Line 6 Flextone II XL

Made in 2001.
Well, for me anyway this amp is fine. Loadsa different sounds and effects plus a wah/volume/tuner(with Floorboard, of course).
Plenty of line out/in etc jacks and the xlr out into a pa sounds good.Plus headphone jack so it seems to cover most of the bases.

I use it with a USA Fender Strat with Kent Armstrong Hot-Rails in the bridge position(for a bit more bite!) and an Ibanez RG550 with an EMG 81 in the bridge pos. I play Rock (80's, 90,s Classic etc) plus a bit of Skynyrdy type stuff. Doing mainly covers is helped by this amps amazing array of classic sounds so i can go from Tesla to Mott the Hoople to U2 and even to Skynyrd with it clean or cruch settings.

I have had it for 20 months and the only trouble i have had is it gets scratched easily when been bumped around in the back of the van. I would recommend bying the cover from Line 6 or if you can afford the extra cost get it flight cased. Apart from that it's lasted well. Oh yeah, it would be worth it as well to buy a coupla spare cables(from Floorboard to Amp) just to be on the safe side. They are quite cheap.

Never had to use 'em. But i did sent the Registration/12 month warranty card off within days of purchase.

I have been playing for 15 years and have had loads of marshalls and a coupla fenders but due to space limitations have had to flog them(sell). Before this i looked at the Yamaha DG. the sounds were not as good as the Line 6 but the moving knobs were cool. I got the amp for the above price including the floorboard cos to be honest to get the most out of it you do need the floorboard. It's easy to program and the presets sounds are great apart from the INSANE patches which were WAY TOO MUCH!!(No doubt you thrashers out there will disagree)

The amp Sounds AWESOME!!! this is wonderful for my tone, I wanted the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, and this comes so close it blows my mind. Plus I get to have a fender delux for my cleans, it's totally great. The ONLY thing that sucks about Line 6 is that there is not enough control over where to assign effects and the delays and modulation effects are not separate. (then they came out with the Flextone III damn!)

Like I said, can't complain. Now all I need is to buy another cab so that I get even more punch.

Don't know yet, the network cable thing for the floorboard is kinda flimsy, but no problems yet. If it stands up to me giggin', He'll keep his good home.

Their not as sweet as Digitech at their customer support but they provide plenty of alternatives.

How can I bitch? Good amp, Good sound, Good price. Long live rock and Roll, anybody want to listen to our tunes, check out mp3.com and do a search for COR SLC give a listen. Any questions for me just E-mail and title the subject Line 6 so I can filter it out of my junk mail.

This is for a 2002 model with updated cabinet and amp modeling capability. 32 amp models, 16 digital effects, and four user programmable banks with 36 available with the optional floorboard, and yes you must get the floorboard to appreciate all the features of this amp. (wah,volume pedal etc.) 100 watts stereo into two custom celestion speakers. This amp has just about any sound you could hope for.

I play an Ibanez RG 470 with dual humbuckers, mainly for heavier rock styles. The hi-gain settings on this amp are phenomenal. The Mesa and Marshall settings are not dead on accurate, but are very convincing. Both have easily recognizable sounds that the their respective models are known for, but they are unique and very good in their own ways. The cleans are are a little brighter than I like, but sound great with slight chorus and reverb. Volume is very loud, and I personally have not experienced any break up of notes at any volumes. Some settings do require a little tinkering to taste, but everyones ear is unique.

I have only owned this amp for about 4 months. No problems yet, except occasionally a small popping sound way back in the mix on the realy high notes. This usually only happens when the amp has not been turned on long, which is funny because this amp is solid state and that should not matter like a tube amp.

I have not dealt with cs yet, but got burned on the warranty because I did not get a chance to mail from 30 days of purchase, so if it craps out I will be very upset. Would give a ten if they had gave me more time.

