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I got the same problem mine goes 5 minuetes and then the sound muffles and then the amp just dies out and then i turn it off and on and it wont work and then it wont start up until a while later
A few things come to mind. The power transformer could be failing or a capacitor is failed or has a broken solder connection..or a series of bad connections. Spider II's and especially III's are known to do this sort of thing. There is nothing you can do to fix it without taking it to an authorized repair center with your receipt. Repair centers simply get a whole new circuit board to replace the existing one since most of the components are surface mount and programmed chips. If its the transformer then if may be more expensive to fix than it's worth (unless it's still under warranty). With dozens and dozens of components inside these amps, there is no way to pinpoint the problem without hands-on servicing. Check Line 6's website for your nearest repair center. Best of luck!
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Turn off the effects or go inside and unplug the little sound card. It is only a few samples of real effects, not the real thing. It's like a cheap PC sound card separate from the other components and has a small power plug on it. Wiggle that plug or unplug to see if it changes. It won't cut her sound, just the effects. Make sure the effects are off and verify, if using a footswitch, that it is working properly.
I think that rather than the mixer, that your front speakers may have a limiter built into the high frequncey amp. You may be asking them to do more that they are capable of.
If you've changed the tweeter and the sound is still muffled the fault is with the HF amp, or the cross-over. You will have to send the amp assembly for repair as it is all surface mount components in there -nothing you will be able to fix yourself. Sorry for the bad news!
Just because tubes light up does NOT mean they are good or working... While heaters not lit are an indication of failure, teh reverse is not necessarily true.
Time to troubleshoot this... Plug a set of headphones into teh preamp out. See if audio there is clean... it will be low level using headphones and ONLY from one side as the output is mono and your headphones are stereo usually... If audio is clean here and not muffled, then problem is in power amp section else in the early stages of the unit.
Report back the results of this test...
If you connected an external speaker plug from one into the same type plug on another amp, you have driven signals backward into the amp that was off... NOT into the speaker in that unit.
The usual result is blown parts in the amp that is off.
Some amps have their own speaker cable that you can unplug to connect to another amp and that is fairly safe. NEVER run an amp without a speaker load on it.
Hello Have a look at the neck part where the strings move through that aligning unit which has the 6 slits cut into it where the strings goes through at the top of the guitar neck.
What usually happens, the slits get worked out, thus the strings move fractions closer to the fret board which will result in a muffled sound if you press down on the string you get a fret buzz. This happens when the string touches the fret board on more than one spot.
When you play a solo you can get a muffled sound out of certain strings. This happened to me, i just replaced this unit, very cheap, and all was fixed. Hope this can work.
SOunds like the emulated line out is the problem IT may be defective. Is this a button or a knob? It may have dirty contacts and MIGHT be able to be cleaned with electronic contact cleaner.
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