Line 6 Variax

When we invest money in something we tend to invest emotionally too. This can make it difficult at first to determine if the thing is actually worth all the hope and cash- especially if we find there are features that we like mixed in with things we don't.
I have mixed feelings about this guitar (Variax 600). First - the body is largely a $100 guitar. I have seen better cheap guitars out there.
The action is low but the strings are mysteriously 'tight' and feels like a guitar would if it had been tuned up to an open A. The neck is maple and should be fast, but it is not. It is a struggle to play fast on this instrument - due to the string tension. Perhaps a lighter guage set would work (a 9 on the first e instead of 10 etc)

For the most part I love the sounds even if they sound largely fake - I find the sounds have their own validity, so I prefer not to try and compare them with the guitars Line 6 claims they sound like. There is a freedom in this.

Unfortunately I am baffled as to why when I use the 1/4 output eith with the power-supply or direct into an amp, the signal fades and sometimes disappears altogether. This doesn't happen with the digital cable - just with the regular audio cable. I am so new to the guitar that I am wondering if there is something I am doing wrong, but hey, it should work without problems.

As I said earlier: The action is low but the strings are mysteriously 'tight' and feels like a guitar would if it had been tuned up to an open A.

Sadly I feel like this guitar could fall apart really easily. There is a cheapness about the body that I would ordinarily reject out of hand if it were a regular guitar.

I think the guitar will hold up in live situations as well as the next cheapo guitar but I would never go to a gig without a backup guitar. I simply do not trust this product much beyond the living room.

Well I have written to Line 6 a few times and I am not in the least suprized that they have not written back..duh... Like soooo many companies these days Line 6 has moved away from serving the customer to serving itself!!

I have been playing a long time and overall I think the general quality of guitars have improved much, especially in the lower price range. However, Line 6 has managed to package a great computer in a piece of driftwood and call it good. I would be considerably more impressed if Line 6 upgraded to installing their clever computer into a Woolworths guitar...heheh

Still, bad bodies and necks aside, I still love the range of tonality - especially the open tunings, 12 string and accoustic models. I don't know a whole lot about Martins or Gibsons and cannot tell the difference between a 57 strat and a Fender CBS 70's clunker, and I don't care either as long as it sounds good. Overall the Variax sounds ok and is brilliant in what it can do, but I am not convinced that they are a totally serious or reliable guitar.

Good on features- loads of guitar sounds to choose from (if that is what you want?)

some sounds more authentic than others- depends what model you compare against. Think "jack of all trades..."

not a bad set up. a little tweak here and there to get a more lower action. a couple of frets not level so watch out you who like a real low action!

got a problem with the selector switch from new.
Studio use- yes
live- too much to wrong me thinks!

quick support and return of product.
got a free "ding" in the guitar-neck which added unwanted character- thanks line6.
Oh, and they didnt fix the fault or put the guitar back together properly!

I have no confidence in this product for a live instrument.
ok for studio where you have time on your side but i'd prefer to stay with a basic/simple/standard set of electrics instead of the more volatile CPU based guitar

Everybody knows now... My Variax is a 500, bought in july 2003 - the price was TWICE at this time... Argl!
Good natural resonance with the alder body but the sound is not NICE: unplugged, there's a reminiscent focused metallic high frequency (4khz)... Bling, bling... The finish of the alder body is not that good: you can see the limits between the three parts of wood through the black paint.. the pots are already rusted... Playability good enough.

