behold! the fender VG stratocaster?!?

[John Taverna]

[fuzzking]

I'd be much more interested in it if it also had MIDI output. But that might be a bit too 80's

Did someone say MIDI and 80s?

Haha that reminds me of, erhh... Sigue Sigue Sputnik! 

[chrisjedijane]

that G-707 was a majestic instrument indeed. Offsets? Pah? Who needs them???

[Maggieo]

Can the SynthAxe be far behind?!?! 

[Naturality]

MIDI + 80's = The Darkness + Keytar 

[RumorsOFsurF]

I played the VG today at Guitar Center.  The XII string emulation was good, as was the Tele, but the Baritone was not so great. The tracking was off, so it had a sort of blotty sound in the lower register as it tried to keep up.  I was not too impressed.  The guy asked if I had played it when he saw me with the Electric XII.   

I think it needs more development.  I'm not going to be buying one any time soon...

[pullover]

I could see buying a modeling bass, like the Variax bass for the studio. But with guitar I think the feel of the guitar with that particular sound is much more important than just the sound. Accidental notes on a 12 string, the rumble of a baritone in your hands, and a floppy strings from down tuning can't be replicated. It's those things that make the instruments for me. Every time I see a guitarist on stage with a Variax I think, "Douche."

[Firefly]

I think its more the kind of thing you'd want playing live. Saves you the hassle of messing about with a bunch of other instruments. But still personaly I'd rather play a telecaster or an acoustic not a strat that could sound like them.

Alternate tuning modes arent a bad idear though.

[mezcalhead]

I could see buying a modeling bass, like the Variax bass for the studio. But with guitar I think the feel of the guitar with that particular sound is much more important than just the sound.

I think the same thing about bass .. as an extreme example, no matter how much the Variax sounds like a double bass, you aren't going to play it the same as if you were wrestling with a big old doghouse.

[glimmertwin]

I could see buying a modeling bass, like the Variax bass for the studio. But with guitar I think the feel of the guitar with that particular sound is much more important than just the sound. Accidental notes on a 12 string, the rumble of a baritone in your hands, and a floppy strings from down tuning can't be replicated. It's those things that make the instruments for me. Every time I see a guitarist on stage with a Variax I think, "Douche."

...I would prefer buy a few different squier basses and upgrade the electronics/pickups.  For the price of the variax stuff, you could probably own 3 different flavors of bass pretty easily...

[fuzzking]

I suppose the "VG" stands for "Very Good".

Have you seen the Pedal that emulates all of Clapton's Hits? Duh.
http://www.digitech.com/products/Clapto ... lapton.htm

I wonder when they start to bring out things that can actually PLAY by themselves,
oh wait... that would be just history repeating:





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