Good question
From what I've heard, the answer seems to be YES. The tone coming out of it is shaped to a great degree by the electronics to emulate the characteristics of a given instruments in it's entirety, wood, pickups, etc. Instead of the wood actually shaping the tone, an algorithm decides how it would sound and sends that out the jack. It's sort of a guitar emulator inside an actual guitar
I'm a big fan of modeling/emulation after finding out how killer modern modeling has gotten in terms of what you can actually record and get in to a computer to mix. But again, not everyone's cup of tea, and God Bless the purists as they are the ones that keep great companies like MESA BOOGIE and GIBSON in business so that clever engineers can model sounds based on their products.
Todd
QUOTE (VikingBlues @ Jan 29 2013, 03:05 PM)
What I've seen suggests it's a lot better than the last generation of Variaxes in that the guitar part of it is now seriously good and it's not just the electronics that are high quality.
I do have a reservation about it though. Perhaps just a purist, or maybe old-fashioned? I guess we all know how different types of guitars like being played different ways - you find the physical properties (weight, shape, type of neck, balance etc) of a Las Paul, a Strat, a Tele, an ES semi change how you play the guitar and that's part of what makes it sound different. If a one shape guitar tries to be all guitars can it manage to do the job 100% because it is just has one set of physical properties?
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