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Variax Bass 700

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  • #32
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Na. Gold Top Les Paul, Real Diamond inlays.

    BLING!


  • #33
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Or are we all heading towards piezo to all men?


  • #34
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Mmm, piezo...


  • #35
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Hate to drag you both back on topic but that variax sounds ****. All the audio demos sounded like a guide of what to avoid in bass tone...


  • #36
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    The Variax's will nail tones, but they're horrible to play. They don't feel natural, the way a guitar should. They're very artificial, robotic almost.


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  • #37
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    John2 wrote:
    Hate to drag you both back on topic but that variax sounds ****. All the audio demos sounded like a guide of what to avoid in bass tone...

    They were a bit over trebley alright, it's a workable system but there's just a part of me that is really quite suspicious of them :confused:


  • #38
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    The more I hear Line 6's stuff, the less I like it.


  • #39
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Never really liked line6. Played through one of their amps with all the effects bundled in, seemed a bit jack of all trades but master of none


  • #40
    eoin5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    It says that if you change strings on the variax it has the same effect as changing them on a normal bass, then it has different settings to model both normal and flatwound strings? So what will the bass strung with flatwounds set to be modeled on normal strings sound like, whatever about tension and feel.


  • #41
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    It says it'll do fretless Jaco tone and it has frets. It seems versatile enough, just seems to be the musical equivalent of a knock of pair of runners, it's pretending to be something it ain't.

    It's a shame they can't creat a bass with a great voice of it's own, like the P, the J, the Stingray and the L2000


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  • #42
    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Doctor J wrote:
    It seems versatile enough, just seems to be the musical equivalent of a knock of pair of runners, it's pretending to be something it ain't.

    That's exactly it. The fretless tone sound like muck on a variax, just a kind of phasing, delay effect.

    You can still hear the fret, eh, bumpage :D


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