Mantoocha Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I recently bought this Amp which I found amazing, it gives my guitar a great tone, and it has 3 different types of distortion, which are amazing, but I'm having two problems with it: First, not much of a problem, but it's INCREDIBLY ANNOYING having to press the insane button while powering it up so that the clean channel won't have the chorus effect. I mean, seriously, WHO THE F**K came up with, hey lets mess with the clean channel. Second, it's sound is really heavy, and it's effects are crap. If anyone owns this, may I ask what do they use to give it a bit of a bluesy tone? I just think of it now that I bought it, but maybe it's not a good combo to my Gibson LP Slash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 may I ask what do they use to give it a bit of a bluesy tone?( They unplug it and plug into a tube amp instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 They unplug it and plug into a tube amp instead. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 It is a tube amp if it's the Bogner equiped model... Which is a tone bellowing monster... oops my bad... the spider III is not what I thought...<---[edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyron Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 It is a tube amp if it's the Bogner equiped model...Which is a tone bellowing monster... oops my bad... the spider III is not what I thought...<---[edit] I've got both.. bought the Spider 3 75 watt AND the Spider Valve 212. Neither one of them are "plug and play".. Sorry.. You actually have to turn the bass, mid, treble, and drive knobs to dial in a sound thats "to your liking". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlekenny Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 +1 to the tube amp, -1 to line 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxter Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 +1 to the tube amp' date=' -1 to line 6[/quote']-2 on the Line 6 because when all is said and done you still have a Line 6. sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild_Rose Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I have the Spider III 30W and I can't say I'm satisfied with it. : anyway, for a Bluesy tone I use these settings: Channel: clean Drive: 8 Bass: 4,5 MID: 3 Treble: 7 Channel Volume: 6 FX: tremolo 1/4 and FULL reverb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 They unplug it and plug into a tube amp instead. :) +1 LMFAO! I think those Line6 amps (and this is MY OPINION, not meant to piss off anyone) are mostly made for nu-metal hardcore and even black metal: lifeless full of dist. tones... that's it (specially the spider line, that is meant for kids that want as much distortion as they can get, so they can sound mean and all that sh-t). I happen to own a flextone (2x12) and while I liked it at first (just as you did with your spider) it soon showed its true colors: all the palete but brown, and I only wanted brown! So, while it looks really cool, has all the FX (the fx engine in the flextone is supposed to be better than that in the spider line, but I found out they are the same!), I simply stopped using it. I kept it just because Line6 is great at product placement and marketing that almost every unexperienced musician that thinks he knows everything asked to be recorded through anything with a "Line6" tag. "Because it is the industry standard". Truth is, it is not the industry standard... or at least not the one you think it is. It is the industry standard for "NU" bands that have no tone and sound all the same. You want good tone? You go and see a recording session of any good player with trademark tone, you will see marshalls, oranges, fenders, voxes, even randalls and peaveys, none of them of the cheap series, and all of them with good (and expensive) mics placed in the right places. Sadly we are in the age of produccers that produce by the book and what berkley taught them. In the good old days, producers produced with their heart and ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I didnt want to edit an already extensive post, so: needless to say, that flextone abomination is for sale now that I am getting rid of most of the studio stuff... a guy is comming to try it today, hope he brings his own guitar... (I hate how people can come to try fx and amps without the guitar they are going to use on them, no wonder they get home, plug their ibanez GIO and the thing doesnt sound as incredible as it did with an expensive guitar). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantoocha Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 It's my first electric guitar (Gibson LP Slash) and my first amp (Line 6 Spider III), and I can't make them match, I mean, it's like eating pizza and chocolates, amazing on their own but awful together (Yeah, my imagination is beyond reach.. ) I'll try that setting for a bluesy tone Wild Rose, thank you very much. Have anyone tried an electroacoustic guitar on that amp? I own a squier acoustic one and I'm thinking about giving her a mic and I'm still chasing for my dreamed amp. So now, what I'm thinking is: Why the f**k did I buy this amp? I guess I'll stick with it for a few months, maybe a year, and get a VOX (My second choice was a 30W pre- Valvetronix) or one of those vintage Fenders. Thanks everyone for what they posted, even the "Dude get a serious amp" when I wasted tons of money for it, but what the hell, s**t happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild_Rose Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 why don't you get the LP Slash with you and go to the local guitar store and try some amps ? This way you'll know what you buy! btw, Orange amps make good match with Les Pauls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I have a line 6 spider III 75W combo. I played for about a year before getting my vox ac15 cc1. I still use the spider daily to tune my guitar then I hit the A/B switcher to position A and play through the vox. BTW.. the spider tuner isn't all that accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachd33 Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 +1 LMFAO! I think those Line6 amps (and this is MY OPINION' date=' not meant to piss off anyone) are mostly made for nu-metal hardcore and even black metal: lifeless full of dist. tones... that's it (specially the spider line, that is meant for kids that want as much distortion as they can get, so they can sound mean and all that sh-t).[/quote'] The sad thing is I like some "nu-metal" and black metal, but the spider valve fails at these styles as well. It may be okay if heavy is the only thing you go for. No complaints on the distortion, but where it really fails and loses all tone is everything else. I so want to sell my spider valve, and plan to after I save a little money. I probablly will get a vox ac 30, but then I will have to purchase some pedals because I love my effects, but all the effects in the world don't matter if its at the cost of losing your tone. Why even have a gibson if its going to sound like a crappy ibanez out of your amp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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