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
Lt. Bob said:
I wish I'd have waited 'till they came out with the G200 so I could have a tuner and better switching capabilities but I still use my G100 quite a bit since it sounds very amplike thru a PA. I'm a real fan, as you know.

But mostly I'm using my Mesa Blue Angel these days.
I am lusting for the new Mesa Mark V though.
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Mark FIVE?!??! OMG, I hadn't heard. My birthday's next week!
 
Right, well, welcome to the internet. If you're looking for fresh, relevant, insightful discussion, you should have started drinking about 45 minutes ago.
 
no, i personally wouldnt buy any line 6 gear as it all seems to digital and processed. having said that i have used a line 6 spider amp once for recording when i was at college. it sounded great (warm,nice sustain, round) but lacked the sense of feel and earthyness you get from tube amps etc... i believe that with line 6 gear you can get very close to the sound you wish to model but imho will never model the feel of tube amps
 
I don't play live with any electric guitar rig (just acoustic stuff right now) but Line 6 makes some great stuff for recording.
 
daveblue222 said:
no, i personally wouldnt buy any line 6 gear as it all seems to digital and processed. having said that i have used a line 6 spider amp once for recording when i was at college. it sounded great (warm,nice sustain, round) but lacked the sense of feel and earthyness you get from tube amps etc... i believe that with line 6 gear you can get very close to the sound you wish to model but imho will never model the feel of tube amps
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The VOX VT100 blows away every Line Six amp made. Try one.
 
For direct recording, compared to AmpliTube, Line 6 is painfully lame in my opinion. Obviously, you can't use AmpliTube without a CPU, so that's one detriment. But if you're just talking about direct recording into a CPU-based DAW, I think AmpliTube stomps Line 6 (including Line 6's POD Farm).
 
famous beagle said:
I think AmpliTube stomps Line 6 (including Line 6's POD Farm).
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Wow this is so weird i was just going to write how i switched from Amplitube to Pod X3 and have no regrets what so ever. And the results have been fantastic.

I recorded a quick little ditty and sent to my friend back home for him to critique (he does engineering for a living the lucky bastard) I didn't tell him how i recorded each guitar track casue he knows i fiddle with both real mic'd amps and amp sims.

Anyways left guitar track was an amp i 'built' (i will admit the line6 presets are lame as f*ck) on the X3 and the right was one i had 'built' in Amplitube. He commended me for the fantastic job i did on the left guitar track (x3) saying my mic placement and room ambience was absolutely stellar. And told me to ditch the amp sim on the right and re-record it with a different guitar but same set up as i used on the left.

Fooled him. So long story short, i had been using amplitube for the last few years got the x3 and it blew it out of the water in just minutes. Proof is in the pudding.

I told him i used a line6 porduct and he shit his drawers. He's very anti Line6 anything. HE still doesnt beleive me. but i can't lie. Mentor or not I showed him whats up.

As for the newbie aspect. i think its a fantastic introduction to the different processes you can run on a signal. For instance i hadnt an effin clue on when or when not or EVEN HOW to use gates, compression etc on guitar and vox The X3 has given me the opportunity to experiment and play with these techniques. Im certain they aren't top notch industry standard working versions of compressors or gates, but it has given me alot of insight as to HOW to apply these things and when and where it works and doesnt work.

I give the POD X3 two thumbs up. Thats all i can vouch for though.
 
Atom Bomb said:
Wow this is so weird i was just going to write how i switched from Amplitube to Pod X3 and have no regrets what so ever. And the results have been fantastic.

I recorded a quick little ditty and sent to my friend back home for him to critique (he does engineering for a living the lucky bastard) I didn't tell him how i recorded each guitar track casue he knows i fiddle with both real mic'd amps and amp sims.

Anyways left guitar track was an amp i 'built' (i will admit the line6 presets are lame as f*ck) on the X3 and the right was one i had 'built' in Amplitube. He commended me for the fantastic job i did on the left guitar track (x3) saying my mic placement and room ambience was absolutely stellar. And told me to ditch the amp sim on the right and re-record it with a different guitar but same set up as i used on the left.

Fooled him. So long story short, i had been using amplitube for the last few years got the x3 and it blew it out of the water in just minutes. Proof is in the pudding.

I told him i used a line6 porduct and he shit his drawers. He's very anti Line6 anything. HE still doesnt beleive me. but i can't lie. Mentor or not I showed him whats up.