This is the best amp I've ever played through, but my experience is limited. I've been playing for eight years but I tend to find one thing I like and stick with it, verses switching amps all the time. I do prefer solid state rather than tube, just because tubes are inconsistant with their tone, unreliable, and all have a distinctive lag in their sound curves unless compressed. Compared to all other tubes in it's price range, it blew them away. Compared to other solid states, it seemed to have a more real sound, than some other modeling amps that try to mask their more synthetic sounds with reverbs and delays. It's sound is much smoother and and more saturated than most of the others in it's class, and it definitely has more power and volume than any other amp under 800 dollars.

It has a lot of different sounds and effects. Saves a lot of money when searching for effect pedals. Good reverb and I loved the studio mode. Lots of different styles and power. Stereo amp. Dont buy one unless you buy either an FB4 or the floorboard. It's effects are useless without one.

Well... it's no tube amp and thats a problem in itself. After a month of owning it, it crackled on every deep note. I play a PRS custom 24 with vintage bass and HFS pickups. This guitar can make any amp sound good besides this one. I had to turn the treble knob all the way down for it to have any warmth at all. really pingy and tinny sound. The sounds that it has are good sounds but you have to do a lot of tweaking to get a good one. Maybe I just bought a lemon, I dont know. To each his own.

OK, this is where it gets ugly. I could never depend on it to play good above 3 on the volume knob. It would crackle all the time and was very frusterating. I took care of the amp but still it got all crappy after one month. I bought it brand new. Dont use it unless it's a practice amp.

Customer support is good. They helped a lot. One thing though. Make sure to send in the stupid registration card right when you buy the amp because if you read the fine print (which you usually dont do until the amp screws up)you will see that the warranty is no good unless you send the reg. card in within 30 days of purchase. And if you gig with it, you dont get a warranty cause then the amp is considered "commercially used" and is not under warranty.

I have been playing for about 3 years but dont let time fool you. I know more than you do if you are thinking of buying this amp. I would rather get this amp insured and pay someone to steal it so I could get the insurance money and buy a 2002 fender "Twin-Amp" or a Mesa Boogie. Love the effects, hate the amp overall. Hey, maybe I just bought a lemon and maybe you could go buy one and love it for years but this is my opinion from experience. I read these comments before I bought the amp and they upset me because of all the negativity. Ignorantly, I bought it anyways. This is just to caution those innocent, unsuspecting buyers. Make sure this is what you want and always be willing to check out other amps before buying the first one you play. Be willing to pay that extra 100$ for that great sounding tube amp you have been eyeing. Thanks for reading. IXOYE God Bless...

My amp was manufactured around 1999. How could you not give this amp a 10 for features? With decent modulations of mulitple differet kinds of amps and a built in pedalboard worth of effects, this is definitely the most versatile amp I've ever owned. I currently use the amp for a variety of music (pop rock, hard rock, melodic rock) in a cover band and I can pretty much set up a decent replication of any band's guitar tone that I hear. Perfect for cover bands who need to sound like effects laden U2 one song and Boston or Aerosmith for the next. 4 available channels (optional pedalboard offers more memory), channel switching, effects loop - which I never use, and headphone jack -which is great when you want to jam at 3AM. Master volume and channel volume to regulate volume between variably different channels. I use this amp around the house and in band practice - really LOUD band practice. Stereo feature is available with direct PA/recording input if you like. I still prefer to mic it live because the tone is pretty impressive.

All you digital naysayers need to read this before formulating an opinion about this amp, because if you use any gain whatsoever, I can emulate your tone. I use 3 Guitars: (ranked in order of use) 1. Gibson Les Paul Standard 2. Fender American Deluxe Tele 3. Epiphone Les Paul Standard. All guitars are equipped with stock pickups: Gibson Stock, Fender Noiseless, and Epiphone Stock (far less fat than the Gibson Standards). My music style is rock and I have three primary channel settings that I use; a clean channel using the line 6 clean - which is by far the worst sounding feature of this amp, a dirty channel modeled after a marshall vintage plexi, and a rectified high gain setting modeled after the mesa rectifier series. Both distortions are fairly decent copies of these amps and are the best thing out there of without owning the actual thing. One really impressive feature of this amp is that it maintains its good tone at any volume - most solid states tend to break up at louder volumes, as opposed to a tube amp. Unless your a stickler for tube tone, this amp can emulate pretty much any sound you're looking for; the only place you really suffer is on the clean (that's where I really miss my Fender Twin). The clean channel doesn't break up at high volumes, but it lacks the punch that sets tube amps apart from solid state - again, this is the worst drawback of this amp. The distortion can get as dirty as anything out there, plain and simple.

