Product Description

Four independent amp channel models (Clean, Crunch, Metal, and Insane) come preset with tone and effects settings carefully tweaked by the patients at Line 6Õ s Sound Design Asylum. This compact powerhouse has a dedicated distortion boost, noise gate, and the revolutionary Smart Control FX.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45477 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Line 6
• Dimensions: 9.65" h x 16.54" w x 16.54" l,

Features

• 4 amp models: Clean, Crunch, Metal & Insane
• 6 Smart Control FX (2 simultaneous) including Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb
• 4 User-programmable channels
• Tap Tempo
• Headphone/Direct Out for practice or recording

Customer Reviews

A very handy amp
Line 6 have provided guitarists with a beautiful piece of amplifying tech here, and the Spider III 15 is one decent bit of gear to have in your room. It may be too small for live performences, but you couldnt want a bigger amp to fit a bedroom, considering its the size of a standard square screen television, but dont get me wrong, it weighs around 1 stone 3 lbs, so if it falls on your noggin, your dead or at least in a coma. But forget size, the sound is whats important, and i can assure you it is sufficiant, no flickering or sketchy static, just pure sound, unless of course you want that, then you can just twist a few dials and make some of your own styles. The makers really had preference in mind with this amp, as well as sound quality, and have such added 4 Channels for your musical pleasure, Clean, Crunch, Metal, and Insane, all off which can be altered to ones preference and are even saved by simply holding the button down for 2 seconds. The dials include standards such as Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble and Chan Vol, but this amp is a real package in that it has a range of effects added on aswell.

Effects
- Chorus Flange
- Phaser
- Tremelo
- Sweep Echo
- Tape Echo
- Reverb

There is also a Tap Delay Time button, once again for your own preference of length in echo times and such. Although the likes of Phaser can get old, the Reverb and sweep echo can always inspire more musical output, aswell as Chorus Flange. Now onto Volume, and man this thing packs a punch, and if the Master Volume isnt enough for your already bleeding ears, just turn up the Channel Volume and youre as good as deaf. Now as for some more special features (as if saving up to 4 different styles wasnt enough) You can take advantage of the CD/MP3 In Jack (and of course a HeadPhone Jack) and mess about with some of your favourite bands and songs, You can even record from your Amp-via-computer, providing you have some nice software and the cables to connect.

The only downside is that theres no case:S so that meens you gotta lug this beast through the rain by its handle... hmmm well, not advised. Depending where this amp is purchased from, it may have a european plug, on the end of the 2 and half metre cable. Is there anything else? hmmm you get a couple packs of delicious Silica Gel.. Whats really great is that your amp changes as fast as your mood does, so if you get tired of metal and grungey stuff, you can just tap Clean for a mellow, chilled, relaxed tone. And this even works with volume controls, so if you are playing a quiet riff, one little press, and you can be strumming in an ultra loud mode. I hope this has been helpful to you guys..

The line six spider three amplifier for electric guitar
The spider 3 amp is very good for intermediate guitarists such as myself. Everything is perfect(apart from one thing). When you get this amplifier it also comes with a very loud buzzing sound which is very annoying on the insane setting because you can hear more buzzing than guitar sound. But overall this is a very good amp. It has four main settings clean,crunch,metal and insane.This amp also has a range of settings (which you can only use 2 at a time)including echo and tremelo. But once you can get rid of the buzzing and find the right tone settings this is a perfect amp.

Line6 Spider III 15 Review
Good amp, I got it about 6-7 months ago and it's not let me down really. It has nice tones and effects, all of which are very versatile. However there are two main factors which let it down:

1. No footswitch out- All the tones are all very well, but if you can't change between them easily, they're basically useless.

2.All the channels can only make one tone model. So if you wanted 2 Insanes, you couldn't. This really annoys me as the thing won't let you have a really distorted tone as rhythm and lead. I play metal so this is really important.

Apart from those two huge glaring errors, it is a very nice amp. It is a modeller though, so all you tube purists will not want this.

BTW, what's with the "kid's review" thing? Age discrimination or what?