar and I am deeply disappointed Variaxes were discontinued as someone who has used one since the very first model)! DILEMMAS.

[silverhead]

On 9/10/2025 at 5:55 PM, Nos402 said:

Just curious, does hooking a Variax up DIRECTLY to the Stadium just do nothing now? 

 

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The fact that the Expand D10 exists strongly suggests that the answer to this is almost certainly yes. That connection would do nothing. I’m sure you already know that but simply want to voice your displeasure, and that’s fine. I too use a Variax JTV59 as my main guitar and wish Yamaha hadn’t halted its development when they acquired Line 6.

[Nos402]

On 9/10/2025 at 9:01 PM, silverhead said:

The fact that the Expand D10 exists strongly suggests that the answer to this is almost certainly yes. That connection would do nothing. I’m sure you already know that but simply want to voice your displeasure, and that’s fine. I too use a Variax JTV59 as my main guitar and wish Yamaha hadn’t halted its development when they acquired Line 6.

No I do not know that which is why I asked. Since the Nexus has the ability to power the D10 I didn't know if MAYBE it would at least power the guitar if not be able to "control" it. However in further thinking, even if it DID power it, I feel fairly certain there would be no audio so that wouldn't do much good. I guess a part of me HOPED that maybe it would at least power it and have audio, but just just couldn't "control" it by selecting guitars, pickups, tunings, etc. but I realize that's 99.9% probably not the case. I would just like to know with 100% certainty if anything at all happens if you hook the guitar up directly.