Well, here is an update of my previous review:
- You have to know that you just CAN'T compare the Variax and its "real" models without some tricks, because the Variax doesn't emulate all the vintage electric axes named in the manual: what the Variax reproduces, in EVERY case, is a vintage electric guitar THROUGH A 20 FEET CABLE! Nobody never says and everyone seems to ignore that the lenght of a cable plugged after some passive pups DEFINES the tone: the high cut filter shifts down of 1khz (mimimum) each time you add 10 feet to your cable... So, if you want to compare the Variax and a real Strat/LP/ Tele etc., USE A STANDARD 20 FEET CABLE. With this trick, you'll hear that the tones are pretty close... The problem is that most of the hobbyist guitarists use SHORT cables, which rise the frequency resonance of their passive pups... Then they say that the tone of the Variax is muffled... Now, it's true that this FIXED parameter is a PROBLEM with the Variax. People at Line 6 should do something... But maybe they had a reason to do that (see below).
- Another advice: don't judge too fast the Strat tone of the Variax. They've choosed a 1959 model: the pups were overwound at this time . A 1958 or a 1964 Strat HAS NOT the same tone, not to mention the CBS models or the modern reeditions... So, don't say that the Strat clone of the Variax is not accurate... Or be honest enough to compare it to a REAL 1959 model (plugged in a 20 feet cable).
- Now, the Variax is not perfect: the acoustic tones are useable, even if they sound synthetic and "piezo" (this color added by the transducer is not worst than with my Takamine); the Hollow body models are good... but you can approximate their resonance with a solid body and the "Guitar sim" provided in the Boss GT8; the electric models are good enough with a clean or a slightly crunch tone; their distorsion is REALLY less convincing: with an high gain settings, a "hiss" takes the place of the "hum"; the distorsion erases the differences between the models and enhances the piezo "clock-clock".
- This piezo sound, ALWAYS there in EVERY tone, is the big problem of the axe. Sometimes, I live with it. Sometimes, I find it unbearable. I still believe that this parameter explains the choice of a "20 feet cable" type of tone: it masks a bit the natural sound of the piezo. The other flaw of such a transducer is that it LACKS OF DYNAMIC! I've played a PRS Soapbar II some weeks ago: what a difference!! The "Les Paul Junior" model of the Variax sounded lifeless, neutral, flat, blank... With my real Les Paul and my real Strat, same thing: the overall color is the same (through a 20 feet cable). But the natural biting attack of magnetic pups is not there with the Variax. You have the piezo "clock" instead.
Sum up: I'm still happy with the wide range provided by my Variax. But I'm not really seduced by ANY electric model among its 25 tones. This is definitively a second guitar. These days, I use the axe mostly for its acoustic sounds, more versatile and useable in studio than my Takamine (even if it stays more synthetic)...

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I've sent some questions and never had any answer.

I don't know if I would buy it a second time: I've played it a lot, searching THE tone, finding sometimes a good sound, but I can't say that I've had a real moment of pleasure with it. It's a useful piece of gear, a TOOL. It's REALLY not the holy graal. I dream about a modeling guitar with MAGNETIC pups AND a piezo transducer...

V500 Sunburst.
Lot's and lot's of tones (models).

Suits the many styles I like to play. Metal, Classic Rock, Blues, Bluegrass, Acoustic. I've noticed that to get the full effect of the various models, you must use a full range amp. I use mine with a POD 2 through a Roland 40watt KB amp with excellent results. The raw guitar sounds good not plugged in and when played through a full range amp, the models all come to life.

My first model needed the model selector calibrated. The Line 6 service centers tech was out on vacation so the price matched the offer I got at Guitar Center and I got beutifully set up sunburst. The fretboard was a tad on the dry side but a little lemmon oil fixed that right up. Truss needed minor adjusting to resolve some buzzing. Action was spot on for my style and comparable to my 61 LP Custom.

The guitar has a solid feel and the finish is nice. I replaced the strap buttons with strap locks as is my standard operating proceedure.

Called Line 6 to figure out the model control issue. Call was answered in under 5 minutes. Staff kew exactly what was wrong and set up service center repair. Was off the phone in under 5 minutes.

