Line 6 Stompbox Model Gallery

Model Gallery

Premium quality models of immortal effects is what Line 6 Stompbox Modelers are all about.

Here’s what we offer in the M13 Stompbox Modeler, M9 Stompbox Modeler, M5 Stompbox Modeler, DL4, MM4, FM4, DM4 and Verbzilla.

40-00-0056 Rev D Please Note: Line 6, M13 Stompbox Modeler, M9 Stompbox Modeler, M5 Stompbox Modeler, DL4, MM4, FM4, DM4, Vetta and Echo Pro are trademarks of Line 6, Inc. All other product names, trademarks, and artists’ names are the property of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. Product names, images, and artists’ names are used solely to identify the products whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development for this product. The use of these products, trademarks, images, and artists’ names does not imply any cooperation or endorsement.

The effects in this gallery Feature a tonal heritage of the past forty years of stompbox and effects design. This gallery is a tribute and reference to the careful study and design of the effects found in the M13 Stompbox Modeler, M9 Stompbox Modeler, M5 Stompbox Modeler, DL4, MM4, FM4, DM4 and Verbzilla. As you get familiar with the models found inside your product, please join us in thanking the generous people that loaned their treasured artifacts and antiques for our modeling analysis. We’ve done our best to capture the special character of each of these units in the models that power your effect modeler. In alphabetical order, the contributors to the cause are: Tom Ayres, Tony Berg, Joey Brasler, Bill DeLap, Eric Dover, Mike Drake, Dave Friedman, Tim Godwin, Bob Hartry, His Intolerably Massive Omnipotence (a.k.a. Mr. Huge), Jamie Kime, Albert Molinaro, Angelo Mazzocco, Erik Norlander, Tim Pierce, Nigel Redmon, Mike Reiter, Walter G. Rice III, Marcus Ryle, James Santiago, Jeff Slingluff, Jack Sonni, Art Thompson, George Van Wagner, Dave Whiston, Lyle Workman, Zeke Zirngiebel, John Ziegler – and, of course, the noise-tolerant upstairs neighbors. This publication is provided for your reference only – see the Pilot’s Handbook of your Line 6 modeler for details on operation, care & maintenance. Away We Go.... Model Gallery

Delay Models Featured in the M5/M9/M13 Stompbox Modelers & DL4 Delay Modeler

Tube Echo Tube Echo DryThru Tape Echo Tape Echo DryThru Based on* Maestro® EP-1. The same effect as the Tube Based on* the Maestro® EP-3 The same effect as the Tape Some say the holy grail of delay. Echo only it does not color Echoplex. The EP-3 used Echo only it does not color Like PB&J...tubes and tape is your guitar’s dry signal. We let transistors instead of tubes for your guitar’s dry signal. We let one great combination! the dry pass through. the sound electronics. the dry pass through.

Multi Head Analog Echo Analog W/MOD Sweep Echo Based on* the Roland® Based on* the Boss® DM2 Here’s a model based on* the Take the tone of the Tube Echo RE-101 Space Echo. This Analog Delay. Treasured for Electro-Harmonix® Deluxe and add a sweeping effect to model emulates the multiple it’s warm, distorted delays only Memory Man, which is an the repeats to give you unique playback heads of the original a bucket brigade delay can analog delay with chorus. textures for adjusting the tone for that multi-tap delay effect. produce! of your delays.

Sweep Echo DryThru Lo Res Delay Digital Delay Digital Delay W/MOD The same effect as the Sweep Early digital delay units This model is a straight up Choose this model to add a Echo only it does not color generally had only 8 bit digital delay with bass and chorus effect to your digital your guitar’s dry signal. We let resolution. Low bit resolution treble tone controls. Nothing delays. the dry pass through. can create a unique sort of fancy here, just transparent grunge and noise. pristine echo-cho-cho-cho.

