Line 6 Spider II 112 Combo

I bought this amp from a friend from school about 2 years ago. Best 115 bucks i ever spent. He said he didnt liek the sound or something like that...guess he never learnt how to turn knobs.

I use an Ibanez rg350 on it and its as quiet as can be. the only thing i dont like is when you switch on the Phaser, for instance, and you can hear a faint wooshing which can be annoying as hell.

Another point id liek to bring up is that this amp is loud. I had made arrangements with a friend to take it to his house and play and his mom had this great idea...take it outside and crank it to drown-out the drunken hillbilly neighbors. So i did and long story short, i came home the next day and my dad says "Man ur lucky u didnt get the cops called on you. You had people outside standing in their lawns pissed off!" - Our houses are 5 blocks away by-the-way.

Its reliable as hell. It always turns on when i oommand it to do so.

Never have and never will how this thing is built.

I bought this because i already had a Spider 3 30w, but i wated delay. Id even buy more of these amps cause i guess im the only one that can make em' sound good.

I think mine is about a 2006 model. It was a guitar instruction amp in a music store, used by WHO KNOWS how many people.

I bought it stictly for our practice studio, as an emergency backup, and because it uses the same control pedals as my main performance amp.

One input, T5 jack for the FVB, and a headphone jack.

My main amp is a Line 6 Flextone III Plus. THe Spider does compare well to the Flextone, but the four patches I use in the Spider at rehearsal is all I ask of this amp, and it performs in this role very well. Some patches are better than others. Season to taste.

I do wish it had a midi connection so I could tweak the models with Tweak Wizard, but then, it's just a practice amp for me.

Is it loud enough? Absolutely! Loud enough to play a 500 seat club.

Another plus: It's a lightweight compared to my last Mesa and my current Flextone, and if I bump the door jamb with it I don't feel so bad, LOL!

My main guitar is a 1971 LP Deluxe and my backup is a 1982 ESP Classic 62 Strat clone. The LP has an old Bill Lawrence L450 at the bridge, stock neck, and the strat has two Lawrence L250's and an L290 at the bridge. Nice guitars.

I play most rock covers from the early 60's up to current day. Been at it since 1962. The four patches I have built are quite adequate.

High gain settings on some of the amp models can be noisy, just like all other amps. The clean channel is very good and very quiet, in fact surprisingly so.

There are twelve amp models taken from well known, classic amps. Nobody knows how accurate digital amp models are or are not. This is purely subjective. The important question is, are you clever enough to coax a good sound out of an amp when it has the capability, and this amp does. For many people, I'm sure the answer is "no". I have always had very good luck getting good sounds out of modern digital amps.

As with most modern amps, tube or otherwise, there is far more grind available (gain) in the Spider than I would ever be able to use. Dialing too much gain into a patch is a very common mistake causing some people to be critical of the amp. This amp can, in fact, be made to sound like total crap too. I call it "operator error".

The last reviewer implies no solid state amp can sound as good as a valve amp. That is simply ignorance speaking. I have spent many hours tweaking my Flextone amp and have gotten numerous compliments on the sweetness and accuracy of my amp models. Anybody who uses a solid state stomp box in front of their tube amp is doing precisely the same thing, they just won't admit it.

The Spider doesn't have as much capability as the Flextone, but most of the amp models are very good.

I do need to mention that I have an ace in the hole with tweaking this amp: I use the Line 6 Shortboard that goes with my Flextone to set up and save my Spider patches. This way I have total access to all the amp models, all the effects, and can save my four patches in any order I choose and name them whatever I like. Then, at the studio I switch to my Line 6 Express pedal which gives me a tuner, Wah, volume pedal, and four amp patches. Pretty slick! My shortboard then goes back on-stage with my Flextone.

How does the Spider compare to the much more expenseve Flextone? Not all that well, but with judicious tweaking some of the models are quite useful. The Flextone is, well, far more flexible. I highly recommend it.

Now my complaints about the Spider:

The Smart Control effects can be very bad. It's entirely possible that I'm doing something wrong, but so far the chorus is awful. Flange is okay but I don't use it, tremelo is not great. The best effect is the reverb.
In my opinion, this method of providing modulation effects was a very poor concept. I would have much prefered reverb ONLY in the amp, and an effects loop for effects of my choosing. Yep, the effects are poor.

Also, when dialing down bass in the three higher gain amp models there is a cut-off of lows instead of a smooth transition. It's possble that I need to go back and see if the position of the mid knob affects this or not because this too may be operator error.......mine!

You know, I don't know, but I am optimistic because my other Line 6 stuff has held up very well.

Haven't needed them yet.

I think this amp is a very good value for the dollar, especially as used. Why do reviewers tend to compare mid-piced gear to high dollar stuff? I just don't understand that. If you absolutely MUST have a Mesa Triple Rectifier, by all means, save your nickles and go buy one, but it is totally irrational to believe that a $200 amplifier should do the same job!

The previous review, who's author decided to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons), should be generally ignored. If you can't back up your words, keep silent. Your not helping anyone.

No, The Spider II 112 is not a top-flight, digital modelling amp, but it is certainly not junk, and for the price, I think it's pretty remarkable. It matters not to me if it was made in China, which it was. I benefitted from the savings.

If I was just putting my first band together and needed an affordable, fairly versatile amp, loud amp, this would be a very good choice.

Like all amps of this type, with a fair amount of capability, it deserves some time for tweaking, so if you're impatient, this is not the amp for you.

If this amp were stolen, yes, I would immediately replace it with another just like it.

yes the amp goes from vintage to metal, It has effects and stuff, basically you need to understand that line 6 stuff is digital, and obviously there are a lot less limitations as to what 'effect' s digital amp can do compared to a real analog amp.
It is SOOO annoying that the knobs go in circles without any indication as to where they are except for your ear, and then sometimes you'll turn it to a setting and it will be HELLA loud because it's all saved in there and not controlled by and master because the knobs are completely 360 rotate-able!! NOT COOL

this is the main reason that I wanted to contribute; there seems to be a discrepancy between those who think this amp sounds awesome and those who would say it's a terrible excuse to throw away a couple hundred over. Bearing no intent to insult those who like this amp I would like to clarify the counterpoint that digital amps sound COMPLETELY plastic. Whenever I would sit in my room and play this, what used to be a few hours of raw expression became an evening of frustration, with me just DYING to get any ARTICULATION out of this thing, no matter HOW you play the amp will only respond by lowering the volume or heightening it you get NO real response that even a cjeap solid state will give, look this thing is frankenstein, its strong its big in this case it can do a BUNCH of stuff, BUT ITS DEAD and it nearly took away my urge to even play, thank god I sold it and got at least a cheap tube.

It's reliable if your careful, just like any other digital electronic device, and is not far below the standards of any one that you may have used before, but what does it matter if it SUCKS?

Ive been playing for like uhh... WOW eight years OMG I feel so old! and i SUCK so BAD! but rest assured, I knew what sound I wanted the day I was born RAW DEATH but anyway, look harmony central is the ULTIMATE decider on what I buy, people come on here and they butcher products and that's what I NEED because if they cant find anything wrong with it, that's because it's all good, if your a kid looking around for a cool amp let me tell you what SAVE YOUR MONEY, its NOT worth it WAAAAY not worth it to buy this amp that will leave you asking for more, I got this amp as well as a gajillion pieces of equipment off of craigslist, I trade and trade and trade, and eventually i got a REALLY good Idea about what i want, so let me just telly you that you are looking for responsiveness, tone, most of the time a healthy distortion, and guess what? this amp doesnt offer any of that, and for the price of this or ANY of the line 6 or any other digital amp you can go ahead and buy a quality solid state or tube amp

-hero

Don't know what year it was made. Bought it new from the Guitar Center.

Too many usless features (effects). They would sound OK but there is limited control over the intensity and speed of tremolo, chorus, flanger, delays, etc. But good Reverb, Delays are OK.

I am a semi-pro musician. Got a day job and play music at small to medium sized clubs (50-150 people) on weekends. I bought this amp, I liked it at first but later went for an all tube Peavey Classic 30. I liked the sound much better than the Spider II (at first). I still took the Spider II along just in case I had problems with the Peavey. We play 1 to 3 jobs every week and I have had a few tube type problems with the Peavey during a few of the jobs.

After educating my ear to what tube amps sound like, now I can now adjust the Spider II to give better results.

I mainly use 3 axes: American Strat, S-1 Schecter and an AS-73 Ibanez. I use just the first two green positions with a touch of reverb on the amp. The sound, although not 100% tube-like, is really good playing clean or with a slightly crunchy setting with the Strat (with the treble dialed off a little on the strat to cut the spikey highs). The Ibanez sounds good, no matter what the guitar setting. The Schecter sounds either too trebly or too dead if you dial some of the treble out, although the Schecter sounds good with the Peavey.

I play rhythm and blues, do mostly rhythm guitar and play some horn parts to back up the 1 sax we use. I get all the blues rides and get more than a few compliments on them when using the Peavey or Spyder II. With the right guitar and spending some time setting up and saving the patches on the Spider II, I get good to excellent sound.

It has been stone solid. Never any problems, so I haven't had to deal with Line Six. I have several friends who are pro musicians and used them. They havn't had any problems either.

I now use the Spider II, since learning how to dial in the sound I want. Now, I take the Peavy along for a backup but leave it in the trunk (just in case). I trust the Spider II and although the sound is different, it's great for what I play. Plus it's easier to haul around.

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In my opinion, this amp is fine for rhythm and blues but wouldn't have the balls for heavy metal. It is plenty loud though for what I use it for, but would need to be mic'd for larger crowds like outdoors or 150+ people.

If lost or stolen, I would buy it again if I could get one at a good price, or maybe go for a Roland Cube 60. More amps sound good and less of them suck these days. Try them out, take time and learn to set them up to get the best from them. Even the most expensive Marshall can sound like Sh*t if set up wrong or used with a crappy guitar.

This amp was made sometime around 2005/2006.
Chances are you know the details. It's a 75 watt solid state modeling amp with 12 (I believe) amp models, 7 effects, and 4 user programmable presets, all for a nice low price. It sounds like a beginners dream: it's versatile and loud. Unfortunately, the amp doesn't pull this off well, which I'll explain more. Good features for beginners though.

This amp can make just about every kind of tone you can think of, except for the fact that it can't make them sound too great. As you turn the amp up past bedroom volume, you lose definition and quality. This amp can produce metal distortion, but I'd like to add that most of the "insane" channel distortion is useless and noisy. I use(d) this amp for my bedroom, band practice, and even once a gig. I played through it with an Epiphone Les Paul, and at bedroom volumes, you can get an almost okay practice tone, but trying to use it in a practice or at a gig doesn't produce desirable results. The tone is very sterile and digital. I will give it one thing though: the built-in noise gate is pretty cool and very useful.

I'm not a fan of this amp, but mine seems pretty reliable. Once I saw a random screw loose for no apparent reason, but other than that, nothing. A pretty solid built amp.

Never dealt with Line 6.

If I could go back, I would not have bought this amp. Anyone that is considering buying this amp, please read the next sentence carefully. The amp sounds good in the store, but two days/weeks/months after you get home, you will sorely regret your purchase. My little Valve Junior Combo with a DS-1 in front of it has more useful versatility for practice than the Line 6. I strongly suggest looking elsewhere.

6 amp models.clean, twang, blues, crunch, metal and insane. i use the insane green LED for what i mostly(van halen) 4 effects. chorus, flanger,phaser and tremolo. not the best but usable. 3 delay models i never use the sweep echo. The normal delay and tape echo give u alot of range though. The reverb is pretty good too. oh ya, and the phaser sucks its to gritty. it dosent get the vintage phase 90 sound thats on alot of eddie van halen solos otherwise it's a very decent amp

i have 14 guitars but ireally only use 4-an ibanez rg350, an american deluxe strat (HSS) a gibson faded v and a steinberger gtu-3.

the clean: red LED is a really nice to use. it's more thin and tube like, unlike the green led wich is muddy.

twang: never use.

blues: never use.

crunch: red led is okay. mor of a fuzz than crunch. good for a jimi hendrix type sound its also muddy and dosent have much treble. i would prefer changing to green led for solos. green led is pretty good it can get a good ac/dc crunch or led zepplin type sound if your into that.

METAL: red led is really good for any type of metal band i use to use it for korn and pantera. Green led is very loud i'd keep the channel volume around 10 oclock for bedroom levels. it has a wide midrange level good for bston type sounds.

Now INSANE: red led sounds like absolute shit! it sounds like cats fighting or something. now my favorite green led insane. great for van halen well at least for me it is. I use the american deluxe stat for that old school evh brown sound. with my steinberger and the ibanez i also use this amp model for the sammy hagar era van halen. if u put the efects knob pointing where the led is for the chorus/flanger, u get that flangining/chorus sound that eddie uses from th 5150 album and on.

here are the EVH settings i use (all r on insane green):
old school brown sound:
gain 12 oclock
bass 12 oclock
mids 10 oclock
treble 2 oclock
slap back echo
reverb your choice
5150/ou812 albums
gain 11 oclock
bass 1 oclock
mids 10 oclock
treble 2 oclock
the chorus/flanger setting isaid earlier and reverb at 9 oclock

live right her right now/F.U.C.K/balance albums
gain 12 oclock
bass 3 oclock
mids 4 oclock
treble 1-2 oclock
chorus/flanger setting fast delay(not slapback)
reverb 9 oclock

Im only 13 so im not going on a gig any time soon. I hear that if you turn it up really high it looses tone and defenition. I think it would be good as practice amp or a or a recording amp.

never had to use it, hopefully never will.

overall, great amp. has many good amp models and decent effects. I'd recommend it for people who want to record or or practice. Anyone who wants a good all around amp GET IT!!!!!