I'm 43 and have been playing guitar since I was 13. I've owned some of the modeled guitars over the years and still own a Strat and LP. This guitar feels good in my hands - like a cross between my Strat and LP. Since I fot the V500 I really haven't played the others much at all.

tons of fetures
as stated nylon string would be good.
k most will know what it does, its a guitar, that pretends to be other guitars

nope...... just no....... its so wrong....... how to describe it.....
can't add much. sterile sounding, unpredictable changes with the toggle switch. can't palm mute (my main problem). has sound. lacks playability. but the thing i hate. and i mean hate, is that once you put even little bits of distortion, or overdrive, it starts to honk, and badly. the sounds are aproxamate, but there is a diffrence, the strat sound is worse than my $50 strat copy i got in china, if that is a pointer. and again with litle bits of od dist, the 'guitars' loose their character, and sound like honky crap. clean is much better, i never play it with any amount of gain, it hates my tube amps.
i have a parker P38 which i got for a similar price, and i think it is way more versitile; in short i have a humbucker sound, single coil sound, and a pizo which i can blend with the magnetic, or have alone. i can also split the signal to 2 amps, (mag and pizo)
the variax has nothing on any of my guitars in terms of sound, and as far as sounding like the real thing, i think they are haveing a laugh. listen to the 12 string and the resonators, and you should understand.
if you don't then, what the hell, yea why not.

what a joke!!!!! try keeping it in tune, i have never had problems like this with tuneing. i can hear it slipping, i have done every thing, and it just won't stay in tune.
now the goddam thing is falling apart!

thats it "i'm afraid its going to fall apart,"
Oh wait it has fallen apart.
First the strap button came off.
then the model selector switch came off in my hand (and no i didn't pull it off)
then the 1/4 jack, fell into the guitar, and i had to retreive it (though that was my fault) but then the wire came loose and i re solderd it back on, and it was fine after that
but i opened it up to fixed every thing. voiding my garentee, which ment i was completly stuffed when it gave up completly, i had no idea what is wrong, with it, all wires in place, took it to be fixed but it they couldn't figure out what was wrong. Can't get a replacement, can't get it fixed!

don't make me laugh! Try buy something and they are very helpful, as soon as you have a problem your on your own. they are not at all honest about their products.
Fainally any one who has signed up for the free rifftracker software and tryed to unsubscribe before the free trial period ends will know what i am talking about. but at least they are there, so a 2

takeing into acount that i'm the only one who's variax has simply lost the will to live, i accept that i am a special case. but i was never that impressed with it in the first place, and whats worse, now i can't sell it to some unsuspecting, tone deaf idiot. Because it won't even make a sound.
who ever gives this a 10 ina ny catogory is dreaming or just stupid.

Pretty cool idea.
could have had more models (eg nylon string, baratone models, stuff like that) especially as the majority of the others are dissapointing.
easy to use, the amp you use is very important, i have used it in every situation i can think of, and the diffrence can be phanomonal.

Well it could be pretty convincing, if it wern't so sterile sounding. try to mute, or make the guitar wail, scream, and you will be extreamly dissapointed. clean is ok, you can hear the pizo element and clicking of the pick against the strings, fingers rubbing the strings is accuntuated on a pizo pickup. (tho i don't find this a problem as i have 2 other guitars with pizo's, so i am used to it) but the signals are weak sounding, there are volume changes between settings some so much so that changeing on the fly is just not plausable. not only that but to get a good sound out of each model you need to do a lot of 'tweeking' of settings on pedels etc, so unless you have some digital modeling system where you can just switch a bank, then every time you flick the switch you could end up doing a lot of tapdancing with pedels, or usualy just end up sounding like some muppity plastic pop band.
the Guitar is cheap, and the inherant tone is awful, (just strum it unpluged) and for this kind of money i would expect more, (yes i know you get the computer system and everything, but for less cash i got a fender jaguar, and with that i can do much more than this).

the 'sounds' are ok they dont convince me, that plus the sterility, and the other limitations ,dosen't much like distortion(i never go past 3 [i.e i never use very much]) and this thing plus a chorus pedel is a complete ringing disaster', palm muting sounds like you turned the volume down, and so this should demonstrate just how expressonless this guitar is (it dosent respond to your playing style like a real guitar).

one of the first lessons most people learn when they start the guitar is that 'jerry garcia (to be honest i don't really know who he is so sorry about any spelling) sounded like jerry Garcia, nomatter what guitar he played.' my point being that guitaring isn't just about 'sound', you need tone, and most importantly style (which for me includes expression in your playing).

That said I wouldn't recomend this guitar to any one. as i think it would kill your playing style and only hinder the development of your guitaring skills. its all just a matter of opinion, and that is mine. I could see how it would be usefull for a cover band, but i still think the compramise you make is too great.

