Sound:
Excellent sound quality on both clean and overdrive that responds to various playing styles with ease. Played with US Strat (with Lindy Fralin Split Blade Blues pups and Gibson LP Studio and both sound fantastic. Used for gigging at large and small venues and never short of power or great tone. There are probably too many weird tones to select that are not really useable, but still many many more that are. This amp simply rocks!!
Feature:
For me the best feature is that rich, warm and more open valve tone combined with digital modelling. Ok, out of the zillions of tones available, I usually gig with just a couple of different clean tones and another two that are overdriven, to suit my main two guitars. As the amp will store many more banks of four, I use these for modified versions of my favourite four, dependant on guitar. All accessed by an FBV Exress Mk II, which I prefer to larger pedals when gigging as it keeps things simple. The amp looper is cool but needs a longer recording time to be really useful. One problem is that it is really easy to accidentally set the looper recording via touching two buttons at the same time on the FBV. Big footed musos beware! More than once I have hit the pedal to switch to a lead solo, only to have it played back a few seconds later, which is er...rather off putting!
Ease of Use:
I would say the modelling is fairly intuitive from the off. If one can use and store stations on a car radio then this amp is not much more difficult. Many of the very different sounds are indeed most useable and there has to be several to appeal to everyone. A bit of trial and error to find your favourites, and/or modify them further, but it's simple enough when you get used to it. My only critism is that there is probalby too much choice.
Quality:
The amp has been used for practicing and gigging for the last 18 months since new. Still sounds and looks great. Everything seems well made and nothing has blemished or fallen off. Still looks brand new. Had an amp cover made, which probalby helps. Should come as standard! So far the amp has been completely reliable, but we carry a Flextone III as a guitar amp back up. Used to be a boy Scout.
Value:
I think this is note for note a great value, great sounding amp that has had a few more expensive Marshall owners scratching their heads.
Manufacturer Support:
Have not really needed any. Reason for mid mark is I did email them a few months back and they did not reply. Not good enough.
The Wow Factor:
It's a very good looking, aesthetically pleasing amp that does what it says on the label. 7 out of 10, as 10 is reserved for my wife.
Overall:
I expect to continue using this amp until it passes away peacufully. I would buy another tomorrow if lost and I have not witnessed anything that comes close at the price. OK if budget was no limit, there are other more expensive amps that would be on the shopping list, but for me, the Spyder Valve Mk II really is a kick ass product of professional sound quality. The versatility of sounds available from the amp (as against a pedal)is a huge plus for me and my reasons for buying this amp were tone, tone and, er, tone.
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Sound:
Amp has an amazing smooth tone to it. It can go from loud and crisp to fat and fuzzy.
Feature:
Being able to program your settings on four different channels, record feature and able to loop sounds.
Ease of Use:
no learning curve. I plugged right in and starting jamming. You just have to mess with the settings.
Quality:
Very well made amp. Nothing cheap about this.
Overall:
replace it with the same product.
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