I bought this amp new in 2005. I play with a group of guys just for fun, with the odd gig here and there. Our set list is an odd one, from The Beatles to AC/DC back to Green Day, over to INXS, and Dylan thrown in for good measure. There are 5 guys in the band with various interests, so we play whatever the others like to listen to. This amp seemed really appealing to me, given the range of music I play. I needed something to let me jump from ZZ Top to Roy Orbison, and the built in models gives me a lot of flexibility. I've played for 25 years, and have used a variety of amps. I asked a number of people I trust about this amp and got generally good feedback (as you'll see later, there's lots of bad feedback to come ...). Solid state, so I expect it to be dependable, but I don???t expect Marshall or Fender tube tone. It sounded great at the store, and at home at a reasonable volume. The headphone jack is a real plus, but there???s no line in for CD/Mp3 player; drum machine. That???s a feature I wish it had. 75 watts seemed like enough power, too, but more on that later.

Here???s where my review get mixed. The amp has a lot of cool toys to play with, and that???s mighty appealing in the store. But the more I use it, the more I wish I could rip out most of the extra features. I assume readers are generally familiar with the features, so I???ll discuss the ones I like and those I don???t. I play a ???83 Japanese Squier Strat. I am waiting to play a guitar I like more than that one. I???ve had it for 24 years and have never regretted buying it (though at the time I wondered whether ???Squiers??? were worth the risk. They were then; not so much now!). The built in noise gate is nice on this amp, since the single coils on my guitar have always hummed. Like many other reviewers, I use the red clean and green metal most of the time. I like the red crunch - sort of. It???s okay, but don???t even try adding some distortion or overdrive in red crunch for solos. It sucks out whatever tone you have completely. I have stopped in the middle of solos in rehearsal and just stared at the thing in disbelief ??? it???s that bad. My drummer thinks it???s hilarious, since I???ve run out of curse words for the amp and started making up my own. He tells me to rent a back-up combo, in anticipation of the day I will (not ???might,??? he says) put my boot through the thing. I bought the FBV pedal board so I can switch from crunch to metal for solos. That works okay ??? provided the volume levels are set just right. Sometimes the thing just jumps all over the place. I can???t hear myself one moment, then the next the other guys are covering their ears. I think it???s possessed. The effects are largely useless. The delay is okay, and the chorus is alright, but only if you lock it in and don???t allow it to move more than half a millimeter either way. The other effect ??? tape echo, sweep, even the phaser ??? aren???t worth it, and I???ve never seriously used them. Trix are for kids, folks. The direct access tuner is ridiculous. I???ve always ear-tuned with harmonics, so I ignored it anyway. But the tuner on the foot pedal is fine. I use it a lot. Here???s the bottom line: with headphones plugged in at low volume, it???s just fine. Throw it on a stage, or rehearsal, and crank it even close to 5 and you get nothing but abuse. Turn the master past 5 and the amp is completely uncontrollable. Tone takes a vacation, feedback (there it is!) comes from all over the place, and periodic volume drops (what the ????) materialize from nowhere. There have been times I have seriously thought that I am simply getting worse as a player thanks to this amp. It sucks all the fun out of live playing, and I spend all my time tweaking this, and changing that. This week I watched a DVD of a show we did last month and there???s the Spider II feeding back, squeaking, and generally making a nuisance of itself. I don???t trust it any more than I can throw my drummer. I just plug in and hope for the best. The best rarely makes an appearance.

Things are getting so bad now that I fear I can???t depend on this amp when it???s turned off and I???m at work. It???s probably screwing up someone???s day, just sitting there in my basement. I???ve used it twice without a backup, and that was rolling the dice, my friends. Then, two days ago, the volume takes a vacation. Of course, it???s one of those ???sometimes it does this, sometimes it doesn???t??? situations, so there???s a very good chance that it won???t act up for my tech guy, who???s right now got his brilliant mind stuck in the back of the Spider. I actually apologized to him for asking him to look it over. I am currently waiting to hear from him. I am in no rush.

You???ve just NOT won the lottery, fella! Your amp is two months out of warranty. Beautiful! The store I bought it from has been great. I expect they'll take this off my hands and sell it to someone who deserves it. You know, like a car thief, or a deadbeat dad.

While the amp is away for repair/holiday, I plot its replacement. Currently, I am using a Marshall MG50DFX as a loaner, and I must say it???s a lot of fun. I think I???ve improved as a player by just plugging in to it. Playing is fun! It???s fun! So, the decision is made: the Line 6 must go, but I am unsure what will take its throne (and right now, in my mind???s eye, the Spider is not sitting on the good kind of throne, people). I have treated this amp with the greatest care. This is not a mutually beneficial relationship. I treat it well; it treats me like I???m chopped liver (wrap me in cellophane and slap on a UPC sticker). I will not be treated this way any longer! The search begins for a new mate, and I am counting on this community (that's you, people) to give me the straight goods on what???s available and worthy of my second-favourite pastime, playing the guitar. Good night and good luck.

Hello dudes!!! this amp is perfect for my style... it was made on indonesia and got a celestion 12 " speaker. It is very versatile with the music I play (metal, hard rock, 80s rock, blues). I think that it could have a better channels management system because 4 channels its to few for me. But also they thought in this and there are many pedals for this amp that can save many channels. Its a very loud amp, i think it would survive a small gig. If you need it for larger ones, just plug it to a PA.

It is a metal amp, no doubt, and it does a goddamn good job playing metal!!!! its naturally distorted also in clean but with a pedal like a zoom 606 yo can make it sound better. The distortion is amazing. I use a greg bennett with two seymur duncan humbuckers and it sounds very good playing Yngwie Malmsteen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Vinnie Moore, Guns n Roses, its surprisingly clean at high volumes. I put a 9 for the clean channel

Yeahh it would definitely suit a gig, its a very solid amp

I??ve never used the customer support..there are no problems yet with my amp!!!!

I??ve benn playing for about 3 years...i would definitely buy it again if it were stolen or lost. Or save about 1000 bucks to get a Marshall JCM amp!!! but cmon thats for professionals and famous people or rich people that can afford one of those. I love its design and sound, I hate its weight (its very heavy). But overall I love it...I ve made a very good acquisition!!!!!

I bought the Spider II 112 probably a month before the Spider III was released... Do I regret it? Not in the least! I got a great amp for a hella cheap price... I haven't owned a proper amp in many years, so this was my first step back into jamming with friends. I needed something simple, but with the sounds I needed for maximum inspiration... and with 4 channels to save my sounds, it's the right amount of simplicity and killer tones.

My main requirements for this amp were for it to be able to produce great bluesy tones AND crushing metal with equal quality. My four channels are set up as: Clean/Blues Rock/Metal01/Metal02

Clean is Red Blues, but with just a pinch of dirt.

Blues Rock is Green Crunch with more mids, less bass, less treble and a bit of distortion boost if I recall.

Metal01 is Green Metal with more mids and slight delay.

Metal02 is Green Insane with more mids and the bass & treble turned down.

For guitars, I play both a Strat and a Tele through the Spider. The Strat's pickups can be a bit noisier than the Tele's on the Metal channels, but I only need to move a round to stop that. Whether I'm jamming at home or with a band, my style is a mix of Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Eddie Van Halen sharing licks with a Swedish Death Metal band... and the Spider is perfect for that!

It's worked fine so far. You have to tweak it for higher volumes, but not by much. I jammed with another guy who owns a Traynor tube amp, and as soon as he heard the Spider, he dropped everything and wanted to have a go on it... I think that speaks volumes about the sound of this amp!

Never had to deal with them, but their website and forums are helpful.

I've been playing over 20 years now and this amp is truly the best one I've ever owned, not to mention the most inspiring. Is it the best amp out there? No... But it sounds great and works perfectly with what I'm doing now.

I don't know what year this amp was made
this amp is very versitile. I play almost everything. Mostly rock. i play worship, blues, and jazz as well. You can get pretty much any sound (relatively) you're looking for (but not exactly obviously).
this thing has four programmable channels. You can switch channels but it's easier if you buy a pedal mad specifically for this amp. i use the line 6 fbv express. Not sure if it has effects loops but it does have effects. it does have a headphone jack.
I wish it had chorus by itself (as i'm sure you've already read from previous reveiws). I like chorus but they only chorus that you have clean is on the red clean channel. I don't use the tremelo effect. You'll be able to boil it down to just a few amp models you like. i only use red clean, red twang, red blues, green cruch, red metal, and green insane. all other models i despise.
I use this amp as a practice amp now that i own a carvin legacy but before i use to use it for church gigs and for jazz ensemble at my college. it's plenty loud for that sort of stuff. I'm a headroom guy. i need 100W of tube power to be satisfied with a clean channel. wierd but true.
12 amp models. 2 for each catigory i mentioned
6 effects and a separate reverb knob (room and spring reverb)
1 12 inch speaker (in case you didn't know what 112 meant)
this amp also has an input jack that looks exactly like a phone line for specific line 6 pedals so you don't have to interupt your chain signal.

Don't expect this to sound like a tube amp (i don't know why people compare this thing to a tube amp). it's supposed to emulate tube amps not sound exactly like them and it does a damn good job of this cuz it really does sound like those amps. however, this amp's overall sound is very cold and steril due to the modeling and all of its digital features. I does cover pretty much all electric guitar sounds though for any style.
The clean channel doesn't really get distorted at high volumes but it gets really harsh and it's hard to take away the brightness without sounding like crap. However, when recording, somehow, it distorts way to easy even though there's no gain on. This is for all channels that are completely clean (which can be aranged for some that aren't).
The distortion is brutal. for fast leads, i like to use the green insane but i turn down the distortion as there is way too much there. This amp does have a lot of balls for a little 75 watt solid state 112.
I use and Ibanez RG1570 with dimarzio evolutions and a Fender Delux Player's stratocaster.
My music style is hard to describe but uses mainly fender type clean tones with the strat usually in the first three positions and my lead tones often want to sound like soft overdrive with a tight bottom end like a legacy's distortion. It suites my music style ok but not too great.
This amp is the opposite of noisy but it's because the noise gate is on on almost all channels (beware as some of the clean channels have the noise gate on them already and this will take away from the tone). But take the noise gate off and even with little drive and humbucker, man this this is flippin' noisy as heck! With the noise gate off, it's noisy in pretty much all settings except for humbucker on CLEAN channels and in all places that i've played mentioned above.

Not sure if i can depend on it. The input jack is starting to get loose (which is an easy fix i know) but it only happend after a few months of playing and man does this amp feed back on heavy gain settings like crazy with my evos and loud volumes (even with the noise gated on). I don't like using this thing for gigs cuz the knobs are soo loose that if you're playing loud (even happended to me at a church gig) they move and it's usually my master volume that moves and all of a sudden my amp is extremtly loud and i have to turn if down from my guitar which i hate doing cuz you loose a lot of high end and also, other knobs move too and it sucks after you found a good setting and forgot to save it onto one of the channels and the stinking knobs move.
The amp has never broken down.

bought this from guitar center and they were pretty friendly when i bought it but i havn't delt with them about it since.
Never tried to get it repaired. It's not worth the money. Especially since in have the legacy.
You could get a one year warranty with guitar center but i chose not to cuz it cost money.

I've been playing obsessivly for 2 years. I own the guitars mentioned above, a Marshall MG 15dfx, Yamaha F-335 Dreadnought acoustic, Boss MT-2 and OS-2, and a Morely Bad Horsie 2 Contour Wah.
If it were stolen i probably woundn't get it again cuz of the legacy and if i desperatly needed a practice amp, i have the mg.
i love it versitaltiy. I hate how it doesn't have the warmth of a non modeling amp (whether it be solid state or tube)and how it's so hard to dial in a good sound (if you're a tone whore like me).
I compared it to the Vox Ac series. I chose this one cuz it had better distortion sounds.
I wish it had warmer sounds.

I've been playing for over 20 years and have owned guitars of all types, as well as numerous tube amps. I am primarily into a Strat type of sound, but I also dig the SG sounds of AC/DC! I like an amp and guitar that can cover Eric Johnson and SRV, to Angus and Santana.

I bought this amp new this year. I was getting back into the band thing and initially I was using an old rack-mount Digitech ValveFX through a Mesa/Boogie 295 power amp. This set up always sounded nice, but I wanted something lighter and more portable. I was at the local Guitar Center buying a new Deluxe Strat (which I love), and I plugged into a few different amps to check it out. One of the salesman suggested I plug into the Line 6 since they did not sell Boogie amps, and the Spyder II was probably going to give me a decent simulation for me to check out the guitar. I ended up buying both, and selling the Boogie on Ebay. The features on this amp have been covered by other reviewers, so I won't go into that. I will say that the 75 watt solid state power is amazing. I am used to the all tube stereo Boogie putting out 95 watts per channel...this will make your ears bleed. However, the Spyder is PLENTY loud enough for decent sized venues.

I would also like to echo what a few others have said about some of the effects. They are good, but not great. I don't care for the fact that you cannot use chorus without the flange. You also cannot control effects mix...odd, in my opinion.

I noticed that one reviewer made negative comments about the reverb, but to me it sounds as good as most I have heard.

I bought the FBV Express, and that makes it very convenient to access the four presets, as well as control volume. It also features a wah pedal that sounds pretty good.

