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Easiest way to cure these? could I get away with removing the knobs and forcing contact cleaner down past the pot spindle. is it a big job to get at these pots to give them a good spray with contact cleaners?

any good suggestions to dial in a nice delay ? nothing OTT just something nice to moisten a tone for a solo. Not after a repeat delay that goes on for ever

Since Im new to vetta I been setting up tones in the thing so over past few evenings,I have turned my thoughts to vettas fx. Im using the fbv longboard and it has the 3 switches in the middle for tremloe,mod,and delay. I have read the instructions how to save these to vetta so whats been happening,on delay(digi delay),I dial in my delay sound and press save,scroll to p3 in save mode and then select the model for digi delay at which point im asked if I want to save it as default so I hit save and that sounds saved. If I turn delay off at the pedal now after this and go back to it at a later stage,it does not seem to be saving the delay I had dialled in and saved. Where am I going wrong guys? I don't think its an amp fault as it saves everything else fine,has to be human error here? I been trying to save it on a tape echo around 200 ms,feedback around 9 0clock,tempo 140 and using the note value of 1/4 beat. Am I going wrong between note value and tap tempo as I think I read in the manual,if these are not set correct vetta returns to a previous saved delay

Any tips guys on how to dial in this tone? What I mean is what amp to run to try and get that dirty Motorhead sound

Oh dear...disaster.I thought my amp got away unscathed in the accident last weekend but...its working fine but the base of the cab has a 3 inch gash with the impact when it fell! This in turn,when I look at it straight on,the base has a significant rise around the middle making the speaker grill material sag,its not a nice tight snug fit like it was when I got the amp. Now,anyone know how I can fix this? will post photos later. Gutted is too small a word!

I reckon darell there is a couple of duff latches on one side as there seems to be no stopping point when I turn the latch unlike the other side of the case so 2 new latches to get and for extra security...a pair of ratchet straps will be bought to go over the whole case. There were 2 very small nicks in the tolex of the amp but 15 mins with a glue gun and black perma marker has a pretty nice repair done. Im well pleased with this amp and I had kinda made my mind up a month ago to buy a bugera trirec amp,glad I didn't now.

So....Took the vetta for its first proper outing over the weekend in a live gig situation. Our band,its a 4 piece rock/metal band.I had the vetta,other guitarist has a mesa boogie dual rec and he uses a line 6 x3 live floor pedal. Both amp,this was the first outing. I had the vetta running both amps identical on a jcm 900 marshall and metal z distortion on stomp box 2 which I used all night. It went without fault and was sounding great. The only horror story...we were playing upstairs above a bar in the function room.After the gig I put the vetta inside its flight case and me an a pal carried it to the car and set it on the ground to open the boot of the car. I grabbed one handle of the flight case,my pal took the other and horror..ARRGH! The case decides to open 4 inches off the ground,vetta still attatched to base of case hits the deck.(see photo) Got home ,tested it and all seems fine so no damage,phew. Gonna create more patches now and maybe run 2 different amps in this thing to see how it goes

you reckon win8 laptops will be vetta compatible?

This is the set up I gave £380 for. Long board,flight case and amp. Yeah Darell,those patches.If you had some good rock and metal tones that would be great but I need to get a midi lead. Are the cheaper ones on ebay up to the job or waste of money? also,how many patches is it possible to store on a vetta?

Im fortunate that I cut my teeth on spider 4s so its give me a good understanding on them but I would say the vetta is much easier to navigate through all the settings as opposed to the spider 4. Don't get me wrong,spiders are a great amp and mine served me well but this vetta 2,the tone quality and actual likeness to the modelled amps is close. The thing has a valve feel if you get those dials tweaked nicely and it will do any tone you want. For now,im steering clear of tone downloads and working on my own knowledge. My advice would be select an amp model(I set both amps the same in amp 1 and amp2) and all my eq at 12 oclock position and worked from there. I did a nice patch on the jcm900 marshall dist amp model with drive around 3 oclock,bass around 1 oclock,mids around 11 oclock and treble around 2 oclock. This was really giving me a good tone,a little reminiscence of a thin lizzy tone.Guitar I used is a Jackson SDX Adrian smith. My stomps I set stomp 1 sine chorus,stomp 2 boss od pedal,stomp 3 digi delay. These I have yet to refine as im getting heaps of unwanted background interference when using the boss od stomp.A noise gate will probably cure it or less drive on the modelled amp..unsure until I try it all out again but so far for me..a cracking amp!

