Line 6 Flextone HD Head

you probably already know.

I can play anything with this. You can have really bone crushing metal tones with this, or sparkly clean tones. The effects are alright, they shure arn't bad just not very flexible, but you can make use. You set all your own channels, anyone can find something they like about this amp. The thing about people saying it doesn't soud like a tube amp, well its not a tube amp. But it still sounds good, and for the price you can find them, and the flexibility, you cant go wrong. It is a good investment, because you get a load of tones to play with.

Bought it used. I think its like a 98 or something. Never had a problem with it.

I called to get information on it, and had no problems.

Ive been playing 5 years, I know my way around guitars, amps, and effects, and this amp has never upset me. Check them out you wont regret it.

it has alot of good features. possibly too many. more than i will ever use unless i decide to start taking acid again.

it has pretty good distortion. i use all models of gibson lp guitars and a epiphone from time to time. the main problem i have is switching from distortion to clean. it seems to me that if you spen alot of time making your distortion relly mean sounding you make the clean sound dirty and twangy. i could just be retarded but i have a huge problem with this. and at loud volume it seems to like to crap out or change channels for no reason at all" very bad for shows" did this at three shows so i had it checked out by a pro who is certified to work on line 6. he said that he couldnt find anything wrong with it. i also had a line 6 spider 212 that did the exact same thing and when i had it checked out he said that there was no problem with it that he could find. so i just use this amp when i am at home with low volume and it works great for that. but i dont trust it at shows.

i dont trust it enough to play shows. read sounds........

they told me to call some guy. so i did... he said nothing was wrong..... maybe im retarded??????????? 2 line 6 amps vs 15 years experience who knows??

i cant say anything too too bad about this amp because im still using it on a daily basis. it works fine for messing around at home. i have been playing for 15 years and i have worked with marshall,crate, kustom, fender, mesa, and hartke amps. and i think if your going to spend alot of money on an amp buy a marshall or a mesa. i like line 6 and i would still buy their products. im thinking maybe its just an old model and they havent worked out all the bugs yet.

The features on this amp are very good. Before I decided to venture into the digital realm I was playing some solid state 1X12 combo. Needless to say the plethora of sounds and amp models available are very convenient. I still run some floor pedals though because it is kind of limiting to only be able to really use 2 modulations at a time but thats not a big deal.

The sounds are surprisingly good. Of course I knew that before purchasing it because I did what every other smart consumer should do when given the opportunity and that is test the product out. I use an ESP eclipse with alnico humbuckers. My style is very eclectic, although initially I was using it for strict metal tones. I do anything from space rock to metal now a days. I cant complain about the tones, they get the job done.

Well sadly for me, this is where the bashing begins. About three or four months after buying the head, the circuit board blew out on me. Take into account that I am very careful with my equipment so I know I didnt do anything out of the ordinary. In all fairness I understand that when dealing with electronics there are inherited problems beyond your control but come on. Since I had it repaired (which is another story alltogether) I really had not used it that often but nothing has happened since then.

Okay the true bashing begins here. Now before I begin I just want to point out in fairness and possible defense of the company that I heard around the time I had to deal with them, they were going through some management issues or something. Okay thats enough on to the bashing. THEY SUCKED! At least at the time I dealt with them. No joke people, it took me about seven months!!! to get this damned thing repaired. They never called back. Everytime I called them it was followed with an empty promise to conatact me again. Nope. Never happened. I have not dealt with them since that moment but as far as that experience goes, no good.

Okay the overall rating isnt so bad. After all, the product does what its supposed to and it sounds great. It really is very versatile and convenient. Although I did have problems with the customer service it was one of the best investments I have made. Shit happens and I understand that, but so is life.

This head features many great amp models as well as effects. It is very versatile for my softer rock styles as well as my edgy metal styles. This head has more power than you would ever need. I can't even get the cooling fans to turn on because it's just too much power.

Right now im playing a gibson faded sg as well as a takamine 12 string acoustic and the head suits both tastes. The only effects pedal i use is a hendrix wah only for the higher pitches. you'll never need any extra effects. The distortion levels are insane and everything else sounds incredible. Totally worth the money.

Ive only had if for a few months so im not sure about long term use but so far i havent had any problems other than some feedback due to a guitar center ripoff on a crappy cord. Go Musicians Friend. Samash is goin down.

Never dealt with the Line6 Company.

