Line 6 Spider II 15, Spider II 30 User Manual

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Before contacting the Line 6 Customer Service team, please take the time to look through this publication to
see if it can answer your questions. Additional helpful information is on the Support page of the Line 6 web site
(www.line6.com), including the searchable FAQTRAQ system which is often the fastest and easiest way to get
the answers you need.

Need to talk to an actual human on the Line 6 Customer Service team by phone? Have your serial number
handy and take some notes for yourself before you call, so you remember everything you want to ask about. In
the USA or Canada, you can contact Line 6 at [phone], 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday (Pacific
Time). Outside the USA and Canada, please contact your distributor directly to arrange service. The list of Line
6 distributors is available on the Internet at www.line6.com.

To obtain factory service:

If a member of the Line 6 Customer Service Team determines that your Spider II needs to be sent to Line 6 for
service, you will be given a return authorization (RA) number. Products returned without an RA number will
be returned to you at your sole expense. Pack the product in its original shipping carton and attach a description
of the problem along with your name and a phone number where Line 6 can contact you if necessary. Ship the
product insured and freight prepaid to:

Plug In Here

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GUITAR

GUITAR

Line 6 Customer Service

6033 De Soto Avenue,

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Channel Memories / Amp Models

The four channels each use a different Amp Model, and all come
pre-loaded with a factory preset dialed in to nail a great tone. Press
one of these buttons to hear the presets. To replace any preset with
your own “snapshot” of all tone and effect knob positions (except
Master Volume), press and hold one of these four buttons for two
seconds. The light flashes when the save is complete.

CLEAN

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

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CHORUS
FLANGE

Pilot’s Guide for Spider II 15 & 30

40-00-0053 Electrophonic Limited Edition available @ www.line6.com Rev A

Tap Delay Time

Tap the Tap Delay Time button at least two times
to set the delay time when either Tape Echo or
Sweep Echo is active. The light will be lit solid
when Reverb is active, and will be off when no
echo or reverb effect is active. (Also see ”Tap
Button Extra Functions”).

PHASER

SWEEP
ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX MASTER

TREMOLO

TAPE ECHO

REVERB

OFF

Headphone/Record Out

Listen with headphones, or use this as a direct out for

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recording! (The speaker is muted when this jack is in use).

FBV Pedal (Spider II 30 only)

See “Footwork” section below for details.

POWER

FBV

PEDAL

CD /

MP3 IN

PHONES /

RECORD OUT

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Spider II 30

30 Watts / 12 inch

Smart Control FX

Spin one of these knobs to get great FX, fast and easy:

Tone Controls

Drive is like the volume or gain

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knob on other amps; controls how
much “dirt” you get in your sound.
Bass, Mid, and Treble controls are
customized for each Channel to
give you optimal tonal control.

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Channel Volume

This control helps you balance the
volumes of the amp-and-effect setups
that you store in your Spider II’s
channels. See (2) above for the low­down on channels.

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The first knob picks chorus/flange, phaser or tremolo,
with a range of settings—from subtle to overpowering—
for each effect.

The second knob picks tape echo, sweep echo or reverb
with a range of mix settings from low to high. When
you select an echo effect the Tap Delay Time light
flashes the delay time; tap it to change the time.

Welcome The Spider II...

Thank you for inviting Spider II 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.

Each of the four programmable channels is built on a different Amp Model with its own unique tone:

Clean

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!

Crunch

Plexi On Fire! This Amp Model is based on a ‘68
Marshall Plexi 100 watt with a few added extras; The
combination of a Variac and the jumpered input
channels creates that infamous brown sound that will
feel like flames are shooting out the input jack! “Come
on Dave… Give me a break!”

Metal

This Amp Model is based on the Mesa Dual Rectifier.
For Spider II, we made careful enhancements to this
classic tone. The resulting Amp Model has a definite
modern flavor. This monster truck of tone delivers a
tight bottom end that’s big, powerful, tight and fast.
Use this Amp Model to get a tight and punchy, high
gain Metal sound.

Insane

Our goal with Insane was to provide you with as much
input gain distortion as possible short of complete
meltdown. You get an obscene helping of distortion,
while still retaining tonal definition and character. As
a result, you get way more bottom end and cabinet
character than other small amps. Crank up the Drive
control and prepare to dominate!

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Tap Button Extra Functions

The Tap Delay Time button, in addition to setting the
time of your echo effects, also lets you access a Distortion
Boost and a built-in Noise Gate.

Distortion Boost

Press and hold the Tap Delay Time button as you turn
the Drive knob up past twelve o’clock. As you do this,
Spider II’s CLEAN Channel light comes on to indicate
that the Distortion Boost is 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.

Noise Gate

Press and hold the Tap Delay Time button as you turn
the echo/reverb FX knob up past twelve o’clock, and
you’ll turn on a built-in Noise Gate to help cut down
on hiss and noise. As you do this, the INSANE
Channel light comes on to indicate the Gate is on.

