makatech

Great, thank you for your quick response! :-)

Hi, I recently bought a Line 6 HD300 for me and my daughter for home use. Most of the times we will be using the HD300 with headphones. Immediately when trying the pod with headphones I noticed big variances in sounds and sometimes spikes in volumes when switching between different presets, not very nice to your ears, my daughter actually hated it. :-( Last night I had a fun time downloading lots of presets from http://line6.com/customtone/ Still huge variances in sounds between different patches causing inconvenience when switching between the presets. Today I decided to edit all patches using HD300 Edit software, lowering the channel volume on most of the presets to avoid these huge variances in volume and volume spikes. >Is this the way to do or is there another way of dealing with my problem? Lowering the channel volume on all presets like I did will perhaps change the sound and behavior of the presets making them sound bad or not the way they are supposed to sound? Advices will be appreciated. Thanks :-)

It's really acting strange. But maybe the thing always works after all. I sporadically get the black box message in the display but if I wait it start working after maybe 2-5 minutes. Maybe it will always start working if I am patient enough. ;-) Anyway: I assume that this kind of behavior isn't correct, it should start up within 1-2 seconds after pushing the power button, right? It's not like a computer doing some kind of slow booting? ;-)

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. I believe I successfully did a factory reset without any improvements but I will try it one more time. >Could be the infamous but surprisingly common overheating problem? It's almost laughable but controversial with components reaching temperatures above 100 degrees of Celsius with no heatsink, this is stupidity. I'm not 100% sure yet but it seems like it always work next day first day after having had the power cord unplugged during the night. The overheating seem to be very easy to solve? Just a good heatsink and some cpu cooling pasta on the DSP/CPU in the middle of the board (I have been watching some youtube videos). Looks like an old heatsink from a Pentium 4 will fit pretty well. What about the power fuse? Could a faulty fuse cause intermittent problems? Since the display always get lit up (but sometimes showing black boxes) I assume power is getting through though? I guess I have nothing to loose, I could try this?

Hmmm :-( my Spider III is having this problem sporadically... I bought it used a couple of days ago. Good luck for me getting any kind of refund... :-(

I have this problem too on my Spider III 75w, but the behavior is sporadic, sometime it wakes up. Advices would be greatly appreciated.