One of our favorite high-tech musical instrument manufacturers, Line6,
has a great digital electric guitar called the
Variax which is unlike any electric guitar that came before it. The
Variax doesn't have the traditional magnetic pickups of a standard
electric guitar -- rather, its mechanical pickup senses the strings'
vibrations and then routes the electric signals through heavy DSP to
shape the characteristic sound and tone of the guitar to mimic any one
of dozens of legendary electric and acoustic guitars. With the turn of a
knob, the Variax can do a Rich Little job on a Fender Telecaster, a
Gibson Les Paul, or even a Martin acoustic guitar, sounding uncannily
like the real thing.
The Variax retails for around $1399 and there's
nothing else like it anywhere on the planet. www.line6.com
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