Digital scares the shit out of me. I'm not sure I'd ever go anywhere without a backup. This thing doesn't seem to be as well built as something like a Fender Twin or Matchless, but I have beaten it pretty well and it's still ticking. Line 6 needs to find a more dependable way to connect the floorboard other than their current ethernet cable resembling hookup, that's probably my biggest complaint.

Haven't had to go there yet, although I fear the day I have to ask for digital tech support...

I've been playing guitar for close to 7 years now, most of them have been spent in bands. I've played in some of the biggest clubs in the southeast so I've seen the best of gear at some point or another. I aspire to own a Matchless DC-30 or some other Class A setup one day, but until then, this will have to do. I'd probably purchase one of these again if it was ever lost or stolen, although I'm not sure I wouldn't buy a tube amp first - I miss the clean more than anything. The best part of this amp is it's like carrying a portable studio full of amps and effects around with you - nothing beats this in terms of VERSATILITY. I've compared this amp to several others along the way, and decided it was better than anything Digitech (Johnson), Fender (Cyber Twin)Crate, H&K (ZenTera) and any other company that uses digital emulation has to offer. The only amp that came close was this amps successor, the Vetta, which sounds pretty crappy at high volumes although cosmetically its looks are much cooler. If there was a way Line 6 could stick some tubes in this bad boy just for a clean channel, I'd be orgasmically satisfied with this amp. But for $750, you can't beat what this amp has to offer...

My flextone was made in year 2000, and I bought it then.
You should know the specs by now. Line6 amps are the most versatile amps available I think. From jazz to metal, they say. :)

I'm from Finland where i've played it in arena, open air festival mainstages, smaller festival venues, clubs, bars and allmost all kind of other bigger and smaller venues. It works and rocks every time.

Our second guitarist(I'm the lead guitarist) has line6 Vetta, and it makes a good couple with my Flextone. Well that's truly a versatile amp. :)

I use Ernie Ball/Music man John Petrucci -model and Gibson SG -71 guitars. They work at my bands musical style quite well. (Pop/rock)
The amp sounds generally good, thought it's a bit unpersonal. Sounds are good, but they are th same as in anyones line6. Specially the direct sound from XL's xlr output is the same with every line6 user. It's like taken straight from the CD, but it sure isn't personal.

Noisy? Oh yeah, enough. Don't add too much bass to the sounds. It'll cranck it up.

Just once i had a broblem with it, and that wasn't even amps fault. It had something to do with electricty. Too little power or something. I got the amper i needed, thought.

Never had a backup with me. Never. People have lots of line sixes in my country so I don't have a hard time to get one fast if my one goes broken. My friend bought the same kind of amp couple weeks later than me so i can lend his if I have a broblem or two places where to gig at same day or something like that.

I have a good hard case, so the amp stays in fit.

Nothing to complain.

In Finland teh customer support works great. I had a brocen speaker element when I bought the amp and it was replaced. They said at Soundata(wich is our importer in Finland) that the work will take like one to two weeks, but it was actuallu two days. I was happy.

Those guys have everything in control.

If this one gets lost, I'd probably buy new one. Its versatile, easy to set up and not too heavy to carry alone. I have a hard case with wheels, so I don't really have to carry it anywhere...

If I compare this to other digital amps, this is the best. Johnsons are lame, too small for me and they don't product enough that "ooombh" i love. Vox Valvetronix was allso a big disappointment for me, it was a way too silent. I crancked it up right away. My band and I play LOUD at our rehearsal place. It's actually the drummers fault, 'cos he's kinda loud. I mean LOUD.

