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Guitar News Weekly Edition #265 |
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October 6, 2003 |
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LINE 6 RELEASE SPIDER II AMPS Line 6,inventors of digital modeling guitars and amps,announced the launch of its Spider II series of guitar amplifiers. Spider II offers twice as many amp tones,upgraded power amps and,for the first time,a stereo head and matching 4 x 12 half-stack.The Spider II series makes owning a Line 6 more desirable and affordable than ever. The restyled Spider II delivers 12 unique amp models made from combining the sounds of some of the greatest amps in history and placing them in one powerful package.It also features Line 6's revolutionary Smart Control FX (seven different effect types,three simultaneous)including reverb,chorus/flanger,phaser,tremolo,digital delay,tape echo,and sweep echo.All effects can be easily tweaked and delay times can be adjusted using tap tempo. To ensure the authenticity of the preset tones,Line 6 invited members of Slipknot and Evanescence,both Line 6 users,to create and name patches for the new models.Slipkno t's patches include:Snarl,Meat,Sanitarium and Cheese.Evanescenc e's patches include:Satanic Crunch,Bring Me Your Wife,My Immoral,McMars. "II is a brutal little am p—it rules ,"said Mick Thomson,Slipkno t's lead guitarist." inspired a new song in the first two minutes we were shredding on it." The Spider II family consists of a 1 x 12 (75 watt mono combo),2 x 10 (120 watt)and 2 x 12 (150 watt)stereo combos,as well as a 150 watt stereo head with custom-designed cabs.All models include custom Celestion speakers.Other features include a front panel tuner and a headphone out which doubles as a line level recording output. Spider II has four preset channels accessible from the front panel.The new FBV2 footswitch can scroll up and down the four channels.Spider II is also compatible with the FBV4 footswitch (which can directly select from the 4 channels),as well as the FBV and FBV Shortboard pedals (which add wah/volume pedals and access to 36 channels).
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