Line 6 Variax 700 Electric Guitar With Tremolo

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Manual for Line 6 Variax 700 Electric Guitar With Tremolo
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All the amazing tone and flexibility of the original Variax plus premium woods and carved-top luxury!

There's something magical about playing a 50-year-old guitar. Even better is a guitar that's actually been played every day of that half-century. Such instruments have a sound to them that only comes from the passing of time, hundreds of sessions, and thousands of gigs. The guitars modeled in Variax aren't just showroom pieces. They are instruments that have been played to perfection. With one knob and a 5-way switch, Variax will take you through an amazing collection of historic guitars. It has beautifully shaped body with a carved ash top over mahogany (translucent colors) or carved-top solid mahogany body (black only). One-piece maple neck is topped with rosewood fingerboard with a bone nut and pearl inlays. It is also equipped with XLR balanced output and a digital jack for Vetta II connectivity and can be switched from the FBV foot controller. Fitted with a custom Baggs tremolo bridge. Includes Line 6 gig bag.

Every significant guitar you can imagine housed in a fine-looking and playing instrument. Order today!.

Line 6 Variax 700 Electric Guitar With Tremolo Features:

  • Dozens of classic guitar sounds
  • Simple, instantly familiar controls
  • Carved ash top on mahogany (transparent finishes) or carved mahogany body (black)
  • One-piece maple neck with rosewood fingerboard
  • Rounded bar mother-of-pearl fretboard inlays
  • Gotoh tuners
  • Custom Baggs tremolo bridge
  • 22 medium-profile frets
  • 25-1/2" scale length
  • 10" fingerboard radius
  • Digital I/O jack for Vetta II connectivity
  • Standard 1/4" analog out
  • XLR balanced analog out
  • Included A/B footswitch selects between outputs
  • Volume and tone controls respond faithfully for each model
  • Powered by footswitch, onboard batteries, or Vetta II
  • Can be switched from the FVB foot controller
  • Custom-fitted heavy-duty gig bag
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A BLAST-

I have a Gibson LP custom, Strat ash/dlx and Taylor T5. My son has a Tayor 615. I tried this in the store and the action and feel intrigued me... I bought a strat and did some online research... it kept calling me back... I finally went and go it and it's AMAZING. From Banjo to 6 string acoustic to 12 string, even the 12 string rickenbocker (can you say "There is a Season TURN TURN TURN"... hehehe FEELS more like my Les Paul, I do slightly prefer the feel of my Strat. But the strat tends to be a bit to mellow - I like that the Variax is totally customizable. I can get that PUNCHY sound I'm looking for. I was never able to get that BB KING tone with the Strat... even with all the toys (FlextoneIII amp, toneport, guitar port etc) but last night a couple nights after getting my Variax, I pretty much nailed the BB KING tone from listning to the songs and tweaking the Varias with the workbench software. It's so sweet - dial up a Telecaster and all the snap and twang is there - Cooler yet - throw a Tcaster pickup on a Strat body. Yep - all sorts of fun. WEAKNESS: the 12 string acoustic can sound rough at times... if strumming, it's amazing, if you try to pick it can be faux/crazy. The 6 string acoustics are quite well done. (12 string problem is it needs to give two string sounds at once) so it's a bit tricky and handle's it fairly well. STRENGTHS: what blew my son away is the awesome feature for dial in custom tunings. I hate custom turning. I'll do a Drop D but that's about it. Now I can turn the dial to all sorts of tunings without ever leaving standard tuning. This is a wild one (Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" song is in this tuning BDDDDD ) try that on a real guitar - it's a sloppy mess of strings. On the Variax - turn the dial and you've got it! All at standard string tension! Banjo tone "REALLY NEAT" little bonus - I play some old rag style songs with it and it just makes me smile. So far VERY impressed with it - I LOVE IT... My strat edges it out a bit on confort and I love the strat maple neck... but I like the punch tone control of the Variax... I do like it far more than my Gibson LP custom. (the T5... well that's a different animal entirely). I'm THRILLED I bought it - but I am worried, the forum on line6.com seems to have a lot of posts of people with breakdowns. though these are usually "300" cheaper model. I'm not sure if that's because the 300 is built cheaper (at less than 1/2 the 700's price) or if there are just a lot more of them in use? At any rate - I do hope it lasts for years n years like other find instruments.

Reviewed by Ron on 4/11/2007 who plays Rock, blues, Raggie, all really.

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5 Star Rating

Blown away!

I took a chance when I ordered this guitar as I couldn't find this exact model in the store, I could only find the 300 and 600 models which I didn't really like very well. I have been extremely pleased with the Variax 700 model. Top notch quality and great feeling neck (similar to a Strat in the overall feel). Another great feature is that you don't have to use batteries to power the guitar. It comes with a floor pedal that powers the axe and let's you direct the output to your amp or to a P.A. for acoustic tones. The guitar enables you to get such a wide variety of electric tones it's incredible. The Tele, Strat, ES-335, and Jazz guitar tones are real standouts. They are so close to the original that you will be using them over and over. If this was all the guitar did, it would be worth having. But add to this the other, more obscure tones like the Rickenbacker (both 6 and 12-string versions), Gretch, Sitar, and acoustic tones and you have a real winner. I've been gigging and recording with this guitar since I bought it. It's been a total blast to have access to all of these tones. One of the other side benefits to this guitar in live applications is that you don't have to worry about feedback. This is very useful for the Jazzbox and acoustic tones. You can get a very warm Jazz tone (like a big archtop with flatwounds) and crank the volume to keep up with a band. I've never been able to do that before. If you need an extremely versatile axe with good playability, look no further. This thing is a godsend if you play a wide variety of music. Two thumbs way up!

Reviewed by Jim Pfeifer on 1/4/2008 who plays A wide variety of styles including Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock, Country, etc..

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The Variax is not for everyone

I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to my taste in guitars so when my friend told me about this and that he had one I just had to come over and give it a try. Now when I first heard about this I was expecting a computer with strings but I was wrong, it was more of a synthesizer with strings. It had a lot of neat sounds with it but some of them didn't really compare with actually having the real instrument that the simulation on the variax provides. I for one would pick up a nice old strat or a les paul over this any day but that's just my opinion and your going to get a lot of different ones about the variax so your best bet is to just go out and try one yourself.

Reviewed by StratAttack on 1/5/2007 who plays Blues.

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