Line 6 Spider III HD150 Guitar Amplifier Head (2x75 Watts)

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150 watts stereo (75W x 2).

Overview

Insane rock star settings. Yours for the taking.
Instantly access hundreds of killer sounds designed by the world's most notorious rock stars.

Get your hands on the latest generation of Line 6 modeling technology for the most detailed amp and effect models ever created.

If you crave the sounds you hear on stage or on your favorite albums, Spider III is here to deliver.

With Spider III 75, 120, 150, and HD150, take your pick from 250 artist presets, including settings hand-crafted by:
-- 311

-- Thursday

-- Lacuna Coil

-- Hawthorne Heights

-- Slipknot

-- Ash

-- Albert Lee

-- Athlete

-- John 5

-- and many more!

Or if you want to find a sound that you heard on a specific track, choose from another 150 song-based presets including:
-- No More Tears

-- Enter Sandman

-- Stinkfist

-- Back In Black

-- Bark at the Moon

-- and many more!

New to the Spider III is a huge range of killer mid-gain guitar tones. A critical advancement was made to the sound and feel of the Spider III line when their discerning panel of artists focused in on the venerable "mid-gain" range of tone to deliver the complex, layered and dynamic amp tone we all appreciate from classic and boutique amps.

Plug in and separate yourself from the posers.

Spider III HD 150
Spider III delivers detailed amp models based on some of the greatest guitar sounds ever created. To keep these sounds authentic, Line 6 kidnapped some of Line 6's favorite artists to dial in each amp model. Now you can rule the stage… read more with the Insane model with its truly massive gain or explore your sensitive side in the studio with the Clean model. It's all up to you.

Features
12 Custom Amp Models from Clean to Insane

7 Smart Control FX (up to 3 simultaneous) including Tape Echo, Sweep Echo, Standard Delay (all with Tap Tempo) Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, and Reverb

250 artist-created presets

150 song-based presets

Plus 36 user programmable presets

Built-in front panel tuner

150 watts stereo (75W x 2)

Amp Models
Clean
Red LED -- Select this Amp Model and adjust the tone controls to get crisp, amazing clean tones, great warm jazz tones, and all the high-end shimmer you'll need with a generous amount of bottom end.

Glassy
Green LED -- Line 6 developed this Amp Model to emulate those late 60's and early 70's clean tones. It started off as an Amp Model based on* a 1973 Hiwatt Custom 100. Line 6 extended the tone control range and tightened up the low end.

Twang
Red LED -- This Amp Model draws on* Line 6's analysis of mid 60's Fender amps, including the blackface '65 Twin Reverb and blackface '64 Deluxe Reverb. Line 6 wanted an Amp Model that has that classic glassy high end tone, with some snap and bite.

Twin Twang
Green LED -- This Amp Model is based on* a number of vintage tweed amps. Line 6 evaluated a '53 Fender tweed Deluxe Reverb, '58 Fender tweed Bassman and a '60 Gibson Explorer to create a swingin' Rockabilly tone.

Blues
Red LED - Based on* a mix of a '65 Marshall JTM-45, a '58 Fender Bassman, a '63 Fender Vibroverb and a Supro, this Amp Model slides between gritty swamp-infected cleans to syrupy smooth, walloping drive tones.

Class A
Green LED -- This Amp Model is based on* a fawn Vox AC-30 amplifier with an updated and expanded tone control circuit. Line 6 wanted to capture that early British pop rock tone that the Beatles and the Stones are so well known for.

Crunch
Red LED -- This sound was crafted during Line 6's studies* of the '68 Marshall Plexi 50 Watt. This type of Marshall amp was used by a number of early metal bands. Crunch provides a wider range of tone control settings than the original Marshall amp had.

On Fire
Green LED -- This Amp Model is based on* a '68 Marshall Plexi 100 watt with a few added extras; The combination of a Variac and the jumped input channels creates that infamous brown sound.