I have been playing for 8 years off and on. This is the only setup i have at the time. This head is powering a Marshall 1960 cab and sounds good. Marshalls are overrated and have nothing that even compares to Line6. If you are goin for a solid state, Line6 is the way to go.

This thing is almost like a "built-in" multi FX into an amp. Wonderfull! I played alot with it and never used all the patches!

The amp "simulation" is the main reason I bought this thing. Really interesting!

The floorboard was really usefull with a Volume AND a wah at the same time!

...sadly...

you CANT just imitate any old tube amp via electronics...it does not deliver the same kind of "power" (clean, drive, dist...)

The sound is not THAT bad...but if you compare it to the real things...it sucks!

I ran this head in multiple cabinets (peavey, marshall, line 6, ...)and at different volumes but it does sound like a tube amp at all!

I think the combo models sound better.

The on/off switch broke up after a year. (I'm REALLY carefull with my equipement)

Sometimes, the volume went up all by itself! (Innovation, you know!)

When I first bought it, I had to take it back to the store one day after because no sound was coming out at all (after half an hour of use)

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I've been playing for a couple of years now and I tried many different "types" of amps. Nothing sounds like tubes...sorry!

PLAYINGWITH A 76 DEAN V W/ DIMARZIO TONE ZONE, FAT THICK GUITAR TONE. FOR THE AMP, AT FIRST I WAS LOST, IT HAS WAY TOO MANY EMULATIONS, I WAS DEVELOPING A.D.D.. AFTER DECIDING TO STICK WITH WHAT IM FAMILIAR WITH I NAILED MY TONES VERY EASILY. THE SOLDANO SOUNDS BETTER THAN MY PEICE OF SHIT SOLDANO! I ALSO QUITE HAPPILY NAILED A SUPER LEAD AND THE CLASSIC JMP TONES QUITE WELL BUT IT TAKES PUSHING SOME WATTAGE, NO APARTMENTS. IM PUSHING A 4X12 MARSHALL W/ VIN.30'S. I LIKE THE FACT IT STAYS TIGHT LOUD, FIND YOUR TONE AND ITS THERE ALL THE TIME. NO MUSHED OUT RUSSIAN, CHINESE CRAP TUBES. GREAT PICK RESPONSE AND FEEL, SURPRISING POWER AMP. I HAD A MESA STRADEGY 400 AND 500, I KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. PURCHASED AS A PRACTICE AMP, WITH NO HESITATION IM GOING TO GIG IT.

A SOLID YEAR WITH NO POWER TUBE CHANGE, YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT!!!

PUNK/METAL BANDS SINCE 84, ITS NOT THE REAL THING IF YOUR TRYING TO NAIL A PARTICULAR AMP. IT WOULD BE A GENERIC VERSION OF THAT AMP. BUT WHAT IT DOES BOAST IS ITS UNIQUE FLAVOR EMULATING THESE AMPS. ITS LIKE HOT CYBER SEX!!! IT GETS YOU OFF!!! THIS IS DEFINITLY ITS OWN HYBRED WHICH WILL BECOME A CLASSIC. I WISH I HAD THIS GOOD OF SOUND $5000 AGO, I FIRST HEARD THIS WITH A PUNKY 10 YEAR OLD BEHIND IT PLAYING SLOPPY SABBATH BUT IT WAS SO FAT I HAD TO GET ONE, BYE ,BYE TUBES FOR GOOD!

Excellent selection of amplifiers and effects, though the effects couldn't really be "tweaked" as much as I like. XLR outs blend nicely with a live sound, but I don't think I would use them exclusively.

I've used almost every guitar imaginable through this amp, and I have to say that it isn't too bad. The clean tones are not as clean as I would like, but that's what Fenders are for. I didn't like the lag, or delay time when you switch some of the presets, and switching between banks with the floorboard is a pain, because you can't skip around as nicely as on some multi-effect pedals. Distortion tones are heavy, but I feel that they can get lost, or buried. They aren't as "in your face" as some of the amps they emulate.

