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POD Farm 1.01 – Model Gallery
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Line 6 Spinal Puppet
You know how, when you’re playing head-bangin’ music, you look out into the audience and see all
those heads bobbing up and down? Those are Spinal Puppets. Need we say more?
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Line 6 Treadplate
Looking for tight, high gain tone? The kind of sound that powers classic Metallica or Dream Theater
tracks? Then you’ve come to the right place, my friend. This model lets you dial in plenty of distortion
perfect for chunk-chunk-chunking, and also ready to power some mosh pit punking. Its tone controls
have plenty of range to let you scoop out your mids, or beef up the bottom for just the tone you need.
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1968 Plexi Jump Lead
Guitar playing is all about experimentation, isn’t it? That, and
finding all the possible ways to get more distortion out of whatever
gear you have at hand. One of the fun things you can do with
a Plexi is take a short guitar cable and jumper channel I and
channel II (as they’re frequently numbered) together for a little
extra saturation. Some guys loved this sound so much that they
pulled the chassis and permanently wired a jumper into the amp.
Being the obsessive/compulsive tone freaks we are, we just had
to give you the 1968 Plexi Jump Lead model to give you a sound
based on* of this setup.
* All product names used in this document are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no
way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are used solely to
identify the specific products whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.
MARSHALL
®
is a registered trademark of Marshall Amplification PLC.
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1968 Plexi Lead 100
The 1968 Plexi Lead 100 is modeled after* the infamous ‘68 Marshall
®
‘Plexi’ Super Lead — coveted by
tone connoisseurs the world over. We literally scoured the world for this particular amp, finally finding
a great example of a Super Lead languishing (we like to think fate preserved it for us) in Holland. By
the time this amp was built (ca. 1968), Marshall
®
had completely changed the circuitry away from
the Fender
®
6L6 power tube heritage and moved to an EL34 tube. Another major tone difference was
due to the necessary output & power supply transformer changes. All this mucking about added up to
create a tone forever linked with Rock Guitar. Amps of this era didn’t have any sort of master volume
control, so to get the sound you’d have to crank your Super Lead to max — just the thing to help you
really make friends with the neighbors. Hendrix used Marshalls of this era; a decade later Van Halen’s
first two records owed their “brown sound” to a 100-watt Plexi (Our Super Lead, in fact, has the ‘lay
down’ transformer that was unique to ‘68 models, the same as Hendrix and Van Halen’s Marshalls).
To get a crunch sound out of a Plexi, you would likely crank the input volume and tone controls (to
10!) You’ll find that, in keeping with our “make-it-sound-a-whole-lot-like-the-original” concept, this
model is set up to do pretty darned near the same thing.