Nick,
After reading your post I tried turning the channel volumes all down to ~50%, they were all at nearly 100% previously. That did actually reduce the latency, but it was still noticeable. Then I performed the factory reset, which may have reduced the latency just slightly, but it's still noticeable. After those two fixes, we're talking only about 30ms of latency, and it is most noticeable when already on a channel and then pushing the same channel button (the sound cuts out).
The length of latency is consistent, I can switch from a simple clean channel with no effects whatsoever to a heavily distorted channel with user-programmed pitch shifting, chorus, delay, and reverb with a ~30ms latency, and then back to the clean channel with the same latency time.
If I do stop playing before I switch the channel, the latency is not noticeable as there is no sound coming out of the speaker to hear the cut, but if I do play a solid chord and let it ring through the channel switch, you can definitely hear the sound cut out.
As I said, after turning channel volume down and factory resetting, the latency is reduced (used to be about 60ms) but is still noticeable. I could probably get used to managing it during shows and such, but it's a pain when it doesn't switch exactly when you stomp the pedal (it also has the same latency when switching channels using the buttons on the amp, so it's not just the footswitch). The main reason this frustrates me is that my Spider III amp had no noticeable latency whatsoever. I could even play a chord, let it ring, push the button for the channel I was already on, and there would be no cut or pause in sound at all. This is not the case with the Spider IV.
Do any of your Line 6 amps demonstrate a noticeable cut in sound if you let a chord ring through a channel switch?
Thank you,
Ryan
Line 6 Story
News
Press
Jobs
Support
Contact Us
