Re: Ambience and the M13

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

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/...
> 
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