I sure everyone knows about these amps and all the models available. Don't remember the year it was built, bought at Guitar Center about a 2 years ago, new, not one of the floor ones, I'm not stupid, bought plenty of floor used gear and its not bad, but for the sake of getting a product that has not been messed with by hundreds of poeple, getting a new one was a good idea. The amp can give me clean, pushed clean, dirty, overdrive, distortion, drive, fuzz, reverb, trem, flanger, noise gate, compression, delay, etc. Thats alot of tones, it allows me to jump around to different tones unlike most amps I've tried. I play mostly Punk/Ska/Reggae/Metal/Funk, in a garage band, but also use it for everything but country, disco, and pop music. it has 4 channels and I believe it has 9 banks, a manual setting, and many other features I can't remeber. Some feature I wish it had was a reverb model, the wah could be edit without computer and midi. I don't use the compression and thats about all I don't use. I used this amp at my drummer house which is where we have band practice, used once for recording and it sounded great, the amp is loud enough, also used at church for a worship service, for electric guitar, acoustic, and bass and worked good there to, we played one party with it and it did the job. I haven't got above half on the master volume, and it drowns out most of the band, at least to me. It has plenty of features, don't use the fxs that much due to my fx board, get the floorboard, it is neccesary, volume, tuner, bank up/down, wah, channels, tap tempo, makes everything eaiser. I wish it had all the controls on the front instead on the top in the back, but that is minor. Hey its packed with features, digital and stereo. Take one point off for no wah and reverb editing, and I wish it ahd some other amp models.

I use a Memphis guitar, looks like a Ibanes Artist with a flying V headstock, I believe it is an all Maple body/neck and a rosewood fingerboard, Two Chrome covered humbuckers, Tune-o-matic bridge, just put grover tuners on it due to a fall it took 2 months ago, had Mike Lull mod it for a two volume and master tone for Tom Morello style on/off gating. Also used with a Squire strat (yuck!), and a Ibanez RG 220, not bad but too much twang, basswood and poplar are not my woods of choices, and two of my friends have used their Epiphone Les Pauls (Gold Top and Birdseye Maple) in it. I favor the Memphis over all. Then I plug that into a Line 6 MM4, Line 6 Fm4, and a Line 6 DL4, used to use a Dunlop Crybaby original Wah, but now use the floorboard model. I explained my music style in the features area and yes it works for my styles. It is noisy? Well lest see it feedbacks on the Mesa/Boogie patch when my volume is up on my guitar, but I bet that is the guitar, and I think the hum I here is the guitars lack of grounding (I know its not grounded cause I get shocked when I touch a mic while playing, just a little shock, just smarts not fatal) and shielding, when I put my hands on the strings it elimnates the noise, I also use the volume poedal to eliminate the sound when not playing. Ok sounds, well we have clean to insane brutal distortion, I haven't found my favorite sounds yet, still working on them again! This is a tweakers dream come true, you can get any sound you want, I swear, a few notes, love the mesa boogie models (recto and Mark) recto just feedbacks, but it is fat and cutting, the Mark I use for a slighty driven kinda santana tone for our latin sytle music which we are jsut working into our music, still looking for the best clean- used the Vox, Line 6, and the Fender, but haven't found the best for our style, don't like the reverb, doesn't sound like my fender champ 25's reverb. Don't like the Marshall settings, seem to nasal, not satisfied with it no ability to palm mute, low end lacking, if anyone knows how to get the Tom Morello Marshall tone out of a line 6 amp please email me (rude_skalar@hotmail.com).but I haven't played a Marshall I liked, the Vetta ones sound better to me. There are plenty of other tones to go, I have only used 4 banks so far and I need to sit down and work with the amp some more to get more tones. Comparision on the wah, the wah is not noisy like the Dunlop, not as nasal, but i think the range is limited, not as low, and not as high, also silent on/off, but I want something else, tried the boss pv-10 v-wah, and it was cool. Like the modelers for my fxs, like my presets and the tone works for me. Cables are Monster Cables, and Spectraflex.

