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OT/AMP Q: Are all Line 6 amps garbage?


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Mainly looking for something with good clean headroom. Under $200 that is loud enough to be heard over a drummer.


I know. My list of demands is absurd. But Im broke, dying to jam, and dont have a ton of space for some big bonky setup.

 

 

if you need just a loud clean channel, you should think about trawling for 80s/early 90s SS stuffs. theres peaveys, fenders, and yamahas galore out there on the cheap (and damn sturdy), even some of the pre-digital age crate stuff (ie: gc120).

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I got a Spider III 30 watt months and months ago and I really liked it, only thing is that I got two of them with the same fault and got pissed off in the end and got my money back. Only thing about them is that they don't really take pedals that well.

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:confused:

mind explaining that one?

 

Not at all. When I had the Spider I tried running a few pedals through it and they sounded really harsh through it. These pedals were the Marshall Bluesbreaker II, MI Audio Tube Zone and the Boss SD-1. I tried these pedals mainly on the Clean and Crunch channels and they sounded really bad.

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:confused:

mind explaining that one?

 

I agree with him to an extent. Most modulation, delay, and dirt pedals sound fine through them, but they seem to hate filter type effects. Wah pedals are not very pronouced, and I had an Ibanez Lo-Fi pedal that I thought was broken, because it affected the amp's tone so little.

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I agree with him to an extent. Most modulation, delay, and dirt pedals sound fine through them, but they seem to hate filter type effects. Wah pedals are not very pronouced, and I had an Ibanez Lo-Fi pedal that I thought was broken, because it affected the amp's tone so little.

 

well ok, you think dirt pedals through it are fine, he thinks its crap (to whatever extent).

 

 

 

 

this is making it easy for me :)

 

 

 

 

 

and from what you say, it sounds the amp didnt know whether you were sending it a trebly signal or a bassier signal, right?

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For cheap clean headroom, it's damn near impossible to beat a used Peavey 2x12 solid state combo. A lot of their 1x12s are good as well.

 

A couple months ago, a shop had a used 2x12 Renown for $200 and trust me, that thing has CRAZY clean headroom. But the OD section sounds kinda like ass.

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