Community: Message List

Re: Last Post

support@line6.com — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:14:42 GMT

ianpdq, I empathise with your entirely and will join you in obscurity. Line6 obviously do not take this product nor their web site seriously. No other web site that I use takes so long to load or is down so much. They had a perfectly good forum going some time ago but have doggedly forced this abomination down our throats. They have refused to add the simple facility of 'stickies' to add helpful information for often asked questions. We have continued to answer these same questions over and over until I am sick to the back teeth. Goodbye chaps.

Re: Spider Jam versus Spider Valve 212

support@line6.com — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:41:28 GMT

The Spider Jam is not a guitar amp. The speaker system is 'full range' as you would get in a hi-fi, PA or keyboard amplifier. The guitar amp and speaker emulation is provided in the digital signal processing. Replacing the current 12" speaker is not going to make any (beneficial) difference whatsoever and will more likely upset the balance between high and low frequencies. It will still not be a guitar amp.

There are many Celestion speaker models of varying frequency response, efficiency and price. One that works well with a low wattage valve amp is not going to be much good for a 75 watt solid state - and vice versa. The Tiny Terror wants something like a 30 watt Greenback to make it sing. This speaker would be totally unsuitable for a Spider Jam.

Re: Spider Jam versus Spider Valve 212

support@line6.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:42:43 GMT

I agree with Steve for the most part. The only thing I would say that is if you are not playing at medium/large size gigs, the Spider Valve will be too powerful for you. If it is 'valve tone' you want, and you are just playing at home, go for a much smaller valve amp. Even a volume and master arragement doesn't give the full 'valve' experience as you have to push the back end to get the compression and sag. I made my own 5 watt valve amp - http://www.joesjamblog.com/tweed.html - which has a tone to kill for. 5 watts is half as loud as 50 watts, so it still has plenty of poke. If you are not into soldering, check out the low cost valve amps from Epiphone, etc - and keep your Spider Jam for backing/acoustic/mic etc.

Re: Demaged original song preset

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:04:05 GMT

Pretty obvious, really - but I did have a peek at the .JAM file format in a hex editor

Re: Demaged original song preset

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:56:05 GMT

The only thing you can do is try a factory reset. This restores everything to original so any setting you have done will be lost - unless you save them with songs...

http://www.joesjamblog.com/tones.html

Re: Saving Guitar Tones to SD Card

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:43:19 GMT

You hit the nail on the head there, CanadaMan. The Spider Jam is not really intended for live performances. Its purpose is, as the name suggest, to jam with. To practice. To improve your playing technique. There is no way to back up tones all at once. If you overwrite USER Presets with your own tones, a factory reset will restore them. There are many other products that will do as you suggest and will be better in a live environment.

Yes, SAVE RECORDING TO SD CARD will save a .JAM file with your recording, tones and effect settings. Saving a WAV will not do this (SAVE REC MIX AS WAV TO CARD).

Re: Saving Guitar Tones to SD Card

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:33:26 GMT

The file format of the Spider Jam is a propriatory .JAM file which contains the current tone and effects settings and one or more WAV files. The shortest WAV file that can be stored is about 3-5 seconds long. If you must store a tone to SD card, you will have to record for 5 seconds (you don't need to play anything) but save it with a meaningful name. When you reload that 'song' the tone will be reinstated but with 9 x 4 USER presets at your disposal, you shouldn't really need to save tones to SD card.

Re: line 6 spider jam with turntable

support@line6.com — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:11:21 GMT

Even if you use the correct CD/MP3 jack, a turntable will not drive it. The CD/MP3 input is 'line level' whereas the output from a turntable needs to go through a RIAA equalised preamp to boost the signal to line level and level out the frequency response. You would have to use the line out facility of a hi-fi amplifier or a separate pre-amp for this to work. A CD player or MP3 player output can output at line level - not a turntable pickup!

Re: Want to expand

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:38:29 GMT

The 2Gb SD card limit is important!

You can't download guitar tones. The Spider Jam has no facility for saving/loading tones.

There are no specific additional songs for the Spider Jam although thare are loads of free downloadable backing tracks, usually in MP3 format BUT these have to be converted to the correct sound format to be usable with the Spider Jam.

http://www.joesjamblog.com/input.html

http://www.joesjamblog.com/itunes.html

Re: firmware version

support@line6.com — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:06:04 GMT

Press the SAVE button and scroll to the bottom of the menu - FIRMWARE VERSION then use the four way cursor button to go right. The current version is 2.09.