This amp is a bit of a paradox in the sound and tone department. If you get it home and mess with it you can get some very satisfactory tones. You will NEVER get it to sound exactly like a tube amp, though, so don't kid yourself. For recording purposes, you can certainly make it sound as good as any amp out there. This is where it is at its best. Live gigs are where the Marshals, Boogies, Fenders and any other tube amps are going to be superior when it comes to tone. The Spyder sounds good, but it lacks the bell like tones, and the balls of a tube amp. That being said, only a person with good ears for tube amp quality is even going to know the difference. The problem is, that person is usually the guitarist playing this amp. I have had to realize that the average drunken idiot in the bar will NEVER hear the difference...even when I am playing right along side the other guitarist in my band who plays through a JCM 800!

You can easily find four good, usable tones, but that is a problem if you play in a cover band and you need a larger variety of tones. I play in a band that does mostly originals in the classic rock style (old dudes). I get away with having one real pretty clean tone with some chorus and flange with a bit of delay and reverb, one bluesy overdriven tone, one heavier crunch tone, and one smooth lead tone with lots of delay and reverb for the Eric Johnson sort of sound.

My old rig that included a Digitech ValveFX through a Boggie power amp certainly had more "life" to the tone. But, that is because the ValveFX has a tube preamp, and it was running through a tube power amp. This little Spyder II will fool everyone in the room except the guitar players.

I've only had it 6 months, or so. It's been perfect.

Not needed yet.

Like I said, I've been playing a long time, and I have owned a lot of gear over the years. This amp serves it's purpose. It sounds very good, it's VERY easy to set up, it's very portable, and it's plenty loud. Some reviewers have suggested that this amp is suitable only for practice. I contend that unless you are playing in a metal band you could probably get enough out of this amp to play live gigs.

When I was younger and trying to "make it", I was a gear head, and a tone snob. I would only use the best gear and amps for my tone. These days I am playing more for the enjoyment of it, and I really like that I can get good tome without having to haul around 900 pounds of gear, and spend a ton of time setting up my equipment.

This amp has great features for a Combo, low-end amp. You can get classic effects for blues and so forth, and also great effects for for metal. I mostly play experimental music, The Mars Volta etc... And I think the effects on this amp could rival some of Rodriguezs fx himself. The only thing this amp could of done with is a loop, its good for getting the audience going, apparently it has one but I havnt found it yet. The tap tempo is extremely useful!

This amp has brilliant sound, playing it for two years and the sound still sounds the same as when I got it. I use an Epiphone Black Beauty 3 Pick-up. However the sound can sometimes deteriorate at high volume this amp is only made for practice. So it serves its purpose well!

Never had any problems!
HOWEVER DO NOT USE AT GIGS PRACTISE AMP ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never dealt with them!

This amp gives you a bang for your buck, great effects, sounds, and realliability!
ONLY USE FOR PRACTISE!

My Spider II 112 is freekin heaven in a box. The celestion sounds amazing, and the amp models are awesome. I have left many crowds awestruck after a Red LED Insane distortion solo, it literally sounds like you are playing a freekin chainsaw.

With my '00 Deluxe Stratocaster, it sounds like heaven, but even on a less expensice guitar, you can still dominate. The only thing I regret is the Modulation effects, I can't find the right setting for Chorus Flange, Phaser, or Tremolo, they all just sound like ass. Otherwise the Models and shit are great. The tuner is sketchy, I still use my hand tuner, but with an FBV shortboard its easy.

Cranking anywhere from heavy distortion to a raunchy blues crunch, or maybe even the cleanest oldies tones you've heard, it sounds great at any volume until about 9, where I was filed with a Public Disturbance Call, because 7 of my neighbours including one on the other end of my street thought it was too loud. I had my window open.

The distortion is AMAZING, well, insane has massive feedback, but I don't use it ^_^ the cleans stay clean until you add gain, at which point, they sound good still. I don't play it past 5 on the master volume knob. I write my own shit, and usually play a Takamine 12 string G series, which is discontinued, but when I'm live I always push it through my Spider with my Strat.

OK, I was driving in the Ford, and had two things to bring home, A chair for my girlfriend, and my Spider from a gig. I hit a pothole in the road and came down hard. Both rattled against the tonneau so I pulled them out. The chair lay in four pieces, the spider had a small scratch which fixed with a sharpie marker.

It's like Twinkies -- Completely indestructible.

Haven't had to use it yet, but I'm sure its amazing.

If it were stolen, I would make it my life goal to go pound the living **** out of the prick who stole it, and would not sleep until it rested in my Recording Room once more. Once you play the Spider, you will love it beyond mortal knowledge.

I wish it could go louder, but I have pedals to control that. Anyone who looks at a CyberTwin, or any of that Fender Line, they're confusing and took me about a month to figure out. I traded it in for a Spider II & an FBV shortboard and I'll never regret it.

I don't know what year this amp was made. It is probably pretty versatile as a practice amp.

I used to be in a band with a guy that had this amp at home in his "study" and we used to jam with it. It sounded pretty good at lower volumes and seemed worthy of its price tag. However, I heard a band playing at the Masquerade, in Atlanta, the other day and the guitarist mistakenly used this amp in a big club, with horrorific results.

The band was really heavy metal and I can normally stand that sort of crap long enough to get through a set waiting for the band that I actually want to see. But in this instance, I was forced to leave the music hall of the club and sit on the stairwell. The sound of this amp at maximum volume, with maximum distortion, mic'd and running through a PA was absolute torture. It created these extra, non musical frequencies that were painful and made it impossible to try and listen to the actual riffs being played.

I am pretty open-minded and give everybody a chance. I know what it is like to be on stage and half of the audience leave during my band's set, so I try to stick around just to abstain from insulting the performers. However, I could not stay in the place, after sitting outside the music hall for about 5 minutes, I realized that even being directly outside the place, my ears were still being assaulted by this amp's secondary and unintentional frequency overload. I had to walk down the street outside of the venue in order to escape the amplifier's wrath.

I felt like telling this young guitarist that I wanted to hear his playing, but couldn't sit through their set simply because of his amp's horrible sound. They left immediately after their set, though, certainly embarrassed and upset that not even those people who came to see them could manage to endure the torture.

It seems pretty well built.

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Young guitarists, do not use this amp live!!!!!!!!! It is made for practice. I know it might sound pretty good to you if it is on the floor and your ears are positioned 4.5 feet above it while you practice with your band. But once on stage and with a microphone feeding its direct sound into the PA, it sounds like fingernails scraping along a chalkboard.

First of all I'd like to note that all ratings in this review are based around 5 as an average- not 8 or 9 as seems common with other reviews!

Being a Line 6 amp this this thing is chock a block with features and can almost do anything (even eliminate pesky chupacabras, apparently). It has 12 amp models ranging from clean to insane, making playing in any genre easy. It's for this reson that I think this amp is great for begginer to intermediate guitar players who are intreted in different types of music and prehaps aren't in a band and so don't have to focus playing in one specific genre. Having said that this amp packs 75 watts of power so it can be used to play to anything up to 200 people in a gig.

The built in effects include flanger/chorus, phaser and tremolo on one knob and delay, tape echo and sweep echo on another, plus a master reverb knob. Note that only one effect can only be used on each knob and although there is a tap tempo function for the delay, the volume and feedback(number of repeats) are increased together. Also, having flanger and chorus combined is kind of annoying.

The amp has four channels, A, B, C, and D onto which you can save your settings - the amp model, gain, EQ, channel volume and effects. This is VERY useful and absolutely invaluble - a large part of the rating. The amp even comes with a footswitch to cycle through the channels, making everything so much easier at gigs. Nice one Line 6.

The clean sounds are decent and with some expermentation with gain levels and amp models you can get good blues/rock sounds and a cool Hives sounding overdrive. By selecting the 'green' metal setting and putting the gain to about 4, you get a great crunchy overdrive/distortion for hard rock and metal and this was the best sound i could find on the amp.

Being a solid state amp i wouldnt expect it to have great sounds but line 6 have done a decent job on this and the sounds are more than passable.

I don't think anything can really go wrong with transistor amps unless you do something really stupid so i guess its a 10.

I have never dealt with the Line 6 customer support.

I have been playing for three years and play on a Gibson SG standard. Using the bridge pickup and the aforementioned distortion setting I get great overdrive sound for playing metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and bluesy lead stuff. Some of the effects could be improved like the tape echo, rather dodgy sweep echo and combined chorus flanger overall this is a great amp and I highly recommend it for beginerish guitarists. I'd likk to clarify that my ratings are based on average of 5 so 8 is a great score.

I think this amp was made in 2003. This amp is more than versatile enough for me and the styles of music that I play. I play many styles and usually I would not be satisfied by just one amp but this one's got it all and pretty good if you know how to use it. I play, classic rock, blues, metal, funk, and jazz. Of course if I only had one of these styles, for example, just blues, I would go buy me a Marshall but this one covers all and pretty damn good for a solid state modeling amp.

This thing has four programable channels that can be switched to on the amp or a pedal (sold seperatly). Not sure about effects loops. It does have a headphone jack which sound better than a lot of practice amps I've heard but still sounds like crap. Great for recording though, if you've got good equipment.

I think that the only features that I wish it had was Chorus by itself, and more programable channels but hey, who's to complain at this low price? You can't get the chorus by itself except on the clean default channel which is programmed that way. Also, there are so many sound that I find and like twitching that settings that I wish I could save them all but can't. There are obviously some amp models and effects that I do not use. However, the only one that I do not like, both channels and effects are the red LED Insane channel. It's more like an effect rather than an amp model. It's the sub-octave fuzz one. It's just stupid in my opinion. But, that doesn't mean that the amp sucks, just that there is more than enough amp models and effects that you'll be able to distinguish your favorites.

My favorite channels are, red LED clean, red LED blues, green LED Crunch, red LED Metal, and green LED Insane.

I use this amp in my room and in my band at church. I also play in small clubs with it. It's plenty loud but 100watts would have been a better choise for me just because it would sound a lot more powerfull but this one can keep up with drumbs and bass no problem.

This thing sounds LIKE and tube amp. Not exactly but I'd say more like a tube than a solid state because it sounds a lot more clear and defined than a solid state amp.

This amp sounds best if you have a guitar with single coils and another with humbuckers. The better the pickups, the better the sound obviously. If you must have one guitar I'd say a fat strat is the best pickup combo for this amp. The clean channels can go either way with humbuckers or singles but I prefer singles. The twang channel sounds best with singles but would sound good with buckers too. I prefer single coils for the blues channel too to get that stevie ray sound but buckers work good too. I think humbuckers are the best choice for the crunch channels but single coils give you that Jimi Hendrix sound. Definatly humbuckers for the Metal and insane channels.

The sound of this amp is more or less the sound I have in mind when I go to play a certail style of music. It is quiet as a butterfly and it's because it has a noise gate on on most settings which makes you loose about a second of sustain and gives your picking a lighter feel but you can turn it off if you want. And boy, talk about varitety of sounds. Anything! You name it. Metallica? red Metal. Stevie ray? Green crunch. Clapton? red blues. Pantera? green insane. Of course you can't get exact sound son this thing but you can get pretty close. For example, the closest way to get a Carlos Santana sound is with a PRS and a Mesa Boogie. But you can get it on the green metal chanel with the distortion turned down a bit, the mid turned about a fourth away from all the way to the left, a bridge humbucker, and the tone rolled about 65 percent down.

Trust me, this thing's got plenty of volume and the clean channel does not distort. There is already some distortion on the default seeting with the clean channel to give the treble strings more defenition. You might not notice it with single coil pickups. But you can take that off if you want.

Want to talk about how brutal the distortion is? This thing has as much distortion possible on an amp without it going hawire. And yes, you will get feed back with the noise gate turned off but you still get a shit load of sustain.

I'm giving it a ten for sound because what solid state modeling amp sounds better without some Flextone III settings? (which cost more actually.

this thing is very reliable. especailly the bigger ones. I would use at a gig without a backup. The only problem is, the knobs are so sensitive that if you don't tape them down, durring a gig, they will move and it might be catastrofic. So tape them down once you find all your settings and save them. So I'm giving it an eight for the knobs.

Never dealt with customer support. Have had it for a few months of consant tortural use and still sound just as good if not better than when I got it. Don't know how long is the warranty.

I've been playing for a year but I practice at least five hours a day (no bullshit) and 350 days a year. the other 15 days are for less and five hours. I know, I have no life but I'm going to be playing for the rest of my life so why not? And I got better than all my friends. Just graduated Highschool. I'm in the advanced level already. I don't just think I am, I know. I took lessons for a couple months and I've just been teacing myself after. And yes, if I were rich, I would have a Marshall JCM of some sort, a Fender Twin Reverb etc. I know what these amps sound like. I play through them at guitar center all the time so I not just liking this amp just because I have not heard better. I know. Same thing with guitars. I know what's good cuz I play hundreds of different ones and not just at guitar center. many other places.

This is a list of all the gear I own:

Ibanez Prestigue RG1570MRB
Fender Delux Player's Stratocaster
Yamaha F-335 BL
FBV Express
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion (by the way this amp loves pedals but not like a Marshall solid state)
Morely Bad Horsie 2 Wah Pedal (Best wah pedal in the world IMO)

If stolen, I would definatly buy it agian. Easily too because of the low price!!

I love the sounds but I hate how it doesn't have chorus by itself.
I compared it to the Flextone III series which is better but it depends what you want. The Flextone's high gain chanels aren't as good as the spider II's and it cost about 200bucks more for the same wattage I think. A lot more amp models and better ones on the Flextone but I chose this one just because the distortion was better and the price was lower.

