Tell your Line6 Flextone II HD amp/cab settings

[PaulO]

I finally took the plunge and bought a used Line6 Flextone II head a few weeks ago. I had always been negative on modeling amps because every time I played around with them in the stores they sounded like crap.

A friend of mine, Bob Acquaviva (track engineer on Boston's "Corporate America", and also works at Big Apple Music in New Hartford, NY) told me this is all he plays now and showed me some settings that blew me away. If you find the cabinet dial (press the "hold" button and rotate the effects knob), you can actually make it sound pretty darn good. I can actually get some good clean sounds....my biggest grib about modeling amps.

Anyone else had the same experiance? I swear they amps in the stores are dialed in wrong ... sounded like a 10" tweed whenever I played them

Tell me you favorite amp + cab combinations for clean/overdrive/recto settings and I'll give them a try.

Paul

[Baba]

I used to have the Flex II head, that's a powerful little beast. I think I ran it thru a Marshall 1936 2x12. I liked it, and you're right, with ANY of Line 6's gear, changing the cab models is a must. I've often found that I may not have liked the JCM model running with a 4x12 w/vintage 30's, it may have sounded better with another cab model.

It's been a long while, I don't remember settings, but I'm a Fender/Marshall kind of guy, so I stuck with the Twin/JCM800 models. You're also right about the "store" settings, with multi sound units, it's best to basically ignore the factory presets, and start from scratch and design your own.

As far as settings, I'm not sure alot of us have the Flex II HD here, you may want to check out the Line 6 forums, I'm sure there's alot of info there.

[Jason Penn]

Not a Flex II but one of the best crunch sounds I got out of the Flex Duo was the Recto setting with the bass and treb at about 11:00 and the mids cranked. The Recto has a lot of gain so I keep the drive at about 9:30-10:00 and use the drive boost on the Floorboard for solos.

You couldn't change the cab models on the original Flex series I had, I'm sure all of the models sound better on the Flex II when you change cabs around.

[PaulO]

I have noticed that when I dial in the sounds I want at low volumes, they can not apply to whne I crank it up because the speakers either "fart" out, or the bottom sounds way to bassy. It almost as if I have to dial it in at high columes and then live with the sounds I get when lowered.

Any secret to its madness I may be missing?

[cust22]

I have the flextoneII XL in a 2x12 combo. I really like the cleans on the mesa boogie mark IIc+ clean channel. I either add a little delay or delay and chorus and to me it sounds like a reall amp. I use what ever the speaker model is set for with that one.

For dirty sounds I set it on manual. I usually use the dual recto model(tremoverb or head). And believe it or not I like the sounds of the bypassed speaker/cab models. I set the base and treble to taste, mids are between 7 and 10 o'clock, distortion between 11 and 1 o'clock, and I forget where I put the presence but not to high. I find there speaker/cab models have to much base and to much treble. The base is an easy fix but as soon as set I the treble the model sounds dead.

[Baba]

I have noticed that when I dial in the sounds I want at low volumes, they can not apply to whne I crank it up because the speakers either "fart" out, or the bottom sounds way to bassy. It almost as if I have to dial it in at high columes and then live with the sounds I get when lowered.

Any secret to its madness I may be missing?
Paul, that used to bother the crap out of me, and I'm a self proclaimed Line 6 guru, and never figured that out. As limited on models as it was, the AX2 never had problems with "farting out".

[93octane]

Send me your email..I have a file with a whole bunch of settings I have collected from websites and magazines. For the FlexII/POD