I have never had a problem with the amp itself, and I've had it for over a year. I've gigged regularly with it, and it's been used in almost every situation possible. The only thing that ever happened was the volume pedal on the floorboard stopped working. This amp can take abuse. My girlfriend dropped it face down on the ground, and it didn't even scuff the surface. She doesn't carry any more of my gear, though. I can understand her dropping it, though. It's a heavy tank.

never dealt with them

I've played for 8 years and am a collector of all things strange. I use a pile of pedals with this amp straight in and it still sounds good. Downtuned instruments are handled well with this amp. I think that the next amp I buy will be the Vetta, but of course, I have to try it first. I reccomend using a 4 ohm cab to get the most out of this amp. I use 8, and wish I had 4. Oh well, one more thing to fix....my Marshall Cabinets. Good buy, despite the price, though. They're cheap now that they have the Flextone II and Vetta out now.

Antes que nada se me ocurrio hacer una revison de este cabezal line 6, en espa?ol, ya que cuando quise informarme sobre el...obvio todo en ingles, ojala mi punto de vista sobre el cabezal flextone de line 6 le sea de ayuda a alguien.

Yo lo compre usado y pague $400.000.- pesos chilenos, algo asi como U$ 580.00.

Supongo que mas o menos saben que tiene este equipo, a grandes razgos
emula como 12 amplificadores clasicos como jcm800 de marshall, un par de fender, soldano, el roland jazz chorus y el increible mesa boogie dual rectifier, + 4 line6, o sea tienes 16 posibilidades de sonido en primera instancia; ademas tiene un par de efectos como chorus, flanger, delay, compressor, tremolo, rotary speaker.


Este cabezal es muy potente, no te quepa la menor duda que tu baterista va a alegar demasiado (por fin puedo vengarme jajaja), la cago, tiene 150 x2 Watts de salida en 4 ohms creo, aunque generalmente se conecta a 8 ohms, como casi todas las cajas marshall 4x12 (lead 1960) que es la que yo ocupo, la potencia decae un poco pero no es mucho han de ser un par de watts lo que baja, pero se compensa por que tiene salida hasta para cuatro cajas, o sea, te podis armar tu pared de cajas como siempre so?aste cuando viste los recitales de Metallica por primera vez. Volviendo al tema, en potencia cumple con creces(en 3/4 del volumen tenis que arrancar de la pieza) .

Por otro lado, cuenta con 4 bancos de canales a los cuales le puedes asignar un programa a cada uno, o sea, primero seleccionas un amplificador para emular por ejemplo el rectified (mesa boogie) le das la distorsion que quieras, arreglas la equalizacion que esta compuesta por bass, middle y trebele (bajos, medios y agudos pa los que no cachan niuna wea de ingles), tambien puedes colocarle un efecto de los ya mencionados, los que se pueden regular con un "RATE" (tap tempo en el flextone) y con un nivel de efecto (tweak effect en el flextone), posee ademas un volumen para cada programa (chan volume) y un volumen general (master).
Una vez que logras tu sonido lo asignas a un canal "A" por ejemplo y asi hasta el "D" osea, cuatro canales A+B+C+D + encima tienes otro adicional que es el canal manual el que puedes variar si alterar los otros 4.

Se me olvidaba, se muy bacan ya que tiene una corrida de luces rojas sobre toda la parte de las perillas y controles, de noche da miedo.
Eso es lo que tiene.

Yo tengo dos guitarras los dos muy malas, una yamaha rgx no me acuerdo cuanto y una jackson ps4, esos si, las dos con capsulas emg,
emg 81 en la jackson que la fino en "SI" (B) y que suena como un demonio y la yamaha tienen una emg 85 y afinada en "MI" (E), yo toco en dos grupos:
Ukukus - algo asi como rock del 2001 con influencias aggro metaleras.
http://www.ukukus.f2s.com ukukus@mail.com
La Desooorden - algo asi como funk rock
desooorden@mail.com

Importante, este cabezal no es a tubos ni transistores, es en base a software que segun los creadores desarrollaron tras investigaciones en cada uno de los amplificadores que emula.
Yo concuerdo en que no hay sonido mejor que el producido por los tubos, de partida mi sue?o era un mesa boogie triple recifier, pero comprar eso en Chile es imposible a menos que tengas $1.500.000 de pesos chilenos o U$2200.00, lo cual para mi es imposible (gran decepcion), para un puro cabezal !!!!
En todo caso quede mucho mas que conforme con este montruoso aparato, ademas que el gastar $$$ no va a mejorar tu tecnica de guitarrista, si con poco en equipos suenas bien, felicitaciones.