As for the newbie aspect. i think its a fantastic introduction to the different processes you can run on a signal. For instance i hadnt an effin clue on when or when not or EVEN HOW to use gates, compression etc on guitar and vox The X3 has given me the opportunity to experiment and play with these techniques. Im certain they aren't top notch industry standard working versions of compressors or gates, but it has given me alot of insight as to HOW to apply these things and when and where it works and doesnt work.

I give the POD X3 two thumbs up. Thats all i can vouch for though.
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Cool, I'm glad you're getting some good sounds out of it. I couldn't get it to work for me. :)
 
I love my Pod...top fun and using Podman32 I can get some great presets made...but Amplitude Fender is excellent, that I wont deny...in fact Id say its the best softamp program out there
 
Like many previous posters have stated my willingness to purchase or use Line6 products depends on my need.

Playing live i've used Line 6 gear quite a bit. For me it was easy to use a lot of different tones and effects with a very easy set up and didn't take a whole lot of stage room (some clubs have ridiculously small stages if you're playing with a 5 piece band). If i was on the road and the pedal broke i could easily find a local retailer and replace it. I could use the line out and not worry about offending the sound man by fixing his "unique and special" approach to cab mic placement :rolleyes:. So I still own a Line 6 Vetta and would consider using it live.

For recording I'm more inclined to go another route. I've been able to get some serviceable clean tones and serviceable heavy distortion tones with line 6 gear, most of which required quite a bit of massaging in the mixing process, but nothing that really blew me away. Trying to get a sound that's in between clean and distorted is a different story altogether. IMO that's the biggest weak point of any line 6 gear that i've tried and i've spent way too much time trying to get a good sound where the guitar sound is just starting to break up and get distorted for me want to try to use it again in a studio setting. Again, in most clubs that i played in, with the equipment they had and the engineer running it, it probably wasn't noticeable to the crowd but for recording I'd rather mic a tube amp.
 
Funny to see this after 4 years...and the modeling technology has really improved bunches since.

I can reccommend the Toneport UX2 or UX8 to any of my friends and feel good about it...I bought myself a Variax 600 for $50 for my birthday and I fixed the electronics...and I am high on this thing...even sold some of my other guitars and pimped it out with a Charvel Neck...I also got a nice mark3 head with the digital engine in it...granted the Mesa and Marshall and fender sounds are nicer on my Tech21 stuff...but navigation and versitility are the line6's strong suit.
 
I tried a Pod XT Pro for a while and the thing was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever used !!!
 
I have a lot of these modelers. Pod XT Live, Johnson J-Station, Bass V-Amp, Boss GT-8...everything has it's strengths.

My Pod XT Live works good for home recording. It would sound good live, but I've grown fond of my GT-8 for live use and it sounds good as well. I use it with a Mesa Boogie Mk III. For the type of gigs I do, it works out fine.
 
Alot of modelers have some shortcomings...but I really like being able to hit a foot switch and change the sound without picking up another guitar or hooking up another amp...the variax and the Pod X3 live rock.

Line6 is the answer to $5000 and a bad back...a storage garage...etc

You guys might as well embrace the future...the days of taping a coil to a piece of driftwood are past...lol.
 
I just bought a line 6 spider III today. I wasn't sure about it after reading all the negative replies in this thread. It's the one with 2 - 10 inch celestion speakers and 120 watts. It's going to be a few years before I can bust out the $2500 I need to buy the all tube Marshal half stack that I want.

So, for now this should be a fun toy to play with. I don't play live. I may have a drummer over every now and then to jam with. For $400 it offers a SHIT LOAD of sound toys for me to play with and also has a bunch of other features to make it worth buying until you can afford a serious rig.

It's even loud enough for when I do jam with a drummer, so it's got everything I need including effects that I've never had a chance to play with in the past. I can also take it out side when my drinking buddies come over and plug my mp3 player into it and we won't have to use my crappy computer speakers to have some music on.

That doesn't include all the recording applications that are featured on the amp itself.

For now I don't think I could of beat it...
 
Those are cool...I want a head only version...but they havent come across with a version that can control the variax too via footswitch.

But as soon as they do...Ill sell the Flextone 3.
 
gibson59neck said:
It can be said that opinions are like assholes - everyone has em. I just love it when people think that there's is the only way, and even go as far to condemn anything else, as if their opinions were blessed by God. We all do it from time to time.

O heck....
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You gotta watch out for the ones whose opinion has been blessed by satan...messy business
 
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