Line 6 Spider III 150 Guitar Combo Amplifier

by Line 6

Product Features

• 12 Custom Amp Models from Clean to Insane, 7 Smart Control FX (up to 3 simultaneous) including Tape Echo, Sweep Echo, Standard Delay (all withTap Tempo) Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, and Reverb
• 250 artist-created presets, 150 song-based presets
• Built-in front panel tuner
• 2 - 12 Custom Celestion Speakers
• 150 Watts Stereo (75W x 2)
• 12 Custom Amp Models from Clean to Insane, 7 Smart Control FX including Tape Echo, Sweep Echo, Standard Delay Chorus, Phaser, Tremolo, Reverb

Product Details

• Item Weight: 63 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 58.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JKTJZS
• Item model number: 99-010-2905
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,263 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Spider™ III delivers detailed amp models based on some of the greatest guitar sounds ever created. To keep these sounds authentic, we kidnapped some of our favorite artists to dial in each amp model. Now you can rule the stage with the Insane model with its truly massive gain or explore your sensitive side in the studio with the Clean model. It’s all up to you.

Features:

• 12 Custom Amp Models from Clean to Insane
• 7 Smart Control FX (up to 3 simultaneous) including Tape Echo, Sweep Echo, Standard Delay (all with Tap Tempo) Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, and Reverb
• 250 artist-created presets
• 150 song-based presets
• Plus 36 user programmable presets
• Built-in front panel tuner
• 2 - 12-inch Custom Celestion® Speakers
• 150 Watts Stereo (75W x 2)

Amp Models:

Clean
Red LED - Select this Amp Model and adjust the tone controls to get crisp, amazing clean tones, great warm jazz tones, and all the high-end shimmer you’ll need with a generous amount of bottom end.

Glassy
Green LED - We developed this Amp Model to emulate those late 60’s and early 70’s clean tones. It started off as an Amp Model based on* a 1973 Hiwatt® Custom 100. We extended the tone control range and tightened up the low end.

Twang
Red LED - This Amp Model draws on* our analysis of mid 60’s Fender® amps, including the blackface ’65 Twin Reverb® and blackface ’64 Deluxe Reverb®. We wanted an Amp Model that has that classic glassy high end tone, with some snap and bite.

Twin Twang
Green LED - This Amp Model is based on* a number of vintage tweed amps. We evaluated a ’53 Fender® tweed Deluxe Reverb®, ’58 Fender® tweed Bassman® and a ’60 Gibson® Explorer® to create a swingin’ Rockabilly tone.

Blues
Red LED – Based on* a mix of a ’65 Marshall® JTM-45, a ’58 Fender® Bassman®, a ’63 Fender® Vibroverb and a Supro®, this Amp Model slides between gritty swamp-infected cleans to syrupy smooth, walloping drive tones.

Class A
Green LED - This Amp Model is based on* a fawn Vox® AC-30 amplifier with an updated and expanded tone control circuit. We wanted to capture that early British pop rock tone that the Beatles and the Stones are so well known for.

Crunch
Red LED - This sound was crafted during our studies* of the '68 Marshall® Plexi 50 Watt. This type of Marshall® amp was used by a number of early metal bands. Crunch provides a wider range of tone control settings than the original Marshall® amp had.

On Fire
Green LED - This Amp Model is based on* a ‘68 Marshall® Plexi 100 watt with a few added extras; The combination of a Variac and the jumped input channels creates that infamous brown sound.

Metal
Red LED - This Amp Model is based on* the Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier®. Use this Amp Model to get a tight and punchy, high gain Metal sound.

Spinal Puppet
Green LED - This sound was created to be an aggressive high gain Amp Model with a unique Mid control that will sweep though an entire spectrum of tone on one knob. The Mid knob for this Amp Model changes the character of the distortion. When set to minimum, the distortion exhibits Fuzz pedal characteristics. When the Mid is set to noon, it mimics the creamy modern high gain amp tones. And when the Mid knob is turned up to max, it’s very much reminiscent of that Class A sound.

Insane
Red LED - This model is our "dialed in for shredding" version based on* the Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® red channel. It combines the intensity and impact of Metal Red, but delivers more midrange and teeth for that bone-crushing, brain piercing insane grind.

80s Solo
Green LED - Our goal with Insane was to provide you with as much input gain distortion as possible short of complete meltdown. You get an obscene helping of distortion, while still retaining tonal definition and character.

Effects:
A great amp isn’t the only part of a great guitar sound. With Smart Control FX, an exclusive Line 6 feature that automatically dials in different effect parameters, you spend more time playing and less time tweaking. Simply find the effect that you want, turn the knob to your desired intensity, and you’re done. You can even use multiple effects at the same if you wanna get really crazy.

