Can you make a Line 6 Spider sound GOOD?

Is it possible for this amp to sound good? At all???
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[KeyanHoushmandLive]

Thanks for watching dudes! Let me know what you guys think

[hados]

I've never hated the spiders tones It's just hard to work with. But that being said, good guitar playing can make a lot of things sound good. You make the spider sound so good

[CharlieRobbins]

It’s possible when Keyan is in the room

[oscar.leon]

The line 6 spider has been of the best practice amps I’ve ever had

[MrScrofulous]

It sounded fine. Amps like this are great for home practice. AS you noted, you get a ton of features for small change. I'm an inclusive thinker. I had a Roland Cube 30, which was similar, and that amp gave me hours of pleasure. Sure, once I discovered tube monsters, I moved on, but that's not possible or practical for your average teenager.

[llamalad]

As a college student that inherited my older brothers line 6, I gotta say it’s been awesome for me. Obviously the price was right with it being free, but it’s served me well. When I do play in bands, I just simply have it on clean and use my own pedals and I always thought it sounded just fine. I actually even really like the chorus and delay it has built in. I plan on getting something better once I graduate and make actual money but until then I think it sounds great for what I need haha

[polloymedio]

Man your mixes sound huge! Please do a mixing tutorial :P

[joshuabiddix]

Line 6 deserves more credit than deserve. I've never had any bad experiences with them.

[cursetheserpent]

I think it sounded great. However I think a blind tone test would yield a more accurate response as a lot of people see that it’s a spider and automatically hate the sound without even hearing it

[redvelvet]

nearly spat out my drink when my mans started playing BFMV

[michaelb.]

Loved the sounds you got out of that! I bought this amp as an older new player. I loved it at the time. Now I'm retired and can't afford a new amp but I don't gig out so playing this is still a joy. Thanks for sharing!

[garyleahy]

The big thing about Line 6 Spider series is it takes so long to figure out how to master the tones. I've had a Spider III/150W for about 10 years and granted, it took a while to figure it out but personally, I think they're great for getting different sounds and tones for specific artists or songs.

[Mr__V]

Most who complain about this amp only ever tried the smaller ones.

The smaller ones don't sound so great, but I've used these amps since 2005.
Spider I and ii were meh. But 3 and on as long as it's the 75w or high sound great.

[ticesine]

Not sure how anyone can make this amp sound bad, that celestion sounds amazing.

[fredscott]

I'm not shocked you and Glen got massively different results. He can't play guitar to save his life and you can make anything sound good.

[DKinMN]

Of course. There are numerous videos of blind tests between this amp, the Helix, other modelers, and actual tube amps. It performs just fine.

Snobs will always say otherwise. I'll happily take their gigs with a Spider V and a Classic Vibe Jazzmaster and sound very good doing it.

[rickdeleon]

I've had a Spider IV 150-Watt amp and FBV MKII shortboard for quite a few years. I've never really got into the amp to see and hear what I could do with it. Am up in age and retired; watching this video has given me the inspiration to break out my gear and spend quality time to see what this amp does. Excellent video, keep em, coming. Thanks

[bls]

This was my main tone for years...I made it work I didn't know it was so hated although I've always known there was something different sounding about the insane channel...

[mattglover]

I had this amp for a while 10 old years ago, it served it purpose pretty well for a couple of years!

I always thought of it as my ‘gateway drug’ to gear tone chasing lol

[SHARt_murmur]

Good for you making a vid like this. There’s plenty of things I don’t “like” about it (the Spider series), but for many years, that’s all I could afford; honestly, it taught me how to wrestle with gear as oppose to just swapping because I couldn’t find something that worked in minutes. All in all, I’d rather people use what they have and be playing than stopping all together because their “gear isn’t good enough; “ heck, I wouldn’t be a luthier if I didn’t have crap gear to experiment on at first. We all gotta start somewhere and should be focusing on encouraging each other to keep playing regardless of gear.