The reason I don't give it a 10 in this category is that, while there are plenty of features, I agree with what many other people are saying - there is no subtle setting for the chorus/flange/phaser effects and, yes, you can't control the number/amount of the delay feedback signal - only the delay time.
The headphone jack is handy, and you can use it as a line out to your recording rig. I have done that into a Griffin iMic into my computer's USB port and got some great recordings with it.
I am gigging with it for the first time this weekend - I have no doubt it is plenty loud enough - I haven't wound it all the way out yet.

I have an MIJ Fender Telecaster with three single coils. I play some originals, which sound sort of like classic rock and new wave.
I really didn't like this amp at first, in fact I was gonna bring it back. It is true it has around 28 sounds, but to me- most of them sounded like ass. Thin, weak cleans, artifical, computerized sounding distortion, the reverb's kind of weird, and if you strum a chord with very little attack in certain settings, it fades out really unevenly. And the "insane" setting is a bit too much. But I totally changed my opinion once I first plugged my guitar into a 19.99 Danelectro fab tone overdrive. That seemed to provide the right amount of pre-ampage to bring out the best in this amp. Now it sounds great! 2 points off for having to add an overdrive. Why can't they just include this in there? It is true you can hit the tap button while turning the drive past 6:00, which is supposed to accomplish this, but that really doesn't do the job.

I've had it a couple of weeks with no problems so far. There's a pronounced "click" when you change between the effects, which would probably sound nasty if mic'ed through a PA.

N/A - too new to have problems. I bought this at Adirondack Guitar in Hudson Falls, NY. I've heard good things about Line 6 from the guys in the store. The owner let me take home and try out one of the Line 6 POD's once, but I decided to get the modeling amp instead.

I've been playing for 35 years. I traded in a 1985 Fender Studio lead for it. It's much better than that - but that amp kind of sucked. If it were stolen or lost I would - collect the insurance money and use it towards another one, I guess.
I love that it is loud, and versatile once you get the hang of it. You need to learn how to get turn off the preloaded effects on the presets (you power it up with the "D' button pressed) and you need to realize that as soon as you mess with the knobs, the sound will change in somewhat unpredictable ways if you have been using one of the presets. Many of the sounds are unusable to me, but there are enough ones that I like to make it worthwhile. I would give it a 10 if it sounded the way it does when I add the overdrive to it right out of the box.

Hi high/mid/low adjust, 12 amp models, basic effects, a "tap tempo" feature, headphone/direct out jack, channel volume, master volume, 4 preset channels, and so on. There is no effects loop, not that I use them anyway. This amp is 75W and is louder than I will ever need for screwing around in my apartment and playing with friends.

For the price, this is an incredible set of features.

Supposedly the 12" speaker was custom made for Line 6 by Celestion. I assume that the Celestion sticker has more to do with marketing than anything else but the speaker sounds pretty good to me.

I play a Les Paul with a Duncan SH-4 Jeff Beck pickup in the bridge and an SH-2 Jazz model in the neck. I really like the effects. I use the chorus flange a lot - very creamy. I use reverb a lot too. However the amp models leave something to be desired. I just can't seem to find the type of drive that I want and find myself using my Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion pedal (which I would recommend to anyway by the way) or DOD GS-30 multi-effects pedal which also does amp modelling. To my ears, there just doesn't seem to be enough variety in the Spider II's models. But I will say that the "insane" model with the sub-octive fuzz is really neat.

When playing aloud, through the speaker, I have never noticed any excessive noise but it seems pretty noisy if you play though headphones/direct out, which is pretty disappointing if you plan on recording directly from the amp.

I really like this amp (especially for the price) and its effects but the lack of variety in the models and the noisy output jack hurts its rating a bit.

I'm not sure that I would rely on this amp. It's a great design but it does seem a little cheap. It was made in China, has plastic knobs, and the drive pot on my amp seems to a have a little sticking point. Hopefully that last one will work its way out with a little use. Other than that, this amps seem as solid as any other.

So far, I haven't had to deal with them.

Originally I was looking at the Marshall MG50DFX because of its power and effects and somehow ran accross the Spider II. I am glad I did. For less money, you get more power, a Celestion speaker, (more?) effects, and a litle more variety even though the modelling isn't quite what I was hoping for.

Despite its few shortcomings, it is a great amp and well worth the relatively small price tag.

I thought I'd post a follow-up review, now that I've owned this amp for about two and a half years. It's your basic digital modeling amp; if you need the features check the reviews below or the company's website. It's pretty versatile and packs a lot of stuff into a 1 x 12 75 watt combo amp. It's extremely loud - you could probably play a small venue with 80-100 people easily without any miking. And I don't really think that it peters out as you crank the volume, like others have said. IMO it holds up pretty well.

Once again, keep in mind that this is NOT a tube amp. If you play mostly blues, jazz, classic rock, etc. then go buy yourself a Vox or Marshall or Fender tube amp because you probably won't be satisfied with this thing. That being said, this is the best amp that I've owned. Prior to this thing I used Peavey, Fender and Vox amps and this one easily trumps them all. I was skeptical at first because I don't really like the shrill, harsh digital sound of the earlier PODs and I thought the Spider might sound the same. But IMO that's not the case at all. The Spider II is the warmest sounding digital amp that I've ever played through. I've played Vox's Valvetronix series and several Behringer digital modeling amps. Both sounded overly harsh and trebley (and I suppose some people like that ear-piercing treble, but not for me). The Spider is warm and smooth. The factory presets aren't the greatest, but if you monkey around with this thing you can produce stunningly deep clean sounds and rich, thick, grinding distortion. And unlike a tube amp, when you stop playing this thing goes completely silent. You can't even tell that it's turned on.

Granted, my style is a little more in the direction of modern rock and metal, so I might be a bit more predispositioned towards this type of sound. The Spider (and for that matter, most of Line6's products) is geared towards the new wave of modern rockers and metal guys. But it does pretty nicely with some other sounds. I can pull off a pretty convincing vintage Fender imitation loaded with reverb and echo, and if you spend a lot of time with the EQ you can do a very nice 70's era Marshall. Needless to say, the high-gain emulations are superb and very convincing. The green Metal channel is extremely dynamic and can produce a number of high-gain sounds, from an old fuzz-box to a modern Recto-type sound. The green Insane channel is absoutely brutal - I never need to push the gain past about 1 or 2 o'clock. The effects are pretty good, although they're somewhat limited. Delays, echos and reverbs are all quite good.

The bottom line is that this amp is geared towards modern alternative/nu-metal. If you play that sort of music you'll be very pleased with this thing. If you play classic rock/blues, then go spend your thousands of dollars on botique tube amps. And don't put this thing down just because you can't play the vintage blues on it. That doesn't mean it's not a good amplifier. That's like saying a '59 Bassman sucks because it won't growl like a Bogner. Keep in mind what these amps are intended for (and how much they cost).

This amp has endured numerous trunk rides and flights of stairs, and I haven't had a single problem with it. Like anything else, take good care of it and you'll be fine.

I've never dealt with Line6.

I've been playing for a little over 7 years. I'm not what you would call a gigging professional, although at one time I played with a band pretty regularly. I'm in college now and this thing mainly serves as a practice/bedroom amp but I wouldn't hesitate to gig with it if I were given the opportunity. It's plenty loud enough. This is a steal of an amp for $299, IMO. You won't find a better, more versatile amp for that price. But like I said, this is mostly for modern rockers, so if you've been playing classic rock or the delta blues for 35 years then you won't like this thing. I'm sure 30 years from now most of us alternative rockers will be bashing whatever is out on the market at that point, talking about how it sure doesn't compare to our old digital modeling amps (wink).

You've seen the other reviews....I'm sure you know the features by now. 4 channels....lots of effects.....

When my 5150 Combo crapped out on me two day before a gig.....I was forced to buy an amp that would pump out some great metal tones like my 5150....but I was on a limited budget....I couldn't spend more than $350.

I went to the local music store and played on some Peavey, Crate, Randall, Crate, and Line6 amps. Out of all of the amps, the one with the most brutal bone crushing tone was the Randall RG75....but a close second was the Spider II 112 combo. The reason I picked the Line6 Spider II over the Randall was the fact that the Spider was much more versitile of an amp. With 4 channesl and several effects, I thought the Spider II was a better deal.

I got the Spider II home 4 hours before the gig that night. I spent about 1 hour playing through it and setting up the 4 channels that I needed......needless to say, I was really nervous going into a big show with a small like like this that I really didn't have any experiance with.

Well my nerves were calmed after the show when I had 4 people (one was the sound man) come up to me and comment on the tone of the amp. I'm not going to lie to you, it didn't put out the wall of sound like the 5150 did....but with the amp being mic'd into a PA system...it didn't have to be. It was plenty loud for me on stage, and it put out a brutal metal tone that everyone loved! I was very surprised at the tone of this amp. I'm actually considering selling my 5150 and getting a Spider head/cab half-stack...thats how much it impressed me.

I've only had the amp for 24 hours now....but it worked flawlessly at the show...and I've never heard of to many problems with Line6 gear.

I was extremely impressed with this amp, and after all of the people that commented on the sound after the show....I will definitly keep it around. When my 5150 get back from the repair shop...I'm going to set it up side-by-side with the Spider II....not for volume, but for overall bone crushing metal tone. If the Spider II sounds better....I'm going to sell the 5150 and take the money and get a Spider II Half-Stack.

Great job line6....I thought I was going to be in big trouble when my 5150 die before the show.....I didn't have much cash and I needed something that would rock.....the Spider II saved my butt. Thanks Line6. For a 112 combo....this thing is the Shit!

i'm sure you know about all the features...loads of effects in that dinky amp...really $%^&loads of gain...get a gibson explorer with emg's, turn the gain knob in the insane mode till far right and see what the word "sustain" means...

I'm pretty surprised - i play a cheap hohner strat and that amp turns out all the evil in her...i mean - %#@$ the single coils i play in a death metal band (yes, with single coils).
Beneath that you can really play any stile of music with it...you just need some skills in using those knobs...the only thing i would criticize (or however it is spelled) is that it's not possible to create a sound wich really is apart from the spider II sound (wich is defined by bass bass bass bass and bass).
the amp is no noisy at all and the clean sound is overwhelming...oh and...erm...you shouldn't play it with master tone totally full...would be same as grenade in your ear...

the amp is build to last forever...only those knobs seem to be cheap plastic which will break into pieces if i look to angry

never dealt with themn

atfer all i can say i like that amp...i'm not sure if i would buy it again...because...mhm...it has no soul...it has $%^&loads of gain but it sounds cold...ok thats great if you do fear factory stuff (i like the bastard in these moments) but when you try to get a nice guitar sound for hair metal you're just ^$%#@* up...but every rose has it's thorn (i hate that song...)

you won't regret it...but you should be sure what you want...play only slipknot and stuff? thats your amp!
only cover kiss and manowar? better try somewhere else...

Not sure what year the Spider II first came out. It is a versatile amp for the money that rivals other digital amps costing two or three times the price. 1 channel with 4 presets (very handy), no effects loop (who needs one with this type of amp anyway?). Headphone jack / line out combo jack. 75 watts (plenty for a small amp).

3 different footswitches are optional accesories (all too expensive). The two button switch should be included with this amp. A lot of features on the amp and no footswitch? Minus 2 ratings points.

I use this amp with small groups on small club gigs. It is perfect for that. Any larger venue and you are miked anyway.

The Celestion speaker is good for this amp. A decent speaker with presence.

I use 5 different types of guitars as I play R & B (strat, 335), Country (tele, 335), Jazz (335), and Rock (strat, musicman, Ibanez). I am a MUSICIAN and get work because of my diverse styles.

The Spider II is a two dimensional amplifier. It has very good clean tones (like a Fender), and it has a good rectifier emulation for a dirtier sound. The effects are good and all are useable if you play 80s, 90s, vintage, and other types of cover songs.

You have to spend time with this amp. People who bash the amp are people expecting a tube sound. THIS IS SOLID STATE!!! It was designed to emulate, not replace a tube amp. It was designed to provide most everything you need for simple gigs, and / or rehersals in a lightweight package. A sort of MUA (musical utility amp).

I use what I think is the best effects pedal around: Digitech GNX1. I can emulate any amp, guitar, pickup combination, cabinet configuration I wish. So, I really need a clean solid state amp and nothing more. I bought my Spider II for the small cover gigs and don't want to lug big equipment around. The amp's effects are there for just about any cover song there is.

The Spider II is capable of many different sounds if you take the time to understand it. The different amp models are there to give you a start point. Each model is different in tone, volume, and gain, just like a Fender, Mesa, Marshall, Peavy, etc. are different.

I discovered that all sounds have the gain turned on at various levels. I understand the logic of having a little gain on to add harmonics / saturation when you pluck hard on the strings, or turn up the volume, but I need CLEAN to work with my effect pedal correctly.
The reason effects pedals sound crappy with tube amps is because of the harmonics and gain tube amps have. The same applies here: Turn off the gain on the Spider if you are using stomp boxes or multi-effect pedals. It will sound much better.

The quality of the knobs are good, but the pots are cheap. The master volume only works up to halfway and is useless after that. This was a cost cutting factor in the electronics, I'm sure.

The back is open and the speaker is very exposed. Mine was in the box with the power cord and manual resting inside the back of the speaker. Line6, your packaging sucks! Put the cord and manual in the box, not near the speaker. Dumb!!

Since it is solid state, it should last awhile. But I wonder about the pots behind the knobs. Time will tell...

Never dealt with Line6 support. Again, time will tell.

