Line 6 Spider V

menamestom

What is the DT50 like?  Or is that one of the ones you are talking about @ICBM ;

ICBM

impmann said:

Spider Valve II is ok

That's good to know. I'll have a look at the one in the shop, I can't remember which it is - I think it's a II but I'm not 100% sure.

menamestom said:

What is the DT50 like?  Or is that one of the ones you are talking about @ICBM ;

I worked on one recently - the fault was trivial but tricky to find, and caused by excessive and unnecessary complication…

It also sounded *dreadful*. But I think it was working right (after being fixed).

John_A

I had. DT25 and it was a lovely sounding amp, miss it

impmann

Dt50 has switchable topology to bring in different modes of operation - and they don't, imho, sound as good as the Dt25. They also were never very reliable...

EricTheWeary

IIRC the DT50s were the ones that got sold off cheap going for much less than a DT25 in the end? Probably not the most positive indicator. 

menamestom

Sounds much better in this video than the original promo.

Cabicular

Yeah if you put Helix in the title of that demo most people wouldn't bat an eyelid
chatting to Paul he is mightily impressed with it

Fretwired

menamestom said:

Sounds much better in this video than the original promo.

This sounds much better and is pretty good ... anyone know which model it is?

menamestom

Fretwired said:

menamestom said:

Sounds much better in this video than the original promo.

This sounds much better and is pretty good ... anyone know which model it is?

I'm not sure, looks fairly small so possibly the 60.  But it is recorded USB so all models should sound the same. But based on it not being a 2x12 and having a looper it can only be 60 or 120.

Cabicular

It's the v60

ICBM

That sounds really very good.

paul_c2

Glenn Fricker doesn't like it.....

ICBM

In amongst the ranting he does make a couple of good points about the USB connection to a computer, not being able to use it for recording as well as editing it at the same time - that does seem a bit stupid. I'm not particularly interested in what he says about the sounds, because the ones he's showing there seem almost purposely chosen to make it sound bad.

Of this year's new amps I'm probably most interested in this one because of the full-range speaker system - being able to use it for acoustic and hybrid sounds is something that I really like the idea of, and it sounds great in the video menamestom posted above. It may not be the best amp for a bedroom metal player though.

menamestom

It might be shit, but all he really showed was that the terrible presets which we all knew would sound rubbish, sounded rubbish. 

Sounded okay in the first clip.  Trouble is an amp that does everything might do some things really good, but if it is only reviewed against one criteria (in his case high gain presets), it's bound to sound shit.

I almost think presets should be removed and amps should be sent out as blank canvases, so people can't just pick a bad sound and base opinion on that.

stickyfiddle

I'm not remotely interested in metal presets, but the clean/crunch options and easy FX tweaking interest me greatly. I definitely want to see if I can get one to demo in the UAE...

Fretwired

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meltedbuzzbox

Cabicular said:

Yeah if you put Helix in the title of that demo most people wouldn't bat an eyelid
chatting to Paul he is paid to say he is mightily impressed with it

Fixed that for you