w00tland's Reviews

Ok beginner guitar

In my opinion, this guitar is ok if you're just learning guitar on it, but I would never take this to a concert.

The neck feels great! It has the wonderful playability of the original telecaster neck (of which it is a copy, so no surprises there). It is very comfortable for playing chord progressions, riffs, and even faster solos.

Unfortunately, it came with a terrible intonation. The bridge saddles feel very delicate when setting up the intonation. The saddles tend to wiggle around (also when playing heavily on it). The tuners aren't quite that good either. They're having a hard time to stay in tune.

Originally I thought this guitar would have quite high output pickups. Unfortunately, the stock humbucker and single coil have a low output, I guess they don't have as much windings as the "better" pickups. This makes this guitar much less versatile in my opinion. With the stock setup, this guitar is not great for the heavier music styles. Great for the blues though. Though I'd recommend to use a boost pedal if you are planning on getting this guitar.

Great versatile amp

From high gain to clean, and from vintage to modern. This amp's got it all. It has 12 preset amp models (from "clean" to "insane"), a nice digital reverb to give some extra body to your tones, and it has a delay, sweep echo, tape echo (all adjustable with tap tempo), chorus/flanger, phaser, and tremolo effect. It also has 4 channels which allow you to save your favorite settings and a built in tuner. These are easily accessible by the Line 6 footswitches (these also come with an expression pedal!).

All the above makes this a very, very, very versatile amp. I'd highly recommend this amp for beginning players or guitar players in cover bands (although the spider II is a little outdated, Line 6 still makes newer versions of this amp). This amp has so many settings which allow you to explore all of your potential on every musical style. Also, this amp has more than enough power to gig with any band.

Overall a great amp. The only thing it's missing in my opinion is tubes. But that's where the Line 6 amps with Bogner tubes come in ;)