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Phil Weller

“Unlike FRFR cabs, they provide a playing experience more like plugging into an amp with a traditional open-back cabinet”: Line 6 combines classic speaker cab and FRFR in one with the Powercab CL

Line 6 Powercab CL.

Line 6 has reconfigured its hybrid Powercab speaker cabinets, offering FRFR amplification and classic speaker-channelling tones for digital amp modeler and amp-in-a-box users.

The Californian firm was one of the earliest adopters of digital gear, with the POD helping kickstart the djent movement and sparking an amp sim trend which currently dominates the market. Here, its doubling down on that investment with “exceptional amplification” that is said to go beyond traditional FRFR cabs, building on a release that was well-received when it first launched in 2020.

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