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Published on 06/25/01 at 15:00I paid $900.00 (with floorboard) at a local music dealer that just opened. (I'm pretty sure that they had it mismarked since I have never seen a Flex II XL for under 800 alone.)
If you aren't aware of these bad boys you should become. It's a digital modeling amp with all of the bells and whistles. 32 different amps lots of effects and cabinet simulators. I play in a local bar band that plays covers and originals and if I want to pull off -any- sound I can. Yeah sure from a tube snobs point of view it's not EXACTLY the same sound. But the people in the audience can't tell the difference especially when its running through board with an exciter on it... The versitility is freaky amazing I roll from Arms Wide Open by Creed to Californication by RHCP to Friends in Low Places by Garth and all I have to do is hit a button on my floorboard. Before I used to haul an old blackface Twin a Boogie .22 and a rack of effects to pull off a resemblence of these sounds. People may gripe about it not being perfectly similar to high dollar amps but for the price of a Crate half stack I get plenty of incredible sounds.
If you are a multi style gigging guitarist this baby is a purely logical choice. You really can play any song (if you have the guitars and skills)and the audience will have a heck of a time figuring out that it isn't the real thing. If you are a new guitarist buy one too It'll be really hard for you to outgrow this monster. If you are a Tube Snob (I was) try one of these puppies under the screaming hot lights wide open when the bar is 100+ degrees and rockin'. I promise it won't blow a tube... And you won't miss a beat. (and now I won't have to send the CEO of Groove Tubes my life savings every 6 months...)If you are a one tone guitarist and don't need variety don't bother buying this it will overwhelm you. Anyone who truly dislikes it IMHO has not played with it enough. It took me 6 weeks to get it to performance standards but once I got it there I just hit save. It takes time to dial it in.Seems solid It's held up very nicely. Solid state is considerably more durable than tube.Incredible deal. My band thinks it sounds great the audience likes it more (one guy who is a regular came up to me and said he thought we were right on tonight the sound is hot tonight!) Simply enough Chicks dig me Men fear me.
(Okay maybe not but it is probably the best buy I have ever made in gear...)Great stuff. I'm a groopie for Line 6 now. Is it perfect? No but it's really really really close
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If you aren't aware of these bad boys you should become. It's a digital modeling amp with all of the bells and whistles. 32 different amps lots of effects and cabinet simulators. I play in a local bar band that plays covers and originals and if I want to pull off -any- sound I can. Yeah sure from a tube snobs point of view it's not EXACTLY the same sound. But the people in the audience can't tell the difference especially when its running through board with an exciter on it... The versitility is freaky amazing I roll from Arms Wide Open by Creed to Californication by RHCP to Friends in Low Places by Garth and all I have to do is hit a button on my floorboard. Before I used to haul an old blackface Twin a Boogie .22 and a rack of effects to pull off a resemblence of these sounds. People may gripe about it not being perfectly similar to high dollar amps but for the price of a Crate half stack I get plenty of incredible sounds.
If you are a multi style gigging guitarist this baby is a purely logical choice. You really can play any song (if you have the guitars and skills)and the audience will have a heck of a time figuring out that it isn't the real thing. If you are a new guitarist buy one too It'll be really hard for you to outgrow this monster. If you are a Tube Snob (I was) try one of these puppies under the screaming hot lights wide open when the bar is 100+ degrees and rockin'. I promise it won't blow a tube... And you won't miss a beat. (and now I won't have to send the CEO of Groove Tubes my life savings every 6 months...)If you are a one tone guitarist and don't need variety don't bother buying this it will overwhelm you. Anyone who truly dislikes it IMHO has not played with it enough. It took me 6 weeks to get it to performance standards but once I got it there I just hit save. It takes time to dial it in.Seems solid It's held up very nicely. Solid state is considerably more durable than tube.Incredible deal. My band thinks it sounds great the audience likes it more (one guy who is a regular came up to me and said he thought we were right on tonight the sound is hot tonight!) Simply enough Chicks dig me Men fear me.
(Okay maybe not but it is probably the best buy I have ever made in gear...)Great stuff. I'm a groopie for Line 6 now. Is it perfect? No but it's really really really close
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com