Went to guitar center today and bought line6 variax guitar and the pod xt live, also took home the boss gt8 because i couldnt decide which processor i wanted.been researching for a while. figured i would try them out and retrun the one i didnt like. problem is there both awesome, I mean really totally awesome. i havent played guitar this long in one strech for years. my back hurts.

one problem is they both have advantages the other does not.
the pod is so simple to use and it has and nice delay tap trigger thats pretty handy

the boss has dual amp and sims and souds really good (ive always been partial to boss/roland)



now the big problem......the variax that i really wanted...i wored fine for about 8 hours put it down for a little while to have dinner..left it pluged in , turned the amps off but left the pod running......picked it up after dinner..and nothing except three strings work....i tried everything....i mean theres nothing to try it just doesnt work right.... something went wrong..

these variax's seemed preety cool. but if its that fragile i dont want it....i mean i didnt driop it or anything...

now to figure out which processor to keep.. any suggestions????

theres no doubt that im returning the variaxe tomorrow

I'd keep the GT-8. It also has the delay-tap function you know. The dual preamps, dual effect processors, ... it's all good. And once you figured all the options out, you can shape your sound perfectly. Haven't tried the POD XT Live, but it seems a little more limited, and I think it looks ugly.

your right the pod is more limited but i think thats the beauty of it.. i like that the knobs are protected. not the case in the boss...i agree the boss is a few steps above the pod but they both sound great..

Problems like the one you described are usually related to a poor solder connection. It shouldn't be too difficult to open the guitar up and troubleshoot it but since the guitar is under warranty your best bet is to exchange it or return it. I know someone who has been using one of those guitars for a few years now and no problems whatsoever (live gigs).

...i looked on line 6 forum and not to many complaints either....but this has experience kinda tinted my view on it.....anyway i was on my way to GC now maybe ill exchange it for a new one or order an upgraded one, i dont know...still got a month to try it out... before all this happened i sold my father on one, i wonder what his view on it will be after this..we'll see what happens.. ya gotta love GC's return policy...good thing i didnt order it online, what a hassel that would have been..

Man, you seem like you have some money to throw around. Imagine if ebay had a return policy....well good luck!

not really,,paid it all with credit...ha ha.......returned the pod no problem... got a replacment variax,no problem.., we'll see how that goes all seems well so far....i think i just got a bad one ....

well one of the cool things about using the PodXTLive with the Variax is the fact that you can setup the pod patches to control your variax also.. Thats a tight combination... Not that it is that difficult when using the Boss to have to switch the guitar too at the beginning of a song, but it would be kinda cool to have a lead patch on the Pod that would switch your guitar from an LP-style to an Ibanez style or something to shred, then back again when you hit another patch.. Integration is nice, although you become kinda trapped as well.

thats what i had in mind. but my problem is making a choice.. to give up one thing for another..its very hard for me..but i did make a choice , i returned the pod , keeping the boss.... still wondering about the variax...