I recently purchased a Variax guitar by Line 6. This is a modeling guitar which means I can use one guitar and switch it to sound like a Telecaster, Stratocaster, Les Paul or many other guitars. It also allows you to add presets to change tunings.
I am in love with this guitar. I love the models on the guitar and I can use Workbench software to change the pickups or tunings of the presets.
Check out all the guitars you can have with just one guitar.
from the line 6 website
Variax Models Based On*:
1960 Fender® Telecaster® Custom
1968 Fender® Telecaster®
1968 Fender® Telecaster® Thinline
1959 Fender® Stratocaster®
1958 Gibson® Les Paul® Standard
1952 Gibson® Les Paul® “Goldtop”
1961 Gibson® Les Paul® Custom (3 PU)
1956 Gibson® Les Paul® Junior
1976 Gibson® Firebird V
1955 Gibson® Les Paul® Special
1959 Gretsch® 6120
1956 Gretsch® Silver Jet
1968 Rickenbacker® 360
1966 Rickenbacker® 360-12
1961 Gibson® ES®-335
1967 Epiphone® Casino
1957 Gibson® ES-175
1953 Gibson® Super 400
1959 Martin® D-28
1970 Martin® D 12-28
1967 Martin® O-18
1966 Guild® F212
1995 Gibson® J-200
1935 Dobro® Alumilite
Danelectro 3021
Coral/Dano® Electric Sitar
Gibson® Mastertone Banjo
1928 National® Style 2 “Tricone”
And now I’m wanting to buy a Variax acoustic guitar that models different acoustic sounds.
Would you like to play a concert in front of people around the world without even leaving your bedroom? Come play at my Second Life bar.
My favorite time waster is Second Life. And now I am a virtual bar owner. I built a bar with my own two virtual hands. It’s a nice little bar with a concert area on the side where I hold live music events.
It’s very cool. You log into Second Life and put your avatar up on stage. Then you just plug your guitar, or whatever instrument you play, and a mic into your computer and stream it. Then the stream goes into my bar where other avatars are standing or dancing. You can play your own songs or play all cover songs. It doesn’t matter. It’s just fun.
So come on and play at my virtual bar. You’ll have fun. I promise. Oh and you will get tips which you can transfer into real money.
Brian Eastwood Guitars has some ugly deformed guitars. There are a couple that I actuallt kind of like. But most of them are just plain ugly. A lot of fender type of guitars that look like they’ve melted or something. Weird.
This guy etched gears into a metal pickguard for his guitar. It looks very good.
I have a Fender US Highway One series Stratocaster, which is a half decent guitar, but looks just like a million other Strats. I had been planning to replace the pick guard with a black mother of pearl guard but my experiments in electrolytic etching made me think I’d like to try something a bit more unique. Thus the Steampunk Strat was born.
I started by scanning the pick guard and printing out a bunch of copies that I could sketch on until I got the image that I wanted.
Next I carefully traced an outline of the pick guard and begun to draw my image. The concept was to make the pick guard look like a brass clock escapement with gears, cogs and a flywheel.
This guy created a shirt that plays music when you make the air guitar motions. It sounds pretty cools. But I kind of like to add the sound effects myself using my mouth. “diddla diddla diddla…”
“Our air guitar consists of a wearable sensor interface embedded in a conventional ’shirt’ which uses custom software to map gestures with audio samples.”
For some reason it reminds me of a toy I had when I was a kid called “Hit Stix”. It was a little amplifier that you attach to your belt that had a pair of drum sticks. You played air drums with the sticks and it made sounds like a drum. You can “play them in the air. you can play them anywhere.”
I heard a song by Tyrone Wells on a LonelyGirl15 video and I had to get the cd. The cd is great. This dude can sing. I love his voice. But I didn’t know until I started looking at reviews from his cds that he was the singer of the Christian rock band Skypark. Man, I loved that band.
