So these Line 6 M13 thingymajigs....

[drew_drummer]

Are they any good? Anyone using one? I reckon they'd probably be decent - never had much against Line 6's effects; in fact I have a DL-4 and its awesome.

I'm honestly wondering whether I could replace this:

With this:

Part of me thinks it could work well; have my Volume pedal in the loop, and have it assignable on a per-song basis. have a bank of scenes for each song, and just hit one button each time my tone needs to change (I always go into the front of the amp; never into the fx loop)

But part of me thinks it might look too good to be true; thoughts?

 

[raisedfist]

I had one for 6 months and just sold it. The delay was the only really useful feature as you can have 4 delays patches/stomp box models on at once but its a lot of cash for a fancy delay pedal and its really heavy which was massively annoying.

In short - the reverbs and synth stuff is un-usable.
- the comps are good
- the overdrives are weak, the only ok one is the tubescreamer one and that has some weird stuff going on as where-ever you dial the tone knob it still honks and is nassle as hell, its got nothing on my maxon od808 or my double drive.
- chorus/flanger/phaser ok, good tremolo

I think like all these modelling things they are a great idea but once the honeymoon period is over you start to see the major problems with line6 modelling and its just a bit too sterile. Don't get me wrong, I work at a theatre and a guy in one of the shows recently had one of those spider valve things and it covered all the bases from rock thru country and I guess thats the problem, it does a little of everything at a passable level but thats it. Keep your dosh!

 

[Bekanor]

I was tossing up between these two but I'm going for the TC Nova System instead.

 

[ahjteam]

How about this one? You can bypass the ampsim if you want...

http://line6.com/podx3live/

ps: the price difference is like 20€ compared to the M13

 

[drew_drummer]

I had one for 6 months and just sold it. The delay was the only really useful feature as you can have 4 delays patches/stomp box models on at once but its a lot of cash for a fancy delay pedal and its really heavy which was massively annoying.

As you can see though, the M13 would probably be quite a bit lighter than my current setup!!

I never found the L6 reverbs to be THAT bad! The distortions are cack yes, but I don't need them.

I just went to a shop, and the guy said he had one left in a box; but wouldn't let me try it out. How the fuck are people supposed to know whether something is good for them, if you wont let them try it out!!

 

[drew_drummer]

I was tossing up between these two but I'm going for the TC Nova System instead.

Only thing with the Nova is the preset system seems quite limited. Don't like having to hold down buttons to get the banks to change.

 

[drew_drummer]

Meh.. I think I'm gonna pass on a multi-fx at the moment. The problem is, no-one has gotten it right. I want the complexity and the dexterity of my current setup, within a portable 10-footswitch unit. The closest thing looks to be the G-System, but it's bloody expensive for what it is.