I didn’t know what to expect when I unpacked my new Variax 700 digital modeling guitar from Line 6. I was afraid that it would end up being a technological freak: a half-assed attempt at a guitar with ...

Guitarists wanting the classic tones of yesteryear can risk financial ruin by amassing a sizeable collection of original instruments or they can take a much cheaper route and turn to the digital world ...

Endlessly tweakable tonal variety. Computer interface makes modifying the sounds easy. Amazingly readable Line 6 manual. How many guitars does one person need? Some players hammer out sound with just ...

And now a word from contributor and musician David Was about a new, very high-tech guitar. DAVID WAS reporting: The digital revolution has stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the music world, ...

The 2010 Variax updates the previous version with better sounds, functionality and a much, much better chassis: a must-try for any player who requires lots of different sounds or tunings, fast.

You already have a Variax guitar, which lets you instantly model more than two dozen different classic guitars. But what happens if you want more? On Wednesday Line 6 announced Variax Workbench, a ...

Line 6 makes some incredibly cool music products. Its focus is on reproducing numerous popular sounds from a single instrument or amp. For example, at the flip of a switch (or turn of a knob, actually ...

Apple's closing out the new application talk today at WWDC with a demo from Line 6 and Planet Waves, who have joined the Cupertino-based company in order to give your iPhone the ability to control ...

While this supremely versatile instrument is perhaps the ultimate studio guitar, it is also very flexible in a live environment. The actual guitar is ordinary. XPS-Mini is not as flexible as the ...

A guitar that can sound like 16 different instruments? Day to Day contributor, jazz critic, golfer and musician David Was reviews the new high-tech Variax guitar, which features electronics that ...