It was set up nicely, and everyting.
the tuners are not good.
the torque of the vol and tone knobs is diffrent (small point but it drives home just how cheap this guitar is, line 6 must be making a killing)
the 5 way switch is really cheap and feel loose.
the moddel selector switch fells like it will fall off.
of the guitars i saw (sunburst) many had inconsistancies in the finishes) includeing mine.
no problems with the neck (personal thing)

seems ok, don't like the fact that my guitar needs to be pluged into the mains to work. batry life is a joke, so never forget the power, or you will be left standing as it dosen't work with out it, (as well as being exclusive, and expencive and somtimes difficult to replace)the exterior of the guitar seems like it could fall apart at amy moment.

well they seem to either be great, or complete twats. my experiance was the latter. but worth a try i guess, bit like a lottery. In genral i have noticed that their products suck. as said in other reviews, i also believe they spend more on marketing than anything else (Do you think permission to use the original names was cheap?), shearly as their products suck, and if they didn't they wouldn't be anywhere, (just look at pop music, they pay for it to go on tv and the raido, then it sells itself till people realize it sucks, by which time there is something else)
can you tell i was a radio DJ?:
after readign what they say about the variax, i just couldn't believe a word they say. either they are just musically incompatant, or (more lightly) just money weasels.

to be honest i don't consider this a guitar. it is a pourper. I hear of people wanting mass line 6 product burning and whilst i don't wish any one any harm, i guess i would join in the fun (as i do resent the fact that line 6 products are takign over stores world wide, pushing out the quality products). I haven't herd a good line 6 product ever and i don't know what posesed me to get this, now i feel like a right plonker. and i guess i would like to get my money back, but it is too late for that. I just wonder how many people who buy their stuff have actually listend to the real things? not many i would presume. i would rather spend the equivilent amount of cash on an original product that actually does what the manufacturers say. just like pop music, market to the young, dumb and mindless (like me i guess) and you are garenteed to make $hite loads of money, we're all suckers. People allways want more for their money, but is more really more when everything you get just sucks?

2004 built black Variax 500. Please read all the other reviews about the features.

I thought it would be nice having that Variax for practising at home. So I bought one. As long I played it through my Guitarport, it sounded nice. Plugged in my VOX AD30VT I was wondering about the crappy sound, that came out. I tried to adjust the Vox. things became better bat not good. For hours I was trying and comparing with a Tele and a Strat. But the Sound still kept unsatisfying. The next day at the rehearsel room had the same result. All the sounds were synthetic, but not closed to the originals.

Well made for a Korean guitar. Had to make some adjustment to meet my needs. The tuners could be better.

For me it would have been just a backup for my main guitars for live playing. But it seems to be solid enough for some gigs. I would change the tuners.

I had some problems with another Line6 product and the guys were very helpful, friendly and reacted very fast.

I am playing for 25 years now and playing one gig a month.

My other gear: Fretking Corona 50 (strat copy by Wilkinson), Morgaine Chopper (Tele Copy by master luthier Jorg Tandler), Dr.Z Carmen Ghia mini stack, VOXAD30VT, Voodoo Sparkle Drive, Boss DD3.

I love the idea of having a guitar with this incredible flexibility. But unfortunately the sounds do not get close the originals at all. Maybe it will be better with the Variax Workbench Software, when you can create your own guitar sounds.

The Variax idea is about great vintage guitar sounds and this is its weak point. It does not deliver convincing sounds, which are close to the vintage originals. But most of the guitar players are looking for that last 5% of sound to make there (vintage)sound dreams come true. And this guitar gives you maybe 75%...