Been playing for over 30 years. I have had many amps and solid state is the way to go if you have a mulit-effects pedal. You need clean and let the pedal emulate and not be colored by the amp.

It seems amp designers think their equipment should be designed for rock players first and other styles second. Just as in life, guitar players are all different and have different needs. Luckily, you can get just about anything out of this amp if you take your time with it.

If it were stolen, I would get another. For the price, it is a good deal.

I wish the amp had better quality controls. The knobs are nice, but behind them I wonder...The back is too exposed.

12 amp models
7 effects (3 simultaneous)
4 channels
Headphone jack and channel pedal included.

Very loud 75W amp good enough for the gigs im doin at the moment which are relatively small scale but is loud enough for bigger venues if controlled through a PA

Very versitile metal sounds with CRUNCH, METAL and INSANE amp models.

Works well with heavy rock/ metal guitar. Good distoprtion sounds, very loud.
The INSANE setting gives quite a lot of feedback and is quite noisy but the settings can be edited for your preference. Drive can be increased with amp shortcuts from www.Line6.com/co.uk.
3 simultaneous effects which sound good but they are not overly versitile.

Havent had it long but so far no problems.

N/A

I played the guitar for a few years only got the amp a few weeks ago. Great features and sounds very easy to use and get the hang of, it may look complicated but its simple.
Much better than the other Spider series I tried in the shops. Very good value for money.

I don't know and don't care when was it made. It's not a vintage amp:)The specs were written a few times, so i'll pass. it's got 12 channels(well, actually 6, but each one has 2 modes). I really play 2 modes, the rest is... well, lets say it is:) A few nice effects(like chorus, delay, reverb, tremolo, and phaser, but the last one is to say the truth, shitty).

First thing: THIS IS NOT A BLOODY PRO TUBE AMP. If u remember that, you'll even get to like this amp. I play(or at least I'm try)jazz, rock, fussion, prog rock etc. I use only 2 channels. Note: I hate metal(with a few exceptions), yet I say the best sound for the music I play, is on the Metal channel:) If turn down the drive to a min. crunch, the sound is actually very good(a friend, who uses a Fender Std. Strat and a Fender Blues Junior even admits[though, he still claims, that this amp is a whore{worse, I kinda agree:)}]). I you pick lightly, You get a nice clean sound, but try to hit harder, and what You hear, is a really nice crunch(something remotely resembling McLaughlin in Mahavishnu and Steven Willson on the early Porcupine Tree albums)(but just remotely!). The rest of the channels are, in my opinion, made for a laugh. I can't believe ANYONE could play on the factory blues channel(PATHETIC, but funny, when You're with some friends:)), the Twang has something from the fender(but just something). The effects, appart from the phaser are really quite cool. Really, this isn't a bad amp(and of course it isn't a particularly good one.) It's for a first amp(but You have to spend some time, for gettin' a good sound, couse the fabric presets aren't good)

Never let me down. It's built like a tank(and as some say, sounds like one:))

Never dealt with Line 6

I like it! It's not perfect, yes, but sounds really nice. If it were to be stolen, I'd probably try to buy a tube amp(a small hiwatt, for which I'm currently saving some cash), eventually a higher Line 6(say a flexsound) or a hybrid(exemplum bono: a Vox Valvetronix)

This is a solid-state, 75W Mono moddeling amp. Not too sure what year this was made in, but some people have put 2003 so, read their reviews. This amp is brilliant for practice, and is possible to gig with it, however you will need to mic-it-up, as its only 75w, but it shoduld cut it for about 80-100 people. One great thing about this amp is that it has 4 channels, and they are programmable, so you dont have to worry about losing settings too badly. When I bought it the amp came with a FBV2 footswitch, which isn't that great as a FS, but as an accessory that I wasn't expecting, it's great! I'm only gonna give this a 9 because I dont think this amp is perfect for blues players, and the clean sounds aren't that great.

Im using an Ibanez sz520, and I always use the bridge P/U. My music style is Hard rock- Metal. My guitar isn't perfect for shredding, but I manage to churn out a few metal licks. This amp is anything but noisy! It's almost impossible to get feedback from the effects! This is because they are digital, and no feedback can be good... sometimes I forget the amp is switched on, even with the metal distortions. This can be bad though, I like playing lots of Muse stuff, and its hard to get the weird sounds unless I use stompboxes. One real annoying things is that its pretty pointless having an EQ on the amp! Im not joking, you can flatten the Eq and it wont make a difference. Its not too bad though, I like the sound im getting, its pretty sharp, and it has nice Dist. and the insane and metal have got to be its best setting. However im thinkling of buying a boss Eq pedal. The clean doesn't distort at high volumes either!

Builty like a tank, not broken in the 3 weeks I've had it, and probably wont for years to come.

Never dealt yet...

Great practice amp, will cut it in a gig if needed too.. just MIC-IT-UP! Greatb value for money, just try one out before you buy, you might not like it. I turned a Marshall AVT50 down for this, the marshall had no punch, and a lack of effects, when the shop assisstant recommended this I just loved it!

This is the 75 Watt Spider II 112. You can read the specs elsewhere. Use mainly in basement, with occassional jam with buddies. Its got enough power for what I use it for, but I wouldn't use it for gigging unless in a pinch or small gig.

I play either an American Deluxe Strat or Gibson SG into it (also own Fender HRD and Marshall AVT amps). The amp is versatile in that it does several things good, but nothing great. I think that one clean, one crunch, and one Metal channel are fine. To me, the rest of the channels aren't that good (blues and twang). The "insane" channels are a total waste. Nice thing is you can play this amp at low volumes while practicing, and its plenty loud for the "hobbyist."

I have had it for over a year with absolutely no problems. I don't gig with it, but do jam with buddies.

Been playing 20 plus years. I own a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and a Marsall AVT20. If it were stolen I wouldn't replace it for I am happy with my other amps with the type of music I play. I like its versatility in that it does have a decent clean, crunch, and metal channel. I guess my biggest turnoff is that I just like tube amps better, but thats just a personal feeling

First I'll ask you to forget my poor english, because I live in Switzerland ;-)

My amp was made in 2005. This is a combo (i.e. the power amp is directly coupled with speakers), very powerful for it's size. The features are known by everyone, but let's write them again !

- Power : 75 watts mono
- Transistor amplification with numeric control to emulate tube sounds
- 12 amps settings, from clean sound to insane metal distortion
- 6 effects : chorus/flanger, phaser, tremolo, echo, delay, sweep echo
- reverb
- distortion boost
- noisegate
- 4 channels to save my own presets
- small footswitch to chose the 4 channels quickly while playing
- 1 guitar jack
- 1 line out (for recording & playing without disturbing the neighbourhood
- 1 RJ45 Ethernet cable to use the footswitch

This amp doesn't have :

- FX Loop
- MIDI interface
- More effects, like compressor, rotary, etc.
- A better Footswitch included : you need to pay the FBV Shortbord or FBV Xpress (which I use)

This amp features everything you need to get a good sound (jazz, blues, rock, etc.), and it's made to be easy to set. It's perfect for me, because I easily get some powerful, simple sounds, but if you like effects tweaking you would maybe prefer a V-AMPIRE combo amp.

Notice that, even if it features every classic guitar sounds, the Spider II is mainly made for metal. The distortion range is awesome, from rock, crunch, metal/nu-metal, to black/death metal. Other sounds like blues and twang are nice but not that good, but I think I don't use the right guitar to play them (see below). Clean is very good in my opinion considering it's not a tube sound.

I use only 1 guitar to play with my Spider II : a 2005 Dean 79 V series made in Korea (value : 750$), inspired from the original Dean guitars used by bands as ZZ Top in the 80's. This guitar is awesome for it's price, and even if the pickups are not EMG or DiMarzio, its loudness and power in bass/mid frequencies offers a warm vintage tone for clean sounds and a destructive modern distortion for metal sounds.

Notice that I play for 3 months only, and that the Spider II is my 1st amp. So maybe you won't agree with my opinion, but even if I'm not a guitar pro (yet ;-)), I know which sounds are crap and which sounds are good (well... I hope). I've heard some pro tube amps and expensive guitars playing with a Spider II, so I think I can judge those things (of course, with my opinion).

My favourite style is METAL : mainly Metallica in the mid 80's and their most powerful sound (like Master of Puppets/...And Justice For All albums), but everything from old metal like Iron Maiden/AC DC to Sepultura, ill Ni?o, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Limp Bizkit, etc. I also like classical and warm BLUES (aaah, Albert King's solos...)

That's why I think the Spider II is perfect : for every setting, my sound is loud, warm, bluesy and screaming. Awesome for the price. Maybe it's my guitar that helps me to get good tones, but I don't agree with people who says this amp makes a cold, screechy transistor sound. My sound is very warm, dynamic and close as a tube amp. I play it at home now, and the 75W power could crush my house (I use only the 1/3 of the master volume knob). But I want to use it with my band to jam and play for some small gigs (100-200 people).

Also notice that the sound changes radically when switching guitar pickups, and I think this shows that Spider II really respects the original guitar sounds. People who says "This amp makes even a bad 50$ guitar sounds like hell" and "go buy a Vox amp to get your real guitar sound" are totally wrong in my opinion. Spider II emulates famous tube amps ; but those amps are famous because they apply THEIR sound to guitar : your Strat won't sound the same on a Fender amp and on a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier. So why saying Spider II sucks and not Vox (which is a very good label), using the "transistor sound" argument to cover a mistake in judging amps sounds ?

Well, my main settings are :

1) RED CLEAN : very, very, very good sound for a transistor amp !! As every setting, you must do all the EQ stuff to get THE sound, because the factory presets, as said before, are shitty. But after this, you get a warm clean tone, perfect for classical and jazz (with bridge pickup), and blues (with neck pickup).

2) GREEN CRUNCH : many people say that crunch sounds (based on a 68' Marshall Plexi 50 & 100W) are not as dynamic as the original ones. I don't know if they are right, but I am happy with my crunch because I can honestly play AC DC/Deep Purple with high GAIN setting, and cool overdriven blues with a soft GAIN setup.

3) RED METAL : this is far my favorite one !!! This channel emulates the famous Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier to perfection ! Again, maybe it's my guitar, but I can easily get the exact sound used on "Master of Puppets" album. It's just awesome (sorry but I just know this word ;-)). The distortion is precise, fast, screaming, as deadly as an army knife ! And I don't use EMG pickups.

4) GREEN INSANE : this sound is the most powerful and versatile on the Spider II. You can get the Rolling Stones sound with a low GAIN, and Slipknot/Soulfly modern nu-metal sound with extreme GAIN and high BASS/MID frequencies ! And to get a black/death metal sound, just switch off the MID knob, use 50% of BASS, and 80-100% of TREBLE : this will cry 2 times more than the extreme "Death Metal" pedal by Digitech. The INSANE distortion is very, very dangerous ;-)The noisegate is very useful to prevent larsen... You just have to hit one string and the amp is ready to blow away with this monster sound. But, with such power, the bad thing is that INSANE sound is not precise. You must set your EQ very well then, otherwise your palm-muting sounds will be too much loud and not audible. So if you like nu-metal, chose INSANE, but if you like heavy/trash metal, use METAL.

Well, I think you get the idea, but the only bad thing I've noticed is that the CELESTION speaker is too much loud : I have to cut the BASS frequencies for every sound. Maybe it wouldn't be that loud with a Strat' with single coils, but if you want to shred like hell with precision (like on Metallica's "Kill'em All" album), think about using less BASS.

I bought my amp only 3 months ago, and I didn't experience bad problems. The amp looks like very solid.

I never used Line 6 customer support yet.

I play only for 3 months but I LOVE this amp. I'm not that rich, and I'm so much happy with getting some pro sounds packed in a small, versatile box, with very good features for a small price. I would kill myself if it were stolen or lost !!!

I was first looking for a V-AMPIRE combo, less expensive and offering more features (more effects, more sounds, like Engel distortion etc. etc.), but after listening to the Spider II at my dealer's shop with a Les Paul-3 DiMarzio humbuckers, I heard the difference. The sound is louder and warmer, and, let's be honest, even if it will NEVER sound like a 4000$ tube amp, the sound of this lil' weapon is very close to them. If you are a beginner, or a pro wanting to practice without an entire rig, chose the Spider II.

I bought the amp new about 4 months ago. As a rock band there are some needed sounds that this amp provides us. It is easy to transport and yet it is loud enough for the size of groups we play to (around 100 people).

I got the FBV shortboard petal to go with this amp and I love it. I have only used 4 of the 30 + sounds that you can make for our recent performances because many are way out for our band. I use a LTD ESP Vipor with this amp. I also use an acoustic amp (made by AR Acosutic) for my 12 string Yamaha.

It is new for me and I haven't used it to it's potential yet but I will grow using it. It has been there for me and has not caused any problems yet. Some times when I practice without the FBV shortboard pedal I have had the sound seem to change to a much louder setting without me doing any thing. When performing with it (using the pedal) there have been no such problems.

When I first got it and the pedal I didn't understand how to use it so I e-mailed the company twice and they got back to me in a day with help. The amp and the pedal come with little instructions and I am new to amps and effect pedals so it was great to have the company respond so quickly.

I started playing in High school and then left it for many years and have taken it up in the last 5 years. I would be depressed if it was stolen and I would replace it with the same. The price was the best for all that you get and I find it difficult to hear much difference between it and other amps that are more money and said to be better. I like the lights the look the pedal, the tuner. The manic rock sounds are a bit out of control but fun, I am not sure when I would use them. I will say it again this amp has been great for our band, with it we have new and different sounds that have taken our playing to a higher level and it is a blast for all of us.

