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Fixing the squonky nasal treble on the Spider V 20


AndySheffield
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I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to rectify the squonky nasal sound of my 20 II with picking on the clearer settings.  In the end I just bought a Boss Katana but have actually now found the problem.  Both my guitars have humbuckers and, if these are on full volume (as I tended to leave them) I get this weird nasal treble, especially on the B string.  However, dropping the volume to 8 or below largely fixes this.  Of course, a humbucker will distort at full volume and I’m guessing that the little 20 can’t cope with this (my katana 50 is fine with it).  And if course, if I really want a clear sound I shouldn’t be on full pickup volume anyway.  Anyway, sorry little 20, all is forgiven.

 

The-in built pre-sets aren’t still aren’t great and I wholeheartedly recommend the settings supplied by Guitar Chalk that I found elsewhere on this forum 

https://www.guitarchalk.com/line-6-spider-v-20-mkii-settings/ which sound great

 

btw I’m using an Ibanez Artcore AAS93 Semi Hollowbody.  I also have an Ibanez AFC155 Archtop which doesn’t suffer quite so much - probably dueb to its lower output humbuckers. 

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I should have added that increasing the eq from 5-6 also makes a big difference.  Looking in the Spider remote app, 5 on the dial is midrange heavy but just a small change to 6 radically changes the balance, with midrange going down and bass and treble up.  Helped with the weird tomes on some notes. 

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