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Yes I underhandedly pedalled faster than you.
Fancy a rematch on Wednesday? It's a Kilo though.
I bought one because I write music in a lot of styles requiring a lot of different guitar tones, and needed a studio guitar I could record with. Being too poor to buy a strat, a tele, a ricky and everything else the Variax was perfect. I pretty much record all guitars with the variax and Pod now.
Another bonus was that I really wanted a strat sound on stage but I hate playing strats. I have tried loads of them and only ever borrowed one that was good to play. must be my big hands. The Variax has a Gibson style neck which suits me better.
I've seen them used live, and it's generally for one or two songs where maybe the verse is acoustic and the chorus is electric, or something equally suited. They absolutely rule in a gig if you need an acoustic guitar sound because you can push them really loud and they will never feed back.
On stage though, I'm all about my fuckoff loud and evil-looking Les Paul and a big powerful valve amp.