How do you like the Line 6 FM4?

MonkeyBass · #1 08-28-2010, 11:57 AM

Anyone own the Line 6 FM4? I was thinking it might be a better option than the Q-Tron because it has some synths and stuff in it too.

Now I know it doesn't have the 'vibe' of a Q-Tron but I'm just looking for something for gigging.

So, any thoughts from anybody before I go blow some cash on this?

kaputsport · #2 08-28-2010, 01:41 PM

I got a very convincing qtron out of it. I had an old school qtron, the FM4 and a DOD FX25 all together, and I could not justify holding on to both the FX25 and the Qtron.

I also got some other interesting tones out of the FM4, but nothing really usable on the synth side.

MonkeyBass · #3 08-28-2010, 03:08 PM

Really? The synth isn't that good? That's disappointing.

Thanks kaputsport. I appreciate it.

Couvy · #4 08-28-2010, 05:06 PM

I guess it's another instance of YMMV, but I was in the opposite camp. I could tweak some workable synth sounds, but I wasn't impressed by the envelope filters.

Bish42 · #5 08-28-2010, 05:32 PM

I ended up taking mine off my board. I found 1 decent sound (one of the wet synth sounds) but I couldn't justify having such a huge pedal for 1 sound.

Generally I found half the setting lost low end and were too weak and the other half wanted to blow the speaker out of my cab. Not in a good way.

MonkeyBass · #6 08-28-2010, 05:43 PM

Thanks everyone. I guess I just have to go try one out somewhere.

Interesting.

Happynoj · #7 09-01-2010, 11:16 AM

I love mine. It's all over my band's live set. I don't use any of the filters - I have 4 different synth sounds set up.

Jazz Ad · #8 09-01-2010, 04:48 PM

Filters are fantastic on this pedal, especially the Q-Tron model.
Unfortunately, synth sounds track very poorly on bass, to the point of being impossible to use other than for useless gargles.

moles · #9 09-01-2010, 05:14 PM

I had some good results back when I owned mine, with the synth string sounds.

I didn't use them for any complex lines or anything - but the sort of music my band back then was doing called for moments of short, epic sounding synth moments.

Some of the weirder filters were sort of useless to me, but I could see them sounding cool in a freak-out psychedelic thing.

WaldoNova · #10 09-01-2010, 05:55 PM

I couldn't get any consistent volume no matter what I did there was volume gain or loss. The size was also an issue. Great sounding but not very useful IMO.