ido1957
9K Gold Member
I have no experience or opinion on Line 6 amps. I'm just saying that it's really hard to believe they have actually sold 1,000,000 Spider amps.
thebigcheese
"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
It seems like a lot, but it really isn't. If you consider that there are about as many Guitar Center stores, that makes about one amp per store per day. If you also consider that we probably move at least 5 a day around Christmas, that number seems fairly accurate. I was just at a show for Silent Civilian (heavy metal) and they were using a Line6 amp (HD something or other, I don't know their gear). Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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soundchaser59
Reluctant Commander
Who is "Line 6"??
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soundchaser59
Reluctant Commander
Ohooooohhhhhhh yes they caaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn...........
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ChickenStomp
New member
I have a Line 6 Spider II. It was my first amp and I kept it around after I got my Mesa Boogie stack just so I could play music through it while playing along
Tadpui
Well-known member
Can you actually hear the Spider II next to the Mesa stack? From what I've found about the Spider amps, they tend to dislike being cranked. Much unlike a Boogie
My nephew just added the 1,000,001st Spider to the world. He got a little 15 watter as an upgrade to the awful amp that came with his starter pack. Its a good little amp for $99. I wouldn't own one myself, but its great for the beginner.
loveofjazz
Sheep Defiler
I have a little 15 watt Spider III that stays upstairs for learning music. Low volume, slightly bigger than a lunch box, and easy to use.
I found a 75 watt Spider II a couple of years ago. It lives at the rehearsal space with the main band I work with. They'll damage my good gear if I'm not around to protect it.
It's useful stuff at home or rehearsing, but I wouldn't think them useful for the stage.
I found a 75 watt Spider II a couple of years ago. It lives at the rehearsal space with the main band I work with. They'll damage my good gear if I'm not around to protect it.
It's useful stuff at home or rehearsing, but I wouldn't think them useful for the stage.
rayc
retroreprobate
It could be - remember, in 2010 more people graduated from university in China than the entire population of Australia.
That's a lot of uni grads working in factories cranking out amps to pay for their tuition.
Me, I don't have one, don't want one as I have 1 real valve Marshall 70's monster, one real tiny Pignose, one real Oz made solid state early 80's monster, one real combo cheapie Peavey and hands of clay to make them all sound like nothing in particular. I know I don't have any of the classic amps or modern must haves but I've already learnt how to make a sow's ear out of a sow's ear.
That's a lot of uni grads working in factories cranking out amps to pay for their tuition.
Me, I don't have one, don't want one as I have 1 real valve Marshall 70's monster, one real tiny Pignose, one real Oz made solid state early 80's monster, one real combo cheapie Peavey and hands of clay to make them all sound like nothing in particular. I know I don't have any of the classic amps or modern must haves but I've already learnt how to make a sow's ear out of a sow's ear.
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ChickenStomp
New member
Can you actually hear the Spider II next to the Mesa stack? From what I've found about the Spider amps, they tend to dislike being cranked. Much unlike a Boogie
My nephew just added the 1,000,001st Spider to the world. He got a little 15 watter as an upgrade to the awful amp that came with his starter pack. Its a good little amp for $99. I wouldn't own one myself, but its great for the beginner.
Well, I don't crank it loud enough to make my ears bleed or anything, but I live in a house with roommates so it's not super loud anyways
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soundchaser59
Reluctant Commander
Agreed, it's very believable. But I think it can be beat.....
We have a Line6 Spider (a 1x12 version, whatever that is) at church and I have had several opportunites to play the Line 6 side by side with the Vox AD30, AD50, aned now the VT30XL, and that Line 6 aint even close. I mean the Vox is nothing to write home about, but compared to the Line 6 it is a superb alternative and beats the Line 6 Spider clean outa the solar system with ease.
The Line 6 stuff, at least the budget minded stuff, seems to have the same relationship to fine guitar that McDonalds has to fine food. The uninformed masses might go for it, but anyone who knows and is half way serious will eventually gravitate away from it. That being said, I do confess to having owned an AX212 myself once, it was certainly a fine piece of work and a cool innovation for its time, but if I were to do it over knowing what I know now I would not buy another one.
Wireneck
New member
"Agreed, it's very believable. But I think it can be beat....."
Wait so vox is selling an amp for $99.00 now?
Wait so vox is selling an amp for $99.00 now?
CoolCat
Well-known member
I somehow wound up buying one of Line 6 AX 2, today off CL....$150.
one thing lead to a internet search...
It was a friend whose a Todd Rundgren fan...and the internet articles mention thatTodd Rundgren is into the AX2 as his home amp per his interview of his "Arena" CD (done completely in his home using Line 6 stuff..and softwares...)
so I searched out the, discontinued long ago, amp then searched CL and one was for sale at $150 with the pedal (which are becoming rare to find). then was $1025 w/pedal.
Initial thoughts..
It's full of effects..wow!
this one has the pedal too, so that has a gazillion other applications. literally banks fo sounds can be stored...
great shape and so quiet.....
Pots and foot pedals look to never have seen a stage.
I suspect the unit was never used live.
Extremely quiet. The seller said its great at low volumes, which seems to be cool for recording.
and the credibility of a pro user...
Todd used this (and other Line 6 stuff) on his ARENA cd, he did completely in his HR using a pretty modest and humble setup. But hes had this AX2 for a long long time.
My friend, the huge Todd fan and g-player, I could tell was a bit excited, this having the Todd-factor of a pro's credibility= kept as his home amp all these years and used on released CD's.
fast forward a decade or so....
Of course, this one was $150 with pedal, not the $1025 people paid in 2000 or whenever it was released. The guy selling it said it was Line 6's first born.
I still have a hand wired tube amp too for that "pure tube sound" or a blues harmonica jam, but this AX2 is great for those who like flange-psychedllic-mushrooming-delayosphere-sonicverb-gwaangstingemlelo-number9number9- effects and tones.
for a low volume home setup, $150...with the pedal, wahwah/volume, and tuner and banks of effects.... I forked over the hard earned cash.
one thing lead to a internet search...
It was a friend whose a Todd Rundgren fan...and the internet articles mention thatTodd Rundgren is into the AX2 as his home amp per his interview of his "Arena" CD (done completely in his home using Line 6 stuff..and softwares...)
so I searched out the, discontinued long ago, amp then searched CL and one was for sale at $150 with the pedal (which are becoming rare to find). then was $1025 w/pedal.
Initial thoughts..
It's full of effects..wow!
this one has the pedal too, so that has a gazillion other applications. literally banks fo sounds can be stored...
great shape and so quiet.....
Pots and foot pedals look to never have seen a stage.
I suspect the unit was never used live.
Extremely quiet. The seller said its great at low volumes, which seems to be cool for recording.
and the credibility of a pro user...
Todd used this (and other Line 6 stuff) on his ARENA cd, he did completely in his HR using a pretty modest and humble setup. But hes had this AX2 for a long long time.
My friend, the huge Todd fan and g-player, I could tell was a bit excited, this having the Todd-factor of a pro's credibility= kept as his home amp all these years and used on released CD's.
fast forward a decade or so....
Of course, this one was $150 with pedal, not the $1025 people paid in 2000 or whenever it was released. The guy selling it said it was Line 6's first born.
I still have a hand wired tube amp too for that "pure tube sound" or a blues harmonica jam, but this AX2 is great for those who like flange-psychedllic-mushrooming-delayosphere-sonicverb-gwaangstingemlelo-number9number9- effects and tones.
for a low volume home setup, $150...with the pedal, wahwah/volume, and tuner and banks of effects.... I forked over the hard earned cash.