Review: Line 6 AMPLIFi 150 High-Performance Guitar Amp
As one of the very first companies to introduce a digital modeling amp, Line 6 has always been an industry leader when it comes to developing new technology and products that greatly enhance the modern guitarist’s playing experience.
While the company’s new AMPLIFi 150 is more evolutionary than revolutionary, it takes the concept of app-controlled hardware to a new level of performance, convenience and versatility.
Line 6 is marketing the AMPLIFi 150 as “the guitar amp reinvented,” and that’s an accurate description (not the usual marketing hype) as it combines the familiar features of a traditional amp with the incredible creative power of an app-based system that provides access to a vast collection of amps, speakers and effects, and streams music wirelessly via Bluetooth.
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Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.
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