It's a clone of Boge's lovely Gibson, which had a lot to do with my finally deciding to go with it. The Variax is another world, guitar-wise, with an onboard computer that does everything but wash yer socks. But underneath all the whoop-de-doo, it's a fine, quality guitar with the same fat sound of the Les Paul. I never will work my way through all the electro-cheese in it, but it's fun to try.:)

JLF

More or less. It has 20 something specific "guitars" you can select. Most are quite good, the 12 strings are downright freaky. The acoustics are pretty amazing too, as is the reso. Then it has a dozen or so different tunings. Switch to drop-D, and bam, that sucker is tuned in drop-D! It has a half-step down, open-E, open-A, Baritone, etc. etc.

Switch to the reso guitar in open-A and grab the slide! It's a lot of fun, but as bad as I need practice, I spend most of my time running it on the pickups and doing scales, runs, etc.

JLF