Line 6 Amplifi 150 amplifier

[milko]

Hi all,
I hope you’re all safe and well in these frightening times.
Just for interest:-
I recently bought a used Line 6 Amplifi 150 guitar amp VERY cheaply. There’s Bluetooth and aux socket to an excellent built in backing tracks amp.
There is a dedicated phone app and you can spend hours jiggling with the tones provided by a list of many many MANY modelled amps including Vox AC15, AC30 and AC30 TB. And it’s 150W RMS total with the backing tracks!
On the ‘cloud’ there is loads of stuff by people who’ve submitted their efforts at a Hank or Shadows tone for specific tunes.
I’m using it with my old Gemini III bass roll off pedal set to Stage 1 and EFTP echoes, so I turn off the multiple echoes on the amp itself.
Because the app has an inbuilt EQ set, AS WELL AS the standard Drive, B, M,T and Presence controls!!!, you can almost certainly obviate the need for the Gemini with MUCH patience and time!
It’s a tricky beast to ‘tone-up’ , because of just so many variables, but very acceptable, IF, like me, you’re prepared to spend ages tone tinkering.
You ‘tone it up’ from your phone. It’s quirky alright!!!
You can check out all these possibilities by downloading the Amplifi app for free, and creating a Line 6 ‘account’.
(YouTube has loads of demos too, but I didn’t find one doing The Shadows sound.)
It’s NOT as good as the real Vox ‘thing’, obviously, and frankly it had to be a CHEAP buy, for me, but the Bluetooth amp for backing tracks or your music in general (stored on your phone if you want) in itself is genuinely brilliant.
It’s an interesting and very useful amplifier. Very underrated and often cast aside because of the tedious and laborious need to programme it. You save your patches of course, on amp and phone.
All the best, Milko

[sandra]

The Amplifi TT is a great little unit too and was a bargain from Guitar Guitar for almost 2 years for £99 delivered, until a few months back, as everyone else was selling them at £199 and even more.

[milko]

Interestingly enough, I’ve been messing about getting ‘the tone’ for ‘Love is all around’, which is on ‘Marvin at the Movies’. I nailed the tone easily enough with my NOS ‘56 Strat BRIDGE pickup up through my H&CSE then straight into my Vox AC15C1X.
However, into my Amplifi 150, I used a Clapton Strat with Gold Lace pickups - using the MIDDLE pickup!, through EFTP on an old Zoom, then through my Gemini III Stage 1, into the Amplifi’s Amp Sim Matchless Chieftain - and then plenty of tinkering with drive, bass, middle, treble and presence controls. The boost on the Clapton Strat was turned right down ie Off. The tone achieved was as near as near.
It just showed me that with quality amp sims and decent echoes, you can juggle around with a bass roll-off filter and eq, and make almost any Strat score close to ‘the goal’.
For what it’s worth, I read somewhere that Hank might possibly have used a Matchless amp for that particular album anyway. I tried the sims of DC30 and Chieftain, and found the Chieftain closest.
BUT IT STILL SOUNDED BEST - BANG ON IN FACT - on the proper ‘olden times’ gear as mentioned first!
Milko