Looked at my amp serial number Darell and its a smaller number than your amp so I suspect its an 02-03 amp. Any good amp models Darrel to dial in a good metal tone? I set it up last night using jcm900 dist.Real good rock sound but I just need something a bit more metal,not anything like a slayer sound but maybe a kinda megadeth/marty friedman kind of sound,cheers

I got my vetta 2 hd combo 3 days. Im about to go and play it in a live band later for the first time and after reading this thread..im pretty excited. I recken I got a bargain,vetta2 hd,longboard and a proper flight case on wheels,£380 uk.Pretty good deal I thought

cheers bud,il check this all out.. My reason for sticking with modelling amps(I was soo close to buying a bugera trirec but circumstances changed!),I play in a hard rock cover band and my spider was loaded with metal tones from 80s guitar heroes,just like jake e lee/ozzy era but now,I have taken a second position within a wedding band.It plays a lot of country stuff so I need amp versatility as im going to be after a few twangy tele sounds and can devote the amps memory to both bands. Looking fwd to havin fun with the amp. Is there any clue on the amp serial number that would suggest how old this amp is? thanks

sorry,i have kind of got lost in translation buddy I know yeah the Ethernet cable pedal to amp its the laptop to amp im unsure of to upload new patches to the amp,is it through a midi cable and what exact type of cable do I need? The spider amps were simple,you simply hooked up the pedal to the amp with Ethernet cable then a printer cable,from the laptop into an extra socket on the fbv express pedal and then straight to customtone,the line 6 patch download site,thats how spiders work. Just confused as the longboard does not have the 2 sockets the way my express pedal had. Pretty sure once I have the right cable I will be able to get these patches uploaded. Is it possible to share patches that for example,a patch I create on the amp,is it possible to put that patch online for others to use? Also,does anyone know anything about the website vettaville? One last thing,are there any sites that show a visual to simply dial a good tone into the amp as opposed to downloading a tone? Only got this amp yesterday and its blown me away.Sound quality is a massive leap from the spider 4-150 head and cab I had been using thanks

Just bought a used vetta2 hd combo recently Im familiar with modelling amps as I ran a line6 spider4 150 head for the past 3 years but what I am unsure of is how to change/add patches into the memory of the vetta.On the spider it was simple usb cable to the fbv express pedal and spider 4 edit or customtone,easy. How does the vetta work and where can I find some patches? I have a win 8 pc installed with l6 monkey. What leads do I need and where do these connect on the amp. also got rid of my express pedal and have a full longboard. Reckon I got a good deal,amp,longboard and a proper flight case on wheels for £380 uk. Also trying to figure out how old this amp is.Seems to work well and sounds unreal!

What wah setting do you folk use? Im using throaty on my amp always liked zak wilds wah sound,whats the best setting for that fx folks? need that Dunlop cry baby sound

im using the mk1 shortboard and very intrested in learning more about it im using channel a as my rythmn od and channel b basically same as channel a but with slightly more volume just want to know more about the stop and modulation switches on the board I know modulation switches on/off fx1.I would like to add chorus quickly during a song and also turn it off so how do I set the amp to do this using the modulation switch? also,what exactly does the stomp feature do?

I play live gigs with my amp but feel im not using the shortboard to full advantage. Basically,im using the same eq on 4 separate patches normally this is my set up a-a metal red setting,channel vol 12 oclock and a little reverb and drive around 3/4 b-a copy of channel a with some delay and the channel vol set around 2 oclock(I switch to this channel for volume boost for lead stuff so it cuts through the rythmn mix) c-same eq and vol as channel A but drive set at 12 0clock d-same as a with phazer What I need help with is the switch for modulation.on channel a,sometimes quickly id like to add sine chorus.how do I do this simply and quickly turning chorus on and off or do I need to create a new patch im also unsure what the stomp switch is on the fbv btw,im using first generation fbv if this helps anyone that's got the amp programming set up nicely,feel free to give advice really,i want to utilise as many fx as possible but not have to jump in and out of different banks. thanks

I seen this before.My buddy had a spider3 120 amp.We did a gig and the support band for us used our amps.The amp went fine for the support band but when we went on,turned the amp on it totally shut down fully.The light came on the display but that was all and no volume.luckily there was a spider4/75 as back up but next day the amp worked as normal.It only ever did it once and has been fine since.Your theory about power surge I think is correct.Also think its a good idea to power them from an independent source,eg-plug them direct to the wall plug and not an extension lead that's powering any other equipment

not that I am aware of,no.

full points to me,lol. I think the pots get a little sticky from time to time in turn,that makes the screen freeze up

with the amp off,try moving all the pots on the amp full left to full right and then turn the amp on. I had this issue once and that cured it

Seems to me theres an issue with one of the eq pots. Try a master reset on the amp.hope that helps

Heaviest distortion probably will be the insane setting but its the eq you gotta turn your attention to. Do you find that the distortions sound thin as that's what I found but I fine tuned the EQ of the drive,bass,mids,treble and got pretty good results. http://youtu.be/0LhXLJo70oQ This is a recording I did a few months back and this is my spider 75 along with my guitar which is an old 80s Aria pro II. My advice would be get your clean and distorted sounds and save them to 1 sound bank over the 4 channels This is how it sounds live http://youtu.be/OrAX54F1LdE What is your guitar and what pickups are in the guitar?

you need the FBV express to send and receive tones and it uses a printer lead to do that. That's the only possible way to link the spider to the pc