Stereo Delay Ping Pong Reverse Dynamic Delay Here’s the secret to the “Big This effect has two separate !seltaeB eht dna xirdneH Made popular by the T.C. L.A. Solo” sound of the ’80s. channels of delay, with the imiJ ekil tsuJ — Take a step Electronic® 2290 Dynamic Set one side as a fast echo with output of each channel flowing back in time. Whatever you Digital Delay. While you play, many repeats, and the other into the other, going back and play in comes back out at you the Dynamic Delay keeps the as a slow delay with just a few forth like a game of ping pong. backwards, delayed by the time volume of the echoes turned repeats. Voilà, you’re famous! you set (up to 2 seconds). down, so that the echoes don’t overwhelm what you’re doing.

Auto-Volume Echo Echo Platter Echo Platter DryThru Note that you can duplicate This model gives you two Based on* the Binson EchoRec. The same effect as the Echo DL4’s Rhythmic Delay feature effects in one. A volume fade- A staple for the likes of Pink Platter only it does not color by setting tap tempo to your in swell used for a bowing Floyd. Rather than using tape, your guitar’s dry signal. We let choice of note values—and you effect. The other effect is an the EchoRec used a magnetic the dry pass through. get to do that with any Delay echo, complete with tape-style platter to record and play back. Model! wow and flutter modulation. (This Model is actually not available in DL4, but comes from our Echo Pro rack unit.)

Modulation Models Featured in the M5/M9/M13 Stompbox Modelers & MM4 Modulation Modeler

Opto Tremolo Bias Tremolo Pattern Tremolo Phaser Based on* the optical tremolo Based on* the 1960 Vox® Inspired by* Lightfoot Labs Inspired by* the MXR® circuit that was used in the AC-15 Tremolo, which got its Goatkeeper. This effect is what Phase 90. Our model features blackface Fender® amps, like pulse by literally varying the you’d get if you could hook up a additional parameters to take the ’64 Deluxe Reverb®. bias of the power amp tubes. vintage keyboard sequencer to you there and back again. a tremolo.

Dual Phaser Panned Phaser Barberpole Phaser Script Phaser Based on* the Mu-Tron® Bi- Based on* the Ibanez® Flying A classic effect from the world Based on* MXR® Phase 90. Phase known for it’s big jet Pan. It’s a 4-stage phase shifter of modular synths. This phaser Just one knob, Speed, like the sound. with a panner built in. either sounds like it’s always original. Just add brown sound going up or always down and you’ll be “Talking’ Bout depending on how you set it. Love”. Set to stereo you get both!

U-Vibe Analog Flanger Jet Flanger AC Flanger Based on* the now-legendary Inspired by* the classic MXR® Inspired by* the A/DA Based on* the classic MXR® Uni-Vibe®, one listen to Flanger. Flanger. Compared to the Flanger. You’ve heard it on “Machine Gun” and you’ll be Analog Flanger, this model is Van Halen’s Fair Warning, hooked on this effect model! more dramatic, with a different Women and Children First, wave shape. and “Unchained”.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only. * All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. Fender® and Deluxe Reverb® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corp. Vox® is a registered trademark of Vox R&D Limited. MXR® and Uni-Vibe® are registered trademarks of Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. Mu-Tron® is a registered trademark of Henry A. Zajac Jr. Ibanez® is a registered trademark of Hoshino, Inc. Roland® and Boss® are registered trademarks of Roland Corp. Model Gallery

80A Flanger Analog Chorus Tri-Chorus Pitch Vibrato Based on* the A/DA Flanger Based on* the Boss® CE-1 Based on* the Song Bird / Based on* the Boss® VB-2. with its signature jet-like Chorus Ensemble, the original DyTronics Tri-Stereo Chorus. It contained a circuit that sweep. True to the original, stompbox chorus with big, You may have never seen one, produced bubbly vibrato, but this model features same knob warm and groovy chorus tones. but you’ve heard it hundreds of was popular for it’s “rise time” functions as the classic. times. control that when engaged, sped up to where you last set it.

Panner Rotary Drum Rotary Drum & Horn Dimension This effect pans back and forth Based on* the Fender® Based on* the Leslie® 145, the Based on* the Roland® between your left and right Vibratone. This rotating tube-driven rotating speaker Dimension D. One of the channels. If you try and run it speaker effect was a popular hit cabinet. It was made for the B3 first true stereo chorus units. in mono, it’s basically tremolo. with SRV. Think “Cold Shot”. but guitarists fell in love with Relatively subtle in it’s nature, this shimmery effect. it became an industry standard for double-track effects.

