An extremely brief review of the Line 6 M9

[Kwesi]

The Good:

-Modulation
-Delay
-Reverb
-Bass octaver
-Pitch glide

The suck:

Damn near everything else.

The verdict:

It's pretty damn schweet! Not 100% sure on whether it'll stay or not but I do like it for the most part. If I do move it something that gimmie some good WUBWUB lovin' will take it place along with some nice modulator. Might just leave the whole dubstep idea for another time and another board though and just keep this one multi-purpose. Of course, if Line 6 decides that they'll start treating bassists like we actually exist then I can have my cake and eat it to . I feel like it wouldn't be difficult to "retune" the filters and distortions for bass but I don't program effects either. So, the thing is like ~60% bass friendly. Not bad .

[newbold]

It's supposed to be the stompbox modellers in one box with more preset options.

Those pedals aren't really known for being 'bass friendly' but the expression control on the original stompbox modelers is second to none for me (from one setting to another and various shades in between) because quite often when one parameter needs changing, another one needs tweaking to keep the setting listenable through the whole range of the setting.

If I get it right, Setting a ring modulator up properly and running it before a flanger and then through a rhythmic delay is possible with this pedal rather than only being able to have the delay...

...and then go from one ring mod setting to another to (sort of) pitch bend on a different delay offset.

As far as I gather from what I've read, bring your analog tone shaping (overdrive for example) and run it before this incredibly full-featured multi effect.

Great as PART of a pedalboard - am I getting this right, Kwesi?

Too bad there's not an insert point to make the best of the octavers.

[behndy]

you forgot the looper.

a decent multi digital delay (Hardwire, Flashback), a tuner and an octaver = the same size of the M9.

for me it's worth it to have the save spots and maybe 4 or 5 one off weird thingies. i'm not a huge fan of the Trems though.

edit - the insert point idea is pretty cool. i like my octaver after fuzz and filter and OD so that doesn't bother me, but it'd be cool to be able to play with non-M9 effects order.