LINE 6 HD147

[TomAwesome]

More affordable side of the spectrum...what the hell was the Flextone ? Hell the POD X3 is almost the same price as a new HD147 was. The Flextone, Duoverb and 147 models where very affordable for being what I would consider professional gear aimed for the working musician. Looks like they aren't aiming for anything other than home recording, as if they totally said we don't give a shit about the gigging musicians anymore, we would much rather deal with bedroom kiddies and on our Bogner tube amps. I have no problems with them doing tube amps with bogner, but when the only pure SS amp they leave you left with is a Spider IV, sorry, not a gigging amp for the professional musician.

What I meant was that their main focus seems to have turned largely away from the pro and semi-pro gigging musician products.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

I thought the HD147 had the POD XT technology, not the POD 2.0?
That's why it has all the hi-gain amps that are in the metal pack for the XT.

Played it a few times, would work quite well for me, but there are better amps
out there, I am digging the Peavy Vypyr Tube 120 head for hi-gain sounds.
Seems to be a cool, cheap, modelling amp-but, there are always better amps
out there

You would be right, the 147 was based on XT architectural, along with the Flextone and Spider II (Flextone II and Spider where based on the original POD).

Vypers are cool, but then again, they do not have a SS version in head form, just tubes, and again, I want to use modeling amps to get away from tubes, so having a tube power section just defeats the entire reason to play one over a real all tube amp. I still don't see it as a professional gigging type of amp though, just in terms of build quality and aesthetics. Same thing goes with the Spider series, no FX loop, made out of particle board and plastic, hardly professional if you ask me.