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The Line 6 Spider III 15 Guitar Combo Amplifier is a 15 watt solid state guitar amplifier with built-in Amp and effects modeling. It’s a good samll amplifier for a starting guitar player, and makes a great home practice amp for more experienced players.
Spider™ III delivers detailed amp models based on some of the greatest guitar sounds ever created. To keep these sounds authentic, we kidnapped some of our favorite artists to dial in each amp model. Now you can rule the stage 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.
Line 6 Spider III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amplifier Features:
- 4 Essential Amp Models
- 6 Effects (2 simultaneous) including phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb
- 4 User-programmable channels
- CD/MP3 jack
- Headphone/Direct Out for practice or recording
- Custom 8-inch speaker
- 15 Watts
Amp Models:
Clean
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.
Crunch
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
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.
Insane
This model is our “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.
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 2 effects simultaneous) : Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb.
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.
Line 6 Spider III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amplifier Reviews
Nice practice amp at a great price!
A few days ago I borrowed a Spider II 15 from a friend, I was impressed with it , and since I had to borrow an amp you should get the idea that I needed a new small practice amp… while many adequate small amps (10-25 watts) exist they tend to be small sounding and shy on features, or the effects are substandard and don’t sound like high quality stomp boxes at all …. The Spider II proved to be an exception to this notion, I knew within an hour that Line 6 would probably be the maker of whatever amp I ended up buying…This was my first hands on with a Line 6 product, by the way….
So I began to search for a baby spider of my own … I found a great deal on a Spider III 15 at Guitar Center and rushed to town to snag me one of my own … I bought the very last one at the store, they sell very quickly I was told by the salesman … Lucky me !!
Cosmetically the spider III looks almost exactly like the II, the features are the same, but the III has been noticeably tweaked to the consumers benefit .. The effects sound a bit better and the mids are allot better, and they were already pretty darn great on the Spider II!
Its loud for a 15 watter … sounds clean for a small amp even at rather high volume, very solidly built for any amp but extremely so for under 100 dollars, the effects sound right, like high quality stomp boxes rather than cheesy amp based effects .. like I found on my old Crate 15 watter, for instance, The custom made 8” speaker handles the sound very well this is simply a best of its class unit in every aspect of its being!
One complaint about the Spider III 15 is regarding what some folk consider misleading claims on the packaging description about the artist presets. True the settings are hard to find at the Line6 website but with a little searching there are a few pdf documents demonstrating a bunch of artist settings for a number of songs…. and the nobs are great fun to fiddle around with anyway, very responsive as well!
All in all I could not recommend this product highly enough, and I recommend this amp to anybody needing a high quality small amp at a very reasonable price … Its the best of its kind I have ever used, and I have used, borrowed or owned a bunch of small amps over the last 30 or so years..
My next big amp will likely be a Line 6 product as well .. They really seem to have a knack for rethinking design and technology and use these innovations across the entirety of their product lines, plus on the low end they have a good sense of which bells and whistles to leave out and which to include for the highest quality sound, highest level of functionality and biggest bang for your buck!!
A Great Deal for the Beginner; A Great Practice Amp for Veterans
I actually won this amp in a music contest and, given the very low price, I frankly didn’t expect much. Was I ever wrong!
This is a great little amp. Compared to my 70’s vintage Fender Sidekick Reverb, it’s light as a feather still manages to give a great, clean sound. And the volume isn’t anything I’d use for stage work, but it’s still loud enough to drive my wife to distraction and I’m usually relegated to keeping it a respectable level. Which, by the way, still sounds great. And the special FX are fun that my aforementioned Fender couldn’t have dreamed of.
The four presets and six FX are fun to play with and you can easily get your self wrapped up just playing scales and fiddling with knobs. The four factory presets are interesting and you can use them to program your own favorite settings (the manual says) but I really haven’t played with that particular feature. And the presets, at least for me, aren’t all that different. I can’t tell that much difference between “Crunch” and “Metal” but maybe it’s just my cheesy playing.
Another reviewer has mentioned the “song based” presets, but the 15w doesn’t offer this option. As near as I can tell you have to be into the Line 6 Spider III 120 Guitar Combo Amplifier range before the cabinet is even big enough to hold the necessary panels and buttons and stuff.
Still, that’s not what this product is designed for. It’s a fun amp for practice or play, but not pro.
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