Anyone Have A Spider Iii Amp? I'm Thinking About Buying One., Or have you read about the new Spider Jam.. |
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Anyone Have A Spider Iii Amp? I'm Thinking About Buying One., Or have you read about the new Spider Jam.. |
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Oct 16 2007, 10:28 AM |
Well most People will tell you that the Spider 3 is a bad amp. But the funniest thing is about that is, Most of the ppl who say that Don't have one and may have played one for a few mintues at the store. But because they didn't like a certain Preset or because it's not a tube amp, they will say it sucks.
But, since I've had one for quite a few months now, I can give you my honest opinion on it, and it's Strength and Weaknesses. Probably it's Strongest point is it's many Distortions if you like to play heavier stuff. The "Metal" and "Insane" Amp Settings can be tweaked to get anything from Thrash rhythm sounds to Crazy long Sustains for leads. Also with a big Chunk of the 400 presets being distortion sounds you can find Pretty much any style of Rock tones. It's Weakest point is Definetly the Clean channels, the "Clean" can be just plain weak sometimes, the "Twang" gets a little better, but the "Blues" can be tricky to tweak to get a good blues sound. All in all I'd say that most of the Presets aren't all that great. Some of them sound spot on to the Original sounds. But the real key is just using the Presets as a starting point to tweak the amp to get the Perfect sound. It takes a little work, but with some practise pretty much any sound you want can be achived using it. My best advice would be to try it up against other Modeling Amps if you go to a store. The Roland Cube and Vox Valvetronix are other Modeling Amps in the same style/price range. One plus that the Spider has is that you can buy the Separate Footboard http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Lin...ller?sku=420880 with a Wah pedal etc. BTW the 75 watt 12" Speaker. Even though it's not as big as the other one, it's a Beast in itself. Unless your Planning on Gigging at 50,000 seat staduim Hope this helped |
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Oct 22 2007, 05:37 PM |
Ouch, well maybe I'll have to look at a Roland Cube 30x and compare it to the Spider III 75 Any Roland Cube owners... Nah bricktop ... The Spider III 75, 120 or 150 gives you lots and lots of really nice options, it's Solid State and it dose what is promised by Line6. Take a look at the review: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?...i&w=reviews Spider III
This post has been edited by Twibeard: Oct 22 2007, 06:00 PM -------------------- Guitar: Ibanez RG370DXCE my backup is a Fender Strat. Amps: Marshall MG and Line6 Spider III 75W combo (preferred) Recording stuff: Cubase SX3, Logic emagic, Novation ReMote SL, M-Audio Pro Synth experiance: Roland, MoTu, Native Instrument, Spectrasonics and Steinberg Main VST's: Kontakt2, FM8, Bass station, Ezdrummer, MoTu EI, Atmosphere, Crystall |
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