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NewarkWilder wrote:I even hated the Verbzilla I owned for a while--yet here I am raving about the M9's halls and plates. Why? Cause they clearly put a lot of work into making everything better.

iblamesummers wrote:my only really skepticism about this is that HCFX people seem to be cottoning to the M9. i really like to shy away from stuff that they use or hype-up.

other than that i am sure it is a great multi-FX & if i didn't already have a whole bunch of other gear purchases lined up i would probably get it becuz i have been considering getting a second multi-FX for quite some time (i was going to get teh RP155...)

maybe when the HCFX hype dies down & they start getting bored w/ it. then that's when i will buy it. i think it is interesting that you said that it has already negated/supplanted your Empress Superdelay.

devi ever wrote:Real guitarists don't need guitars.

NewarkWilder wrote:yeah i've always looked down my nose at the entire POD line etc... seriously. That is one of the reasons I'm so energized by this--it really caught me by surprise. I was pretty much expecting to return it for a refund straight-away. But... nope. Its a keeper, for sure.

I even hated the Verbzilla I owned for a while--yet here I am raving about the M9's halls and plates. Why? Cause they clearly put a lot of work into making everything better.

I'm as surprised as anybody. And that is awesome.

I don't know much about the JM4 except it seemed like a big flop when it came out... too much focus on stupid crap like backing tracks etc and not enough on just making a great looper. To me the DL-4 looper was nearly perfect because it was just so damned easy to use and you could do a lot of cool stuff with it. Everything that was good about the DL-4's looper remains intact in the M9, plus the much needed undo/redo function and extended looping time. Plus you can load whatever effect you want from the entire unit to use along with your loop... record a layer, load up another effect, etc etc. If thats your bag anyway. I haven't been doing that a whole lot but I will probably dig deeper into it soon.

I can't stress enough how much I've always hated Line 6. I would never say people who use pods and such aren't "real guitarists" but I'd definitely have been the first to say they were ones with relatively bad taste in gear, lol. The M9 is in a totally different league though, and clearly aimed at people like me. Well, they did their homework and delivered a product somebody like me would go way the fuck out on a limb here and gush over like this.

@ devi-- I still love ya, always will, but that post really caught me off guard this morning and I didn't react particularly well to it. In the end I don't really give a fuck what anybody thinks about it as long as its making me happy, I just think you may have pre-judged something based on the history attached to it... and given that we're talking about Line 6, I totally understand that. In all honesty though, I really do think this is something that if you tried you would fall in love with. Or not, whatever. I've just seen enough crap fired off at you about just building "noisemakers" and not "real" guitar pedals, you know? So I was a little bit shocked to see a bit of that same thing coming out of you. Whatever though--its your loss if you write it off completely, and I'll be here having a shitload of fun with mine making some great music with it. You're clearly very happy with your own musical situation right now and I'm happy for you for that. To each his/her own.

hazelwould wrote:

iblamesummers wrote:my only really skepticism about this is that HCFX people seem to be cottoning to the M9. i really like to shy away from stuff that they use or hype-up.

other than that i am sure it is a great multi-FX & if i didn't already have a whole bunch of other gear purchases lined up i would probably get it becuz i have been considering getting a second multi-FX for quite some time (i was going to get teh RP155...)

maybe when the HCFX hype dies down & they start getting bored w/ it. then that's when i will buy it. i think it is interesting that you said that it has already negated/supplanted your Empress Superdelay.

So your not getting it cause people are hyping it?

Trend setter.

hazelwould wrote:

iblamesummers wrote:my only really skepticism about this is that HCFX people seem to be cottoning to the M9. i really like to shy away from stuff that they use or hype-up.

other than that i am sure it is a great multi-FX & if i didn't already have a whole bunch of other gear purchases lined up i would probably get it becuz i have been considering getting a second multi-FX for quite some time (i was going to get teh RP155...)

maybe when the HCFX hype dies down & they start getting bored w/ it. then that's when i will buy it. i think it is interesting that you said that it has already negated/supplanted your Empress Superdelay.

So your not getting it cause people are hyping it?

Trend setter.

NewarkWilder wrote: If this thing had been made by Eventide, they'd have slapped a $699.00 pricetag or more on it, guaranteed.

devi ever wrote:

dorfmeister wrote:I had never seen the M9 before. Usually Line 6 is so far off my radar. I like the looks of it. Could be nice for running delay/verb/looper after the Nova System. Looks sort of elegant for Line 6. I like the fact that it has midi. Can the looper be synced to tempo and/or tempo synced to the looper?

Traditionally Line6 has crippled their floor fx in regards to synching with an external clock / vice versa (They save it as a feature for the rack mount "pro" line).

Well what-do-ya-know... looks like updated the M13 for this feature and the M9 comes shipped ready to synch

http://www.line6.com/community/thread/1 ... 4CDA4BDC90

Yeah... definitely considering getting these for vocal effects!

dorfmeister wrote:
Not buying something because its hyped on Harmony Central doesn't make any sense. That is paying way too much attention to Harmony Central and its hype. I just ignore crap like that.

You buy or don't buy something based on whether it can do the job you need it to do or not!

Haven't used a Memory Boy... what does it do exactly that is "crazy"? My guess though is yes, plus a lot more.