So far no huge problems, the power button got stuck at one point, due to being moved by some old band mates who don't how to care for gear. Also the floorboard wah broke at one point I fixed it myself one night, easy to do, other than that no problem, never broke, I've moved it around, put it in the trunk, where ever, its built well and reiable

Never dealt with it. Hope never too

playing 7 years, own fender amps, vogue bass, and alot gear I want to sell, also a line 6 bass pod. I would proabably buy the vetta model if it were stolen or lost. I'm not a tube fanatic, I love it but hoping for more some time soon, if I get off my butt and start tweaking again, I'm sure I love it more. It sounds good at all levels as opposed to Marshalls and fenders which need to be cranked and only have a good clean or distorted tone, this has both. Its good.

If I could give it a zero, I would. I've had two Line6 amps now, both have had problems. First was a Flextone and it developed a crackling sound after about 6 months that ended up being a capacitor lead that had sheared off from the board. I thought that was odd since I wasn't gigging at the time, and I had basically set the thing up in my room and not moved it since. Anyway it took me over 2 months to get it back from the local service contractor, and when it came back it didn't sound the same. It had lost any punch and the overall volume was severely diminished. The only response I got from customer service was that "my speaker wires must be reversed". Obviously that didn't fix the problem....

Anyway, my band was about to start playing around town, so I "donated" the amp to my brother (the starving college student) and upgraded to a Flextone IIXL. After about 6 months of ownership I notice that the amp would start distorting excessively while playing or having excessive phantom noise when I was not playing. A "reboot" seemed to fix this, but I was having to do this 3 or 4 times a practice and it was getting annoying. I've had this amp for over a year (read "no longer under warranty") and now it is developing a metal-on-metal buzz from some where in the cabinet near the component board. Having just bought a house last year, any new equipment or serious repairs are completely out of my meager price range.

Lousy. They have contracted out the service contract in my area, and the local company seemed to have no clue what they were doing.

Just contributing my own (two) personal horror stories...
The amp plays and sounds great, but buyer beware. Maybe if you are financially well off and can afford to buy an amp every year, this is the one for you.

36-amp models, 18-effects, effects loop, live vs. studio modes, XLR output, lift option.

I use a recent american strat and a '72 SG. I'm a blues and jazz man and have been playing for six years. I'm constantly plagued by that squeezed sound of digital. When I turn the amp to a high gain setting it sounds cool, but I feel like its caged. In order to get a good loud screamy tone, the amp has to be cranked way the hell up. The harmonic range is small and it sounds more like you're listening to a stereo than playing a guitar amp.

You cannot depend on this amp. I have owned it for two years now and it dies on me a few times every time I play it, the speakers cut out and it is necessary to restart the amp. It was great for a few months, but it has problems. It just cuts out, out of the blue. I may be in a nice solo or a jam and its off, I only use this amp to practice. For my main amp I use a fender deville and I'm quite pleased. There is not only a difference in tone, but an obvious difference in solidity, the deville just feels reliable.

I've never dealt with the company. I own some line six stuff and all I get from the company is advertising.

I've been playing for six years and mainly use an american strat 2000. I run the guitar in directly to a Fender Deville and use a boss compressor, boss ds-1, mesa boogie bottle rocket, and a line6 dd-4 delay modeler(this has been very nice so far) all run through the FX loop.
The Flextone II XL is a lot of fun to play with. Some of the effects are cool specifically the rotary speaker. I use very few of the amp models. I like British High gain for blues, Modern Class A(matchless), the tweed model, the fuzz and soldano modern high gain settings. The recto lacks bass and the blackface model sounds like a 10inch crate plugged into a generator, it is really bad. Don't buy this amp, there are so many other incredible amps that can be bought for this amount of money, don't let the flashing lights and buttons fool you, you'll end up finding one sound that you like and never use anything else.
Find your tone, and look for the tube amp that fits.

This amp has some great ideas in it like the effects and different models however they all sound horrible.

I play most styles of music and can definitly say that all the flextone II amps are garabage. I have owned each of them and returned all of them. They are ok unless you turn up to like 3 or more then it totally farts out.

Not at all reliable broke down the day i got it sent out to fix it and then it broke a few days after i got it back.

They repaired my equipment but took twice as long as they said they would and it broke again right away.

I took this awful piece of gear back and bought a real amp (Mesa/boogie half stack). I use to be a digital person but now i know why every always told tubes are the way. MESA AND TUBES RULE SCREW DIGITAL.