sparslow

No. Never got it fixed. Sending it to one of their service centers (well over 100 miles away) is not an option. cost to ship and return, parts, labor, and not even a guarantee it would get fixed.

The buzz I hear is terrible. I am afraid it may be time to move on. I really do not see the point in sending it in for service. I can buy a decent amp on e-bay, or go to my local music store and buy something usable for about the price it will cost me to get it repaired, if it CAN be repaired. I read a bunch of posts in here, and seen a bunch of video's in which these things are rated as "junk" once they start to show symptoms of going.....That and no one will touch these things really sucks as an owner. If I had known service centers were so few and scattered, I probably would not have gone with Line 6. Time to go old school, and get some tubes......

I have indeed. A couple of times.

I have a spider III, 75 watt amp that worked fine about 2 years ago, when I had to stop playing for health reasons. I am now able to play again, and I pluged my amp in turned it on and it still lights up like a christmas tree. As soon as I plug my guitar in, there is a "screetching" sound that does not stop. The volumes have no effect on this sound. Tried different cables. Tried different guitars. Tried different electrical outlets. Unpluged the speaker and pluged into different speaker and same issue. (so it's not the speaker) Has anyone else run into this issue? Any idea what to do. I contacted support, who say it needs to go to a service center. first off that 3 hours away. If I mail it back for service, it will cost me as much to buy a new one. Any experiences like mine I would appreciate hearing from, or for that matter suggestions. Otherwise, the amp is going to be used by my son in his matchbox village as a very expensive streetlight unit. Thank everyone!