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So true, but part of that is also related to the quality of the distortion. I have a Mesa F30, and I can hear noticable differences in the patches with it cranked. But, running it into a GT8 without tweaking it for hours (the only way to get a good sound) makes everything sound pretty much the...

Go for the rack NOW! I had an ES8, and it has the best sounds I've heard in a keyboard, along with some of the best action. BUT, if the rack was out when I got it, I would have done that instead. Why? The ES8 is waaay to heavy. I ended up selling it because it was not financially viable...

Ooh, that's a beautiful guitar! How does it look for durability? I've got a nylon string from the early 60's that's been through hell. It's got holes, been underwater, been in the sun, been around the world, etc and STILL sounds as good as it did back then.

I can't tell you how much it pisses me off when someone I'm playing with is out of tune! In my last band, people had a tendency to drink a lot (I'm the only non-drinker), and they'd be so out of tune it's not funny. But, being drunk, they wouldn't notice and would argue with me about it. Then...

It's definitely worth it, but since things are moving so fast, there may be something much better in a year or two. I just got it because it was cheap ($470) and I've wanted one for a while. I know other companies will probably jump on the guitar modeling bandwagon, so you may be overloaded...

It's a piezo bridge, but it's done a little differently than other guitars. The output for each string is sent seperately to the processor, which does the modeling, then sends it to the 1/4" output. I assume it's hexaphonic, as each string is processed Think of it as a POD for guitars...

There was a guitar shop near my house that used to push this. They installed it, and claimed it fixed up a lot of guitars with poor intonation. I never played any with it, but I'd imagine it does something. I've had some guitar with great intonation and nothing like that, so I think it's...

Lets see... I don't have the session in front of me, but I'm pretty sure I remember what I used. A D28 and the Gibson J200 panned left and right, the D28 12 string, the Coral sitar, and the Les Paul goldtop for an effect near the end. The bass was a Fender Jazz into a Boss ME50B, and the drums...

dr_simon, I just listened to the A/B les paul thing... it's made me proud to own a variax :p I was surprised, because even though I own both a paul and a variax and I like the variax better, I wanted b to be the paul. It just sounds like a les paul should.

I tooled around with the Variax in my studio last night and came up with this. It's your typical 70's acoustic "variax demo". Not a complete song by any means, but it shows off what the variax can do. SONG IS HERE: Variax01 I've never found something as easy to record as this. This would...

I just ordered the workbench thing, it'll be nice to tweak things and see if that update fixes the warble. It's surprising to me that people would say it doesn't sound like the guitars it's modeled after. Considering the amount of sound variation in the 2005 line of Gibson Les Pauls alone, I'd...

Maybe it's just my variax, but do you get sort of a "digital" detuning on the 12 string simulations? It sounds fine on the high e and b strings, but on the octave strings it gets artifacts if I play hard whatsoever. It sounds like a digitech whammy, for lack of a better description. Other...

I went to Guitar Center (shudder) today, traded in a synthesizer, and picked up a black Variax 300 Electric. I was sort of skeptical, having played the 500 and thinking it was kind of a novelty. Now that I've used it in my studio, I have to say it's AMAZING! It's not that often that I have fun...

I love mine. I've been using it for 2 years or so, and I haven't run into any major problems with it. I'm pleased with everything but the built in effects, but I use plugins anyways, so it's a moot point. At first I was concerned about the whole 96k deal, but after using both it and a friends...

On Tool's "Ticks & Leeches", Maynard has distortion on his vocals. Not saturated, mind you, but it's what makes that scream work. I tried to get that effect once, and I found you need a 'buzzy' distortion with a cut low end blended around 70/30 with the clean vox. The plug-in Trash works the...

Pro Tools cannot use VSTs right off the bat, and to get (limited) functionality you need to use a VST wrapper. Some VSTs work fine, some 'kinda' work, and some don't work at all. It's one of the most limiting features for me, as I love the wide selection of VSTs, and it's one of the reasons I...

For ease of use and convenience in arranging, Live takes the cake. Imagine being able to record a ton of different loops, then play them in any order and any combination. It's 10x better than the more linear recording programs, like Nuendo or ProTools. It's hard to describe how amazing the...

If you have the ability to use VSTi, SwarPlug is the way to go. It can do most any Indian instrument, from sitars and tablas to santurs and all those other funny sounding ones. It sounds VERY good, you just need to have a little experience with programming to get it to sound right. The Rogue...

When I first started recording, I thought that the only good sound came from a track with effects. When I finally grew up and stopped listening to the marketing departments of various companies, I realized I'd been a jackass the whole time. A track should only have effects (EQ, compression...

I have my 9652 going into a Soundcraft 328 digital mixer for conversion. The soundcraft has great pres and good convertors, but it's limited to 24/44. For me that's not a problem, as I don't care for 88.1/96. I personally prefer that route, but there are a few different things you could try...