Ring Modulator Frequency Shifter Ring modulators are for those A ring modulator gives you special times when you want both up and down shifted different, weird, strange and frequencies. Here you can otherwise nontraditional guitar select just the up or down sounds. shifted frequencies.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only. * All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. Roland® and Boss® are registered trademarks of Roland Corp. Fender® is a registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corp. Leslie® is a registered trademark of Suzuki Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Model Gallery

Distortion Models Featured in the M5/M9/M13 Stompbox Modelers & DM4 Modulation Modeler

Tube Drive Screamer Overdrive Classic Distortion Based on* the Chandler Tube Based on* an Ibanez® Tube Based on* the DOD® Based on* the ProCo Rat, an Driver®, delivering the sweet Screamer®. In many blues Overdrive/Preamp 250 angry and aggressive distortion singing sustain craved by circles, you’re not allowed designed to slam the input of box that put teeth into a new guitarists worldwide. to solo without one of these a tube guitar amp forcing the breed of metal in the late 70’s. medium-gain pedals! amp to distort violently.

Heavy Distortion Color Drive Buzz Saw Facial Fuzz Based on* Boss® Metal Zone, Based on* the Colorsound® Based on* the Maestro® Fuzz Based on* the Arbiter Fuzz the industry standard distortion Overdriver. Our model will Tone. Take a deep breath and Face, best known for its famous pedal for metal players since transport you instantly back to repeat: “I can’t get no (duh, association with guitar legends 1989. that breeding ground of British duh, duh) Satisfaction.” Jimi Hendrix & Eric Johnson. guitar heroes.

Jumbo Fuzz Fuzz Pi Jet Fuzz Line 6 Drive Based on* the Vox® Tone Based on* the Electro- Based on* the Roland® Jet Inspired by* the Colorsound® Bender. It can be heard all Harmonix® Big Muff Pi®, this Phaser. It’s a fuzz. It’s a phaser. Tone Bender. If we could go over the first two Led Zeppelin is an American twist on the Yeah baby! Time to grab back to the 60’s and be a part records, and is especially distortion/fuzz pedal, known your 8-tracks of Uli Roth era of the fuzz revolution... this is apparent on “Communication more for its wicked sustain than Scorpions. what we’d design. Breakdown.” its buzz.

* All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. Tube Driver® is a registered trademark of Butler Audio, Inc. Ibanez® is a registered trademark of Hoshino, Inc. Tube Screamer® is a registered trademark of Hoshino Gakki Co. Ltd. DOD® is a registered trademark of DOD Electronics Corp. Roland® and Boss® are registered trademarks of Roland Corp. Colorsound® is a registered trademark of Sola Sound Limited Corp. Maestro® is a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corp. Vox® is a registered trademark of Vox R&D Limited. Electro-Harmonix® and Big Muff Pi® are registered trademarks of New Sensor Corp. Model Gallery

Line 6 Distortion Sub Octave Fuzz Bass Octaver Octave Fuzz Completely over the top. Inspired by* the PAiA Roctave Inspired by* the EBS OctaBass. Based on* the Tycobrahe® Sure, it’s massive. Yes, it’s Divider, this fuzz with an octave This effect gives you a clean Octavia, the classic fuzz+octave over the top. Okay, it’s a lotta below is just what you need to octave down signal. It is very effect. One pioneering user crazy!!! give those Moog players a fit! popular in bass rigs but players of this type of effect was Jimi Try it on bass guitar—this is the such as Jeff Beck have been Hendrix. Octaver of Doom! known to bust out this effect.

Boost Comp Inspired by* a MXR® Micro Volume Pedal Effect Red Comp Blue Comp Amp. Our model delivers the We added this for those of you Based on* the MXR® Dyna Based on* the Boss® CS-1 same “goose the input of the that plan to use an expression Comp, probably the most widely Compression Sustainer with amp” experience and serves up pedal, such as the Line 6 EX-1. used stompbox compressor. the treble switch off. a little secret sauce on the side. Awesome for faux pedal steel Slide players such as Lowell and chords swells. Try it! George loved it.

