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Steve Cole Posted on Jan 29, 2009
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After hour of playing the amp starts the effect popping sound

Amp stays lit up.cant see any problem except sometimes save lite comes on and it has changed to the user program.the amp sounds like it wants to change into another effect.the popping is loud and im afraid it will blow a speaker so im powering down when this happens.sometimes if i change the dial setting on my variax with the toggle switch it will make it come and go.cant be the variax because also happens with my telecaster.also had a problem awhile ago with amp loosing sound for about 20 sec and then comming back on without loosing power. line6 vetta II guitar amp

  • Anonymous Mar 23, 2009

    same thing. quite problematic



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There is an open connection, most likely right off the input jack ,causing this issue. Resolder it or retension the jack connection.

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