I never quite understood what the hatred towards Line6 is. Sure, it doesn't sound like the amps it tries to model, but so what? Personally, I can't listen to something and tell if it's a Crate or Peavy, but I didn't get the Line6 because I wanted a Peavy, I got the Line6 because I wanted the Line6. It was actually the ONLY amp I found in Guitar Center that had more effects than just reverb and/or drive. Sure, if you have the money to blow on a professional amp and a crapload of effects pedals, go for it. But if you want a large variety of sounds on the cheap (like, say, a garage band), the Line6 is a godsend. Add a Boss GT-6 effects processor, and you got one hell of a rig.
Heh...there are actually currently 7 guitar amps in my basement...a peavy, a crate, two line6s, a hondo, and two others I don't know the brand of (one of them is a full head and two tower speakers). I still think the Line6s are by far the best. And the Crate we've had nothing but trouble with from day one. It amazes me that the music snobs at homerecording.net basically told me not to go near Line6 with a ten foot pole when I asked about a good amp for a highschool garage band just starting out. Line6 is amazing stuff.
Nope. I just went down and checked. It's a Marlboro Soundworks SRA920. It's not mine, and I'm not sure that it's strictly a guitar amp...might be a general-purpose PA system. I also am unsure if the speakers are the same brand or not...I can't find any trace of a brand or model number on them, but they're a bit smaller than the head, and they don't really seem to fit together.
"Sure, it doesn't sound like the amps it tries to model, but so what?"
So it's no good at its stated purpose, but it's still good?
It's like anything else; you can go cheap and crappy from the beginning, develop a bunch of bad habits and end up with a tone that sounds just like everybody else using a Line 6, or you can take your time, build your rig up as you can and end up with something that's totally your own.
I just don't really see the point in amp modeling; why would you want a cheap copy of an original? You may as well look for something unique instead, and make your own sound. But you can really only do that in the analog (tube) realm.
You yourself say you don't care if the amp models sound like the real thing, so why do you care about modeling at all? Just get a real tube amp and make whatever sound you want. Or at least go hybrid and get a tube/solid state combo - they hardly cost anything more than modeling amps.
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I never quite understood what the hatred towards Line6 is. Sure, it doesn't sound like the amps it tries to model, but so what? Personally, I can't listen to something and tell if it's a Crate or Peavy, but I didn't get the Line6 because I wanted a Peavy, I got the Line6 because I wanted the Line6. It was actually the ONLY amp I found in Guitar Center that had more effects than just reverb and/or drive. Sure, if you have the money to blow on a professional amp and a crapload of effects pedals, go for it. But if you want a large variety of sounds on the cheap (like, say, a garage band), the Line6 is a godsend. Add a Boss GT-6 effects processor, and you got one hell of a rig.
Heh...there are actually currently 7 guitar amps in my basement...a peavy, a crate, two line6s, a hondo, and two others I don't know the brand of (one of them is a full head and two tower speakers). I still think the Line6s are by far the best. And the Crate we've had nothing but trouble with from day one. It amazes me that the music snobs at homerecording.net basically told me not to go near Line6 with a ten foot pole when I asked about a good amp for a highschool garage band just starting out. Line6 is amazing stuff.
@Urza, wouldn't the unknown with towers be a traynor YVM4?
Nope. I just went down and checked. It's a Marlboro Soundworks SRA920. It's not mine, and I'm not sure that it's strictly a guitar amp...might be a general-purpose PA system. I also am unsure if the speakers are the same brand or not...I can't find any trace of a brand or model number on them, but they're a bit smaller than the head, and they don't really seem to fit together.
"Sure, it doesn't sound like the amps it tries to model, but so what?"
So it's no good at its stated purpose, but it's still good?
It's like anything else; you can go cheap and crappy from the beginning, develop a bunch of bad habits and end up with a tone that sounds just like everybody else using a Line 6, or you can take your time, build your rig up as you can and end up with something that's totally your own.
I just don't really see the point in amp modeling; why would you want a cheap copy of an original? You may as well look for something unique instead, and make your own sound. But you can really only do that in the analog (tube) realm.
You yourself say you don't care if the amp models sound like the real thing, so why do you care about modeling at all? Just get a real tube amp and make whatever sound you want. Or at least go hybrid and get a tube/solid state combo - they hardly cost anything more than modeling amps.
As I said, I didn't get it for the modeling. I got it for the effects, which no other amp had.
"there are actually currently 7 guitar amps in my basement...a peavy, a crate, two line6s, a hondo, and two others"
Sounds like 7 turds...it's easy for a POD to rise to the top. :>)