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MGR/Rick Secchi « Line 6 Spider II 212 »
Published on 06/14/04 at 15:00I bought the Line 6 from Electrohill in North London for £299.95. I needed a good amp, with a good metal distortion, decent clean effects, and fair range of other effects. Something loud enough for gigs, but something small enough to practice.
It has an awesome metal sound (like Metallica) "Insane Green", which you can adjust the bass, drive, reverb, treble and mid, for your desired sound. It also has the more lighter metal sound, "Metal Green" like AC/DC, and the more rock 'n'roll stuff. The clean channels are beautiful with new strings, where it sounds great with the "Chorus/Flange" and a bit of reverb. Its awesomely loud, and it came with a 2 channel footswitch.
The footswitch lead sort of shrivels, and stiffens up after you've coiled it up a couple times. Its a bit like a telephone cable, as the plastic inserts, clips into the amp and footswitch. This amp is a bit too heavy as well. The sound isn't quite perfect, I use a Epiphone Les Paul Standard, where the pick-ups aren't strong enough. I've played the affordable Peavey Wolfgang through it, and its a lot stronger, with more low-end. So you definatly need a decent humbucker guitar to get a good sound out of it. Not suitable for strat players.
Solid as a rock, very well built. Almost perfect, as it doesn't have the stiffer netting like some amps have. It looks awesome as well, the greyish silver on controls board and the silver knobs gives it a modern look.
Theres not many other combo amps, that contain the decent quality of the construction and sound that the Line 6 Spider II delivers at an affordable price. If you want a decent amp for small gigs and for practice, get the 212 or the 210. But if you want a decent amp just for practice, then you can't go wrong with the 112. I do suggest you get a decent guitar with decent humbucker pickups.
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It has an awesome metal sound (like Metallica) "Insane Green", which you can adjust the bass, drive, reverb, treble and mid, for your desired sound. It also has the more lighter metal sound, "Metal Green" like AC/DC, and the more rock 'n'roll stuff. The clean channels are beautiful with new strings, where it sounds great with the "Chorus/Flange" and a bit of reverb. Its awesomely loud, and it came with a 2 channel footswitch.
The footswitch lead sort of shrivels, and stiffens up after you've coiled it up a couple times. Its a bit like a telephone cable, as the plastic inserts, clips into the amp and footswitch. This amp is a bit too heavy as well. The sound isn't quite perfect, I use a Epiphone Les Paul Standard, where the pick-ups aren't strong enough. I've played the affordable Peavey Wolfgang through it, and its a lot stronger, with more low-end. So you definatly need a decent humbucker guitar to get a good sound out of it. Not suitable for strat players.
Solid as a rock, very well built. Almost perfect, as it doesn't have the stiffer netting like some amps have. It looks awesome as well, the greyish silver on controls board and the silver knobs gives it a modern look.
Theres not many other combo amps, that contain the decent quality of the construction and sound that the Line 6 Spider II delivers at an affordable price. If you want a decent amp for small gigs and for practice, get the 212 or the 210. But if you want a decent amp just for practice, then you can't go wrong with the 112. I do suggest you get a decent guitar with decent humbucker pickups.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com