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Amp – Line 6 DT50

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:00:26 +0000

For so long when when choosing a tube amp you’ve had to settle on one “brand of sound”, whether it be Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Orange, Fender or anything in between or beyond. But with the release of the Line 6 DT50 (along with the DT40 head unit) there is now more options to choose from in the one amp.

Line 6 have long been known of doing away with tubes altogether and instead employing the use of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to open up a multitude of sonic options. However, with their latest amp release, they have teamed up with re known Amp designer Reinholt Bogner to produce something very unique.

In essence the DT50 is a 2 channel boutique amp that beautifully combines the precision of analogue circuitry with high definition modelling. The amp has 4 voicings, each of which, at the flick of a switch, reconfigures the analogue components of the amp, changing the feedback topology to behave like the amp that is being modeled.

The voicings are based on four of the most recognizable classic amp sounds: Classic American Clean, British Crunch, British Chime and Modern high-gain distortion. The usual EQ settings give you further control to create great sounds with all tube warmth and clarity.

Check out this video from for an up close look at the DT50 and hear just what this amp is capable of. It’s sure to be aural heaven for tube amp buffs. Enjoy!

Posted by Dan Orr

Jake Edwards guitar

Jamorama — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:01:00 +0000

After a couple of weeks off playing an electric I decided to fire up my under the desk guitar rig which consists of a (boss RC-20X) Loopstation, a (Line 6 Echo Park) delay and a distortion box into a Music Man amp. After four hours it was about midnight and I was pretty burnt out but I whipped through the footage real quick and here are some random guitar snacks for anyone who gives a damn.

So, is there a marketplace for this (old school) style of playing? Well, plenty of people want to learn how to do it for sure, and it`s all in your hands and your ears for me. Buy the right albums too.
My commercial song based album project with reknowned producers Turei, George and 50hz is available here at www.jakeedwards.net:
When it comes to songwriting I just can`t sufficiently explain, no matter how hard I try, how, where and why to do it.

You need to talk to God about that one.

Digital guitars

Jamorama — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:54:58 +0000

Mark McKenzie is an awesome guitarist, highly fluid, fluent and versatile. He`s also a great teacher. Mark has just finished filming the video for the Sultans of Swing tutorial for Song Pond and sitting here in the office, just kicking back with a coffee, it`s a pleasure to listen to the riffs in the edit suite, and have a chat with him too about guitar techniques, riffs, chords, playing by ear and all the other jazz guitarists tend to yak on about.

What is particularly interesting about Mark is his choice of equipment. Mark is no dinosaur when it comes to kicking out the jams…unless there`s a digisaurus laying buried in the soil somewhere. On a personal level Mark may have also delivered the solution to some of my own recording woes – having to haul several different guitars through the airport on multiple trips to the recording studio has become a logistical, risky nightmare.

Mark is using a Line 6 variax guitar and a Line 6 amp. Variax gives you an endless variety of sounds from classic acoustic and electric tones all the way to sitar and banjo, all in one instrument. I`ve had a quick play and Mark has taken me through a demo: the guitar plus the amp combined gives you a full range of tones and sounds, a range of guitars to choose from and a range of effects. For example the sounds from Sunshine of Your Love, Smoke on the Water, Pink Floyd instantaneously dialled in.

Cameron our tech guy and resident DJ has also pointed to a similar offering from Gibson – the robot guitar.

Here are some more blog posts about digital guitars, tools and concepts:

1.Moog digital guitar

2.Jam mate digital trainer

3. Tesla Niwa

4.Fender G DEC digital modelling amp

5.Ovation iDEA electro acoustic with built in practice recorder

6.Digital versus Analogue

7.Gibson Dark Fire