Line 6 Poll

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Would you buy Line 6?

  • Yes - It's great

    Votes: 110 66.7%

  • No - It's not worth it

    Votes: 55 33.3%
  • Total voters
    165
I've got a Variax acoustic and its very versitile for some of my needs live or recording. I seldom use it as a main guitar however.

As for modeling, I don't like anything I've tried, but still use effects out of convienience sometimes.
 
I have a POD 2.0, and when I got it 6 years ago, it breathed some needed life into my guitar playing. When I'm feeling especially lazy, at any given time, it's nice to be able to tune my guitars with the POD, rather than by ear like I normally do.

Matt
 
All I can legitimately say about line 6 right now (and I voted "yes") is that the bass pod live is EXCELLENT for way too many bass applications. I have an SWR 750x pro head (750 watts tube/solid hybrid) and a goliath SR cab formerly played by the bassist of great white (its 6x10 and a horn) and the bass pod brings new meaning to the already awesome tone of the beast. I play a yamaha 5 string active bass w/ exposed poles, more beast.

people have been on the money surprisingly in this thread - it's a tool to use and have options therein - and it gives an important thing to the mixing AND performance side of things ""VARIETY""

anyway I can't side for the guitar side of things I havn't heard any particular works that can make my mind up on hearing other peoples work alone.
 
gibson59neck said:
I just got thru deatiling how I feel about them in my thread about hating Line 6!

After some inital difficulties, I am happy to say that my Line 6 Spider III 150 watt head and 4x12 cab with Celestions sounds great, and didn't cost me the soul of my firstborn. Whether or not it will hold up, who knows. I doubt it, but for now, it is working perfectly.

I swear that some people have the golden ears of a tone snob - if it's not really expensive, they seem to think, IT CANT SOUND GOOD - Tell you what - make the comparison yourself - this thing generates some very serious tone, and all those who have heard me play thru it think so, so far, including a friend in a band that uses a MESA rig. I am not a newbie, either - I've been using tube combos for a long time and been very happy - the half stack is new to me, but mine BLOWS AWAY many I tried.

The phrase you get what you pay for doesn't apply here to the sound - it's the build that worries me - too much plastic...I love tubes and vintage, so this wasn't an easy transition, but I'm happy...
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I will agree with you on that. The crunch and the metal on those amps is amazing, and i mean the reason they do sound as good as they do is because they take the sounds from tube amps like Mesas and Marshalls. Compared to amps like crates, the distortions on line 6, i think, are the best solid state distortions.
 
I have the least expensive Line 6 guitar and its pretty cool. The 12 string sound is very good and it can electronically shift to alternate tunings such as drop D. Very smart.
 
Zed10R said:
In one evening, all you are able to do with a POD is plug into it, turn some nobs, and MAYBE screw around with a few aneimic presets. It is utterly impossible to know what a POD can do in the first evening you own one.

But...whatever works for you.....
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yeah I let my ears listen to a bunch of POD recordings and it's a no brainer you CAN get great tunes from them...many already have.

Its all just tools... as Dogman said a few posts back.

imo, if your doing Todd Rundgren or some heavily effected tracks and stuff, PODs are great, and great for nightime, and just all the benefits of direct.

on a 3 man, blues band...maybe some special tube harmonics is on order?

I read Clapton used a little Fender Champ amp on Layla! so hell...thats about as depressing as watching Stevie Ray Vaughn play... :p
 
I'm guessing we're all here because we do some form of home recording so yep, modellers are a means to an end. I've got a Variax 300 and a Boss BR1600CD in the spare room and do most of my recording at night so a Variax and the amp models/effects in the Boss are a good solution. No pickup noise from the Variax either and its great be able to experiment with virtual guitar and amp combinations to see what is best for a song. I've been pleasantly surprised by the results. I dont know if the Variax 300 would stand up to gigging two nights a week (but if I was doing that again I'd probably get a 600 ~ better build quality). The Variax is a great solution if you are doing a variety of styles or covers.
I'd like a Vetta combo if I was gigging but only because I couldnt justify a Twin, AC30, 1959, Dual Rectifier...name your favourite amps and guitars etc and cant afford the truck and roadies and security guards to look after it all. :rolleyes: My ears aren't golden enough to be obsessed with 'perfect' tone ~ who else out there has lost a bit of hearing over the years :( and not to forget that some of the beauty of music/sound comes out of your body/fingers/voice thru the tool (guitar/amp etc). So back to the spare room for some more late night cathartic song writing ~ I'll put on the headphones so I dont wake the wife and kids. ;) Horses for courses.
 
I voted Yes. I own a POD V.2. It is a great tool for song writing and recording direct. It is instant gratification when I plug in. I do own other amps tube and solidstate alike. I use them all. :D
 
I have a POD/V-Amp2/J-Station/several Digitechs.
I don't use any of them much because I'm only just now getting my studio set up from having moved across the country. But I'm sure they'll all be getting some use. Out of the 5 modelers I have though, I like the POD the least. The V-Amp sounds way better on most things although it's built so cheaply that if you drop it, it's gonna explode into shrapnel probably damaging your face! :D


They're all just tools and all of them would be absolute wonders to us back in the days when none of this type stuff even existed.
I'm lucky enough to have a large stable of vintage tube amps but if I didn't, I'd have no problem getting acceptable sounds out of a POD.

