Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie

So, yeah, my line 6 pedal finally came in. I pulled it out, plugged it in and started messing around. It’s nice getting new things. I’m really gonna enjoy this pedal.

For those that don’t know it’s basically a DL4, MM4, DM4, FM4, and verbzilla pedal all in one with a tuner included for good measure. Oh, and a 28 second looper as well.

The thing is nice and rugged feeling made out of all metal, has numerous connection options in the back for inputs/outputs and expression pedals and midi in and out connections which you can use to save your settings to a computer. Not sure if you can do anything else with the midi plugs aside from that though.

You can save up to 12 separate ’scenes’ which is basically like having any 12 separate pedals you want on 12 pedalboards running up to 4 effects at one time. That took a while for me to fully understand but once I got it, it made perfect sense.

The pedal remembers any changes you make to a particular effect button for each scene as if it were a separate effect on your pedal board. If you don’t like that (initially I didn’t think I would until I fully understood how scenes work), you can choose to manually save settings instead of auto-saving, which means that whenever you switch off of an effect or change a scene, the setting for that switch goes back to how you had originally programmed it. Now that I have a better understanding of how scenes work, I probably wont’ be using that manual save option. If I start tweaking too much and forget what I had or liked, maybe I’ll go back, but I doubt that will happen.

Once of the benefits this pedal will have that differs from using a plain DL4 or MM4 is that I will be able to visually see what settings I’ve chosen or made to an effect because of the LCD screens. With the other pedals, once you’ve saved an effect, whenever you click on their individual button, that setting starts, but you don’t receive a visual indicator as to what the settings are. They are preset based on what was chosen when you saved them. I tend to forget these things at times (especially since I don’t tweak a whole lot. I’ve had a DL4 setting that I’ve used forever but I don’t remember how exactly it was saved (or necessary what it was)).

Anyway, I’m excited. I no longer have need for my DL4 or MM4 (or even my Boss TU-2 tuner). I’m looking to sell these if anyone is interested. You can email me at s.febres [at] samuelfebres [dawt] com for more info. I’d like to get around $125 for the line 6’s. They both come with power adapters and have been velcro-ed. Feel free to ask questions.

Here are some unboxing photos. The tech blogs like to do this, and I thought it would be fun as well.