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MY NEW TOY
Hi all!
I spent the latter part of the afternoon today playing with my newest
loop toy, a Line 6 M13.
I've researched these things for a little while now and contemplated
buying one for well over six months.
Thanks Bill Walker for much good advice while I was looking.
Then, last week, a deal popped up on Ebay that was too good to pass up.
It arrived on Tuesday and I tested it out right away to make sure it
was not a DOA brick.
Today was the first time I got to spend any serious time with it - just
playing around so far, not programming - and the experience was simply
delightful.
I used a GK-3 equipped Tele and a Boss WP-20G set on hexaphonic "slow
gear" just to feed the M13 an interesting signal . . . and a pair of
Mackie SRM150s to listen to give it voice and I really liked what I
heard.
I got a pair of the Line 6 EX-1 expression pedals too and enjoyed
toying around with changing various parameters on the fly that way.
Seems like a pretty straightforward box, all-in-all.
After a long, looooong search, I think I've finally found a device that
can give me a simple, nearly all-in-one, guitar looping setup for those
quick gigs that don't warrant (or permit) taking along my larger
collection of gear (I'm thinking Santa Cruz mostly).
As long as it is reliable, I think I've found a winner.
Bill Walker is right about one negative about this device though, it
really needs a guitar amp to make it sound right tone-wise.
Unfortunately I sold off all my combo amps and have switched to just
using the Mackie SRM150s for personal monitoring, and a pair of SRM450s
for low-end and PA oomph - a system that is all together too clean and
devoid of guitaristic character to make the M13 really sound terrific.
But for now it's what I've got.
I am sure that it will be tempting to add several other gizmos to this
. . . my trusty Sustainic C for one, and the aforementioned WP-20G for
another, and an EB volume pedal are what I'll try to stick to . . . if
I can.
As far as simplifying goes, I played a gig a couple of weeks ago with
just the GK3 Tele and WP-20G Sustainiac C and a pair of EDPs and Akiras
and had the best gig I've had in years.
Yeah, I missed the Vortexes and VG-99, guitar synth and all the other
neat stuff.
But I had a good time . . . a better time than most outings.
I played for 4 hours straight in an art gallery wine and cheese setting
(talk about a dull audience) and it was really guite satisfying.
I'm looking forward to getting to know my new toy better in coming
weeks.
I think it's going to work for me.
Cheers,
Ted