Effects Models (Up to 3 effects simultaneous) : Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb.

Ins & Outs:
When you’re playing with your band on stage just drag the Spider™ III on stage and crank it up. When it comes time to record, use the headphone/direct out and plug it straight into the mixing board for world-class POD® 2.0 direct tone used in pro studios and stages everywhere! You can also use the same out with headphones for practicing in your bedroom. Want to play along with your favorite songs? Plug into the CD/MP3 input and you’re good to go.

* All product names used in this webpage are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.

Product Description

Spider� III 150 offers perfectly dialed-in sounds with 200 incredible artist presets created by over two dozen of today's hottest bands and guitarists, plus another 200 presets based on the greatest rock guitar songs of all time! No tone is off limits thanks to 12 custom amp models that go everywhere from spanky clean to insane grind. With Line 6's revolutionary Smart Control FX (7 different effect types, 3 simultaneous) including, Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb, you'll always have the right tone. Plus, with the award-winning POD� cab modeling Headphone/Direct out, you can take your sound from the practice room to the studio. Features also include a footswitch jack that's compatible with the FBV2�, FBV Express�, and FBV Shortboard� foot controllers, a CD/MP3 input jack, and a built-in tuner.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Line 6 - Spider III 150 Combo, January 8, 2007

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C. Milton (GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Line 6 Spider III 150 Guitar Combo Amplifier (Electronics)

I own this beauty of an amp. I love playing the guitar, but this amp really revived the fun in playing. There are so many tones you can get with the amp it's crazy. You can get beautiful cleans tones all the way to searing metal madness. That's not even counting all the preset tones in it. I would also suggest dropping the cash for the FBV Express footswitch or the PodXT Live. It's a hassle to be in the middle of jamming then reaching over to change channels or banks. The FBV Express doesn't have a bank switch, but it does have 4 channel switches, volume/wah pedal, and a built in tuner. Plus, it's only $100. The XT Live is like $400. Enough about the footswitches though. The amp is perfect for jamming or practices. It's fairly loud so you might could pull off small gigs with it also. With all the amp models and effects built in though it's perfect for traveling. You don't have to haul around your entire rig just to go to practice or jamming. Just pull the power cord, pick up, and go. It's pretty light despite it's size also.

Grab this amp if you want to breath new life into your music. It's a blast.

3.0 out of 5 stars I see it as an expensive practice amp, June 21, 2011

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guitarkid - See all my reviews

This review is from: Line 6 Spider III 150 Guitar Combo Amplifier (Electronics)

I see this amp as an expensive practice amp. If you're in a band or want to record/write songs then you'd may want a better sound so you can really hear what you're coming up with. Something that sounds bad on this amp may sound great on another... such as a simple chord.

The sound I get from this amp is very thin sounding and at higher volumes, you get fizzy noise. Somewhere in between and depending on the day and whether or not the amp feels like it, you'll get a fuller crunchy tone. Definitely heavy enough for metal but the gain is weak. It has distortion... as in capable of a heavy crunch, but the signal sounds weak and you really can't solo on it anything with an awesome tone. It'll just sound dry with all the "juice" of a sweet solo taken out. Overall it's a very dull sounding amp and although the tone's are okay it just doesn't have enough gain to push the drive-crunch singing through hammer ons and pull offs. your notes just seem to die off.

Yes, it has over 400 presents or whatever that number was but they are all basically the same and you won't ever use them. Basically what Line 6 did here was create multiple pre-sets that started out all the SAME and then Line 6 altered each one individually slightly here and there just so they could be different and add another preset to the count. They repeated this process hundreds of times so they could slap a 400+ presets label on there to get people excited. This is just a horrible example, but it's to let you know exactly how useless MOST of these presets are. You could just make them on your own but some are good starting points if you're going to edit them. I'm using distortion pedals since I find the distortion on this amp unusable for metal, or at least metal with a full nice tone that sings.

If you want something loud, and something that can reproduce the sound of many artists or bands then go with this. But although it may be able to reproduce the sounds of many of your favorite bands, you will mask it with a bad tone, weak drive, a lot of noise or fizz depending on your settings, and overall cold and can-like distortion. This may sound a little contradicting but to clarify, this amp is like a cell phone recording from a live show. The show sounds good, and on the phone you can tell what the song is and the sound is still there but the tone and quality is just horrible. This amp's quality isn't a cell phone's quality but I hope you get the idea.

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful!, June 1, 2009

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F. Gonzalez "That guy with the thing" (Panama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Line 6 Spider III 150 Guitar Combo Amplifier (Electronics)

Very powerful amp. Lots of amp models to choose from. What can be said that hasn't been said before by other reviewers? Yeah, it's not a tube amp, but come on, for the price they're selling this thing, it's a steal.