The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112948   Message #2396712
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
24-Jul-08 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Problems with Variax 700 -anybody else?
Subject: RE: Problems with Variax 700 -anybody else?
Well you know how i hate to disagree with you Richard - but calling the demos dogshit - seems excessively polite to me.

I have decided I am going to sort this one out. If it can be made to work - I shall make it work.

If it could be made to work it really could make an impact in our sort of music. Not just the kinds of things we can play, but also the kind of places we can play.

Five years ago when I bought it - no one had any sort of clue, but all this time on - I think they should be made to deliver or get up off the pot and stop taking peoples money for something which on the face of it, doesn't work.

I think basically Line 6 see alternative tunings as a bit of a gimmick and they have NO idea of how many applications it could have, and how integral altered tunings are to folk music these days.(Even to those of us whom you reckon don't play folk, Richard!)

thanks for the message strat abuse. i wasn't aware the 300 had altered tunings. I play the 700 through an AER 60 watt combo.which is designed for acoustic guitars so its not that.

I hope your band are doing well