Line 6 Spider IV HD150 150-watt Guitar Amplifier Head Review
Line 6 Spider IV HD150 150-watt Guitar Amplifier Head Feature
- 150 watts
- 300+ hand-crafted presets from 50 world-famous bands and guitarists including Johnny Marr, Slipknot, 311, Meshuggah, Lacuna Coil, As I Lay Dying, Steve Stevens, The Donnas, Minus the Bear, Pete Anderson, more; 200+ dialed in song-based presets
- 16 tonally superior amp models with the vintage characteristics and nuances; 20 Smart FX (4 at once) with deep editing; Quick Loop, Auto-Wah, Intelligent Pitch-Shifter plus inspiring echoes, mods, delays, reverbs and more; 64 user-created presets
- Bass, Mid and Treble knobs that behave like the EQ controls from each modeled amp; Drive knob; Channel volume; Master volume
- /4-inch input; 1/4-inch headphone/direct output; 1/8-inch CD/MP3 input; built-in chromatic tuner; FBV foot controller jack
Spider IV HD150 guitar amplifier head from amp-modeling pioneers Line 6 delivers best-selling rock star tones. Feast your ears on industry-leading Line 6 amp and FX modeling, dialed-in tones and presets, and much more.
 | - 150-Watt Stereo
- 16 amp models
- 20 Smart FX settings
- 300+ artist-created presets
- Almost 200 song-based presets
- 64 User-programmable presets
- 4 channels
- Built-in front-panel chromatic tuner
- Compatible foot controllers: FBV2, FBV Express MkII, FBV Shortboard MkII
- 14 seconds of sound-on-sound looping
- Manual mode
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Advanced Line 6 Amp Modeling
A blizzard of artists, producers, engineers, and sound designers spent countless hours creating, comparing, and tuning every last amp model for the Spider IV HD150. The result is 16 exceptional models (four of which are world-premiering with Spider IV) that exhibit sophisticated touch response, complex distortions, and compression that breathes like it's emanating from a vintage tube amp.
Each model delivers the distinct tonal nuances of a celebrated American, British or European guitar amp, and an exceptional guitar playing experience that you won't soon forget.
 
Spider IV HD150 features 12 amp models: Red and Green versions from clean jazz tones to the bone-crushing Insane. |
Passionate about presets? Spider IV has them in spades. Beside the 300+ presets hand-crafted by 50 rock stars, and beside the almost 200 presets inspired by the best guitar songs of all time, you can also custom-make your own presets. Create, save, and store up to 64 user presets. If you're a Spider III user, get ready to hear your favorite Spider III presets remastered and supercharged for Spider IV.
Wise up to Smart FX
Smart FX knobs put award-winning Line 6 effects at your fingertips. Easy to use, Smart FX let you spend less time tweaking and more time playing. Easily add or remove any amount of lush reverbs, exceptional echoes, tangy mods, and more. Make all your adjustments on the fly--the knobs are right in front you of you. Up to 4 Smart FX can be used simultaneously.
Smart FX effects include: Red Comp, Fuzz Pi, Auto Wah, Auto Swell, Pitch Glide, Smart Harmony, Sine Chorus, Line 6 Flanger, Phaser, U-Vibe, Opto Trem, Bias Trem, Digital Delay, Analog w/ Mod, Tape Echo, Multi-Head Echo, Sweep Echo, Reverse, Lux Spring Reverb, Vintage Plate Reverb, plus additional system effects like Quick Loop, Adjustable Noise Gate, Adjustable Boost, and Volume Routing.
 Smart FX knobs put award-winning Line 6 effects at your fingertips. |
 Every effect is fully adjustable up to 7 parameters deep, including routing pre- and post-amplifier. |
Deep dive into your effects like never before! Every effect is fully adjustable up to 7 parameters deep, including routing pre- and post-amplifier. Sculpt your delays, mods, reverbs, pitch effects, and more with unparalleled control.
Line 6's first intelligent pitch shifter, Smart Harmony is fast-tracking and easy to use. Harmonize using major, minor, pentatonic, whole tone, and other types of scales. (Don't worry, you don't need to know music theory to use Smart Harmony). And then there's Pitch Glide, which is most effective when used with an FBV MkII foot controller. Use the foot pedal to smoothly shift your tone up or down to any interval within a four-octave range. Calibrate the effect to semitones, or to 10-cent increments to create cool chorus/detuning effects.
The Spider IV 120 also features Quick Loop, a 14-second sound-on-sound looper that's ideal for writing songs, practicing solos, jamming, and even dialing in your tone! Easy to use, Quick Loops controls are all on the front panel. Connect an FBV MkII foot controller for hands-free control of the looper functions.
Get simultaneous FX. Use up to 8 effects at the same time! Pour on the colors and textures with all 4 Smart FX, set the Boost and the Noise Gate, activate Quick Loop, and connect an FBV MkII foot controller to kick on the volume/wah pedal. How many other amplifiers can deliver that?
Dialed-In Rock Star Tones and Presets
Who do you want to sound like today? Discover the tones of your heroes in Spider IV amplifiers. 50 famous guitarists and bands, including Coheed & Cambria, Johnny Marr, Slipknot, and others, hand-crafted more than 300 of their signature tones, and turned them into Spider IV presets--from sparkling cleans to effect-laden tones to saturated high-gain heaven.
Plus, get one-touch access to almost 200 tones based on the best guitar songs of all time. From the switchblade-swinging slapback of the 1950s to the high-gain distortion of the 2000s, get the tones from Master of Puppets, Back in Black, Whole Lotta Love, Daytripper, Toxicity, Purple Haze, Head Like a Hole, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Crazy Train, and more.
You'll always sound your best with the built-in chromatic tuner. No need for an external tuner or additional guitar cables, this invaluable tool is integrated into the amps front panel. Simply activate the tuner with the push of a button.
Manual mode draws a more traditional amplifier experience out of Spider IV. When Manual mode is activated, all front-panel knobs work independently of one another. (Out of Manual mode, choosing an amp model may adjust the settings of the other front-panel knobs.)
To get the whole story of Spider IV amplifiers, you need to turn one around. All Spider IV combo amps feature a perfectly tuned three-quarter closed-back cabinet. This provides a tight, punchy, focused response that you can't get from an open-back cabinet. And a large, two-line LCD is your window into Spider IV. This is where you can deep dive into effects and adjust their parameters, scroll over 500 presets, see the tuner interface, name your user-created presets, get a visual representation of where your Smart FX knobs are set, and more.
Spider Online Included Free
Spider owners also get free access to Spider Online, a unique online resource offering over 500 guitar lessons, amp tones, jam tracks and more. Watch videos of top artists dialing in their signature tones. Spark new inspiration with jam tracks, drum-and-bass grooves and drum loops played by top session musicians, plus hundreds of downloadable tones. Lessons cover all genres and styles and include tabs, audio samples and tones. Spider Online has something for everyone – and it’s free for owners of any Spider amp, including Spider I through IV, Spider Valve™, Spider Jam™ and Micro Spider™.
