Line 6 M13 Clip

[MrMunky]

This clip is probably one of the sloppiest I've ever recorded. It is entirely "live": one take using the looper, with no advance planning or structure. No overdubs or re-dos, and it shows. :D

That said, the machine is a lot of fun when its working properly.

http://www.inrerocknroll.com/tunes/M13.mp3

[Chris_G]

Very cool. I've been on a Pink Floyd trip lately and this is very psychedelic...nice.

Details....guitar? amp? recorded how?

[heavypick]

Nice!

[MrMunky]

Very cool. I've been on a Pink Floyd trip lately and this is very psychedelic...nice.

Details....guitar? amp? recorded how?

Thanks! The guitar is my new, extremely sweet, Rick Kelly protocaster, of which I expect to post pics later today.

I just plugged the M13 into an Axe-FX, which I set up with a completely dry, clean, twin reverb amp model. At the beginning of the clip you can hear the tone with the M13 bypassed.

[toelessfoot]

Really cool man, btw what was the distortion model you used for the first distorted lead tone? Sounded really great.

[MrMunky]

Sorry guys, I totally forgot about this thread for a while. Swamped with other things.

I can't recall for sure what that first distorted lead tone is. I think it's their idea of a Rat. I don't quite understand all the posts that state that it sounds like a real rat, and at one point I've probably had every iteration of the rat. This thing doesn't remind me of it at all.

Ohwell. Fun unit.

[heavypick]

Sorry guys, I totally forgot about this thread for a while. Swamped with other things.

I can't recall for sure what that first distorted lead tone is. I think it's their idea of a Rat. I don't quite understand all the posts that state that it sounds like a real rat, and at one point I've probably had every iteration of the rat. This thing doesn't remind me of it at all.

Ohwell. Fun unit.

I understand these type of comparisons, I do them myself.. but another way of going about it is asking if it sounds good or useful to you rather than whether it sounds like a RAT, TS-9, Memory Man, whatever. The goal probably is to get a bunch of really good, usable sounds rather than whether it sounds exactly like pedal X or Y.

[MrMunky]

I've said that myself. Personally I think the trick to appreciating the dirt tones in this unit is to think of them as a collection of new tones, not a collection of specific, classic dirt boxes.

But it's Line 6 that says this dirt tone is a model of a Rat. And people on here say it sounds just like their Rat. I like the tone, but I wouldn't guess it was supposed to be a rat if nobody told me. And I'd be quite disappointed if I were trying to duplicate a real rat with it.

[heavypick]

Yeah. For example let's say you're into Satriani's legato stuff (I'm not a big fan myself but his name just came to mind). I think he uses a DS-1. When you try a new pedal, it's probably more useful to see if the pedal will allow you to play Satriani-like runs rather than whether it sounds like a DS-1.

[Catoogie]

I think it sounds VERY effect-y.

[OrangeAD30TC]

I am going to try to do a youtube clip or something cause I feel like the classic distortion patch does sound like my 90's reissue rat.

[drolling]

MrMunky, no one else I've heard's got the knack for making the *cheezyness* of these multi-effectors actually work for the music, rather than against it.. Mind you, I don't get around much anymore.

But if you got a gig as the house band (mebbe add a drum machine) I'd show up every night & drink at the bar till my liver fell out, bounced off the brass rail & hit the floor.

BTW, I'm hearing a lot more Henry Mancini then David Gilmour in that clip, but like I said, they haven't let me out lately.

Keep up the good work:AOK:RoCkIn:BEER!!

[MrMunky]

Thanks!