My Amp won't turn down....

[Butch Snyder]

I have a Line 6 Flextone III Plus amp. It's about 4-5 years old. It's in great shape for being my main amp. The issue is that I was at band rehearsal tonight and turned it on. I played with the master volume all the way down but the sound was huge. There was massive volume. You could also increase the volume by turning the master vol up.

anyone have any ideas?

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Do you know if the master volume is a potentiometer or a rotary encoder?

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

If it's a rotary encoder, it's probably a software thing, in which case I can't help you.

If it's a potentiometer, it's probably a "paperclipped" solder joint. (It's moved back and forth from the pressure of your hand enough times to fail mechanically.)

I know you're a pretty experienced guy, and you probably would have thought of the potentiometer solder failure, so in conjunction with the Line6-ness of the amp, I am guessing it's a rotary encoder.

You know, it could be a "paperclipped" joint on the back of the rotary encoder too...if it is indeed a rotary encoder


Can you turn it up but not down?
Can you turn it neither up nor down?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

At zero, it's doggone loud; but I can still turn it up louder too...

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Is there a hard physical stop at Volume Level 0?

Does it feel like a potentiometer or a rotary encoder to you?

Can you take a look at it from the back / internal side?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I've never heard of a rotary encoder until now. There is a hard stop at zero. Physically, the knob feels the same as if it were working normally.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Sometimes the logic gets scrambled up in Flextone's and most modelers. I've had noise gates get locked on and all kinds of weird stuff.

The solution is to give up your patches and reboot the amp.
Turn it off, hold 4 fingers down on the four channel buttons simultaneously, and then power it up. It'll restore everything to factory settings, but most likely, your problem will disappear.

 

[BloodRose]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Ya know... This makes me think.. If we are trying to figure out how to turn it down, we must be gettin too old....:28:

 

[Thurisaz]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Rebooting the amp seems like the best idea. If that doesn't work, then it may be time to find a new main amp?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I was thinkig "reboot" also. I have my settings mapped out so it's not an issue. I'll just get them into Line6 Edit and go from there.

 

[sosomething]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

anyone have any ideas?

?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

?

Been there, done that....

Yes, tonewise - it cannot be beat. However, I have many situations where I need very little stage volume. The Flextone lets me turn the amp all the way down and control my trim from the rear of the amp through the XLR outputs to the house; when it's working correctly....

 

[sosomething]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I hear you, man. I just can't imagine placing my sound in the hands of a piece of software... I know that for portability and flexibility, it can't be beat, but there are just so many things that can go wrong.

As an aside, I should point out that your last post contained the words beat, trim, and rear, and wasn't about secks.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

As an aside, I should point out that your last post contained the words beat, trim, and rear, and wasn't about secks.

That's becasue my mind is on tone....

 

[Stratman]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I usually have this problem when some old foggie tell me my amp is too loud.

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

It sounds to me like your volume control is a rotary encoder with stops at 0 and 10, to simulate the feel of a potentiometer.

Most of the modeling deals will have rotary encoders that simply provide input to software that controls the parameters in the software domain.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

It sounds to me like your volume control is a rotary encoder with stops at 0 and 10, to simulate the feel of a potentiometer.

Most of the modeling deals will have rotary encoders that simply provide input to software that controls the parameters in the software domain.

Makes sense to me. Even the input jack has a circuit board.

 

[tone4days]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I hear you, man. I just can't imagine placing my sound in the hands of a piece of software...

you recorded, mixed, and mastered your album direct to analog tape and only released it on vinyl and cassette?

 

[H8Red442]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

I've got the exact opposite problem with Channel 1 on my Dual Recto!

/not very helpful

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: My Amp won't turn down....

Amp is fixed. A reboot and reset back to factory default settings is what it needed. I also upgraded the Flash memory. The only thing I forgot to do was grab and save my existing settings. That's okay, they're pretty easy to remember. If you thing about it. My Flextone III is nothing but a big computer. Thanks all who helped me with this.