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
TelePaul

TelePaul

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Well? Yes or no? The thread that was bouncing around here got me thinking, as their stuff is sold to alot of newbies. So forget for a minute whether or not the gear is suited to different apppications and situations, at the end of the day would you buy a POD XT/Spider III/Variax etc etc etc?
 
I did buy a Pod XTL, and it works well for my needs: it's a decent amp modeler for DI recording, and gives me access to a number of sounds that I could not otherwise attain.

I've never used it live as a modeler, so I can't speak to that can 'o worms. I dodged that issue by buying a Vox AC30CC. But I have used it as a pedal box into the front of the Vox, and it works well for that.
 
TelePaul said:
Well? Yes or no? The thread that was bouncing around here got me thinking, as their stuff is sold to alot of newbies. So forget for a minute whether or not the gear is suited to different apppications and situations, at the end of the day would you buy a POD XT/Spider III/Variax etc etc etc?
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You have to discuss what situations it's suited for, because that's the criteria that detemines whether or not you buy something.

Does it do what you want it to do? Does it do it better than something else? is it worth the price to you vs. the alternatives?

There is such a thing as 'good enough for my needs'. That's where most of the Line 6 stuff, as well as other modelers, fall into.

And you have to look at the gear in question piece by piece, as opposed to making blanket statements. Their amp modeler isn't necessarily the same as their amp, which isn't the same as their guitar, which isn't the same as their bass, which isn't the same as their recording interface.
 
I take it back

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...
 
notCardio said:
You have to discuss what situations it's suited for, because that's the criteria that detemines whether or not you buy something.
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I'd have a look at Gibson59's post before this....I'm kind looking for a repsonse when all is said and done...if you have a situation where Line 6 is applicable, than I think you'd vote yes. Same with the individual components, if you think that you have any sort of use for Line 6 products, Pods, amps, guitars, also vote yes.

I know where you're coming from, but the exhaustive argument is taking place in the 'Anyone else hate Line 6?' thread. I'm just trying to crunch some numbers as to what people think of the brand itself.
 
check out my last few in that thread, TELEPAUL - I had to spew forth some anger...
 
gibson59neck said:
check out my last few in that thread, TELEPAUL - I had to spew forth some anger...
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Haha I saw you taking exception to Amras post. I love Boss pedals, but I think the MT 2 is used in the wrong way by alot of people. But tone is utterly subjective.
 
TelePaul said:
Haha I saw you taking exception to Amras post. I love Boss pedals, but I think the MT 2 is used in the wrong way by alot of people. But tone is utterly subjective.
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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....
 
I owned the Line6 for one evening, I returtned it the next day and paid the extra 66$ for the GT8
 
Dumby said:
I owned the Line6 for one evening, I returtned it the next day and paid the extra 66$ for the GT8
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Hey Dumby - I got the Line 6 and used my GT8 as a trade in! HA! Do you like the GT8? I loved it, but with the sounds I get from the Line 6, I don't need it...
 
Dogman said:
I have a POD XTL, and a nice Vox amp. I like both...just depends on what I'm doing.

They are just tools to use.
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That sums it up right there guys.
 
I can't really vote because I don't think it's great, but I would still buy one.

I think it's cool to have both a tube amp and a line 6, but I wouldn't think about getting a spider anything...I think their top of the line stuff (Vetta 2 or POD XT Pro) is quite good, and a lot of times you just don't need the real tube sound, and for those times I would use the Line 6 stuff.
 
To qualify my response - guitar is not my main axe (although I am a decent player) and I only use Line 6 gear for recording - not gigging. I live in a condo and do a lot of recording from 7:00pm unitl often 2:00am - so controlling volume is a key factor - and let's face it, even with low watt amps it is hard to get the right tone without a fair amount of volume.

I own a POD 2.0, a Tone Port UX2 and a Variax 300. I own various combos from Marshall, Fender, Peavey Roland and Epiphone. I also own several guitars including a Strat, Tele and an SG. So I do have the ability to A/B the POD sounds.

I use the Variax and the POD for almost all my initial demo tracks. The ability to dial in various guitar and amp sounds, recording direct, with no amp buzz or no noise from having the guitar in front of the monitor makes recording almost too easy. In addition to ease of use, to my ears, the POD gear sounds acceptable for most tracks.

While I may re-record certain guitar parts using a real guitar and a real amp -
on a whole, I have no problem having Line 6 sounds on my recordings.
 
Alright, gotta put my two cents in here...

Like these guys that got the PODs for recording, I did the same. I used it direct for a long time, until I got my blues jr. a while back. Gotta say, it's a night and day difference actually playing it through an amp (particularly a tube amp). Playing it through an amp, even for recording, it gives me more variety and actually doesn't sound half bad after a bit of tweaking.

Now, with that said... Before I bought the PODs (yeah, had to get the bass one too, before they came out with the software upgrades you could buy to give you the bass modelling in the regular POD... still pissed about that one.), I played through the Vetta II and the Flextone 3 to see if it would be worth buying. Needless to say, I ended up with the PODs for a reason. But, that was only my experience and a wasted afternoon jacking around with those amps at guitar center.

So to sum it all up, I agree with notCardio on this one. In my opinion, it really depends on what you want to use it for.
 
Dumby said:
I owned the Line6 for one evening, I returtned it the next day and paid the extra 66$ for the GT8
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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....it's been stated many times that amps/guitars/mics/pre's/ ect are all just tools. Whatever brings the sound out of your head is what you need, and if you get the results you wnat, there is no "bad" tool.
 
I'm not voting because I've never had a Line 6 product. The only reason I'm posting is to say this -- if you're here, I'm assuming you have a computer set up with some software that maybe takes plugins that can do amp modeling -- if so, you owe it to yourself to first explore what you can do with your computer, with free plugins -- it's conceivable that you'd be happy with what you've got (and if so, please teach me and the great majority of board members how to achieve that amazing state of being), but at least you'd set a baseline for yourself on how you'd evaluate a dedicated modeler.

I actually did this, and wound up getting the Vox Tonelab SE, because it did things that my computer wasn't gonna do, but by going through the excercise, I found out what those things were (better models, foot pedals, ability to run the signal into a real amp, etc.) and why I thought they were important.
 
I've a Variax and use it rather frequently. I haven't seen anyone in this thread talk about them, though they're mentioned in the poll.
 
I own a Vetta 2 head, Flextone 1 Head, and a Bass PODtx. I do like to company very much, but I dislike a lot of their high gain amp models. What I really do like on the Vetta 2 is that you can play two different amp tones at the same time. So I play a 87 Marshall with a clean tone and It's pretty kick ass.
 
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