Posted: 9/8/2008 4:44:34 PM EDT
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A guy I work with is selling his Line 6 Spider 30, and offered to let me hang on to it for a day or two, play around with it some, see if I might be interested. I've been kinda wanting a solid state practice amp to dink around with too. My initial impressions - meh. The onboard effects are fun, and interesting, but it just hasn't done anything for me yet. It has a foot switch for the four different channels, with a volume pedal, and that's kinda cool. I haven't really played with the EQ or the effects to dial in a tone I really like, but just as first glance I don't know if I'll be able to. I know it's not really even a fair comparison, but my little Blues Jr. tonally blows this thing away. I guess I've been spoiled by the response and warmth of tube distortion. Oh well, I got a few more days to play with it and see if I can find a channel/setting that really strikes my fancy. The high gain channels are kinda cool, the "Crunch" channel (which the instructions say is supposed to be modeled after a Marshall Plexi) sounds lame, and clean channel sounds good for what it is. One thing that kinda annoys me, on my Blues Jr. I run the gain kinda high, then roll my guitar's volume knob back for cleans, I can't do that with the Line 6. The Line 6 does have a CD/MP3 player in, which could be fun, playing along with songs from my iPod. |