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Published on 09/26/08 at 05:18
Combo Line 6 modeling with 75W Celestion speaker 12 ".
The panel is quite complicated to describe:
Taken various and varied (no effects loop), mp3 input, stereo headphone.
3-band EQ with some special feature (the mid knob is sometimes a general tone of other times really a sculptor friend of medium sounds fat ... good night.).
General reverb, a master volume.
Drive knob that controls the "contour" of sound.
Saturation of the simulation volume control channel.
Other functions by combining orders (distortion boost and noise gate).
Knob for selecting the model with 2 x 6 positions (Clean, Twang, Blues, Crunch, Metal and Insane by rate-distortion high).
LCD to display the names of the banks
Selectors banks by 4 buttons (ABCD)
Selection cursor banks 8 Positions, funny, kind of computer mouse.
Button "tap" for setting the parameters of time delays and other modulation effects (chorus, flanger, tremolo ...)
Lots of little lights flashing across to inform the user ...
The amp is compact and solid. And that's good!
UTILIZATION
Least for large N the manual that is very (too) short and not even a list of presets ...
Configuration level, despite the large number of available commands is quite simple and intuitive.
footswtich no ... not cool.
Lightweight compared to the power, compact size.
Seems very sturdy. For those who would like the back cover is not completely closed, revealing the back of the enclosure: pretty but dangerous.
SOUNDS
The 12 simulations offer a wide pallet sound and very successful.
I am very satisfied with all the sounds available even if, like many, I do not use half!
Some clean, large saturation and good crunch allois, RAS is clean and well defined.
It's enough fun and a good time playing on all the parameters we get really good results easily.
The equalizer is very powerful which is always useful.
The Clean, Crunch and Metal are my preference for now, no doubt it will evolve over time ...
The sounds of plants are not bad at all. Obviously there are good and less good. 400 presets it leaves something to love and something to hate. I quite like the spirit of creating sounds based on songs but it's like DHAB, some songs are well modeled and have fun sounds, others are completely missed.
As always it's subjective. Chuck Berry playing with simulations of Johnny B Goode's still fun, like playing Metal with simulations of Holy War.
After using that "it is made depends on each one. Perso I sometimes go and play sounds that comes into my head in line with the bank ... it makes me travel an hour or two without I really noticing!
As a group, I pay everything myself with the main knobs. I add that I am not a hard impact. I rather like this: you plug a simulation, a hint of reverb a little delay to the rigor and forward! In this case, the Spider III is fine.
A big plus for the sound that is clean and usable in all ranges of volumes (that is what made me choose a Spider III at the very lamps that I dream but is too restrictive in this respect).
The light weight for power, finishing very correct and reasonable size make it the friend of the musicians who have a small car commme me!
Clean: sounds delivered by the simulation are good clean sounds fairly standard. They make perfectly the personality of the instrument.
Twang: The famous spice of his 60 years. Extra clean sounds that both saturated.
Blues: The one I like even less of the blues. It lacks something that bothers me.
Crunch: Excellent crunchy that I use for blues and rock.
Metal: Heavy Air From the bold trashouille gives some wonderful tones and saturation level very acceptable.
Insane: mouai not a fan.
Now some comments negative or mixed:
The settings of the effects are super smart and hazardous control is often not very smart ... too much effect as usual with the other toys for multi scratch. The chorus sound suits agree but in homeopathic doses. The dose of smart is rather too much even trying to solve by applying (you know, concentrate their tongues!).
It takes a grip I must not have because of my strong fatigue effect trimmer.
The sounds of plants in general have way too much for me to be really useful effects (about 75% of cases). Note that this can be fixed by adjusting each sound to its taste.
The footswitch no, or very expensive, that's a big unless. When I play on this amp I do not change its on the same piece. A home is not a problem, as a group ... that's another story.
I would say that the price of this amp if you want to use it properly or even on stage again (I would drag that are genuine Watts 75W moving) is that of the amp + pedal board.
If I summarize:
+ The sounds, the versatility, the basic settings and ergonomics, the use amp
- The effects (especially the settings), the footswitch 150 euros, use multi effects
OVERALL OPINION
I use it recently and would probably edit this a test when I have more experience.
For me it is a starting material or scratch through.
In this case and for these people, value for money is really canon.
I like line 6 and the simulation but I try (and I hope I get there) to be objective on these tests. So I say, the strato standard of one of my buddies on his Fender all-tube amp sounds much better on my Variax Spider (surprise!).
Coupled with my Fender FMT Korean mounted Seymour Duncan Spider is nonetheless highly satisfying, it's super versatile and sounds I like. With my Variax 300 is also very good but I am quickly overwhelmed by the many ideas simultaneously Variax + combo simulated spider that I almost forget the most important: playing guitar, not playing the knob! this pair still appears to sound exceptional "vintage", "Jazz" and "twang".
Off topic: advice to beginners seeking versatility and all the time wondering if a multi effects € 50 connected to the first skyscraper and transistor amplifier 10 W will revolutionize their game and their sound: take time to resolve a equalizer and play the tones and microphones selectors (and volume) of your guitar and your amp (it is important to have a proper amp and a good scratch rather than having the effects) before trying to put the flanger and wha wah ... A Squier or Pacifica on a Bandit 112 (€ 350 for all of OCCAZ) already offers unique opportunities. To get to this point with this test, this amp will allow you (beginners) to test the different effects. But from time to time use only simulations and control low / mid / TREB, you will see that a good control of these parameters is crucial to the development effect. End of digression.
Beginners p'tits budgets of all backgrounds (blues, jazz, metal with long hair right Ltd. clad rockers with electric banana ...) try this amp you will be delighted. For the price you can indulge every € is profitable.
