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My New Axe!

I am today the happy ebay winner of the Variax 500 Sunburst guitar!

Pictured left, this guitar is really cool and I am really pumped about using it. If you know your guitars, the first thing you might notice is that it doesn’t have pick-ups. Instead this guitar has an on-board computer that models a bunch of guitars. So I can get a pretty cool 50′s Start sound and go straight to an old Martin acoustic and then to a Les Paul. The sounds I heard on the site are pretty amazing.

This is the first time I have ever bought something like this on an online auction. I normally have to play a guitar first before making the leap, so I hope this one plays out for me. I’ll post some work after I have it and do some recording.

All of this, btw, is to the credit of my wife and fellow artist Cathy, who all but said get whatever I want. This is really strange, and I am not a gift getter a la five love languages, but I really love being married to someone who understands me enough to know what is important to me, and someone who loves me enough to encourage me and say, “Go for it!” Thanks Babe!

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3 Comments

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   Hey Paul, I have the exact same guitar and I love it. The sounds are close enough to perfect. If you want to take it to the next level you would need to invest in the PODxt Live or the POD X3 both of which control your variax guitar settings. You can have specifc guitars for specific channels. Pretty incredible. Have fun with it. It's a great toy.

   jason / 10 Mar 2008 / 11:07 AM

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   You're welcome. I just love it that you're playing again, and that you're a musician in your heart. Who wouldn't want to encourage that?!

   Cathy / 12 Mar 2008 / 12:57 AM

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   Congrats man! So, which of the girls is going to be an uber-musician like you?

   hash / 12 Mar 2008 / 3:22 PM