Saturday 16 April 2011

Line Six Amps (Line 6 Amplifiers) - Review of 15 Line 6 Spider Amps

Line 6 Spider Amplifiers - Reviews of Amplifiers by Line 6

Amplifiers by Line 6
Line 6 is pretty cool isn't it? The best amps in the industry, in my opinion.

Line 6 produces a number of guitar amplifiers (combos and heads), all featuring amplifier modeling software.



The Spider III sold over 92,000 units in 2008, the 15-watt Spider III amp was the best-selling guitar amplifier in America.

Here are amps by Line 6 - along with some specs and reviews.

1. Line 6 Spider IV 15


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Spider IV 15 delivers a perfectly distilled collection of celebrated American and British amp tones.


The Line 6 Spider IV 15 boasts a diverse range of sounds including sparkling clean tones, warm jazz tones, syrupy drive tones, high-gain distortions, and more based on immortal vintage beauties and modern monsters. 6 stunning effects (2 simultaneously), including lush reverb, expressive tremolo, tangy chorus/flange, and more add color and depth to your sound. Built-in tuner, headphone out, CD/MP3 input, and 4 user-created presets for instant recall of tones. 8" custom speaker and 3/4-closed-back cabinet provide a tight, punchy response.


Features: The amp was made in 2009. The amp sounds great at clean and crunch and it also has two other modes based on Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® sound they are "Metal" and "Insane". Clean sounds simply awesome, Crunch is great, perfect for playing AC/DC, it's so great because it based on 68 Marshall® Plexi 100. Metal is based on Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® and it sounds great for Metal solos and most heavy songs like Metallica greatest Master of Puppets etc. Insane sounds like the heaviest sh** there is on earth it's based on Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® ( RED CHANNEL )This skull crushing sound is great for tapping solos like "One" solo. But apart from that it's just a hell load of distortion good for absolute bone crushing sound and fun to play with a tremolo bar, make some wild noises. Effects are good not great but they aren't bad for 100 amp. You can choose between "Chorus Flange", "Phaser" and "Tremolo" plus to this you can add the following echo effects; "Sweep Echo", "Tape Echo" and "Reverb". From those effects I mostly use Reverb but sometimes I like to play with the tremolo effects for songs like Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day). So basically it has 4 Channels 3 + 3 different effects and a Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble, Channel Vol. And a Master knob. It also comes with an FBV Pedal, CD/MP3, Phones / Record outputs. 

This amp was made in 2009, it's solid state, 15watts and it has a 8 inch line6 custom design speaker. On the front pannel it has four channel. Clean, crunch, metal and insane, with seven knobs for each one: drive, the EQ (bass, mids, treble), a channel volume, two effect knobs and a master volume knob. The effects are separated as it follows: the first one has chorus flange, phaser and tremolo and the second has sweep echo, tape echo and reverb. You've got your guitar input, a headphones jack, an auxiliary input and a fbv pedal input. This amp can suit allmost all music genres, for home practicing (I use it for that so it's allright). For me it's fine, because I play mostly metal and hard rock, with bits of blues and Dire Straits, so I find myself using allmost everything, specially the clean and metal channels. I wished it had a channel switching pedal but for the price this amp has got many things. It also has some good features, like saving your own presets, a noise gate and a boost for the distortion, to have even more if you like it. At first it looks very good, but it's not.  

 
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Sound: All four channels are doing a great job providing me with any sound I want. I use with two double and one single coil, pickups. It's a great amp for an experienced jazz or blues guitarist and also for a small rocker who likes to play heavy, for me it's perfect. It can makes sounds from smooth clean calm sound to absolute skull crushing sound simply Insane. Distortion sounds good on all channels and it could be quiet and it could be really loud.


I'm currently using an Ibanez rg350dx, white with a white pickguard (beautiful) with no pedals at the moment. Like I said I play metal mostly, but this amp doesn't have a good distortion for it. The metal channel sounds aceptable, but muddy at high distortion levels and the insane it's unplayable because you can't hear the notes you played with distortion at ten o'clock only. Plus it's really noisy. The crunch channel it's not bad but it could improve a lot at low distortion levels because I wanted a classic rock sound but it can't do it. The clean channel, on the other hand, it's really good, because it sounds defined, and at high volumes it distorts only a little bit. This is the best thing about the amp probably. The effects are good also, especially the chorus flange, but the phaser and the tape echo are also of my liking. The reverb, the sweep echo, and the tremolo are just pasable, because they don't have the sound I'm looking for. It's a pity Line 6 doesn't make good amps.
 
Reliability & Durability: I trust this amp very much and advise you to get one is well. Since I got it I haven't got any problems with it. It looks great and well build although it's build in China it's very good quality. I am sure I would use this amp as a backup but not 15V, at least 75V. Really good quality for the price.

I've owned it for three months and at the moment it has only given my one problem. While I was testing it at high volumes it started doing strange noise, specially on the metal channel, but it doesn't bother me, as I use it for my bedroom. Other than that it's perfect and looks sturdy, which is good, as I will sell it soon. Obviously you can't use it to gig as it's 15 watts.


FAQ - How to get blues sound out of it?
Answer: Try the crunch channel and don´t use to much gain and it should get you somewhere.
I used to have a Spider 3 15 watt but i never liked it, even as a practise amp.
If you´re serious about playing blues save up money for a tube amp.
Also if you learn how to use the controlls on your guitar and some right hand technique you can play with a clean sound on the "insane" channel. The Insane channel is crazy. Nice for palm muted runs.

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2. Line 6 Spider IV 30 


 

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