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You should read these Important Safety Instructions. Keep these instructions in a safe place. Before using your Spider III, carefully read the applicable items of these operating instructions and the safety suggestions. 1. Obey all warnings on the amp and in the Spider III Manual. 2. Connect only to AC power outlets rated 100-120V or 200-240V 47-63Hz (depending on voltage range of the unit; refer to back panel). 3. Do not perform service operations beyond those described in the Spider III Manual.
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1 Plug In Here 2 3 Amp Models Spin this knob to select one of twelve Amp Models. All the other Spider III controls will automatically be set to sound great with that Amp Model, so you can just play! CD/MP3 Plug in any audio source and it feeds directly into the Spider III’s speaker or headphones so you can jam with your favorite music or drum machine. Use the device’s output control to adjust its volume.
10 9 TAP: Tap on the TAP button a few times to set the delay time. Also Tap button extra functions. A 6 Foot Control & Headphone/Line Out Plug in an FBV2 foot switch to scroll through the 4 channels or connect a Line 6 FBV Shortboard controller for channel switching, effects on/off control, wah/volume pedals, access to 32 more channel memories, a chromatic tuner, and tap tempo for delays. Consider the FBV Express for channel switching, tap tempo, wah/volume control and tuner capabilities.
Welcome The Spider III... Thank you for inviting Spider III home with you. This amp mines the tonal heritage of the past forty years of guitar amplifier design and matches it up with the kind of digital signal processing magic that will still be ahead of its time ten years from now. Presets Your new Spider III amplifier comes with a whopping 36 user presets and over 400 artist and song based presets that can be accessed through the Navigator.
Amp Model Details Clean Red LED - Select this Amp Model and adjust the tone controls to get crisp, amazing clean tones, great warm jazz tones, and all the high-end shimmer you’ll need with a generous amount of bottom end to boot. Then dial up a little chorus and delay to get the ultimate clean sound! Green LED - We developed this Amp Model to emulate those late 60’s and early 70’s clean tones. It started off as an Amp Model based on a 1973 Hiwatt custom 100.
Crunch Red LED - This sound was crafted during our studies of the '68 Marshall Plexi 50 Watt. This type of Marshall amp was used by a number of early metal bands. Check out albums like British Steel, Number of the Beast and Black Out. Crunch provides a wider range of tone control settings than the original Marshall amp had. This Amp Model will allow you to bump up the mids even at the highest Drive settings.
Smart Control FX: Great amp tone is only part of a great guitar sound. Effect processing – whether it’s stomp boxes or rack gear – is also a big part of the story. Your Spider III packs the power of several of these tone shapers in its Smart Control FX section. The delay knob gives you a trio of delay effect choices: a standard delay, tape echo, and a sweep echo.
Distortion Boost Press and hold the Tap button as you turn the Drive knob up past twelve o’clock. As you do this, Spider III’s Channel A LED comes on. This gives the kind of extra ‘dirt’ that you’d expect from a Distortion pedal with the distortion control set low and the output control set high. It boosts your guitar signal before it reaches the Amp Model, so that you hit the model harder and get a more distorted sound. Enabling this is the same as kicking on Stomp on the FBV Shortboard.
Special Hidden Functions When you select an Amp Model, Spider III automatically sets its tone controls and effects to match that Amp Model. You can disable the auto-FX selection (but not tone control auto-selection) by powering up Spider III with the Channel D button held. The autoselection is re-enabled next time you power up. Want to know where your Spider III's controls are set in the programmed channels? Hold – and keep holding – the Tap button.
Using Your Feet The FBV series of foot controllers includes the original FBV—with its extensive effects controls for the Line 6 Vetta amps—and the more-compact FBV Shortboard, which includes all the controls needed for the Spider III. Also available are the FBV Express for channel switching and tap and FBV2 for channel scroll. Note that the Line 6 Floor Board and FB4 foot controllers will not work with Spider III. FBV footcontrollers come with an included RJ-45 cable.
FBV Express 1. Channel A, B, C & D: Select from the four Channel Memories. You can also use your active channel to change your Tap Tempo setting. Just Tap the channel button twice to the drummer’s beat and presto - you’re locked in! 2. FBV Pedal: Press the pedal forward to click the toe-switch, turning the pedal from Volume to Wah. 3. Wah and Volume Lights: These light to show that a pedal is ready to control Wah or Volume.
FBV Shortboard 1. Channel A, B, C & D: Select from the four Channel Memories. Note: On the FBV Express, you can also use your active channel to change your Tap Tempo setting. Just Tap the channel button twice to the drummer’s beat and presto - you’re locked in! 2. Bank Up - Bank Down: The FBV Shortboard gives you 9 banks of 4 channels each. Bank 1 is the same 4 memories you get from the Spider III front panel A,B,C,D buttons when no FBV is connected. 3.
