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Hi Luis, I have only tried out the Variax system briefly at guitar fairs, so I can't say I have any hands-on experience with it. But I have owned a GR-55 for some time and had a fair chance to get down with it. The sound is ok AFAIK but the nice thing with the GR-55 is all the effects that you can patch up in different configurations (well, according to two optional global routing schematics). You also get a good chance to sign up pedals and other controllers for effect parmeter control. As long as using the GR-55 pedal I can not feel any latency in the sound. Even though I know it is the synthetic COSM modeling, not the physical vibration from my strings, it feels totally real and musical to play a guitar through the GR-55 using only the COSM sounds (a few, that are good... some suck). The COSM + synths track pitch well OMO, here is a demo recording using a Sitar COSM sound where I play glissando well over a fifth's range: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/gr55_fretless_demo_sitar.mp3 All the synths that comes with the packages is something I value too. You can stack two synths behind the COSM, and even blend in the real pickup output too if you want - but since I use a harp guitar I bring out the harp strings through the real pickup channel. The guitar neck is fretless and uses an active EMG humbucker and I don't mind replacing that sound with the COSM guitar sounds. But when using a Chapman STick I wouldn't dream about loosing out on the real magnetic pickup output, because Sticks have s Telecaster like single coil that gives a shimmer to the sound that just doesn't exist within the COSM world. I saw last month at a guitar biz fair that Roland now has a GR-55 Stratocaster type guitar as well, but I think I prefer the GR-55 pedal with a GK-3 pickup on the guitar. Hoping someone else has some hands-on experience with the Variax to post. Would be fun to read :-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Luis Angulo <louie.angulo@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Gang, > im really curious about this guitars,on videos they really seem > amazing,im > really surprised how good the acoustics sound > ive been ignoring them since i didnt like the first Variax guitars,they > seemed to be another gimick > wow but this ones look and seem to sound really good! > I guess the only thing to fear here is electronic reliability,i would > guess > that if that went bad you can pretty much throw it in the bin > so has anybody tried one? are they better than the GR-55 guitar > modelings? > any comments? > thanx! > > http://www.myspace.com/luisangulocom