The Variax guitars are an "old" series of modelling guitars from Line6. The early models don't even feature any magnetic pickups since all the sound comes from piezo pickups in the bridge. The guitar actually has a piezo pickup for every string which gives it the ability to do good pitch-shifting and modelling. At least a lot better than the modellers I've used. I've known about these guitars since getting my first Line6 guitar effects unit that had a very interesting connection on the back. The effects unit I got was a Pod XT (somewhere in 2014) and on the...