Blue Comp Treb Line 6 Vetta Comp Line 6 Vetta Juice Tube Comp Based on* the Boss® CS-1 Taken from Line 6’s flagship A Line 6 original also created Based on* the Teletronix® Compression Sustainer with guitar amplifier – Vetta II. for our flagship Vetta II guitar LA-2A® studio compressor. the treble switch on. With a fixed ratio of 2.35:1, amplifier, the ‘Juice’ in Vetta Considered one of the finest adjustable threshold and up to Juice comes from the 30dB compressors in many circles. 12dB of gain available at the of available gain in the Level Level knob. knob.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only. * All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. EBS® is a registered trademark of EBS Holding HB. MXR® is a registered trademark of Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. Boss® is a registered trademark of Roland Corp. LA-2A® is a trademark of William Putnam. Tycobrahe is a registered trademark of Kurt Stier. Teletronix® and LA-2A® are registered trademarks of Universal Audio, Inc. Model Gallery

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Noise Gate Graphic EQ Studio EQ Parametric EQ Use this to eliminate the hiss Inspired by* graphic eq pedals Inspired by* API® 550B. High shelf, low shelf, and a from noisy pickups or the white such as the MXR® ten band Featuring a constant Q and fully parametric band. noise from extremely high gain graphic equalizer which Soft Clipping output with level distortions by placing the noise became an integral part of the control. gate further in your signal path live rig of Randy Rhoads. chain.

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4 Band Shift EQ Mid Focus EQ Four band graphic but the It’s a high pass and a low pass shifter moves the lower band both with frequency and gain even lower and the higher control used together to create bands even higher. Try shifter a band-pass. Also has a gain above 50% for guitar and boost to make up for level loss below for bass guitar. in extreme band-passing.

Filter Models Featured in the M5/M9/M13 Stompbox Modelers & FM4 Filter Modeler

Tron Up Tron Down Seeker Obi-Wah Inspired by* the Mu-Tron® III Inspired by* the Mu-Tron® Inspired by* the Z-Vex Seek Based on* the Oberheim® envelope follower in the “Up” III envelope follower in the Wah. Imagine 8 “parked wah” Voltage Controlled Sample and position. Part auto-wah, part “Down” position. filters set at varying positions Hold filter. Voltage Controlled triggered filter, it’s all about Filters create changes in and then sequenced through, wacky. tone by emphasizing random creating a pulsating hypnotic frequencies. vibe.

Voice Box V-Tron Throbber Spin Cycle Inspired by* Vocoders, Vocal Voice Box meets Mu-Tron® Inspired by* the Electrix® Inspired by Craig Anderton’s Tracts & Surgical Tubing. III. In this model your guitar Filter Factory. It’s perfect for Wah/Anti-Wah. This is what This model gives your guitar a again “speaks” with an almost cool Electronica sounds. headphone mixes were made human voice, but now it does sound that’s typical of a classic so in response to your playing. for! Imagine two wahs panned “talk box.” left and right working opposite directions from each other.

Comet Trails Slow Filter Octisynth Synth-O-Matic After several days spent crafting It’s Swell! This triggered filter Inspired by eight armed Inspired by a collection of the code for our digital secret rolls off the high end of your denizens of the deep. Everyone vintage analog synths. This sauce, we found ourselves one tone, with adjustable speed. knows that all you need is a model features waveforms afternoon surrounded by 10 Your choice from dark to bright bottleneck and a reverb tank captured from a mouth watering empty cans of Dew, and sounds (the UP mode), or bright to to get whale sounds, but how collection of vintage synths. from another world. dark (the DOWN mode). about our friend the Octopus?

Attack Synth Synth String Growler Q Filter Based on* the Korg® X911 Based on* the Roland® GR700 R700 meets Mu-Tron® III. Your very own parked wah! Guitar Synth. Modeled after Guitar Synth. Your Filter Grrrrrrrrr! You’ve heard it before from one of the waveforms in the Modeler’s Synth String model Mark Knopfler and from Brian X911, along with some of the is based on one of the sounds of May of Queen—it’s a wah wave shaping functions that the GR700. “parked” in one position. are found on the original.