I sold mine on eBay.

this is about the 500
Read bleow...
only an 8 due to unimmaginitive choice of guitars moddled, missing a nylon sting as well as some others. and the actual guitar itself is nothing special, and sounds bad unpluged (to me this is a sign of a cheap guitar).
I think it would be much better if they made it with magnetic pickups, (as well as the pizo) then you could that an electric and an acustic at the same time (like a parker)

Ok well it kinda sounds like the guitars moddled, but i work in a guitar shop and so spend all my days playing all the guitars moddled and am sad enough to have sat down with the manual and compared all the guitars, and It unquestionable that the varix only sounds slightly like each one (70% i think is about right though i would say about 60%). When you take into account the weak signals, the pizo element, and the sterility and genral expressonlessness of the variax. WHY is this a problem? It wouldn't matter if line 6 where honest about their products, in which case i would say good on them for pushing guitarists into the future. but after spending large amounts of time with their products and reading their hype, i (along with many other people) have come to the decision that its all just blatent and total lies. Like it says on the advert here on HC 'just turn the knob and BELIEVE'. well i believe that i can play like jimi hendrix, but my freiends (and I ) know that is not true. the only way this sounds like the guitars moddled is if you BELIEVE it does. I think Line6 are haveing a good old laugh at every one, as they have proved that with enough marketing it is possable to convince people that their substandard products sound like the most expencive butique ones. If this was the case don't you think everyone would be useing their crap? CRAP being the operitive word.
there is a constant stream of people returning thses to the shop and selling them on ebay. I wonder why? when will people realize that guitaring is not just about sound, it is also about style, one of the first lessons you learn (or should), this guitar is so sterile that it is pretty much expressonless, (try playing the blues on it). whats more, i have herd and made recordings of the variax, i have herd it played live, and the first thing my musically diabolical friend said to me was that 'guitar sounds like a guitar trying to be another guitar' (his english is not so good but i understood what he was saying) it just sounds phoney. I spend the day with a variax and a 8 track and made 2 recordings of the same song, when i played it to my band members they immediatley picked out the variax recording, it was the first one i played and they simply laughed at it, (as they thought i had used midi).
also it dosent go well with even slight amounts of distortion or indeed, most effects i have tryed, (get kind of ringing overtones, the become really annoying). on some that i played there were problems with digital clipping (especially on the jazzbox settings). The 12 string banjo and sitar are just plain stupid and sound nothing at all like the real thing.
to be honest this is simply the worst guitar i have ever played. (my first electric was a $50 strat copy from china, and that compares favourably to this)

i read a comment somewhere else (i was pretty intrested in this guitar) that 'if you like this guitar then i think you don'T know guitaring'
it is kinda harsh and extreame but i think lots of sounds is no substitute for the ability to express i.e. make the guitar sing, scream, wail etc, this is impossable on the variax and i say beware as this guitar could well kill you style, (which is ok if you wish to be in a crappy pop band opr rip off other people)

sounds awful unplugged.
really bad tuners.
havent seen one yet that dosent have an inconsistant finish on it.
the selecter switch is cheap,
the tone and vol knobs have diffrent torques, the moddel selecter switch feels and looks like it could fall off at any time.

dont ever loose the power supply.
never owned one so cant really comment but i have owned line6 pods and these have failed me on sevral occasions, and this is just a cheap guitar with a computer in it so i wouldn't make it my only guitar, (infact i would never use it ever).

'Good coustmer suport starts with honesty'
well Line 6 is immediatly a 1 as they are everything but honest (just read what they say about thier products then use them and you should know what i mean the fact is no one expects it to sound exactly like what they moddel, but they say it does and that is just a bunch of lies). from my dealings with them their primary concern is money, your money and how they can get it. Dont think so?
why is it that they try and make their products so they don't work withanything else (i talk mostly about the foot switches and power supplies) they change the shape of the podxt ever so slightly so that it wont fit in the old pod bags. It is not a major point but i think it says alot about the motivation of the compney (money). but they are on to a real money spinner here. think about it, you pay through the nose for line6 (digital) gear, after some time its problems become apparent, and hay presto there is an upgrade you can download off the net (for a price ofcourse)but it dosent come with the dam thing does it, hell no.

