Yamaha purchases Line 6
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bubkusjones
Strato-Smasher
I don't see why that'd have to change.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
Sounds like a good deal for both parties. Yamaha gets a cutting edge technology company. Line 6 gets the funding of a gigantic company to keep doing what they're doing. And I agree with the earlier comment that it probably helps Yamaha's lackluster electric guitar sales here in the US while bringing up the quality level of Line 6's instrument offerings.
Virtual Pariah
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Possibly because L6 is in need of some money for new chip designs.
Their stuff is good, but, smartphone processors are 98% of the way their and the next 5 years could be rough going from a hardware standpoint.
Plus, the decision to keep the variax tech in house was a costly decision for a company who usually doesn't work in wood and screws. I don't think they sell as much as they would have had they been an add on for an established name guitar brand.
Yamaha works for them as they have the guitar/bass manufacturing established and they make their own chips in house.
This ideally allows L6 to become an Idea shop for yamaha's manufacturing base.
sammyreynolds
Little Hot Wing
Line 6 probably needed the cash and to be perfect honest. iPad and iPhone sound as good if not better than Line 6 stuff. Like Virtual Pariah said they also have a established manufacturing base in Yamaha which I hope helps bring down prices of Line6's stuff. Their guitars are way too high.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Know what's even better than owning shares of a company worth millions of dollars? Just having millions of dollars to spend and not having to run the company.
OGG
Master of the Meh
Yeaaaahhhhhh I'm gonna hafta go ahead and call bullshit on the notion that an iPhone app sounds "just as good".
Not that there might not be some cool iPhone apps, but seriously. A Prius may get you onto the hiway just fine, but the driving experience isn't necessarily as good as a BMW M3.
That whole notion is absolutely ludicrous.
Plus, I don't want to have my guitar signal cut out in the middle of song while I'm playing a show because my wife ends me a text asking me to pick up milk on my way home.
Jeezus.
Sorry to sound like an ass, but get real. FFS.
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Not that there might not be some cool iPhone apps, but seriously. A Prius may get you onto the hiway just fine, but the driving experience isn't necessarily as good as a BMW M3.
That whole notion is absolutely ludicrous.
Plus, I don't want to have my guitar signal cut out in the middle of song while I'm playing a show because my wife ends me a text asking me to pick up milk on my way home.
Jeezus.
Sorry to sound like an ass, but get real. FFS.
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sammyreynolds
Little Hot Wing
How do you know your piece of shit
OGG
Master of the Meh
I don't know, how do you know your a piece of shit?
The suspense is killing me though.
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OGG
Master of the Meh
Great question.
I don't know. But, I just got a PM telling me to kill myself and do the rest of humanity a favor.
For real.
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mystixboi1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Yo... Take it easy man.
I also disagree that you're statement about the iPhone aps sounding as good as L6 stuff. No need to be a douche about it
mystixboi1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Yikes. Who is this guy?
sammyreynolds
Little Hot Wing
So now you go to whining about it? first you act like a complete asshole and now it's everyone fault? So you're a millennial I take it?