Variax Acoustic Video

This really is amazing. It all sounds very "piezo", there's no getting away from that, but the things you can do with tunings and so on (see the video) are simply incredible, and you can see them getting people out of impossible situations. For example, downtuning the bottom E and A to make a "virtual bass" whilst leaving the top strings tuned normally - all without, actually, changing the standard tuning of the guitar - or the string tension.

The whole point of the variax acoustic is to please people who wanted the acoustic models of the original "electric" version, but didn't want audiences confused by the acoustic sounds coming out of an electric body.

There are plenty of acoustic sounds, enough for me, on the original 500 and 700 - you get a Gibson Jumbo, Martin Flat top, a National, a banjo, and a Dobro.