I wasn't aware that you could download bass models for the POD. I can do that with the POD 2.0? That would be megauseful for me if the models are any good.
 
gibson59neck said:
I swear that some people have the golden ears of a tone snob - if it's not really expensive, they seem to think, IT CANT SOUND GOOD - Tell you what - make the comparison yourself - this thing generates some very serious tone, and all those who have heard me play thru it think so, so far, including a friend in a band that uses a MESA rig. I am not a newbie, either - I've been using tube combos for a long time and been very happy - the half stack is new to me, but mine BLOWS AWAY many I tried.

The phrase you get what you pay for doesn't apply here to the sound - it's the build that worries me - too much plastic...I love tubes and vintage, so this wasn't an easy transition, but I'm happy...
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It may sound good to your ears right in front of the cabinet or at home in your jam room, but what your audience will hear is totally different. Once you mic it, and run it through a PA, your highs and mids are gone, and your sitting right there with the bass players frequencies taking away the ability to hear the bass clearly and or your guitar clearly. What it turns into is one big pile of low end mud that lacks any clarity.

I just saw a band last night. A very heavy metal band, with two guitarist. One used a flextone 1/2 stack, one had a marshall jcm800 1/2 stack. guess which one I could hear all night? You got it, the guy playing the marshall. His leads cut right through, and you could hear every chunk and every riff he picked.

The guy with the line6 could not be heard unless he was the only one playing and then it souded like crap. He's a great player and its a shame no one could hear what he was doing.

Im not saying you have to have a marshall jcm800 to sound good, but live you need an amp that will put your guitar tone right in the mix, and in the right frequencies with NO EQing from the board so it does not interfear with the bass guitar or the kick drum. Every instrument needs to have its space in the frequency spectrum to be heard without being too loud. That goes for recording too. Line6 does not meet that criteria for me.

I could see using the line6 products for Amature recording, and also just something quick to through down an idea on disk. Its a quick tone you can use without alot of fuss.

But god, not live. sorry. Just my opinion.

Kudos to you, sounds like you really like it, but I really wonder if what your hearing is what your audience hears?
 
My only experience with a Line6 product was playing a side stage at an outdoor festival with gear already set up. They had a pair of these little guys for the guitarists to use so there was very little setup time between bands. I admit I was a little leary of a 'modeling amp' to begin with, and this experince just solidified it. I plugged in, listened to a couple presets, tweaked one a little and thought hmm, this actually sounds alright. I played the first song with it like that and decided that the sound wasn't quite what I wanted, maybe a bit more tweaking. Turned a nob, my sound was gone, never to be reproduced. I wasn't about to sit there and fiddle with it again as we were just getting rolling, so I turned it to Marshall 4X12 or whatever that setting is and suffered through the rest of the set. Never again. I'll agree that it could be a good tool and might suit some people, but as for me, if I want an amp faking tool, I pull up my sans-amp plug in and away I go. :p
 
mikeh said:
....I own a POD 2.0

I use the POD for almost all my initial demo tracks.... and do a lot of recording from 12:00am often past 4:00am - so controlling volume is a key factor - and let's face it (two kids and a wife asleep in the house), even with low watt amps it is hard to get the right tone without a fair amount of volume.
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What he said...sort of. I go back and finish tracks through my live rig but have kept some of the POD tracks in the past.

Like others have said, it's a tool that has it's place for a lot of musicians.
 
Personally I've never had a problem with my Flextone II HD and I love it to death. However, I opted for a GT8 over the POD XT Live because the POD didn't sound very natural to me and it seemed like the GT8 has a ton more flexibility (plus I trust Boss a lot more than Line 6). I guess it's half and half for me.
 
I have a DuoVerb, and have had no problem with the amp or the company.

Basically, it's like chemical junk food. When I want vanilla, for example, I will accept vanilla flavor to get my fix- I know it's not reall fresh organic Vanilla, but it tastes close enough.

Would I record a total album/CD with it- probably not. The Line6 is the only solid state amp I've ever owned- except for a hybrid old MusicMan. But it definitely gets most jobs done most of the time mostly good...

IMO
 
Use what you like.

What others like might help, but don't let someone disuade you from getting something.

There is no such thing as "beginners" when it comes to equipment, really. There's cheap stuff, but even cheap stuff can make a great recording.

Remember, the earliest distortion came from somebody turning up an amp too loud.


If Hendrix had a Line 6, he'd be stoked, and he'd make it do things most of us couldn't dream of.
 
KaveKong said:
If Hendrix had a Line 6, he'd be stoked, and he'd make it do things most of us couldn't dream of.
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'yeah.. he would make it sound like Hendrix...and then it'd blow up! hahah

seriously, hendrix, i'm reading some stuff from his sound tech dewd, and he said Hendrix really prefered the Sunn over the Marshal's but the Sunns crapped out ...but it was the speakers not the amp.

I doubt the Line 6's I've seen could handle Hendrix's signature volume levels.

Take a Marshal amp, walk on stage and roll your hand over all the knobs to 10...... and thats just a start.:eek:


i agree, he'd probably make the Line 6 work, and enjoy the effects, and make it sound better than I could.

like Clapton or EVH playing on a Squire guitar! they'd make the Squier sound better than I could with a damn near anything even if I had a $6799.99 Fender Relic with extra corrosion on the frets!!
 
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