The panel is quite complicated to describe:
Taken various and varied (no effects loop), mp3 input, stereo headphone.
3-band EQ with some special feature (the mid knob is sometimes a general tone of other times really a sculptor friend of medium sounds fat ... good night.).
General reverb, a master volume.
Drive knob that controls the "contour" of sound.
Saturation of the simulation volume control channel.
Other functions by combining orders (distortion boost and noise gate).
Knob for selecting the model with 2 x 6 positions (Clean, Twang, Blues, Crunch, Metal and Insane by rate-distortion high).
LCD to display the names of the banks
Selectors banks by 4 buttons (ABCD)
Selection cursor banks 8 Positions, funny, kind of computer mouse.
Button "tap" for setting the parameters of time delays and other modulation effects (chorus, flanger, tremolo ...)
Lots of little lights flashing across to inform the user ...
The amp is compact and solid. And that's good!
UTILIZATION
Least for large N the manual that is very (too) short and not even a list of presets ...
Configuration level, despite the large number of available commands is quite simple and intuitive.
footswtich no ... not cool.
Lightweight compared to the power, compact size.
Seems very sturdy. For those who would like the back cover is not completely closed, revealing the back of the enclosure: pretty but dangerous.
SOUNDS
The 12 simulations offer a wide pallet sound and very successful.
I am very satisfied with all the sounds available even if, like many, I do not use half!
Some clean, large saturation and good crunch allois, RAS is clean and well defined.
It's enough fun and a good time playing on all the parameters we get really good results easily.
The equalizer is very powerful which is always useful.
The Clean, Crunch and Metal are my preference for now, no doubt it will evolve over time ...
The sounds of plants are not bad at all. Obviously there are good and less good. 400 presets it leaves something to love and something to hate. I quite like the spirit of creating sounds based on songs but it's like DHAB, some songs are well modeled and have fun sounds, others are completely missed.
As always it's subjective. Chuck Berry playing with simulations of Johnny B Goode's still fun, like playing Metal with simulations of Holy War.
After using that "it is made depends on each one. Perso I sometimes go and play sounds that comes into my head in line with the bank ... it makes me travel an hour or two without I really noticing!
As a group, I pay everything myself with the main knobs. I add that I am not a hard impact. I rather like this: you plug a simulation, a hint of reverb a little delay to the rigor and forward! In this case, the Spider III is fine.
A big plus for the sound that is clean and usable in all ranges of volumes (that is what made me choose a Spider III at the very lamps that I dream but is too restrictive in this respect).
The light weight for power, finishing very correct and reasonable size make it the friend of the musicians who have a small car commme me!
Clean: sounds delivered by the simulation are good clean sounds fairly standard. They make perfectly the personality of the instrument.
Twang: The famous spice of his 60 years. Extra clean sounds that both saturated.
Blues: The one I like even less of the blues. It lacks something that bothers me.
Crunch: Excellent crunchy that I use for blues and rock.
Metal: Heavy Air From the bold trashouille gives some wonderful tones and saturation level very acceptable.
Insane: mouai not a fan.
Now some comments negative or mixed:
The settings of the effects are super smart and hazardous control is often not very smart ... too much effect as usual with the other toys for multi scratch. The chorus sound suits agree but in homeopathic doses. The dose of smart is rather too much even trying to solve by applying (you know, concentrate their tongues!).
It takes a grip I must not have because of my strong fatigue effect trimmer.
The sounds of plants in general have way too much for me to be really useful effects (about 75% of cases). Note that this can be fixed by adjusting each sound to its taste.
The footswitch no, or very expensive, that's a big unless. When I play on this amp I do not change its on the same piece. A home is not a problem, as a group ... that's another story.
I would say that the price of this amp if you want to use it properly or even on stage again (I would drag that are genuine Watts 75W moving) is that of the amp + pedal board.
If I summarize:
+ The sounds, the versatility, the basic settings and ergonomics, the use amp
- The effects (especially the settings), the footswitch 150 euros, use multi effects
OVERALL OPINION
I use it recently and would probably edit this a test when I have more experience.
For me it is a starting material or scratch through.
In this case and for these people, value for money is really canon.
I like line 6 and the simulation but I try (and I hope I get there) to be objective on these tests. So I say, the strato standard of one of my buddies on his Fender all-tube amp sounds much better on my Variax Spider (surprise!).
Coupled with my Fender FMT Korean mounted Seymour Duncan Spider is nonetheless highly satisfying, it's super versatile and sounds I like. With my Variax 300 is also very good but I am quickly overwhelmed by the many ideas simultaneously Variax + combo simulated spider that I almost forget the most important: playing guitar, not playing the knob! this pair still appears to sound exceptional "vintage", "Jazz" and "twang".
Off topic: advice to beginners seeking versatility and all the time wondering if a multi effects € 50 connected to the first skyscraper and transistor amplifier 10 W will revolutionize their game and their sound: take time to resolve a equalizer and play the tones and microphones selectors (and volume) of your guitar and your amp (it is important to have a proper amp and a good scratch rather than having the effects) before trying to put the flanger and wha wah ... A Squier or Pacifica on a Bandit 112 (€ 350 for all of OCCAZ) already offers unique opportunities. To get to this point with this test, this amp will allow you (beginners) to test the different effects. But from time to time use only simulations and control low / mid / TREB, you will see that a good control of these parameters is crucial to the development effect. End of digression.
Beginners p'tits budgets of all backgrounds (blues, jazz, metal with long hair right Ltd. clad rockers with electric banana ...) try this amp you will be delighted. For the price you can indulge every € is profitable.