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Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:40:14 GMT

Honestly, I myself am not completely sold on the EMG's yet. I have a Dean Dime Razorback V255 Explosion with EMG's and I have the matching Razorback with Seymour Duncans. The Duncans have a brilliance and bite to them that I really love, and by conparison I find the EMG's to be a little too smooth. Another thing is that once I set up my presets to sound the way I want them on my amp with the Duncans, when I plug in the V I have to re-tweak the settings to compensate for the EMG's. Just my opinion, of course

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:09:24 GMT

Thanks. yeah i got the warbeast because of the guitar Mick use to use. i didn't like the way his looked so i got this one. i don't have the EMG's but i just think it looks better. i am getting a jackson soloist with EMG's in a couple weeks though.

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:40:48 GMT

I must admit, @rcc_2, when I first read your post and you said "sparks shot out the back of the amp" I was like. SuhWEEET!!

I mean, it's definitely a bad thing that your amp was damaged. But just the visual of you cranking up the volume to max and wailing on some dive bombs to the Slipknot / Mick setting and sparks shooting out the amp was awesome!! Like something straight out of Spinal Tap. hahaha!! Sorry to make light of your situation, and I am glad you got it all fixed up.

By the way, I am metal and I like it loud too!! Oh, and NICE guitar bro.

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:20:05 GMT

I am metal. I like it loud. I was just messing around doing harmonic pull backs and low dives.. well really low dives I guess. Drop B tuning for Slipknot and I was on the Mick Drive setting which is already low and loud. Anyway, I sent it to Line 6 and they fixed it and sent it back. Working like new again.

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:41:47 GMT

My guess is the dude is seriously into LOUDNESS! lol

I can relate, I just can't enjoy it that loud where I live and in most clubs, they couldn't take that much volume.

I remember playing a club with no stage and we set up on a concrete floor. I had to turn off all the mics to my drums and go easy on the snare.

Drums have no volume control and even with dampeners it is still loud.

I play guitar now and can enjoy it without pissing off the neighbors.

@rcc2 Rock ON!

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:10:14 GMT

I guess no cause of death yet?

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:46:00 GMT

Why on Earth would you crank your amp up to full volume in the first place? I mean, the HD150 is so loud with the volume at 12:00 position, (depending on the preset and channel volume, of course) but holy decibels Batman!! It almost seems like you were trying to smoke your amp.

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:49:54 GMT

UL testing generally only covers products under certain parameters and with standard components. From your description of what happened with your amp it sounds like there was an issue with the power amp that caused it to overheat and burn up. I'd be willing to bet that this is a part that Line 6 buys from another supplier to use in these amps. It sounds this was a defective part. UL testing isn't done on every single part coming out of a factory. It doesn't offer any guarantee that defective parts might not make it into products. It's just a side effect of mass production, unfortunately.

It's like the exploding iPhone batteries that have been in the news. It's not a pervasive issue, but it has happened a few times.

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:57:12 GMT

exactly

Re: My HD150 head just caught on fire. :/

support@line6.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:50:31 GMT

no.... its better to design a power supply to standards that don't require cooling..

sorry you had a bad amp... but this is not common.

and standards exist for a reason... if safety required a more strict standard.... a more strict standard would be used....

anyway you are obviously hostile about the whole situation... so my attempts to inject some reason isn't going to be productive....