2005 mod. Features are as the others.

I play a fender tele with Bill Lawrence 280 pickups and a strat with dimarzios. Amp sounds ok but not outstanding. good enough for practice or recording through which is why I have it. The effects are ok also.

The amp selection knob goes crazy and will not adjust sometimes,the corners are plastic. I would not gig with this amp because it is not made for it. good enough for the home but not road worthy.

I live in virginia and there are no service centers available that would be feasible to transport the amp to. Shipping cost outway the value of the amp. I have a two year warenty on this amp which is basically useless unless the thing blew up completly and you could get a brand new one.

This amp is three months old now and has had its problems. $299.00 would be better spent on something else. Buy a crate or vox or something with a better track record. I have a pignose g40v that blows this and many other amps away.

Well, where do I start. Distortion, clean, blues, twang, insane, crunch, tape echo, delay, reverb, phaser, d.i, 75 watts, 4 user presets and a modern sexy look!

Im using an Ibanez rg 7620 (99 model) fitted with Seymour Duncan Invaders (humbuckers). The Spider is my central hub, so playing music such as Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Carcass, Suffocation, Aborted, Megadeth, Exodus, Kreator, Morbid Angel, Vital Remains, Deicide, Napalm Death, etc, etc....... this little gem covers a broad spectrum in distortion modelling. Now , before some critical bastard starts jumping up and down about my comments, lets just remember how much this thing costs. While the sounds are not exact, (pretty hard to get studio quality brutal distortion straight from a 75 watt combo) this amp does it better than any other 50 - 100 watt combo for plugging straight in. Marshalls are good for your average overdrive to light distortion and some of the Peaveys are 20% better again. The Spider 2 has a lot more grunt than both put together, add in the effects and you have a very cheap alternative to having 6 - 7 stomp boxes and a very loud combo. As with anything amp wise, try screwing with everything, there is a lot in this package. My only gripe with the distortions, is they can tend to sound a tad sterile and a little fuzzy, but apart from that, the bottom end is quite good and the mids have a nice presence. The clean sounds are not bad either. Now the on board effects are'nt fully programmable, but you can definately tweak them enough to satisfy all needs. They're not brilliant, but they're far from being bad. You can get away with the presets, but you'll probably create 4 of your own.

Well it's bloody sterdy, buttons and knobs are of good quality. Micked up for gigging, you would have a very reasonable sound. Owned this one for a year now and its still functioning perfectly.

No need so far!

Been playing now for 15 years and have had a bit of gear over that time frame. Had a great sound coming out of a boss gt-5 into a sonic maximizer (442) into a Marshall JCM 800 with Marshall quad until some low life came and stole it, (over $3500 worth), but for the 600 odd dollars for the spider, Im just as happy. I do all my recording into a Roland vs 1880 and the spider covers everything. Miked up or straight in, it is very pleasing. Couple this amp with a vs 880, (going for around $350 on ebay) and for under a grand you have everything you need to create half decent demos. Line 6 have to win the bang for your buck trophy as this for me is a complete package for a no fuss set-up. Oh and please, dont run this thing through a shitty guitar, or it WILL sound shitty!

Probably made in 2005
I play mostly Metal and some Blues, it works great for that (see below)
The only features it lacks that I might want would be a line out ( yeah I know, if I want that I could buy the head) but I don't really need that now, it's plenty loud for my purposes, which are practicing and jamming. Also, a MIDI interface would be nice since it's a digital amp.
I like the fact that it comes with a tuner and drive boost, and some other stuff like that.
The red insane channel is basically useless, as everyone says, but it's kind of fun sometimes.
It's got a direct out for recording, which i look forward to using sometime.

I use a Jackson Randy Rhoades V, which works well with this amp I guess.
I play metal mainly (like Thrash metal like Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, etc. and also some Death metal like Children of Bodom) and I also mess around with blues for fun. I've heard that the blues channels aren't very good but I disagree. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING about this amp is: don't judge it by the factory presets. I had opened it up thinking "Yeah, this is gonna be great!" and then used it and on the distorted tones it sounded like mud on the low end for rhythm stuff. I had almost decided to return it, but then I started messing around with the controls and BAM! everything line6 said about this amp came true. It has quite a few sounds, so I'll only talk about the ones I use most:

Red "Clean": basically a vanilla, crystal clear clean tone, it sounds equally good on both pickups, and you can have volume and tones all the way up and strum 6-string chords hard and it wont break up or sound harsh. (although you really must pay attention to EQ and Channel Volume like on all the models on the amp, they are very finicky, by which i mean that turning one knob a little bit will change the tone drasitically)

Both "Twang" models: these are actually better for blues styles than the "blues" channel. I like to put the Distortion Boost feature on these for a really gritty sound for leads.

Red "Crunch": Sounds vintage, I use it to play old Judas Priest stuff like from Sad Wings of Destiny album.

Green "Crunch": With a lot of tweaking you can get a good sound out of it like a Van Halen sound.

Both "Metal"s: OK this is where you REALLY have to get to work messing with the controls. They sound muddy when first heard from the factory, and you gotta commit to reading the manual and you need to really "get into" the amp. I spent a good hour working on these, and now I have an AMAZING mid scoop tone and an equally good, um, general purpose metal sound.

Green "Insane": this is the only model that I've experienced feedback on (but only at high volumes) - the noisegate is not an option, it's a requirement. Even out of the box it has a good lead sound, and it's REALLY REALLY responsive to anything. Tapping really comes off nice on this, and any legato stuff that would normally be hard to pull off on another amp can be heard clearly. With the distortion up you can make it sound almost like liquid, just smooth and flowing. AWESOME. This is the reason you buy this amp! Also, it's versatile. You can get a Jimmy Page kind of tone from it by turning the gain down, the channel volume down, and the master up to compensate.

Effects: well I don't really use effects generally, so I'm not gonna say they're good or bad, but certainly a wide variety.

I've only had it a few days, and had no problems, but that's just sitting in my room. It looks pretty sturdy but I can't say one way of another for sure so I'm not gonna rate it here.

Never talked with 'em.

Been playing about 2 1/2 years, but I practice a lot. I own my Jackson RRV, and an Ibanez ICX120 (my first guitar) and use my sister's acoustic guitar cause she's away at school. Until buying this I was using a Digitech RP-100 modeling box through a cheap-ass Drive amp (but I played an EMG-equipped les paul through a Spider I amp at my freinds house and that's what got me intersted in Line 6) I also own the FBV-2 footswitch for this amp, and an Ibanez weeping demon wah pedal.
If it were stolen I would be seriously worried because there are so many rooms the theif would have to go through and I'm sure he'd take other stuff. If it were lost... I would commit myself to a mental institution because I'd have to have a second personality that hides stuff from me. How the hell do you lose an amp like this?

Four programmable channels for storing presets. If you use the FBV Shortboard, You can have 9 banks of 4 presets, Thus, you can have 36 total patches at your disposal. The shortboard also acts as a overall volume pedal, regardless of where your volumes are set. You can also punch your effects, i.e. chours, reverb, and boost on or off. The one feature that is missing is the ability to adjust the effects parameters more; chours and delay could have more flexability. With that said, the amp still does a great job.

I mainly play strat style guitars with various pickup configurations. From Kinnman to dimarzios, the amp excels greatly. There is no noise that needs mentioning. The amp can make a fairly wide range of sounds, probably more that most players will ever need. The distortions are Great. The cleans are just as good.

Too early to tell.

OK guys here it is. I am a working pro, and have been playing for 40 years. I have all the toys. Mesa boogie: DC-5, Studio preamp, nomad 100, Various powewr amps, Marshall Jmp-1, Access preamp, Carvin tube 100, Various cabinets 4-12, 2-12 stereo, I think you get the Idea. I love them all, and they all sound a little different. Now you must be wondering why with all those heavy guns, why I'd get a line 6 spyder 2? When you have your roadies carrying and setting up your gear, you can use whatever your heart desires. However, when you start playing smaller venue gigs in between the bigger shows, and you carry the rig, A lite, all-in-one amp, that sounds almost as good as my big rigs, that can be set-up in 5 minutes and kick-ass, well need I say more. Just some side notes. In my experience I have noticed that there really are just 2 sounds. Clean And Dirty. Whatever you tweaking preference. The effects we choose just color those sounds. The way you EQ your clean and dirty, again, just color those sounds. The amount of gain you use again, just colors those sounds. And finally, the guitars and pickups you use, ditto.... The line 6 spyder gives you Great distortion and great clean. Do the Math.

My amp has gone nuts, it pushed the volume up all by itself!
Just once one month ago, then more often, to the point you don't dare to power it on.
So I've had a quite special problem, since the only failures are total blackouts or strange noises.
My dealer says he has almost no problems with those spiders, he is quite astonished.
Still, mine can't work again...
With a processor as central brain, one can't be too sure of what will happen next...
My confidence in line6, and modelers in general, is very weak just now...
I baby my equipment, have a warwick ampbag to transport it, and I only used my guitar and a cable with this amp (NO PEDALS!) so I am not responsible for the amp's failure I think.

Can't be beat where I live. I came to the store with my defect amp, and left with a brand new one! It was one week next to the warranty's end so I'm quite lucky...
Incredibly kind and helpful: absolutely!

Still love the amp.
Note that the effects knobs does have better action, hence control on the effects, on this new spider. Maybe some improved software?
Or more like another tolerance of the part itself...

This posting is a follow-up, one year's use later
I used it intensively, and way loud. Main guitar is Ibanez RG7 strings, and a Squier stagemaster7 as b-up.
I tried other axes, 6strings like Artcore semi-solid talman, maple fgbd strat&tele, Ibanez rg170, but I didn't like the sound with them; lacks presence and punch. A SG fine copy was way good sounding through it though.

An Aphex Xciter did a huge job to bring this amp to life, no side effects since it fully eliminates hum automatically whatever the gain level. Perfect for humming guitars, and there are a big lot of them out there...

I also changed the speaker for an Eminence legend 121, huge improvement with my axes. OUt of curiosity I tried an Eminence Kappa12 and man my amp moved 3steps higher(see my review on the kappa), as did the weight...

I play funk, rock, power blues and a little bit metal stuff so I'm not your average 7strings player.
This amp is powerful, versatile, reliable (only one issue during rehearsal: the channel volume rose all by itself, way problematic! Cured by powering off and on.)
It is a perfect gigging amp, you always get a suitable tone and with the band going who cares about tubes and that. If you play well, that is.
I took it home, didn't like its lack of subtlety, so Mario early on this page (great guy, go on telling the very truth!) is right.
A V-ampire is better at home, way clearer (I've got one as well).

The feature I like is the hidden boost function, works exactly like a clean booster pedal, nice compression and clarity. Of course the amp's gain must be set low otherwise you only get mud.
Speaking of mud it is all the stock celestion produces on this amp.
I tried this speaker in another combo (Harley Benton HB80R) with very good results so see it as a mismatch.

Bottom Line: great gigging amp with a proper speaker replacement, otherwise no way. Aphex (or similar) exciter a must.
Thanks for reading, I did intend to put it on ebay but I like the way it does simplify my gigging musician's life (no cables, pedals, tuners and all this ++++) so I 'm keeping it.

-75 Watts, 1x12" Celestion speaker
-12 Channels (Clean, Twang, Blues, Crunch, Metal, Insane) x 2 (Red and Green settings)
-3 Band EQ w/ Master and Channel Volume
-7 Effects, up to 4 at once:
==>Tape Echo / Standard Delay / Sweep Echo (1 at a time)
==>Chorus Flanger / Phaser / Tremolo (1 at a time)
==>Reverb
-4 Footswitchable memory slots (A,B,C,D) to hold custom tones. (This number can be increased by purchasing a line6 shortboard)
-Tap Tempo
-Built in tuner
-Noise gate
-Headphone jack

I use this amp for practice and in my band, and it is loud enough to completely drown out all the other instruments without compromising sound quality too much. Of course I never play it THAT loud.

This amp is loaded with features, some of which I never use (will discuss later), but other than my Dunlop Crybaby I play straight into the amp: no effects. I'll give it a 9 because it didn't come with the footswitch.

I play 2 guitars into my amp: My Fernandes Ravelle Elite ($999.99 online) and my Jackson DXMG (about $450, but I've upgraded the pickups to EMG81s).

I play a very wide range of rock, from classics such as Led Zeppelin, to heavier stuff like Metallica & Guns N' Roses, to newer kinds of rock, like Jimmy Eat World. This amp is versatile enough to accomodate all my sonic needs. However, the following features are useless:

-Green twang
-Both blues (they sound like television static)
-Both cruch (they don't have any crunch to them)
-Red insane (I'll admit it's fun, but useless)

I use the red clean for most of my cleans; the green one for more of a fender sound. I use the red twang with the gain all the way down and the bass all the way up to get an accoustic guitar sound (a real nice one I might add). Red metal channel is for the old Metallica sound with the gain up, or more of a GN'R sound with the gain half-way. The insane channel is by far the most versatile, oddly enough. I can get a perfect Jimmy Page sound by rolling back the gain almost all the way (lol) and messing with the EQ. Switch to the neck pickup and that same sound is now a Slash lead tone (very accurate).

The speaker has plenty of low end once you turn the volume up a bit, and the highs are clear, not screachy.

If you use the right effects, this amp sounds great. If you don't, it sounds awful. Just read the manual and play around with it for a while (the standard presets are awful).

