Geek Out!! is where Prima Rosa peeps talk about some of the gear they have been using on projects released through the label… its the turn of DCI’s Mathieu Cook to talk about one of his favorite pedals…

Line 6 M9 Stompbox Modeler.

“Line 6 pedals rule! We’ve been using the DL4 delay modelers in DCI for years. You can get all sorts of characterful analog and tape delay emulations that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to use live without a bus full of roadies carrying around a whole load of cumbersome studio gear!! Most of our DCI tracks are layered up with delays from the DL4.”

“When the Line 6 M series stomp box modelers came out I was excited to discover that it contained not only all the delay emulations from the DL4, but also had all the effects from line 6′s modulation, distortion and filter modelers as well. In addition to this, there is a looper, a noise gate, various compressors and a whole selection of reverbs from the verbzilla pedal.”

“But, I have to say the main reason I couldn’t resist buying the M9 unit was the awesome new particle verb reverb effect. I knew there would be a use for it within a DCI track or two!! Its a strange reverb effect like no other,  almost like taking the melody of what you play, and then feeding it through a teleportation device. What you hear is the music in a vaporous form as it travels harmoniously through time and space behind the track!! Its hard to describe so heres an audio clip to demonstrate what I mean.”

“I used this effect to create the soundsapes at the beginning of “the Hatch” on our new record ‘Take me with you’. I also added some slow post reverb flange towards the end of this section. This was also from the M9 in the form of the analog flanger model (based on the classic MXR flanger).”

You can here ‘The Hatch’ on the >DCI music page<

“So, some details on the M9… it has stereo ins and outs, 2 expression pedal inputs and midi i/o. It has 100+ effects assignable to 3 footswitchable internal FX units with 2 footswitchable models per unit. For more details see Line 6 website”

MC

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