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Ok, I was gonna wait till I got the XT Live and Workbench software setup to do this, but ehh.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
First the actual "guitar" part of it:
It plays nice. The neck isn't terrible. I've had worse, I've had better. This is closer to the "better" side than the "worse" side.
The backshape is round and comfy - not a V, not shredder-thin, but not as fat as a DK2, for example. I'd almost say San Dimas, but I know how you guys are about that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]
Only complaints about the neck:
- 22 frets. I loooooove 24 fretters.
- thickly coated. While painted and glossy coated necks don't bother me, this one does for some reason. Maybe it's just the local atmospherical conditions, I dunno.
- I would mention the plastic nut and non-locking tuners on a guitar with a tremolo, but then I realize the high dollar value of the internal electronics kinda puts a spending cap on the extras.
The body:
Not bad. Don't really know what it is. Tapping on it reminds me of the Dano I had. I don't really care what the wood is, as it should have no effect on the LR Baggs piezo saddles and the internal computer. Put a neck on your refrigerator and it'll still sound the same.
I'm not fond of the body style itself - maybe they need to hook up with Warmoth to supply their bodies.
The sound:
This is why this guitar exists. I don't have all of the modeled guitars to compare the Variax directly to, but then I really don't care if it sounds like a 58 or 68 Les Paul. I'm not a Tone Snob, I'm a Gear Whore.
This guitar is designed for Gear Whores. I want 500 different guitars because 500 different guitars gives me thousands of different sounds (each guitar having at least 2 pickups with various combinations and other switching features like coil taps, phasing, inversion, yadda yadda).
This is NOT a guitar for someone to say "No, actually, I don't have a 1959 Strat, but I have a guitar that sounds like a 1959 Strat", this is a guitar for someone to say "I've got ONE guitar that sounds like 30". Period. End of discussion.
Complaint Department:
One day someone will make a piezo Floyd, and that will be a great day. Until then, a non-locking piezo tremolo is still pretty much useless without Sperzels and a no-grip nut.
First the actual "guitar" part of it:
It plays nice. The neck isn't terrible. I've had worse, I've had better. This is closer to the "better" side than the "worse" side.
The backshape is round and comfy - not a V, not shredder-thin, but not as fat as a DK2, for example. I'd almost say San Dimas, but I know how you guys are about that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]
Only complaints about the neck:
- 22 frets. I loooooove 24 fretters.
- thickly coated. While painted and glossy coated necks don't bother me, this one does for some reason. Maybe it's just the local atmospherical conditions, I dunno.
- I would mention the plastic nut and non-locking tuners on a guitar with a tremolo, but then I realize the high dollar value of the internal electronics kinda puts a spending cap on the extras.
The body:
Not bad. Don't really know what it is. Tapping on it reminds me of the Dano I had. I don't really care what the wood is, as it should have no effect on the LR Baggs piezo saddles and the internal computer. Put a neck on your refrigerator and it'll still sound the same.
I'm not fond of the body style itself - maybe they need to hook up with Warmoth to supply their bodies.
The sound:
This is why this guitar exists. I don't have all of the modeled guitars to compare the Variax directly to, but then I really don't care if it sounds like a 58 or 68 Les Paul. I'm not a Tone Snob, I'm a Gear Whore.
This guitar is designed for Gear Whores. I want 500 different guitars because 500 different guitars gives me thousands of different sounds (each guitar having at least 2 pickups with various combinations and other switching features like coil taps, phasing, inversion, yadda yadda).
This is NOT a guitar for someone to say "No, actually, I don't have a 1959 Strat, but I have a guitar that sounds like a 1959 Strat", this is a guitar for someone to say "I've got ONE guitar that sounds like 30". Period. End of discussion.
Complaint Department:
One day someone will make a piezo Floyd, and that will be a great day. Until then, a non-locking piezo tremolo is still pretty much useless without Sperzels and a no-grip nut.
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