En cuanto al sonido hay dos partes importantes en este cabezal:

1) La parte que emula amplificadores, tiene unos muy buenos y otros regulares,
de los que a mi me gustaron mucho:

- RECTIFIED: emula un mesa boogie dual rectifier (amplificador que ocupa metallica, korn, slipknot, john petrucci, primus ?? sera bueno me preguto yo ??) la kago, muy bueno, shakal, potente, un mounstruo, especialmente para hacer riffs potentes y tambien para solos.

- JAZZ CLEAN: emula un roland jazz chorus (pedazo de amplificador), tiene un sonido limpio excelente.

de los que a mi me gustaron:

- No me acuerdo el nombre, creo que es algo aasi como modern hi gain: pero en fin, emula un soldano el cual tiene toneladas de distorsion.

- Brit hi gain: emula un jcm 800, bastante weno, pero para lo que yo toco, no tan potente y bestial como el rectified.

- Line 6 clean: sonido limpio bastante bueno.


El resto son salvables, solo resta trabajarlos y darle tiempo para lograr un buen sonido.

2) De los efectos:

tiene los siguientes:
chorus 1, chorus 2, flanger 1, flanger 2, tremolo, compressor, delay, delay/chorus 1, delay/chorus 2, delay/flanger 1, delay/flanger 2, delay/compressor, delay/tremolo, delay/sweep, rotary speaker y por ultimo un by pass ( o sea niun efecto), en resumen 16 posiciones de efectos.

Segun mi criterio, nada se compara al sonido analogo en cuanto a efectos se refiere, es decir, ni cagando me compraria un rack de efectos, prefiero mil veces los efectos de pedales de piso, todos por separado. Pero, tras probar este cabezal de line 6, puedo decir que salvan, aunque es un poco complicado controlarlos, sobre todo para un delay que requiere de al menos tres controles y solo tiene dos, que regulan la intensidad de las repeticiones y la proximidad entre ellas, faltando un control para la cantidad de repeticiones que se puede si regular con los dos controles lo cual lo hace muy poco versatil para controlarlo.

Para manejar el chorus, el flanger y el tremolo esta todo bien.
Aunque suenan muy digitales el chorus y el flanger sobretodo.
El tremolo tiene mi aprobacion.

Debo decir eso si, que yo tengo efectos separados del amplificador (chorus y wah-wah y pretendo comprarme un delay el boss dd-3)
asi que no me preocupo por el control limitado de ellos en este cabezal porque antes de comprarmelo ya estaba en conocimiento de ello.

Ahora creo que no voy a comprarme un tremolo porque con el del ampli ya es suficiente.

Tampoco tienes que comprarte un equalizador para subir el volumen de tu guitarra cuando toques un solo, solo tienes que hacer un programa, lo asignas a un canal y despues el mismo lo asignas a otro canal con un poco mas de volumen (chan volume) y todo solucionado, puedo decir que funciona a cabalidad.

No lo he requerido por el momento aunque no tengo garantia alguna por ser usado.
Aunque no creo que el servicio tecnico sea muy bueno aca en Chile, Audiomusica es el importador oficial en Chile.
http://www.audiomusica.com
aqui vale como $600.000.- pesos chilenos nuevo (U$870.00)

Toco guitarra alrededor de 8 a?os, pero en realidad en los ultimos 3 me he dedicado mas.
Antes tenia un cabezal Marshall valvestate de 100 Watts, bien bueno, pero la verdad es que me aburrio la wea, la distorsion era buena y potente pero no como la del cabezal flextone de line6, aunque hace poco, mientras no tenia amplificador me conseguia un como marshall de 100watts y tenia un boton llamado power dimension que emulaba un mesa boogie, pero igual me aburrio el sonido, el jcm900 tambien es bueno pero le falta distorsion y eso que yo ocupo poca.

Toy cansao tanto escribir, ojala esto le sirva a alguien...

Lo que mas me gusto de este cabezal es la potencia, con este no quieres mas, en serio. El sonido no es ni tan digital como yo me imaginaba que podia ser, derrepente tuve un poco de dudas hasta que lo probe.

Lo unico que se le puede objetar, lo que me parecepesimo, es que tienes que comprar el pedal para controlarlo el que deberia venir incluido, pero no es asi.