Master Volume

You can choose the
overall volume of the
amplifier, without
affecting your tone.

CD/MP3 In

Listen and play along

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with CD or MP3 tracks
by connecting to this
1/8-inch input.

Special Hidden Functions

When you select an Amp Model, Spider II
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 II with the INSANE Channel button held.
The auto-selection will be re-enabled next time you
power up.

You can also reset your Spider II’s programmable
channels to their factory-programmed states by holding
down the CLEAN Channel button as you turn on
the power. Warning: This will erase ALL custom
sounds you might have saved. Ask yourself, “Do I really
want to do this?” If your answer is yes, then go for it!

All product names referred to in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the
products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.

Footwork (Spider II 30 only)

Two Line 6 foot controllers can be used with the Spider
II 30 combo: the FBV4 for channel switching and delay
time tap, or the FBV2 for channel scroll. Note that the
FBV, FBV Shortboard, Floor Board and FB4 foot
controllers will not work with Spider II 30.

FBV foot controllers come with a RJ-45 cable. Connect
it between the front panel of the Spider II and the side
of the FBV. If you ever need a replacement cable, look
for a Category 5 (or higher), “10 Base-T” or “RJ-45”
cable with male connectors on both ends. These can
be found at almost any computer supply retailer.

FBV2

The FBV2 functions as a two button channel scroll foot
switch. Step on its switches to scroll through the four
channels (Clean, Crunch, Metal, and Insane) of your
Spider II 30.

FBV4

Select from your Spider II's 4 channels.With this pedal,
you can also use the foot switch for the active channel
to change your Tap Delay Time setting. Just tap the
channel button two or more times to the drummer’s
beat and presto—you’re locked in!

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Pilot's Log

Get tone settings for a collection of great guitar songs from our web site, www.line6.com. Make a note of your favorite settings here by marking which channel is selected, the positions of the knobs, and the Tap Delay Time.

Example Tone (clean with chorus and echo)

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )1 tap/beat (q)

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )tap/beat ( )

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )tap/beat ( )

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )tap/beat ( )

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )tap/beat ( )

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( )tap/beat ( )

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

REVERB

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

tap/beat ( ) tap/beat ( )

CHORUS
FLANGE

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

Line 6, Spider II, FBV, FBV Shortboard, FBV4, FBV2, Floor Board, FB4 and Vetta are trademarks of
Line 6, Inc. All other product names, trademarks, and artists’ names are the property of their
respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. Product names, images,
song names and artists’ names are used solely to identify the products whose tones and sounds were
studied during Line 6’s sound model development for this product. The use of these products,
trademarks, images, and artists’ names does not imply any cooperation or endorsement.

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

REVERB

CAUTION: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to
Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference,
and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

The exclamation point within a triangle means,
WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do
not expose this appliance to rain or moisture.

“Caution!” Please read the information next to

all caution signs.

The lightning symbol within a triangle means,
CAUTION: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do
not remove screws. No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer
servicing to qualified service personnel.

“Electrical caution!” It indicates the presence

of information about operating voltage and

potential risks of electrical shock.

This symbol within a triangle means, “Caution!

Hot surface!” It is shown in areas that may

become too hot to touch when the device is in

operation.

Spider II Pilot’s Guide © 2004, Line 6, Inc.

CLEAN CRUNCH METAL INSANE TAP DELAY TIMECHANNELS:

DRIVE BASS MID TREBLE CHAN VOL

CHORUS
FLANGE

PHASER

TREMOLO

OFF

SMART CONTROL FX

SWEEP
ECHO

TAPE ECHO

OFF

You should read these Important Safety Instructions.
Keep these instructions in a safe place.

Before using your Spider II, carefully read the applicable items of these operating instructions and the safety suggestions.

1. Obey all warnings on the amp and in the Spider II 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 II Manual. Service is required when the apparatus has been
damaged in any way, such as:

• power-supply cord or plug is damaged

• liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus

• the unit has been exposed to rain or moisture

• the unit does not operate normally or changes in performance in a significant way

• the unit is dropped or the enclosure is damaged.

4. The bottom of the metal chassis can get hot during operation. Do not touch during operation or shortly after.

5. Do not place near heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, or appliances which produce heat. Keep the rear of the unit at least
three inches from walls or other items that might block heat radiation.

6. Do not block any of the ventilation openings or use in an enclosed space.

7. Guard against objects or liquids entering the enclosure. Do not use or place unit near water.

8. Do not step on power cords. Do not place items on top of power cords so that they are pinched or leaned on. Pay particular attention
to the cord at the plug end and the point where it connects to the amp.

9. Unplug the amp when not in use for extended periods of time. Unplug the amp during lightning storms.

10. Clean only with a damp cloth.

11. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the grounding type plug. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong.
The third prong is provided for your safety. When the provided plug does not fit into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement
of the obsolete outlet.

12. Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.

13. Prolonged listening at high volume levels may cause irreparable hearing loss and/or damage. Always be sure to practice “safe listening.”

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