Line 6's new amp is

[He's Dead, Jim]

Complete dog shit, but also weirdly interesting:

http://line6.com/amplifi/

tl;dr it's a 75 or 150W amp with 4 FRFR speakers and a Celestion (doubles as a subwoofer, or something?) that has the option to use an iOS product music library to do tone-matching, or you can use the device as a remote control.

But here's the really amazing thing:

It uses POD XT software that is almost a decade old.

I would rather get peed on by R. Kelly than use this thing. Also, that reference is about how old this amp's software is.

 

[[Prime]]

So basically hook my dust covered PODXTL up to my keyboard amp... Yaaay!

 

[Habsburgs]

tone matching from songs?? but seriously, pod xt tech!? what were they thinking

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah watched a video earlier. One of the dumbest products line 6 has ever come out with.

I don't even care if they throw it out for $200, it's stupid.

 

[DeclanWhite]

i thought "tone matching" meant match EQ like the axe fx 2 does, which i thought would be cool for the price that this amp will probably go for, but instead it just find you a 'similar' tone from the presets on their site. lame.

 

[Clockwork]

Yeah saw this earlier and just kept shaking my head. Who approved this?

 

[uhhhhmmmm4]

Line 6 needs to stop pissing around and rerelease the Vetta. It's the only good amp they ever made.

And I guess the DTs were okay.

 

[Flow Of Time]

Almost as crappy of an idea as their spider valve series.. I'm still puzzled why I got one back then. It's like the worst of both worlds. Shitty in tone, heavy in weight..

 

[Line666]

It's a shame its going to be absolute rubbish because it looks really nice visually.

 

[HOFX]

The thing I realised about POD amps, is that the gain knob is really a mix knob - they have a "clean" emulation and "high gain" emulation, and the gain knob is just a mix knob between these extremes.

So, yeah, their 10 year old technology is pretty shit by today's standards. But if you're a homo dad taking your pop punk scallywag son into guitar centre to pick up their first $150 power chord axe, this will sell like penicillin in Bangalore.

 

[deLuther]

It looks like basket for laundry...

 

[kvoid]

Aaaand bingo, I was right. They've been left behind and there is no way to catch up with the Kempers and Fractals. If they weren't such broke-asses and had their head out of their ass looking at what's been going on in the world they would have thrown some serious money at LePou or Onqel, both of whom rape their amp sim technology in sound quality. and they do it for free! Yamaha are idiots for dumping money on this failed rebadge operation.

 

[uhhhhmmmm4]

I think the problem is that Line 6 doesn't upgrade their technology. Instead they constantly add a bunch of @%(/ to their products that they don't need. This amp for instance, why add the tone matching stuff, and aux in, etc. Just make some tones, put them in and and make it good. (Like with the Vetta).

 

[FIXXXER]

this would look so great if it was a computer tower...

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Aaaand bingo, I was right. They've been left behind and there is no way to catch up with the Kempers and Fractals. If they weren't such broke-asses and had their head out of their ass looking at what's been going on in the world they would have thrown some serious money at LePou or Onqel, both of whom rape their amp sim technology in sound quality. and they do it for free! Yamaha are idiots for dumping money on this failed rebadge operation.

The great irony of this is that the most recent modeling line, the HD series, is actually quite good and can hold its own against LePou and Onqel. Why they said, "Hey, we have this pretty great new stuff but why don't we use 10-year-old software for this new amp instead?" is beyond me. I genuinely have no idea.

 

[atoragon]

where did you read that it has the pod xt software?

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

where did you read that it has the pod xt software?

A couple of the reviews I've seen already mentioned it. Plus, if it were new software, they'd be touting it like crazy.

 

[atoragon]

can you link pls? i don't find them

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Around 1:15.

 

[kev]

"The tone match" software lol. They've lost the modelling market for being slothlike so the only hope is pedalling some weird products like these then. Be interesting to see what yamaha do with them.