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Location: South of most, North of few | Anybody had any experience with one of these? From the ad hype, its supposed to replicate most any type of bass out there. |
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Location: NJ | i messed with the guitars and the sounds are kinda cool horrible instrument though. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | What people do is that they buy a used one from ebay and then put the guts into a new instrument. You might want to check out the Warmoth.com discussion board. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Thanks guys, it as just a wild hair idea that I had and is passing (like gas). I'm on the trail of bigger and better things now... |
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Location: Houston, TX | I just bought one 3 weeks ago, and I love it. Especially since they are marked down from $1250 to $499.
Al has much better taste than I do; I actually find it very versatile sonically and easy to play. Great for recording too. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Just had a look at their website and they just look like Precision/Jazz wannabeez.
In a nutshell, what's different about the innards that make them special. |
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| I have a Variax 600 guitar and a Variax 705 5-string bass, which were roadtested by several folks at the post-OFC tour party so maybe they can chip in with their opinions. Personally, I find the overall quality to be decent and on-par for modern Korean-built instruments and they are good-playing instruments. As far as the bass goes, it has a few pretty decent tones and a few that are really good; I used to gig with a Warwick Thumb bass and a Steinberger L-series and those two models are very true-to-life. The Hamer 12-string bass model is tweakable and close enough for the 2 songs a night that might need a 12 string bass (without lugging the beast around). The other models are fun (the Hofner Beatle bass model has LESS sustain than the Line 6 bass - it's weird to hear the real string vibrating after the model's output has faded out. Plonk!) I'd see it as decent enough for recording duty or gigging - great as a secondary instrument if you don't have room/finances for a whole stack of the real basses. The Variax guitar is much the same, but I use it more often with the POD XT Live floorboard, so I can program guitar/amp/effects combinations and change on the fly. Works well enough for jamming along with CD's or friends after work (and the rig with a Crate Powerblock and a 2-12" cab is portable enough for convenience). Hard to believe, there are a bunch of guitars modelled in the Variax that I don't have (or couldn't afford even with the good graces of mrs stonge lol). Fun stuff IMHO. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=bass/product/reviews/base_pid... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by stonge:
I have a Variax 600 guitar and a Variax 705 5-string bass, which were roadtested by several folks at the post-OFC tour party so maybe they can chip in with their opinions. Impossible. Stonge has so much gear throughout his entire house that I completely lost track of what I saw, played personally, or heard played by others. I'd be willing to bet he has as many Hamers as any music store in the land. His basement is a genuine guitar player's Party Central! |
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