This thing is built like a tank. I gig with it every week, and I've only had to tighten 1 screw after a year and a half of playing. Awesome construction. The footswitch broke on me though, and i had to buy a new one. I bought the cheap footswtich, so I guess I have myself to blame, but still. 10 for the amp, 4 for the footswitch.

Luckily the amp is built well enough that you don't need to call them. However, when I tried to ask them a question about my footswitch's warranty, they were completely useless. Their page online leads you in circles, and you can't actually talk to someone. They don't answer e-mails for at least 2 weeks, which is how long I had to wait. They really were not helpfull at all, basically worthless.

I bought this amp primarily because i needed something bigger than my 10 watt marshall... something to Gig with. It has served me well as an amp. Once again, I can get all the right sounds, just not from the channels Line 6 intended me to. At $300 it was an excellent value, and was the only amp in its class. I would definitely recommend this Line 6 as a 2nd amp because of its amazing versatility and value.

If it were stolen though, I would probably buy something better. I've been playing for a while now, and now that I own a very nice guitar (Ravelle) I'd like to play it on a real tube amp, like a MESA Boogie or a Peavy XXX.

this amp is awsome. it can play all kinds of music because it has 6 different amp types, u can create 4 presets of your fav amp tones plus add an echo, a modulation, and reverb. i wish it had more on-board effects, but i suppose 7 is enough, right? if your an effects freak (like me) get a multi effects pedal! i use it in my bedroom, but i will use it live when i get old enough to play live!

don't listen to the guy that says the distortions are crap, there great! if you turn it to insane and turn the pickups on your guitar to a bassy sound, then you've got your own fuzz pedal that sounds almost like john frusciantes tone when he uses an EH big muff.
and the effects are great too, youve got a flanger, chorus, phaser, tremolo, delay, tape echo, sweep echo, i think.....plus reverb. with the chorus up at full you can get a nice nirvana solo for smells like teen spirit. as for amp models, you can choose 6 types-clean, tweed, blues, crunch, metal and insane, all based on real amps, plus theres 6 other presets they have done for ya.

i have had it for more than a year, and its fine. my brother spilt lemonade in the power switch... and it didn't turn on, but after an hour or so it worked again, the lemonade must have dried up.

haven't dealt with them

my setup is a fender jagstang or a vintage strat or a gibson sg, into a 535q dunlop wah, into this amp, and it sounds perfect to me. if it was stolen or lost, then i would probably save up for a fender bassman or something, only because when i bought this i wasn't really caring about amps. on the other hand i would never sell this thing, its too cool. i wish it came with a ferrarri or something, but ya can't get everything.

The amp I bought was made in 2005. I play mostly punk, metal, and classic rock. The features on this amp are really very good. LED's are a bit gimmicky. Four programmable channels with a footswitch included, 12 different amp models, loads of effects. Particularly good are the extra 'tap' functions. The noise gate is very good, actually it's neccesary because the amp would be hissing very loud without it. There is only a headphone jack however, no FX loops, cdinput or speaker extension, which is dissapointing on an amp like this and hence only a 7. It's loud enough for small gigs. I didn't like the way the tones for each model were preset, made for too much tweaking and not enough playing.

I play an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. I bought the amp mainly because of its vast possibilities of sounds. This is where the amp is seriously let down. Any distortion channels are scratchy and hissy with absolutely no character, muddy tones and no clarity. This is one of the worst sounding amps I've played on (and yes I spent hours trying to find the right settings - they don't exist!). Want an AC/DC or a Guns and Roses sound? - forget it. Even with the six distortion models you can't even get a good Metallica sound. That was only possible through the clean channel with an MT-2 pedal! As for the red Insane setting, I think the guy who thought of putting that in must have been insane, who's going to use that crap?. I'm afraid this is a gimmick amp with all it's LED's and crap sound. If you want a modelling amp forget this and have a closer look at a Vox.

Had no problems with it. It seems very robust and well made althought the facia and knobs don't look like they would take much abuse without breaking. Then again I had only had it 4 days! I definitely would not use it for a gig because it sounds so bad.

Never had any dealings. The shop I bought it from had no problem exchanging it without a handling charge (top marks for them).

If you want toneless, scratchy distortion, this is the amp for you. If you actually like to hear what your playing, buy something else.
I had this amp for 4 days and swapped it for a Marshall AVT50.

I mostly play metal and classic rock. the amp is very versitile with 12 different amp simulations and you can adjust and store them. there are also 6 effects to choose from such as delay and phaser. it has four channels, very convient for live shows and you can customise amp settings into each channel. i got a free footswitch to navigate through each channel. this amp is very versitile from jazz and blues to metal but i would say it best suits metal. i have gigged with this amp and although it's only 75 watts it was loud enough by far. one problem is you HAVE to read the instructions because working the speed and noise gate out without reading them is hard. after reading the instructions everything is easy.

i use this amp with an epiphone leas paul standard, a customfender with seymour duncan invaders and an ibanez s520ex. all pickups are humbuckers. suits my style brilliantly and my band mate loves the crunch setting for classic rock. it can get a bit noisy on the insane setting with the epiphone but thats cos the pickups are shit. this problem is easily dealt with by using the built in noise gate. This amp has a lovely clean setting with chords ringing in all the right places, the crunch setting with a bit of delay is wonderful for solos and the metal setting is the best sound,the distortion is cracking, the best you'll get for this price! there is a pointless shit sound where line6 have made their own model- never use it. the clean channel never gets distorted.

i use it without a backup but thats cos i can't afford one! i think i can depend on it and it's never let me down, i've had it about 4 months now. only thing is like with all amps tighten the nuts on the input jack regularly.

i've never dealt with the company so i wouldn't know. comes with a years warranty

i've been playing 2 years and have tried many amps such as the marshall 100dfx combo and the vox valvetronix 50 watt and this is better.
if it was stolen or lost i'd definetly buy it again. i love the sound but don't like the weight (not as heavy as some though.

No idea on when it was built as I bought it second hand. Versatility is the forte of this amp from clean to grunge. I play an odd mix of folk and blues influenced rock, I also dabble in "Latin jazz" and various covers (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, etc.). Single Channel with 4 user banks which can be stored & switched via foot pedal (optional). More user banks are available through the Line 6 Short board (more moolah)which can really help tap into the flexibility of this amp.

It has a combined headphone/Direct output jack (not voiced to sound like a speaker cabinet and using it disables the amp's clip protection, better watch them dynamics & levels). It also features a built-in tuner, distortion boost, noise gate (enable/disable), tap tempo for the built in delay, 12 presets (2 clean, 2 Twang, 2 Blues, 2 Crunch, 2 Metal and 2 Insane), delay, reverb & modulation ... a lot to chose from.

It is a digital modelling amplifier and is quite loud at 75 watts.

I use a MIM Fender Stratocaster, a home made Double cutaway Les Paul (Kent Armstrong pickups), and a Line 6 Variax 300. Get ready to sit down with a paper pad and note which settings sound best 'cause it's easy to get lost in the options, no jokes. For instance, the "Red Twang" setting which you would think would bring out the best in my Strat ... it doesn't! My Strat sounds sloppy and hollow using that preset but ... switch over to "Red Metal" turn the drive down and fuss around with the EQ and reverb ... that gives my Strat body and smoothness without muddying it up.

The home made LP ... it just overdrives that same setting that sounds fine on the Strat, but ... "Red Twang" which sounded awful on the Strat sounds fine on the LP ... that is with the drive turned down, the EQ adjusted accordingly and the reverb set at about 40% ...

That modified "Red Twang" patch also brings out the best of the "Semi" and "Jazzbox" of the Variax ...

My point is: don't give up on the amp if the factory presets and user banks don't sound right on your guitar, this is an amp that can bring out the best of any guitar, as long as you're willing to spend the time and tweak it until it sounds right.

Clean to dirty, no problem. It delivers.

I haven't gigged in much too long, I use it in my Home Studio setup, so I can't give it an accurate rating. For my use, it' plenty reliable.

Browse their Web site, it's awesome! Great knowledge base, great product page (complete with sound samples), and great users Forums where Line 6 owners get to share info. Never dealt with Customer service per se, but 9 times out of 10 the answers can be found in the knowledge base and /or the Forums.

I've been playing for about 26 years (ouch!) and had I had access to this amp back in 1983 ... can you imagine? One amp, one guitar (in the Variax) and complete flexibility ... amazing! If it were lost or stolen I'd either get the same or perhaps a Flextone or Vetta (I wish! They're so expensive!). I love the the fact that it's compact, loud and flexible.

The direct output however ... it sometimes is a bit noisy and sputtery (then again it's only noticeable when I plug in cheap high impedence headphones) but I do wish Line 6 included a speaker cabinet voicing to the direct output (and it could be made to be enabled or disabled in the same way the distortion boost & noise gate are, using the tap tempo button) and that the clip protection wasn't disabled when the jack is in use ...

Rather than to bash the factory presets that don't sound that hot as is (Blues Green and Insane Red come to mind) I come back to my point: those presets can be manipulated to sound cleaner or dirtier.

Oh yeah, by the way, a Presence control would also be nice if they ever come up with a Spider III line ... cabinet voicings on the direct out, clip protection for the direct out and a presence control ... yeah those would be welcome improvements! ;) All in all, this amp packs a serious punch for the price, and is very, very flexible.

A VERY flexible, versatile and easy to use piece of kit. Name another similarly priced practise amp, with 12" speaker? This could so EASILY be upgraded. (perhaps even to say a Classic/Vintage Greenback, if the impedance could be matched).

Some of the FX are unuseable because of the poor range of settings except for beginners....(we all remember buying every effect we could and turning it up full)...but the FX are there if you need them to pratice the odd cover song!

The Vox AVT range are more money, but arguable much better due to the presence of that Valve in the Pre-amp. The FX are more controllable, more useable and there are more of them. But the 8" speaker? The 30W has a 10"...better but still not compatible with the sweet noise it could be making.

As I was on a tight #130 budget, (wife's orders!!) the 15W VOX was my original choice, but after an extensive home test over the weekend, although I got some nice sounds, and loved the 100ms to 8s delay range on the reverb etc. BUT -- because of its noisy nature and the CRAP 8" speaker, (NB The Vox is VERY hissy, even with the noise gate adjusted correctly!) -- I swapped it for the Spider II 112. I MAY have gone for the AVT 30 which I tried, but at more than #50 extra, I may as well have gone for say a Second Hand "Blues Junior" and used a OD-1 if needed!

My other concerns, apart from the lack of precise FX parameter adjustment, I would have liked a dedicated LINE OUT for DI purposes, rather than the Headphone/Line Out function. If you are working in a small band going through PA, you have ZERO personal backlin!! Same in the Vox etc tho! The #239 Marshall does, but it's nearly twice as much!!

What's wrong with this amp guys? Come on.....You can get this thing for #129, (or $243.879!! - 190.248 Euros)

What are you expecting? Should the 4 "quick" patches match the JC-120, A vintage AC30, A Mesa-Boogie Studio and Marshall JCM-900?

I can get Most sounds that I want for LOW LEVEL practising. This thing can still deafen someone in the firing zone though, so don't be fooled. You CAN achieve a clean, or "dirty sound out of ALL the preset voicings, whether they are matched to the Modelling engine or not, who gives a ***T! ALL the EQ's work well!!

Now, the BIGGEST contributor to this sound is the size of teh speaker, and cabinet. Can anyone name another similarly, or any priced PRACTISE amp, with a 12" speaker?

Purely from a cost and value assessment, this amp is very good. Even if it were more, (ie purchased at RRP) it would still be a credible combo.


NB Rating based on a comparible products basis, not against the sound of my own boutique head, with a couple of 4 x 12 cab attached!

Feels, seems and looks VERY solid and well built considering, eg Thickish wood with standard plastic coatied construction. Nice corner protectors and positive control knobs. Should be a turn up and go scenario. I am wondering if the battery for retaining the 4 preset sounds goes, would the rest of the amp still be as normal?

Only emailed ythem once about my POD.

I don't remember getting a response!!

I would not have bothered with a practise amp if I didn't want, or need one. I DEFINATELY would not of bought this actual model if it took AGES fiddling to get a particular sound.

Disappointing FX sounds and controls especially from Line 6, but what did I EXPECT for the price myself, when everything else is MORE than reasonable??

This is one of the cheapest Line 6 amps and don't have all the features of his "big brothers", but it's enought for the price.

Well in my opinion this amp sounds pretty for the price. You can't compare it with a tube amp because a tube amp is very expensive in comparison. Fits perfect for home situations and small club gigs. The basic sounds are OK, but if you're patient you can get better sounds. I have a Laney VC30 that sounds much better, but for small gigs I prefeer the Line 6 because is more transportable. The sounds are Ok, the price is OK... all is OK... but you must judge this amp with the 300 dollars in mind.

I bought it one year ago. No problems here.

Not needed

I'm very happy. A very good home/practice amp in my opinion.

A follow up review, read below.

At one time I thought this amp was great until I noticed something, at least with mine anyways. The Metal and Insane settings actually muddy-up your sound. I bought a Dimebucker for my guitar and at first I thought "DAMN this thing SUCKS!", I played it on my friends amp and it sounded beautiful. Just to let you know, don't get it for distortion.

More gadgets than I really need. See the company's website.

This amp sounds quite good, in my personal opinion. It is extraordinarily practical for someone who doesn't want a massive setup to haul around. If you're an old-fashioned tube junkie, then no, you probably will not like this amp. Stop comparing a $299 digital amplifier to $2000+ tube amps. IMHO, however, it is convincing enough. The cleans are warm and defined, and the high-gain distortions are absolutely devastating. The only real knock on this amp is that it lacks a truly good Marshall-crunch type sound. Chances are, however, that if you buy this amp you're not really in need of that sort of tone. The effects are decent, although it would be nice if the chorus and the flanger were seperated. I don't use a ton of effects, I just needed something that was portable and could pull off a number of sounds rather easily. The Celestion speaker is probably one of the nicer ones I've played through.

