New Line 6 Spider III Samples

[IronFlippy]

It's also not true.
A medium gain setting played with a strat and single coils will sound bluesy/crunchy, take the same setting with a heavy bodied guitar with an EMG 81 and it will sound metal. That's just one example.

I retract my statement of sounded identical. It does, however have much less of an effect with modellers than with a tube amp, or even a decent SS amp. It's the fact that a modeller is mimicking a chain of events (gain, EQ settings, speaker, etc.) whereas a tube or SS amp only affects its respective areas. When you start putting a sound that has the entire chain built-in into one section of another chain, you lose the initial qualities of the instrument, the gain stages, etc.

I think that modelling amps would be much more effective if in the preamp section, it only modelled the preamp of another amp. Unfortunately, this starts losing the flexibility of the amp, which is the point of a modelling amp, because now you aren't getting speaker emulation, or humbucker emulation, etc.

 

[zacanger]

Also, for the sake of not having to make a new thread, anyone have a good tube amp or a really nice amp that they might suggest me looking into? preferably something decent sized, like I don't know, at least 80 watts? And something that would be good for studio work. Thanks for the help

80 Watts? Do you want to play football stadiums? I'm a fan of the Koch amps, they're pretty loud but can still get some sweet sounds at low volumes.

 

[Rokket]

These samples aren't that great.

Now imagine trying to get them to sit in a mix...

 

[SuicideNote]

I'm a big fan of Line 6 and I'm not impressed by those tones at all. I do have to say that the presets sucked for the PodXT line as well and I love those units.

 

[Zaphod B]

The only thing I don't really like about any type of modeller is that a setting will sound the same, no matter what guitar or pickup you put into it.

Absolutely not true.

In my experience, at least, using a Pod XTL, the tonal differences between my LP, Strat, and Tele are immediately noticeable. This is the case regardless of the amp model and effects chain.

 

[Zaphod B]

But I will say that the samples that were linked to at the beginning of the thread weren't particularly accurate of the titles that were given them.

 

[gvarko]

I picked up the little Spider III 15 watt dillio last weekend. Very fun little practice amp and the clean channel sounds really good. Would I record with it? Probably not. Would I play live with it? Definetly not. Would I recommend it highly as a pratice amp, hell yes!!