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Re: Blue/purple wave of death?!

support@line6.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:42:08 GMT

I'd never plug it in again or mess with it at all until you have a pro look at it or get it serviced under warranty.

It sounds to me like something is fubar with the power transformer and is sending juice through the chassis somehow. Definitely a hazard type situation from what you describe. Not trying to be an alarmist, just a realist. Let us know how it goes.

Re: volume control faulty

support@line6.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:37:45 GMT

You could try and spray some DeOxit in the switch first. It's about 20 bucks a can, or solder in a new switch. I think the pot is a fairly generic one from things I've read about it on here awhile back.

I find it fairly ridiculous that a proper tech couldn't/wouldn't change a friggin pot for you no matter what brand of amp.

Re: Recording with the direct out on my Spider Valve MKII suggestions.

support@line6.com — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:39:54 GMT

I've never recorded with my SV HD100 mkii but I assume you're using the xlr out on the back to some sort of computer interface. There is a setting called "Studio" the amp is to be set to for doing the recording thing, whereas there is another setting called "live" which taps the sound off of the power tubes instead of just the digital pre-amp.

You may already know this but I thought it might be worth mentioning and might rectify your problem if you didn't know about those settings. Cheers.

Re: New line 6 owner

support@line6.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:55:52 GMT

Cool, glad you're enjoying it. I hadn't used mine in awhile and plugged it in the other day and wasn't digging the distorted sounds all that much compared to some other gear I own.

The cleans still sounded great. Maybe some day I'll mess around with the parameters more on some of the high gain stuff. Cheers.

Re: SV HD100 MKIl front window light question (sorry a newbie)

support@line6.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:50:51 GMT

It can be shut off in the menu settings on the front of the amp and the color can also be changed by changing the lamp bulbs.

Re: No sound after switching channels (randomly)

support@line6.com — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:58:18 GMT

Did you ever get it figured out?

It sounds like a tricky one to try and pinpoint the problem. All I can really suggest is check all cables and footpedals and any other connections and volume levels on everything.

If none of that works I'd probably try a reset of the amp but make sure you have all your favorite patches saved and backed up somewhere first.

Re: 212 combos and 412 cabs

support@line6.com — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:54:34 GMT

In a simple one word answer, NO.

As you are most likely aware you would have mismatched impedance loads that would harm your equipment.

Most 4x12's are 16 ohm mono and most 2x12's are 8 or 4 ohm mono loads (d0n't worry about the stereo qualifications for now)

On your SpiderValve you can run only run one set of 8 ohm cabs, meaning two 2x12 cabs that are an 8 ohm load each(I just checked the amp back photos on here as I have the HD100mkii head).

The only way to run the speakers in your SpiderValave and a 4x12 at the same time would be to have an amp guru wire your 4x12 to be 8 ohm mono.

Wait a tick, I just noticed from the picture on here the speaker cable is plugged into the 4 ohm single meaning your amp must have two 8 ohm speakers making it a 4 ohm load. Sorry, I'm so used to seeing the two 16 ohm Vintage 30's in the back of my Mesa I took it for granted the SV used 16 ohm speakers as well. So in a sense you're screwed even more now with trying to do what you wanted. From what I can ascertain the only thing you could do would be to hook up your 4x12 by itself to your SpiderValve using the 8 ohm stereo inputs on your 4x12.

So to put it back into easier terms, no you can't run them all together on the SpiderValve, but you can run a 4x12 by itself if you wish using your amp just like an amp head.

Re: Best cables for amp and cab connection?

support@line6.com — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:05:30 GMT

Always try to keep the wires as short as possible that makes sense. Mogami is a really top notch cable that is decently priced I have found. I use them for running some rack gear to a mixer,pa setup and they are dead silent. I'd try to avoid the way overpriced Monster cables as I have heard many nightmares about them.

Other names I think are good from past usage. Traynor,Belden,Planetwaves

Re: downloaded tones not working?

support@line6.com — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:53:39 GMT

It's been so long since I've done it I can't even remember lol but make sure you have the Line6 monkey downloaded and the SpiderValve edit software. Then once you have an empty patch slot just cut and paste or paste the patch you downloaded into the empty patch slot in Spidervlave edit. Bingo! I think even drag and drop works as well if I remember correctly.

Re: Spider Valve 112 - Residual noise after palm muting power chords

support@line6.com — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:48:39 GMT

Make sure any reverb is turned off and you could maybe try turning up the noise gate a little bit.

Also if you are doing that chugging type of rythm with quick stops you'll want real short delay times if any.