insightibanez
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Has anybody played a Line 6 Vetta I or II amp? Since I sold all of my guitar gear and out of debt, been looking for something new to try. Any Ideas? :?
schlagdog said:My friend back in Nebraska did the same thing with the Vetta. You have to really know how to use it. I think that is why the thing really never sold that well. Every single preset was useless and unless you started from scratch on a patch it was no good. I can get the thing to sound allmost identical to any amp I run it next to. The tube saturation is all it misses and most people don't notice. I actually like it better for an SRV tone better then any other tube amp I have played. You can get the stevie breakup on it with ease which isn't easy to get on anything tube without blowing your ears up. Do you still have the vetta? I assume you sold it already. Otherwise I'd give you some patch ideas on it. The big bottom amp and the Diamondplate where really the only two high gain models on the sing I ever used. The warhead can is pretty tough looking. I got it at a pawn shop here for $250. I ran out of that joint with a big smile.
vindaloo said:I had a Vetta I that I upgraded to the II software. I used it in a couple of bands and played it heavily for a few years. It was great to have all of those effects at your disposal, and coming up with bizarre new sounds was easy. But in the end I decided that I missed the analog warmth of a tube amp. It's hard to describe--I could never get the amp to feel as organic as a tube amp. L6 has partnered with Bogner for a line of tube amps with their digital modeling, so that might be worth taking a look at too.
Side note--I'm not one of those L6 bashers who give them a hard time without having actually played with their products. Quite the contrary--I'm using one of their wireless units (love it) and used to own some of their pedals as well. I only sold those to fund my RM100...kinda wish I had them back, actually! Good luck with your search for a new amp
Goldfish said:Tried many of the Line6 amp combinations for live use back in the late 90s/early 00s. Vetta, the PODs, Flextones, POD pro's through the PA, hooked up to JCM power sections...None worked in real band settings. I abandoned my Line6 experiments somewhere after the POD pro 2.0... Never cut like a real amp. There was just something overcompressed and lifeless about the dynamics that really felt alien to me. That's when I got back in the tube amp / stomp box game. Really happy I did.
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