Existen 2:

-FB4: que vale $63.000.- pesos chilenos (U$90.00) con este se pueden controlar los cuatro canales que tiene el cabezal, es de 30x12 cm aproximadamente y es agradable a la vista, tiene cuatro botones con luz roja cada uno, un boton para cada canal que hayas grabado (A-B-C-D) ademas si dejas apretado un canal ya seleccionado (que tenga la luz roja prendida) por 2 segundos se apagan todos los canales (niuna luz roja) y deja el cabezal en el modo manual, o sea un quinto canal, eso si algo complicado para seleccionar ya que tienes que esperar 2 segundos, tambien si apretas un boton del canal seleccionado mas de una vez puedes controlar el tap tempo de los efectos, es decir, el "RATE" (la proximidad de las repeticiones en el delay, el oleaje mas continuo del flanger, el tremolo mas continuo, etc, para cada efecto que hayas asignado al canal en cuestion).

-El Floar Board: este es mas grande, con mucho mas botones, y controla hasta 36 canales creo y tiene dos pedales uno de wah wah y otro de volumen (creo) nunca lo he probado, pero se que tiene eso, ademas tiene un afinador incorporado, por todo esto es mucho mas caro
cuesta $230.000.- pesos chilenos (U$333.00)

MI RECOMENDACION (valida para el que lo estime asi).

obligadamente tienes que comprarte uno de los dos, yo recomiendo el FB4 porque es mas barato y suficiente, sino se lo compran creo que te sera sumamente dificil controlar el cabezal apretando botones directamente en el, o sea, ni cagando podrias tocar en vivo a menos de que ocupes un solo canal sin variarlo, o tengas el tiempo sufiente para caminar al amplificador y apretar botones (no lo creo).

Para finalizar esta muy extensa revision, puedo decir que existe un nuevo cabezal flextone, creo que se llama Flextone HD II, en este parece que tiene un mucho mejor control de los efectos y un par de cosas mas pero cuetsa mucho, demasiado mas $700.000.- pesos chilenos (U$1000) mucho mucho, para eso te compras los efectos aparte ya que no son ni tan buenos como un buen pedal de piso analogo.

Eso es todo, si tienen alguna duda sobre el equipo este no duden en consultarme.
Chao

Alfonso.

Need I say how many features this thing has on it? It's chock full of ripined digital goodness. Well, this head definately gets the right effect and style im looking for when experimenting with different styles. it has 4 channels, and I think that is enough. get the floarboard if you need more. The head has pretty much every effect I could use. I wish they had an octave effect, but i could live w/o that. i use this amp at gigs wich are usually outside, and this sucker cuts through. Its got a 300 watt rms handling and i barely have to push it halfway. Also, the reverb is very amazing on this lil feller :-)

I am currently running a Yamaha Pacifica through this head and this guitar can rock just as good as any other, and Im not planning on giving it up anytime soon. This head can suite anybodies musical style. Unlike other reviews, I fine I can get a VERY clear UNdistorted Clean sound out of it, and an awesome crunch and distortion sound. I play a very wide range of music from classical to funk to metal and so on. My band is very experimental and we use the occasional bongos and brass/woodwinds to see whats type of music and moods we can produce. so This head really creates wonders for our styles. Yes the head is noisy... But totally not in a bad way. The clean at loud volumes is very crisp.. people are jsut too impatient to move a knob around here or there to get the right sound. The distortion is awesome... again, move some knobs around on it. dont be a lazy SOB.

I am highly dependable on this amp. I definately would not plug it in w/o using a surge protector though thats for sure. Its like a little computer. I am pretty confident in it, and would definately use it w/o a backup. I dont neglect my amp. I do not abuse it.. It cost too much money for me to be abusing it. Hopefully this head will last me a while.

I have never dealt with the company as of yet. so i cant give an honest answer. but because of other comments on them, im takin away 5 stars

I have only been playing for 7 years now. You're probably saying "How much can this kid know about amps and tone?" Well, I have played many amps including crates, mesa/boogie rec.'s, marshalls, and i fine that the line 6 head can get the sounds of these amps just as well as they can get them. If it was stolen.. I would TRY to get another one, but it might eat a whole in my pockets... in fact i might not even have pants left for it to eat holes through. I would definatley have to do heavy research to find another great amp like this one.
One thing I hate is the weight..42 lbs... Not bad, but Jesus Christ, this thing is heavier then rosanne and toms sex sweat in a bucket (thats a lot of sweat people). The cab which goes with it is pretty heavy also. id say about 80-something lbs.
This cab is awesome and would recoment it to anyone who desires a wide variety of sound and has a bit of patience to work with with it. feel free to email me with any questions you might have concerning this head