Line 6 need to be taught a lesson. (hell mc donalds only started makeing CHICKEN mc-nuggets with REAL CHICNKEN after bad publicity)

Line 6 is pushing the future of guitar sound, yes, but they have lost sight of the essence of guitaring in their endlss pursuit of sound. and so it seems have many guitarists. (just read rave reviews below)
i have been playing since i was 7, i have worked in a guitar shop for over 20, i have played just about everything, and I would never recomend this to anyone, and is in my opinion the worst guitar i have ever come across.
some one needs to stop line6 they are takeing advantage of stupid people. That makes them a pretty mean compney in my books.

WOW! with the workbench software, this is a dream come true..

This is the score. I tried this out in a shop and whilst i was very impressed with the sounds this is my main ( and a big gripe)
You cannot palm mute with this guitar. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the amp, situation, whatever...but there wasn't any palm muting going on....no feel. The sounds are amazing, yes, you will never be able to tell the difference in mix with this, but the feel? if i cannot palm mute, this worrys me with other natural nuances with the guitar...
And no, i dont play death metal or heavy metal, or even use distortion that much even.

Nice, nice...looks a bit strange, but thats all personal.

fine

The only thing i wanted to comment on here is the palm muting. I do not have a good review here as i dont have much experience. As i said, it sounds amazing..truely...the power of this thing is great, but im worried about it if you cannot palm mute....

This guitar is feature-packed. No one making a serious attempt at a review for this guitar could possibly give it less than a ten. This is as feature-packed as a guitar gets.

As for the rest of the features, this is a Korean-made, good, solid, no-compromises guitar. It's a no-bull version of a working guitar (no fancy stuff here folks).

The finish is good, I have the black/perloid version which is nicely done and good-looking. Oddly enough it doesn't seem to pick my finger prints as any other of my black guitars, which is a big plus. (for some cosmic reason, all my guitars are black, even when I didn't intended it that way)

The neck is a comfortable c section neck, more than a strat, much more than an Ibanez (obvious, I know). Although it's visibly "chunckier" it doesn't feel that way at all. It's not easy to explain, but I have no other way to put it. It feels like a regular strat neck as in it is not cumbersome at all. Very confortable guitar in all aspects. And its so light.

The tuners are not very good. Really they are not, I'm thinking about replacing them. Anyway, not a big deal, but they "kinda" suck.

The included accessories are fine. Top-notch gig-bag, all the equipment to run it. Excelent work and value pack by Line6. The gig bag must really make a hit in their margin, but is such a nice thing to do in these "lets-cut-everything-that-costs-money" days.

This guitar is my dream come true. I play mostly at home, I record and compose music of all genres (really) and this guitar was everything that I could hope for. I have an Ibanez 7 String and a modified strat that I love dearly. I had to really force myself to pick them up after three weeks, it was so hard to put the Variax down. I simply didn't feel the need to pick any other guitar.

As an inspiring tool and for music writers and composers, this is a well-oiled factory of ideas. I mean, just turn the knob, and it's there! So many usable sounds.

As far as I'm concerned, all sounds on this guitar are usable, especially in a recording evironment. Coming back from the recording there is NO difference. It's no wonder to me if this thing creeps into every goddamn studio in the world (very much in the way the POD has).

Another advantage is that all Variaxes sound exactly the same... try loosing your 30 year old Les Paul and then replacing it the next day for an EXACT copy of it.... good luck! You may never find another guitar quite like that, EVER. Imagine now that you are halfway through in recording your next album when it gets lost or stolen or (god forbid) broken.

I practice with a band every week and I can't really say that I'd rather take any other guitar to practice. It has everything! Acoustic, solid body, hollow body, jazz, it has it all. No fuss, no feedback, no volume problems, nothing! Everything I need is there, always. In ONE guitar. Rehearsals felt just like moving into another country before the Variax.

Compared to the real deal, I must say that as a Strat user for many years, this was the sound that I was most disapointed with. But I can't really say that it is because of the sound, it's probably from the "feel" of the guitar being different than from anything else. The sounds that come from the guitar are real, are solid, very musical and very inspirational. I can't bring myself to believe that someone has picked this guitar up and was not amazed, or at least impressed. The hard truth is that this guitar has NO competition whatsoever.

