Hughes Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 hey has anyone seen those line 6 variax gutiars that has a knob with lots and lots of effects? well would anyone know if theres somethign i can put in a guitar to have lots and lots of eefects on a knob also without paying a ton of money? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Alex Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 they aren't effects, the variax is a modelling guitar, that knob chnges it to sound like 1 of 25(I think its 25) different famous guitars, dobros to jazzboxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughes Posted May 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 ooo ok sorry, thanks tho hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughes Posted May 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 ooo ok sorry, thanks tho hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenderSurrender Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 There very nice guitars mind you but i dont see them as gig worthy really.. much more suited at home in the studio.. then again Line 6 stuff is always studio worthy hey has anyone seen those line 6 variax gutiars that has a knob with lots and lots of effects? well would anyone know if theres somethign i can put in a guitar to have lots and lots of eefects on a knob also without paying a ton of money? thanks Yes its possible try looking on google or using the search feature here for onboard effects or something of the like... I know many guitarists who use onboard effects for there guitars...! For example the guitarist from Muse uses a midi controller for his... giving him all those really cool feedback options...although i beleive (and am probably wrong) that it is very expensive ~~ Slain Angel ~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Alex Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 warmoth rout some of their bodies(strat and 1 other I think) for the variax stuff, so you may be able to buy it if you want, hehe ed roman maybe? but im not kidding, ed roman rips guitars up for parts so he probably has the variax gear. I think warmoth do the work as a Replacement body for the variax though. I dont think line6 sell it to the public not in a guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughes Posted May 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 that ed roman has some good stuff, but man is it expensive, like a mockingbird body and a bronze style neck together is like $700 and not even finished but thanks for the tips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mledbetter Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 i doubt he rips up very many cariax unless it for the electronics. The general concensus is that the guts of it are awesome but the guitar is mediocre.. I wish they would just sell the guts of it as an aftermarket addon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted May 19, 2005 Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 I always thought on board effects was a kind of cool idea. Modelling technology has really come down too. You could easily bulid a sans-amp clone...beheringer have just come out with one for about 50 bucks (see a thread in the players corner here)...into a guitar. You'd really need to phantom power it though, as it would eat batteries. I'm really excited about something Ansil's been working on in this regard. He appears to have worked out a way of powering things up onboard through the standard guitar lead. This was discussed on the Sustainer Ideas thread recently as it would be a cool way of powering it...but would work just as well for any onboard electronics. Check this out: Ansil's Phantom Power Project Scroll down a little! If you go a step further, there are simple digital effects out there of reasonable quality with some more advanced effects and can be programed. You can use the EQ to simulate different pickup qualities. I've got an old Korg that has a great sitar effect, pitch shifting, delays and a range of other effects plus basic amp and speaker emulation. Something like this or an old secondhand zoom 501 would be pretty cheap and probably not to hard to take apart and re-switch. All I really want is a delay onboard...but that's me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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