Musicman Game Changer

[deeaa*]

I dunno if you really need to know the patches. Just find out what sounds good, save to the knobs you want to use and you'll have the sounds you need to have useable just as with any switch.

I mean, despite the multitude of options, the idea is anyway that you use only a few at a time, right? NOT to go thru the presets live but instead just use the guitar the way you have previously configured it to be. Like make the first three be your favorite strat sounds and the last ones Gibson sounds? Not harder to remember than a regular 5-pos switch?

[Spudman***]

I dunno if you really need to know the patches. Just find out what sounds good, save to the knobs you want to use and you'll have the sounds you need to have useable just as with any switch.

I mean, despite the multitude of options, the idea is anyway that you use only a few at a time, right? NOT to go thru the presets live but instead just use the guitar the way you have previously configured it to be. Like make the first three be your favorite strat sounds and the last ones Gibson sounds? Not harder to remember than a regular 5-pos switch?

Exactly. It seems that a lot of folks don't grasp the simplicity of it. You don't have LEDs in your current guitar and the switches in them are mechanical too so you'd have the same longevity. No big mystery, not too complex, just functional.

I'll bet by the end of the year other companies are doing something similar.

[DeanEVO_Dude]

I dunno if you really need to know the patches. Just find out what sounds good, save to the knobs you want to use and you'll have the sounds you need to have useable just as with any switch.

I mean, despite the multitude of options, the idea is anyway that you use only a few at a time, right? NOT to go thru the presets live but instead just use the guitar the way you have previously configured it to be. Like make the first three be your favorite strat sounds and the last ones Gibson sounds? Not harder to remember than a regular 5-pos switch?

Well, if you are just using what "sounds good," then why make them programmable? I understand the bank A and bank B, that makes complete sense to me, even without indicator, the switch and the knob are indicators by themselves. What I am talking about are the 15 programmable presets in bank Z (the momentary switch on the upper horn). How are you supposed to know what preset you are on, and what preset that "special setting" for that super-duper, Jimmy Page, totally out-of-phase, parallel/series pickup combo is stored in? Lets say, you have your Gary Moore bridge setting in bank Z, setting 1, and then you have a Peter Green (out of phase bridge/neck combo) in bank Z, setting 2, and a Jimmy Page out-of-phase bridge/neck-tele setting in bank z, #3, if you put some Strat-single coil stuff in bank A and some straight humbucker stuff in bank B... then you do your set, first is a couple of good solid 80's numbers hot and heavy on the bridge pickup with lots of distortion, then you do a Peter Green number, then a SRV number then a few other strat-inspired numbers, then a high gain guitar solo (show off!), and to close the set, you got Gary Moore/Led Zeppelin medley at the end... How do you know what is set up in bank Z and where you are amongst the 15 programmable settings? Everything else makes total and complete sense to me. Am I just over-thinking this?

[Spudman***]

Am I just over-thinking this?

Yup.

Go to a dealer and check one out.