Line6 variax 300 guitar

Line6 variax 300 guitar

The ultimate guitarists toy!! What is it? Its the line 6 variax 300 guitar. Its the closest thing to a midi guitar without being a midi guitar. It models/emulates 25 vintage guitars from the fender stratorcaster,les pauls, semi hollowbody guitars and acoustic guitars. Throw in a banjo and sitar for good measure. PRice paid $250 used +$40 s/h=$290.00 . About the price of a decent acoustic guitar. Now the fun of this guitar is that you can instantly switch to an acoustic guitar sound to a fender strat sound. Perfect for my live recordings andI have played this type of guitar before on my 97th album as I recall.


It has no pickups to speak of, instead the "pickups" for each string are under the saddles. My guitar came in good condition ,but the setup was complete crap. The frets wouldn't fret and so on. well, I adjusted the trussrod and voila, every fret sounded great and if I can remember where I put the tiny tool I need to adjust the top string it will be a good guitar setup.In any case, I am very pleased that it does work. the hex pikcups under the saddles are delicate and usually on used variax the pickups can be damaged. so only 5 strings work;here all 6 worked great.

Ok, now ,I would not trade this for my main guitar,but in addition to usual recordings this is a great instrument. $250 is a great price for it, as new they were about $500 and in fact even when closed out they were $399 or so. In fact, in a marketing ploy, line 6 discontinued the variax 300 and instead put the variax technology in higher end guitars like the variax 500,700 and so on, problem is they are $1000.00 or so?!!?!?! Now I am sorry but Its not worth that. No way!!! At $250.00 its good deal because it can emulate an acoustic guitar really well and much more and a cheap acoustic with pickup is abut 250 or less.

Interestingly, they have software where you can design your own guitar and do weird tunings too. In fact on mine, I have a preset where the 6th string is automatically tuned to a d and at a flick of a switch it can be changed to an open G tuning and so on. The possibilities are interesting. The banjo sound is must have;it seriously sounds like a banjo too the point of being silly. Oh, the semihollowbodies are great too. ok, the twelve string guitars stink, they sound stupid. overall, I am thrilled with this purchase and the price was right and they are a blast to play and I didn't have to spend $1000.00 for a variax 500,700 etc...very cool indeed!!! The variax 500,700 are more expensive because of the wood and components used but the variax technology is the same and if it were your main guitar I could justify the cost otherwise ,I just cant see the cost being worthwhile. .

I would hate to guess how much the guitars they modeled cost, I am sure its a fortune. Ar they exact? no, are they close to the real thing sound wise, definitely. One recommendation, if you get a variax ,spend the thrity bucks for the digital cable and it works great with the pdo xt live which allows the guitar amp preset and the guitar varia preset to both be switched at one time. Sweet!!! With a littl setup time, the variax 300 becomes much more than a toy and becomes a real useful addition to recording. no guitarist or studio should be without one . ok, well, at least its just very cool to be abel to have an acoutic guitar sound and then in a moment have a distorted fender strat sound.