; >>>>Does that make me a bad person? >>> >Uh . . . Neil's the one with the tattoo and the chain, right? S "Paul Braun" <<a href="mailto:cygnus_nospam@ctgonline.org" ta
e: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I've tried this twice here - no end result... always crapped >>>>>>>out before it got beyond a couple of parts. Deej tried it too, >>>>>>>I think - or if not him it was someone else who initiated >>>>>>>another one. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Neil >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>"Kim" <hiddensounds@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I remember a couple of years back a bunch of guys off here were >>>>>>>>starting >>>>>>>>to record something by posting disks around... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>...did anything get finished? I never heard anything. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Cheers, >>>>>>>>Kim. >>>>>&g
/> >>> Haha I agree with you! I can't believe it! >>> >>> My 2 cents. A strat, a tele and a les with a bigsby trem and locking >>> nuts. >>> Also, a must have is a gibson vintage f hole. >>> After that an SG and a les junior. >>> >>> Other areas we will agree on... USE AN AMP! >>> Chuck >>> "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote: >>>> Some good ideas here. But I am in the "buy 2 guitars" camp. >>>> >>>> A good LP and a hardtail strat would be the minimum. >>>> >>>> DC >>>> >>>> >>>> "John" <no@no.com> wrote: >>>>> Any suggestions on a single electric guitar that can do Strat / Les >>>>> Paul >>>> / >>>>> Telecaster sounds or some other guitar that has an amazing array of >>>>> these >>>>> type sounds? >>>gimmie ! VG99 demo http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?sectioncode=6&stor ycode=18521 http://www.guitarplayer.com/Journals/Music_Player/Guitar_Pla yer/June_2007/attachments/VG-99%20Rendered%201.mp3 Jamie K wrote: > Bill L wrote: >> Jamie, I'm surprised by your praise of the Variax. I found it >> disappointingly dead feeling and it seemed to have a latency in >> creating the sound. > > To each their own, but it might have been the particular variax you > played and the way it was set up. I've played some 300 models that were > terrible, sharp frets and bad action. Poor QC at the factory? I've > played others that were decent. My variax plays decently. > > Whatever very minor latency might be in my variax at normal tuning > hasn't put me off at all. It's very responsive, feels like a normal guitar. > > When I use the transposing fea
ture there is noticeable latency but my > brain has had no trouble adjusting. A little latency isn't a problem per > se - for example I don't have trouble adjusting to the latency when > playing with an amp stack at the back of the stage (although I don't do > that anymore, I've reformed and go for low stage volume/close monitoring > now). > > I haven't noticed a "dead feeling." The guitar feels as alive as my > other guitars. I can even get feedback (the good kind). > > In short, my variax gets good tone and is amazingly flexible. I also > added a GK3 pickup to it to drive a guitar synth at the same time, and I > use that setup with live multitracking in my solo show to build gigantic > arrangements. Very fun! > > But my PRS is my favorite guitar to play, and I take that on gigs where > I don't need to cover acoustic/electric/synth/alt tunings. When I just > need to be the electric guitar player in a band, the PRS is flexible > enough to cover a wide palette of electric guitar tones and it's a > better built guitar. Plus it has 24 frets. Plus I have two of them in > case I break a string. :^) > > When the new Roland VG99 ships I'm going to check it out. It would let > me play the PRS and still do guitar modeling. I think the variax > modeling is better than the VG88's but we'll see if Roland has raised > the bar with the new box. > > Another option would be to take variax guts and put them into a better > guitar. Like Adrian Belew did with a Parker Fly. OK I WANT that guitar, > (but not in that color). :^) > > I've considered transplanting variax guts into a custom body - which > would also let me add a 24 fret neck, but then again, my variax is > pretty decent as it is so there's no rush. If I go that route I'd grab > the guts from a 300. There's no sense gutting my expensive 700. :^) > > >> Also the instrument was shite and looked like a toy to me, but I don't >> think it was the expensive model. I do really like the concept of it - >> maybe I should give it another shot, but they need to make a pretty >> version. A guitar is like a woman - it should be as pretty as >> possible, don't you think. > > I dig a good looking instrument, and I have the coolest looking variax > on the planet (cherry sunburst 700). Although the very best looking > variax is the acoustic model with the natural wood top, I love mine. But > I don't sleep with either of them...much... > > My cherryburst PRS looks and plays a notch better. I've never had a > luthier setup the variax for optimal playability though (since it's been > good enough) but that's on my todo list. > > >> I'm also surprised by
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