Metal
Red LED -- This Amp Model is based on* the Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier. Use this Amp Model to get a tight and punchy, high gain Metal sound.

Spinal Puppet
Green LED -- This sound was created to be an aggressive high gain Amp Model with a unique Mid control that will sweep though an entire spectrum of tone on one knob. The Mid knob for this Amp Model changes the character of the distortion. When set to minimum, the distortion exhibits Fuzz pedal characteristics. When the Mid is set to noon, it mimics the creamy modern high gain amp tones. And when the Mid knob is turned up to max, it's very much reminiscent of that Class A sound.

Insane
Red LED -- This model is Line 6's "dialed in for shredding" version based on* the Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier red channel. It combines the intensity and impact of Metal Red, but delivers more midrange and teeth for that bone-crushing, brain piercing insane grind.

80s Solo
Green LED -- Line 6's goal with Insane was to provide you with as much input gain distortion as possible short of complete meltdown. You get an obscene helping of distortion, while still retaining tonal definition and character.

Effects
A great amp isn't the only part of a great guitar sound. With Smart Control FX, an exclusive Line 6 feature that automatically dials in different effect parameters, you spend more time playing and less time tweaking. Simply find the effect that you want, turn the knob to your desired intensity, and you're done. You can even use multiple effects at the same if you wanna get really crazy.

Effects Models (Up to 3 effects simultaneous):
-- Phaser

-- Chorus/Flanger

-- Tremolo

-- Sweep Echo

-- Tape Echo

-- Reverb

Ins & Outs
When you're playing with your band on stage just drag the Spider III on stage and crank it up. When it comes time to record, use the headphone/direct out and plug it straight into the mixing board for world-class POD 2.0 direct tone used in pro studios and stages everywhere! You can also use the same out with headphones for practicing in your bedroom. Want to play along with your favorite songs? Plug into the CD/MP3 input and you're good to go.

* All product names used in this webpage are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6's sound model development.

Specs

Compatible with the FBV2, FBV Express, and FBV Shortboard foot controllers.

Documents and Manuals

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 818-575-3600

Reviews

(19 ratings)

Submitted March 12, 2008 by a customer from yahoo.com

"It may take some getting used but it's more than worth it"

Overall:

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This amp has an amazing tone for any kind of music, just give yourself a couple of hours to learn how to navigate the presets and to dial in your own tone. A good idea would be to go to the Line 6 website where you can find a list of all the presets and where they are located. This amp should last me a good decade or so. If it was stollen I would immediatly go out and buy another one.

Sound
Every thing I play sounds amazing (however I don't usually use anything midgain so I can't speak for that), I play a wide variety of music and just about anything I can imagine in my head I can accomplish through this amp. Whenever I was using my Marshall I had to fight with it to get a tone that I enjoyed and whenever I played live it would always loose it's tone whether I was playing sparkling clean or metal it would just get lost in the mix. This amp retains it's punch and continues to impress me.

Features
There are 7 effects (3 simultaneously), and you can save up to nine sets of four tones (which I didn't know about until I had the amp in my possession). Then there are also plenty of presets for any style of music.

Ease of Use
This is the amps only down fall, the manuel certainly isn't the best one I've ever read. Then the navigation is all done by a little four directional pad. So it takes some time to get familiar with the amp and make it your own, but once you do the navigation the ease of… read more use is phenomenal. So really it's just the start up that kills the rating.

Quality
This amp is nice and heavy, but not too heavy, and it's interior is metal. I put it at a nine because the 'faceplate' seems like it's made out of hard plastic instead of metal.

Value
This is worth every penny, I couldn't ask for more.

Manufacturer Support
I haven't had to contact support so I do not know.

The Wow Factor
This thing is sexy as hell, it has led's all over it and is one of the first things people notice whenever I'm at a gig.

Musical Background:
Active Musician

Musical Style:
Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Hard Rock, Alternative, Heavy Metal

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