Pros:
- All the sounds are very professional sounding with no or little tweaking;
- All the model guitars are very good aproximations of the real deal (the feel isn't obvously there, but you have to play it, no new guitar can ever compare to one that has been played for thousands of hours for years and years)
- The comfort of having an acoustic model and any electric model at hand with the same guitar is incredible.
- Unless you have money falling out from your pockets as you walk down the street and (let's not forget us, married men) a LOT of space to spare, this is THE only solution, period.
- When the new computer interface is out I will buy one IN THE SAME DAY. Imagine that you could design your own guitar... is that amazing or what?
- COMPLETELY noiseless.... completely. I forget that the guitar is on and with a full volume all the time. In front of the computer! Nothing short of amazing. Try doing that with a strat... pfft... Not even in the same house almost, let alone in front of the computer.

Cons:
- The models do have the acoustic component imbeded into the sounds and I find that this problem is worse in some models than in others, however, a curious thing happened as I'm hearing these "component" frequencies in "regular" guitars... so maybe it's something we hadn't noticed before. I'm curious as to if someone else has felt this (you can email me at will about this as I would love to discuss this with someone else).
- The knob is a bit flimsy and sometimes when changing guitars it will not work in a positive way, meaning that sometimes you'll wonder if you have indeed changed the guitar or not, or worse, be sure you haven't.
- The tuners aren't really that good. And now I feel that the guitar has the right price (around 500 euros) but 1000 Euros for this guitar?? Forget it! The Japanese version seems so much better.
- As a

The guitar setup was fine, but the action was set very high. The neck, however, was setup very well, the relief was spot on. Just had to adjust the height of the saddles and I was on my way.

I setup all my new guitars and I really felt that I could save money on this one. Good, solid, professional job. Once again, nothing to write home about, but no compromises. Everything professional. And I think that I'm very picky about setups and action.

As far the finnish is concerned, this guitar is perfect. Very good finnish. Funny thing is that the pictures don't really do it justice, it looks so much better live, it's unbelievable.

For a Korean guitar of this price range? A nine for sure.

I'm certain that this guitar will handle beatifully live.

The hardware seems very solid indeed, and just don't kick it around, it has computers inside, so don't go Yngwie on it, if you know what I mean.

The finnish is perfect and will last for a long, long time.

I would depend on this guitar absolutely. But the good thing is that it is so easy to get a spare, you'd be stupid not to get another one if you play professionally. And remember, it will sound EXACTLY the same as your other Variax.

No sure about the knob and the tuners are not very good.

Never dealt with them, and I own a LOT of Line 6 material. If that doesn't tell you something, I don't know what will. Excelent Internet site and support there. Good, solid, vibrant community of users.

The question of how many years I've been playing, as anyone who plays the godamn things will tell you, means JACK. This is the most stupid question there is. I play for fifteen years. What does that tell you? That's right, SQUAT!

I don't play professionally, but I play hard, many hours and I record a lot. I rehearse regularly and perform maybe ten times a year. If you were a professional, you'd say I play "pretty good", but in a condescending kind of way.

I don't have the least bit of regret of buying it. I would buy it again, and again. As I said, no one can seriously say that they would buy another guitar instead, because it would not compare. There is, simply put, no other guitar like it. To say that you would buy a Les Paul instead?? What does that mean? It's the same as saying that you would buy an Ibanez Jem instead of a Guild Jazzbox... How does that compare??!?

I love Line6, and I think that they are doing now what Leo Fender and Les Paul and Mr Gibson did 50 years ago. They are kicking ass, they are in the forefront of their business, they clearly have the initiave to which everybody else is responding, and their products are good all round, consistently good. Solid built, good quality and feel and professional sounding. ALL of them.

People talk about "passion" and "feel" and "love for the instrument". I have all of that, and then some, and I don't believe for a second that anyone that builds and devises these things is nothing short of a complete nut for guitars and guitar playing in general.

If you only need one sound to do your thing, don't buy this, buy the best guitar for your thing that money can buy. If you need a vast array of guitars, that are equally confortable to play, sound excelente with ZERO noise or feedback and that you can take in ONE guitar case, or this case (no pun intended) a gig bag, buy one today. At 500 euros there is almost no reason not to buy one.