Is there any reason not to get a Line 6 M9?

mastermorya · Post by **mastermorya** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:17 am

I want a looper. Something easy and intuitive for spacey shit. I tried the jamman and the boss, but if you press the wrong button you get a horrible, horrible drum track. Very scary. So I was going to get a used DL4. Some nice delays and exactly the looping I was looking for. But they have notorious reliability. And the M9 does the same thing, more reliable, plus all the line six modulation/distortion/filter stuff and a better interface. So I'm thinking I use the cash burning a hole in my wallet for a used DL4 and sell some pedals and get the M9.

So what's the downside, other than that this will cost more than the Squier VM jag I'm contemplating?

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:47 am

Best Â£280 I ever spent, seriously.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:04 am

Doog wrote:Best Â£280 I ever spent, seriously.

Ditto (except M13 and a bit more money)

MrJamesBrown · Post by **MrJamesBrown** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:31 am

Doog wrote:Best Â£280 I ever spent, seriously.

Â£240 for me. Same sentiment!

plaidbeer · Post by **plaidbeer** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:54 pm

There's only 1 minor annoyance--not having individual displays for each effect like on on the M13 or G3. It's a great effects box, though and I really liked it a lot, particularly the delays, reverbs, and most of the modulations.

mastermorya · Post by **mastermorya** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:30 am

Yeah, I've pretty much sold myself. Now I'm wondering heavily about the m9 vs the m13. I like the size of the m9, but I'd like having the visual display of all the effects on so that I can tweak them simultaneously.

MrJamesBrown · Post by **MrJamesBrown** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:41 pm

mastermorya wrote:Yeah, I've pretty much sold myself. Now I'm wondering heavily about the m9 vs the m13. I like the size of the m9, but I'd like having the visual display of all the effects on so that I can tweak them simultaneously.

I think the M13 would be overkill. With all the scenes the M9 can do plenty, and turning the effect on and off puts it in the display...less time tweaking is more time playing anyway.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:04 am

The guitar player in my cover band has one and it is incredibly useful! We're able to do so many songs just because of that box! The only thing is whatever effect he uses to play synth parts on guitar doesn't do multiple notes well and it gets this really horrible clipping sound if you accidentally have one note ringing out into the next note at all.