I've owned it for about a year and a half now, and no problems thus far. Take reasonable care of it and it should do fine in this department.

I've never dealt one-on-one with Line 6. I've heard mixed things about them.

I've been playing for a little over six years. I've previously owned Peavey, Fender and Vox Amplifiers, and I'd have to say this is my favorite. I'm currently using an Ibanez SZ320 through this amp, although I've also used it in conjuction with a Gibson Les Paul and another LP knockoff fixed with Duncan pickups. The best reason to own this amp, in my opinion, is if you are like me and you are tired of fooling with distortion and effects pedals. In terms of digital amplifiers, I'd say Line 6 is the best on the market. Is this thing going to sound identical to your $2000 Marshall? Absolutely not. Don't expect it to. However, it is reasonably close (the untrained ear couldn't tell the difference) and a pretty darn good deal.

You would definitely do well to purchase the FBV Shortboard along with this thing. It's expensive, but well worth it. It really opens up a world of possibilites with this amplifier.

Also, if you're looking for a moderate crunch sound (i.e. Train), you'd probably want to have access to some sort of overdrive pedal as the cruch sounds on this amp really don't cut it in that department. Otherwise it does quite well.

Brand new, 2005 model Spider II single 12" speaker, 30 (transistor) watts. No channel switching. I wanted a lightweight amp I could take to open jams with that was versatile. It seemed too good to be true and sounded decent enough in the store. And then I brought it home.... Nice effects, easy to use and store 'preset' settings for use on the fly.

I've got a '67 Strat. The amp sounds great when the volume is very low, but take the gain/master past 3 or so and it totally pukes. Very thin and clippy, raily and flat. Loses all the 'character' it might have had when the volume is low. The clean setting is horrendously thin and grating, no matter what you do. No matter how you slice it, this is a transistor amp, and it SOUNDS like a transistor amp. The effects are nice, but a little hard to control. It should have a separate effect level knob, as opposed to the 'graduated' settings it has on each (multiple) effects pot. Also, the save feature is 'strange'. If you happen to have saved a setting with the volume high, then switch back to that setting, the volume will be saved at the same screaming level regardless of where the master volume is turned to physically. It's really unnerving.

Don't know. Only had it 2 days before returning it.

Wouldn't recommend or buy another one. Too thin and transistory. Great for a low-volume practice amp, but not good in any real world situation. I returned it and got a Vox Valvtronix. It's amazing what a 12AX7 tube in the preamp circuit can do to smooth out the tone.

Too many... I think less is more. Like they say, jack of all trades, master of none.

I agree 110% with reviewer "Bruce" below. My local shop had one of these on consignment for several months, and I played through it several times, since they wouldn't let people go near the Marshalls or Fenders without practically waving cash in your hand.

Awful. No tube tone in any way. The best thing it does is distortion, super ultra high gain distortion. If you play metal, you'll love this. If you play things that require variable singing tone, forget it, dump this amp immediately. I compared with several quality tube amps (Mesa Single Rec, Hiwatt, Sunn, Marshall, Fender, etc.) and it was WAY behind.

I suspect the people who like this have grown up listening to bands with "synthetic" sounds ... totally digital distortions without harmonic complexity. Guitar that is more computer chip wizardry than actual tone. If you crank this up, it's painfully apparent. Things don't get richer, they get thinner and that's not good.

I couldn't use anything I dialed in that wasn't insanely high gain.

Worked fine all the times I played it...

This amp is not for me. I'm a tone hound, born and raised on Hendrix and and Clapton, and not Satriani and Vai, who both have generally terrible guitar sounds to me. Excellent players, terrible tone crafters. Eric Johnson knows what's going on - listen to his giant singing guitar cut through, then hear the hard, harsh treble mess that is Satch's tone on most albums. Stripped down to the basics is my idea of a good sound. I hate these computer-generated "modeled" tones - they sound terrible to me, and I've been playing through tube amps for over thirty years. No one bought this amp from the store, and the original guy just returned and picked up. That says a lot.

I believe this is the 2003 model. 75 watt amp features 12 amp models, 4 user programmable channels, normal amp control knobs (mid, treble, bass, channel vol, drive, etc.), smart control fx (up to three simultaneously) and tap tempo, ethernet out for pedal, and a headphone/record out.

This is a very versatile little amp and seemingly very well built. I've bumped it a few times moving it and it's never had any problems. Also, I don't know why so many people say that they don't like the distortion settings. I think the metal and insane distortions kick the crap out of the Marshall and Vox distortions that you could get at a similar price range. But since I'm still fairly new to guitar (been playing about a year and a half) I don't play that many different "styles" mostly rock, metal, a little alternative and a little blues and this amp does all of those very well. Something that I didn't know before I got this amp was that each default amp preset has it's own personalized tone settings which have nothing to do with however you have it set AND when you change something on one knob ONLY THAT KNOB IS AFFECTED. I really like this feature because it allows you to use the preset as a starting point where you don't have to guess at the rest of the settings if you just want to change one or two things. Also, you can save different channel volumes on your own presets which is VERY NICE.

I use this amp in my dormroom and it definitely gets the job done. I'd say that it's packing the perfect amount of power for my needs. I was originally going to give this an 8 because the footcontrollers that are made for this amp and other Line 6 products are UBER EXPENSIVE!! But I gave it one extra point just because of the cool light up sequence when you turn the amp on. I know that seems like kind of a silly superficial thing, but it's still cool nonetheless. Oh, and it sounds GREAT going into my computer. I just bought a plain old RCA stereo cable and a convert for both ends (1/8" and 1/4") and I was very pleased with how good it still sounds. I was a bit worried because the distorted sounds really sound like crap in my headphones but now I know that it's just the headphones (got em for like 10 bucks, so what can you expect?)

I currently have a Yamaha Pacifica with stock everything downtuned to Drop B and I've gotta say that this amp makes my crappy little guitar sounds quite good. The cool thing about this amp is that you can just plug straight into it and let the fun begin. I actually tried to run my digitech RP300 through it and it got a really crappy sound quality to it. After messing with the settings, I got an "alright" tone but still nothing as good as what comes out of the amp by itself so I gladly pawned off the digitech.

I just ordered an Ibanez RG370DX which will be my new "standard guitar" and to test out my amp with a similar guitar, I played my friend's RG321 through it. Gotta say that the overall tone was pretty much the same, although his guitar's pickups obviously are putting out more power (or maybe just treble) because I had to adjust my amp settings a bit. The only real differences that I could figure were like with doing legato-type stuff. His guitar is DEFINITELY better suited for that.

As I said earlier, the amp has a great variety of sounds and tones; my favorites being the clean settings and the green metal/insane settings. Using the different amp models, you can pretty much get any kind of clean tone you're looking for. You can have a nice syrupy thick clean sound with little distortion and a slight bit of delay, or you can have a more rock-like distorted clean tone. I swear though, the first time I turned the amp to one of the metalish distortions it just blew me away. First of all, it was LOUD! I could've turned it down, but instead I turned it UP and adjusted my ears to compensate. The insane metal distortion sounds just awesome with my guitar's dropped tuning. Gives it kind of a Slipknot edge to it and the notes are still clear dispite all the distortion.

This amp seems very dependable, but it's not exactly a "gigging amp." This is more of a personal practice amp, but it's light enough to where you could take it with you on the road if you wanted to and it would be ready to rock whenever, wherever. I've had it for about 4 months of heavy usage and it hasn't once even started acting like it was going to mess up.

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I've been playing for about a year and a half and was looking for a new practice amp to help me define my tone (or actually GIVE me a tone) and I'm quite sure I've found it. I remember finding this amp in Guitar Center and messing around with it for like 30 minutes, only to come back later and mess with it for another 2 hours. Compared with other amps in and around this price range, it just can't be beat! I played through all kinds of amps before on my search for something new and better (Marshall, Ibanez, Fender, Fox, etc.) and I've still gotta say that this one sounds better than those that cost twice as much. Everyone that I know who's heard me play through this amp or has played through it themselves has fallen in love with it (in fact, 5 of them have bought it and similar models afterwards). If this amp were stolen, I'd track down the person who took it and beat them to death with their own severed legs.

If you're a total newbie to guitar, then I would recommend one of the new smaller models (15 or 30 watt) because they also sound awesome and just have a few less features. But if you've been playing for around a year or so and are still trying to define your tone (or figure out what tone really is) then I'd definitely recommend this amp or one of its bigger brothers depending on the situation. I use this amp as a practice amp, but I know people who use the 212 and HD for live gigs and they sound just awesome. As for older players who've been at it for years (or decades even), you may like this amp or you may not. But you figure if you've been playing for that long, you've narrowed down the kind of tone that you want and have found more specialized (and more expensive) amps to suit your tastes better. But even so, sit down with this baby and dial into it. Who knows, you might just like it....

see oher review, has plenty for the price range

Playing 2 wolfgangs and a Les paul and they all sound great. I also have a 5150,a Marshall AVT 50 with peavey and Marshall 4x12 cabs so this little guy is my backup. but I would feel fine using it for whol;e show if Mic-ed up which I may do this weekend. High gain sounds are awesome, very tube-like if you spend time to dial in the EQ properly. I have been a 5150 user for 13 years so Im used to that low end heavy, crunchy, searing sound and this can duplicate it pretty well on the green insane setting as long as the gain isnt cranked too much. The clean channels are ok, dont really use them. The Crunch, "EVH" model is a cool take on a variac-ed Plexi. I used to own one and still have the variac so I know what they sound like and this is definitely in the ballpark. The effects are pretty good too except for the chorus which doesnt give you any control over the rate..sucks!! Again, for the money this is a fantastic amp. If you are a shreddeer or 80s rock fan you will ove it. Minus 2 points for the Chorus which should have been a lot better

anyone who gigs without a backup is just plain irresponsible, things happen, tubes blow, amps break. If you are about to play in front of a lot of peopl who paid money to see your band and that happens then what??!!

called once and got a live person on the phone who was clueless about the questions I had, not impressed

Been playing 22 yearsm + , Its a great backup-practice-small gig amp for somone who is playing hard rock to metal type music. I see myself keeping this one, especially since it is under $300!!! The high gain sounds this thing can dial in will blow away some amps that cost 4-5 times as much

this has a great marshall and fender tone the marshall is great with no over-drive ( a little buzzy). here's the trick and this turned my new spider II amp into a marshall tube amp. I use the spider with no digital over-drive (raw) and the TOne bone hot british dist pedal. wa-la...it's all there tube tone . quite amazing and all I have to mantain is one tube in this product . probably comes with a cheap chinese tube so when this oges I'll get a good tubethat I've resarched already. the effect is a little pricy but look at the what you get, tube tone easy maintence (one tube). it's as close as you're going to get . there are a few tube dist pedals out there but this is the best . I hve no use for other pedals, mxr dist +, mxr 10 band EQ, selling them both as the tone bone has 6 knobs and switches to get EQ.

great marshall and fender. the big floor board is great too. you get the WAh and the tuner is digital read-out for all KEYS, sharp flat D, C you name it. selling my chrono tuner as well don't need it with all this . I use the EVH pedal into the tonebone to the marshall setting. awesome.. just hav eto get a maxon compressor to try out and see where that gets me. read my reviews in tone bone and EVH pedal. I play 61 SG and 62 strat

so far so good.

great when used as I described. let me know if you try it with the tone bone British, i'll be reading...

Bought it brand new at Guitar Center for $254.00...I never pay sticker...always ask them for a better deal. Versatility is the amps strong point without having to compromise. I only wish the foot controller came with the amp.

I am playing a Gibson Les Paul Standard, Fender Telecaster and Epiphone Riviera through the amp. It suits all styles of music. Built in noise gate is great. Clean is beautiful and rivals a Fender of equal price. The distortion is fabulous, creamy and thick or thin if that fits your taste.

So far so good. It seems very well built. Not cheap in any way.

Haven't had to deal with them. But I have dealt with Line 6 on other matters involving a Guitar Port....they were great.

I would definitely replace it if lost.

Same as above.

Good feature variance for modeling.

Play with an ibanez and les paul. The sound is okay for a beginner but as I have gotten more ear practice and have been doing production work on albums I have grown more weary of this amp. Although one can find value in most sounds (even bad ones) when the moment arises.

I would never gig with this amp. I had problems with it at first (playing too loud probably) and got it repaired by the manufacturer. It worked great again and then it suddenly stopped working properly right after the warranty ended. There is absolutely no sound unless chorus is in use and even then it sounds like crap, crackling and certain frequencies (high G) do not come through for some reason.

So....I contacted their customer support and they suggested I reset it (which I had already done since it was in the manual). After that they said to send it to a service shop as they had "no idea" about what could cause it. It seems if it was your amp that you made you would maybe have an "idea" at least. Anyway the service center for line 6 wanted $250 and the amp was purchased for $300 so I said forget it. I bought a Marshall tube amp and a distortion pedal for $200 more. Now I gig happily without ever worrying about my amp breaking or crackling or otherwise being a piece of crap like this one.

Good for quiet practice and modeling tone. Bad for everything else. I wouldn't even bother with this company. I think that they even had some of their employees put reviews on here since some of them seem so deceptively enthusiastic (come on, a 10!; does it cook you dinner or something)?