Customer Reviews

Line 6 Spider II 15 Guitar Combo Amplifier

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The Spider II manages to pack incredible volume into a tight package, all the while maintaining great quality. As if this weren't enough, it includes 4 levels of distortion, ranging from a jazzy tone on the clean channel, to a tone packed full of more distortion than most pedals in insane. These channels are highly customizable, and I can get nearly any tone on this amp without the need of a pedal or seperate effects processor. On the website, Line 6 even gives you the settings for some of the most popular rock songs, like Smells like Teen Spirit and Back in Black. If you are looking for an affordable amp that integrates effects and reverb, then the Line 6 Spider II is for you.

this amd rocks my face off-- I totally recommend buying it. It's probably the best deal for the money around.

The best feature of this amp, far as I'm concerned, is the ability to modify the stock sounds and store those mods. For example, the stock "clean" channel uses chorus and delay. I immediately reprogrammed that by defeating both chorus and delay and then tweaking the bass-mid-treble EQ and the gain and master and then adding a bit of reverb. Now, when I turn on the amp, it gives me a great thick clean sound with a hint of hall-type reverb without any of the "boing" of springs. The digital reverb on this amp is the first digital reverb I've found that I can live with!
It'd be nice if it had a footswitch jack but practice amps mostly don't have that.
Although I've long been a "tube head" and preferred the "fat" sound of tube amps, this little amp gives me back the sound I hear in my head when I play my axe unplugged.
I sold my first Spider II 15 to a friend who wanted it for his son after hearing me playing through it. I subsequently bought the Line 6 Spider II 30 with 12" Celestion speaker. It sounded good too but just didn't have the "tightness" of the Spider II 15. So, it's up for sale and I bought another Spider II 15 and reprogrammed it. Wow! The Crunch, Metal and Insane settings are icing on the cake. I'll tweak those soon and save those settings too. But right now, my reprogrammed "Clean" is all I need.
BTW, for all you "power" freaks out there, a 30W amp DOES NOT give you twice the sound of a 15W amp! All it does is increase the SPL (sound pressure level) by 3db! Check it out on the net if you don't believe me. To increase the SPL by 3db, you need to double the power. So, if at 15W, an amp produces, say 96db, at 30W, it will produce 99db and at 60W, 102db.
One thing to keep in mind: You can dirty up a clean amp but it's impossible to clean up a dirty amp. That being said, this amp offers you a range of sounds from ultra clean to super dirty. Up to you to dial in the sounds you want by tweaking knobs and then storing those sounds. Well worth the effort. The Line 6 website has all the instructions on how to do this if you don't have the manual. It even has a downloadable pdf manual available. By far the nicest-sounding (after tweaking) practice amp I've ever owned.

Cant beat this for the "PRICE,"NAME BRAND",AND "QUALITY"!
This was a "NO BRAINER"!

ENJOY!
MC (not-hammer)

The settings are very easy to use, it is lightweight, and very practical. If you have two male connectors (two way headphone wire thingy) you can easily listen to the music you are practicing and play along with it, this maximizes your practice efforts. It packs a punch of sound in a very small package. I would not recommend this amp if you want to add a pedals and fancy stuff to it, save your money and buy the upgraded version. It works wonderfully with my acoustic in the clean setting and it is a lot of fun with my electric.

Apparently she likes the amp. I know nothing about guitar amps. So 4 stars.