Vetta Wah Fassel Weeper Chrome Taken from Line 6’s flagship Based on* a Cry Baby® Super. Based on* the Arbiter Cry Based on* a Vox® V847. A guitar amplifier – Vetta II. This Coveted for the mojo of it’s Baby®. Another variation successor to the original Clyde is our sound designers’ take on Fasel inductor. of the original wah with a McCoy wah. Clyde is a trumpet a classic effect. different inductor and other player but guitarists everywhere component choices. thank him for suggesting Vox® create this effect.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only. * All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. Mu-Tron® is a registered trademark of Henry A. Zajac Jr. Roland® is a registered trademark of Roland Corp. Cry Baby® is a registered trademark of Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. Vox® is a registered trademark of Vox R&D Ltd. Korg® is a registered trademark of Korg Inc. Model Gallery

Chrome Custom Throaty Conductor Colorful Based on* a modded Vox® Based on* the RMC Real Based on* the Maestro® Based on* the Colorsound® V847 that has the gain staging McCoy 1. Geoffrey Teese Boomerang. According to Wah-fuzz. We only modeled on the first transistor stage maticulously crafts the clones original advertising material, the wah section of course. This tweaked, and aftermarket of the original and rare Vox® this was not a ‘wah-wah’ pedal is different in that it was inductor, the Q widened, and Clyd McCoy “Picture” wah. pedal but a ‘wow-wow’ pedal. an inductor-less design. It uses replaced with a 470k pot. Po-tay-to or Po-tah-to? a different circuit to get its frequency resonance.

Smart Harmony Pitch Glide Inspired by* the Eventide® Inspired by* Digitech H3000. This is a diatonic Whammy®. Dive bomb or ice harmonizer. If you ever wished pick? This is how Tom Morello you had that second guitar gets a lot of those crazy sounds. player for dual guitar parts, this You’ll want an expression effect is for you. pedal hooked up to enjoy this properly.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only. * All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. Vox® is a registered trademark of Vox R&D Limited. Maestro® is a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corp. Colorsound® is a registered trademark of Sola Sound Ltd. Eventide® is a registered trademark of Eventide, Inc. Digitech Whammy® is a registered trademark of Harman International Industries, Inc. Model Gallery

Reverb FX Models Featured in the M5/M9/M13 Stompboxs Modeler & Verbzilla

‘63 Spring Spring Plate Room Based on a 1963 brown spring Based on a studio spring reverb. Based on a studio Plate reverb. Simulates the acoustic reverb head unit. Best known A spring reverb’s characteristic Similar to the spring, in its properties of a classic echo for great surf guitar tone! resonant sound was created metallic resonant quality. Plate chamber , which was a room by springs suspended inside a reverbs consisted of a thin used in early recording studios metal box. Sweet! metal sheet suspended inside for reverb effects. a box.

Chamber Hall Ducking Octo An elongated ambient space Simulates the sound of a Built using a ‘Hall’ but with a Creates a lush, ambient space such as a hall, stairwell or concert hall or large open ducking effect. The volume with a harmonized decay elevator shaft creates this space with a strong reverb of your reverb is “ducked” whose harmonic denseness is reverb type. Dreamy. tail. Imagine a gymnasium, (reduced) while you’re playing, controlled by the time knob. performance hall, or cathedral. and increases when you stop. Use volume swells and prepare to float on cloud 9!

Cave Tile Echo Particle Verb Surreal cavernous echo Emulates the acoustic Just like it says …echo… A Line 6 original that turns chamber. I’m just a simple reflections of a tiled room, such echo…echo. This is a lush your chords into a lush caveman... Your world frightens as a bathroom or shower, with echo with reverb. modulated pad in stable mode. and confuses me... what more clearer/brighter discreet early Critical mode adds a slight rise can be said. reflections. in pitch. All stops are removed when in Hazard mode.

featured in the M5, M9 and M13 Stompbox Modeler only.