Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

[Fonzie]

Anything you think about either!

These two are on my list of possible new amps to upgrade from my Spider IV 30w.

Go!

[bloomfieldriffs]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Perhaps consider a Fender Mustang.

[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Perhaps consider a Fender Mustang.

Interesting

[chevyaddict83]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Id look for a nice used tube before anything

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[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Id look for a nice used tube before anything

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Eh, tubes moobs

[Chickenwings]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

my friend bought a katana 100. he seems to like it.

[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

my friend bought a katana 100. he seems to like it.

Good to know, thanks!

[Drunken Bowling]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Interesting

I own a Mustang. The crunch on the Katana sounds better IMHO.

[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

I own a Mustang. The crunch on the Katana sounds better IMHO.

In what way?

[mantis]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

I was reading your signature, I don't see why you should even feel shamed, every tool out there has a purpose and if the Spider works for you, rock on my brother.
With that being said the if you love your Spider but feel it needs an upgrade in this or that, look at the new ones. They have made some pretty good improvements.
I'd stay away from the models with less then a 12 inch speaker as I felt the smaller drivers sounded thin , cheap and not worthy of guitar pure tone. Yeah you could always replace the speaker but why on a brand new amp? I believe the range gets good at the 120 or 240. This way you can practice at home or gig with it. It's more useful. The 120 I would go with if your only gonna practice with it. But if your gonna play in a band, it will do fine. The 240 would be a better choice all around in my strong opinion. I'm not one for a single 12, I like the sound of the fuller 2 x 12 setup. That goes for all amps for me. I'm totally not into single 12 amps even at the highest quality. The 2 x 12 well at least to me always sounds fuller fatter and more punchy yet more beautiful on amps with excellent clean channels.

The Boss amp is interesting and I would have to plug into one to see if that would be a good choice. I watched some reviews and I think it's worthy of a test run. I would absolutely play one before I purchased the 240 From Line 6. I think Boss makes better sounding effects over Line 6 so personally I might lean towards the Kantana due to the effects section. Not to metion I would go Katana 100/212 as again I'm a firm believer of 2 x 12 over a single 12. But thats just me man.

[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

I was reading your signature, I don't see why you should even feel shamed, every tool out there has a purpose and if the Spider works for you, rock on my brother.
With that being said the if you love your Spider but feel it needs an upgrade in this or that, look at the new ones. They have made some pretty good improvements.
I'd stay away from the models with less then a 12 inch speaker as I felt the smaller drivers sounded thin , cheap and not worthy of guitar pure tone. Yeah you could always replace the speaker but why on a brand new amp? I believe the range gets good at the 120 or 240. This way you can practice at home or gig with it. It's more useful. The 120 I would go with if your only gonna practice with it. But if your gonna play in a band, it will do fine. The 240 would be a better choice all around in my strong opinion. I'm not one for a single 12, I like the sound of the fuller 2 x 12 setup. That goes for all amps for me. I'm totally not into single 12 amps even at the highest quality. The 2 x 12 well at least to me always sounds fuller fatter and more punchy yet more beautiful on amps with excellent clean channels.

The Boss amp is interesting and I would have to plug into one to see if that would be a good choice. I watched some reviews and I think it's worthy of a test run. I would absolutely play one before I purchased the 240 From Line 6. I think Boss makes better sounding effects over Line 6 so personally I might lean towards the Kantana due to the effects section. Not to metion I would go Katana 100/212 as again I'm a firm believer of 2 x 12 over a single 12. But thats just me man.

Thanks so much for your friendly comment!
I love my Spider, I find it really interesting how people get these ideas in their heads- my Spider IV is not bad at all, it's a great sounding amp. I know people are entitled to their opinions, but if one thinks that a Spider IV sucks, then they haven't even come close to experiencing suckage.
Yeah I've been looking a lot at the Spider V, would probably get the 1x12 (don't have much money)

I've been looking at peavey bandits to use as a pedal platform as well.

Rock on dude!

[thunderkyss]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Have you looked at the Yamaha THRs?

Those little suckers sound purtdamGood

[Fonzie]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

Have you looked at the Yamaha THRs?

Those little suckers sound purtdamGood

Ill check em out dude!

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

I got to **** around with one of the new Spiders recently at a shop and it sounded pretty damn nice once I got away from the presets and started building a patch on my iPhone (something I wish had been implemented in the Helix). It seems like Line 6 took all the best ideas of the Amplifi and the Firehawk and put them into an affordable amp. I haven't tried the Katana but I've heard good things. I would say that the best thing to do would be to just see if a shop near you has either of them in stock and try them out. Although, if you were able to get nice tones out of a Spider IV, I don't see why you wouldn't want to go with a company that you know and love.

[El Dunco]

Re: Line 6 Spider V vs Boss Katana

I got to **** around with one of the new Spiders recently at a shop and it sounded pretty damn nice once I got away from the presets and started building a patch on my iPhone

That's just it. Every piece of gear I've ever owned or used with factory presets sucked ginormous donkey balls yet yielded great results working it out for myself most likely because whatever was going into it and it was going into was completely different to what I use when they made the presets.