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I like the variax and GR55 but none of these systems is perfect. If you want the best of all worlds you could get and old variax and transplant it into a guitar of your choice and tap off the piezo to make midi come out of it also, or just install the roland pickup on it... many ways to go.... look at Adiran Belew's Parker Fly. it has everything. Sustainer, Line 6, Midi out and traditional pickups... in your custom guitar you could also install a nanomag. Mixing the Piezo, Line 6 acoustic, GR55 acoustic and nanomag would probably sound pretty fat. Add a Fishman Aura to the Piezo output and you'd really hear some sweetness. If you want to keep it simple, a piezo output from ghost saddles into a Fishman Aura would be the most natural sound, if you ask me. teddy On Nov 18, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > Tank you, Michael, that was interesting. Regarding the tunings, does > the Variax allow micro tonal tunings? Or is it just like the GR-55 > doing DADGAD, bariton, drop-D, Nashville toning and all that stuff? > > I missed to post the correct name for Rolands new guitar that has the > GR55 circuitry buit-in, it is called "V-Guitar". Info here: > http://www.roland.com/V-Guitar/ > > Oh, and thanks to M's post I now recall that Luis was specifically > asking concerning fake acoustic sounds - so I'd like to add that the > acoustic guitar sounds of the GR-55 sounds rather bad to me. For a > "quick acoustic cheat sound" on stage I'd rather use a guitar like the > Epiphone Ultra 2 that has an extra Nanomag Shadow mic in the neck > besides the two mandatory humbuckers (and a separate output for the > acoustic mic). > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: >>> Hoping someone else has some hands-on experience with the Variax to >>> post >> >> >> I spent half an hour playing one recently in a shop - some of the >> sounds suck (the 12string sounds too much like harmonizers) but most >> are pretty much ok. I especially like the different tunings! very cool >> to have that on board. >> >> If I had the money, I'd buy a Variax. I wish there was one with a >> sustainer! and I still don't know if one can somehow turn the 6 string >> output of the piezos into midi - I definitely want midi. >> >> The coolest thing about Variax of course is, you don't need another box >> on the floor. I wouldn't want a GR-55 because it is so large and heavy! >> the Variax guitar has the sounds and tunings in it, and if you like the >> guitar, you are all set. >> >> -Michael >> >> >> >> >