Customer Reviews

Line 6 Spider III 150 Guitar Combo Amplifier

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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.

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.

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.

Its LOUD..>!!! I can only live with the master volume up to 3, maybe 4. The features on this amp are definitely up to at least a semi pro standard. This amp offers you 12 different amp models from the word go. You can the further manipulate these with the Drive control nob (less or more gain) as well as adding up to three simultaneous effects, the tap button also lets you specify delay time as well as activating the built in tuner (very handy for when something starts to sound odd onstage)and noise gate. The cab also comes fitted with celestion speakers. The patches are also great fun to toy with as you can manipulate them once loaded and most of them don't sound half band. I was a bit miffed at the fact that a foot controller was not included but apart from that I can't really say it has any major flaws yet. I just ordered the FBV Express foot pedal. Also the CD/mp3 jack is really handy if you want to play along to your favorite shredders

I've used it with a PRS Standard, a Strat and an Epi Les Paul and all sound great. I especially like the clean tones. This amp really sounds better at higher volumes. I even plugged my bass into it just to hear it and it sounds great. I've only had it since Christmas so I haven't done a lot with it yet, so I gave it four stars, but it gets me playing again, and thats a good thing.