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Re: Ambience and the M13
I do, however, seem to find it a bit too easy to overload something
somewhere in the chain.
Mark
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> As in ambience behind the main signal.
>
> I continue to love my Korg AM8000R, but it's a rack unit and that makes
> things less mobile, so today I decided to try to push my Line6 M13
> harder. The verdict is that I miss some things from the Korg -- pitch
> shifting delays with feedback especially, stepped phasers to a lesser
> extent -- but chain together 3 or 4 careful chosen effects all set to
> 100% wet and one can get a fairly nice ambient vibe going. The Obi Wah
> is a good substitute for the stepped phasers, for example.
>
> This is an area where the M13 seems to win over the M9: One more effect
> and you can see all of the live effects at once for tweakage.
>
> The downside, of course, is size.
>
> And then there's the matter of really needing to run this sort of chain
> 100% wet which means that there are routing issues to deal with.
>
> Still, I am starting to see how it could be very appealing to use the
> M13 as an ambient looper either on the floor or raised up onto a stand
> for easier tweakage.
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. Something I haven't tried yet, but it occurs to me: You can put the
> looper anywhere you want in the signal chain if you use the effects
> loop. You put your pre-loop effects in the later slots, put your input
> into the FX send before these effects, then feed your output to the
> input, run the looper pre-FX, and use the effects send as the output.
>
> Instrument -> FX Return -> Pre-loop FX -> Output -> Input -> Looper ->
> Post-loop FX -> FX Send -> Amplifier/Mixer/...
>
>