NAMM 2015 - Introducing the Variax Standard guitar | Line 6 

I just never get tired of listening to Mr. Hindmarsh play.

Cool! I was in the audience for this presentation. It was cool and I promptly purchased a Variax Jame Tyler model after seeing what it could do.

I wondered when this was going to happen. Cool. I own 2 Line 6 various and, as a slide player, they are invaluable. Not having to deal with acoustic guitars feeding back is brilliant too.

Paul knows how to play. Great artist.

Paul's a great guitarist.

If John Paul sings half as well as he plays and demonstrates these products, I bet he kicks arse!

No hum! PERFECT SOUND!🎸👍🏼

This guitar is a step backwards into old technology as far as tremolo design goes. 1) String Trees are always a disaster when it comes to keeping a tremolo in tune. 2) The old style “6 screw design” on the trem plate not only increases friction affecting tuning stability, but has no ability to “up pull”. 3) For tremelos without a locking nut, locking tuners is an absolute must. No locking tuners here. The JT Viriax guitars have the right design that makes for a good tremolo system. Like Music Man, PRS, Fender (Stratocaster Deluxe) etc., these Variax guitars use: a) Dual pole piece design which reduces friction, improves feel, and allow “up pull” (Exception on the Fender Stratocaster Deluxe). b) Locking tuners eliminating winding of the strings around the tuning pegs. I think many guitarists, including myself, will see this tremolo design as going backwards. Overall, I think that it’s disappointing that Yamaha is so stagnant in their guitar designs......and, offers no more creativity than this for their first showing especially considering the fact that it is being paired with Line 6/Variax technology, one of the most creative out there. So, what does this guitar offer really? I think it would have made more sense strategically to make a 399.00 Variax out of pine that could be used seed the market to cultivate future buyers.

I just got one of these. I cannot put it down. Too much fun

Cant wait To try it out

I have one (same colour as this) and it plays great....the magnetic pickups sound better than the Variax strat! After a bit of a proper set-up the guitar plays really great. I'm not a huge fan of the Variax stuff, but the actual guitar is really good...except the tram system. As good as useless as a playable trem system.

$800 guitar. I get wanting to make a "more affordable" Variax, but when the JTV is only a little bit more, I don't see the point. The Standard looks like a step down in most regards, cutting corners on hardware and construction, but the drop in quality doesn't match the drop in price. Not worth it, I'd rather just get a JTV. edit: Great demo/presentation though.

Pauls a beast

So cool

I don’t know if there is something wrong with mine but it has an INSANE amount of treble on everything but the acoustic models. Anyone else having this problem?

Hi there Is it possible to use it to live write guitar tabs into guitar tabs format (recognizing each string as played) with real notes length and pauses into Logic Pro X 10.4 as if it was a proper MIDI guitar ?

Thin and a little synthetic sounding. The amount of tonal options is nice, but there are better choices for the technology this offers.

I noticed that in the demos, nobody does regular strumming on the acoustic variax models. Only picked/fingerpicked stuff. Now I think I know why that is. (it sounds bad)

I bought this new right out of the box, and returned it four days later. The high E string wasn't accepting the signal, so it stayed on E and didn't convert when using different tuning or different tones. Is it too much to ask that a guitar be tested before leaving the factory?

Saw this guy shredding his medley, sounded great in person. Wish the recording engineer wasn't clipping the converters.

The acustic sounds,need a kick in the arse,a compressor or an aural exiter,will do the job,and prefably acoustic amplifier,and then tones really come to life.

Just bought Variax standard mainly for acoustic models and Im very disappointed especialy with 12 strings. It doesnt sound smooth and natural at all. It has some kind of high pitched tone to it that sounds like some cheap synth lead sound. The only way to not hear this is removing +12pitch in workbench, but I guess this pitched sound is the idea behind 12string emulation. I use Variax with Pod x3live via digital cable and directly to pc. Have tried many tone setups in x3 including no amp at all and acoustic still sound nothing like in sound presentations on yt. Anyone can help? Im upgrading fx to Helix floor shortly. D'you think it may help?

question can get a ibanez RG with evo pickups sound from this?

Is it possible to lower just the two first low strings one octave down and keep the rest of the strings in standard key? Thanks in advance!

Can you program your own tunings? I want dadadd

An embarrassingly awful piece of crap , tried four for stock and every one had flaws and bad workmanship , all returned as I couldn't sell this trash to customers . two had broken battery holders from new due to assembly , JTV was the best of the kind .

Good Lord will you please just make a tele style already? Ridiculous.

Great features but, why so fucking ugly? I paid the extra for a JTV. Line 6, you'll sell a lot more if you make them look nicer.

Sounds like something's clipping. A lot of nasty static distortion.

I prefer humbuckers and not yamaha.