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Delays -- great
Reverbs -- yep
Modulation -- no problems for swishing and swooshing in a live setting
Compression -- nope
OD/ Distortion -- nope
There you go. It's a bit of a juice hog too which is possibly a downside if you've not got enough power on your board.
But I like the M5.
Compression - the valve compressor is ‘ok’ but the rest suck
Drives - Tube Drive is good, the Classic Distortion is ok, the rest are... an acquired taste although I’ve used some of the fuzz emulations when tracking and they sound ok in a recorded mix.
Mods - not a fan of chorus full stop but all the rest are pretty good, although the Flanger(s) are a bit Boss-like for my tastes (I prefer EHX style Flanger).
Delays - great
Reverbs - ditto
Filter/Synth sounds - some of these add great flavour to mixes and are really useful... I think it’s called ‘slow filter’ works so well on old drum machines and the synth sounds are great fun.
An expression pedal really opens it up.
I still think that the M-series were the best pedals Line6 ever made despite their...foibles.
i really like the compressors on the M series
Also like the facial fuzz and jumbo fuzz
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Looking at the list of effects I’m sure I never gave my M9 a fair chance; couldn’t really get beyond not liking the drives, although now I rarely use any at all so it’d be fine
My other top pick for an accessory would be an order switcher. Because the M5 does a ton of different stuff there's not really an ideal place for it in the effects chain- should be right at the end for reverbs and delays, but right at the start for compression or drive sounds, and probably somewhere in the middle for modulations.
Here's @Sporky 's design for a switcher:
An order switcher lets you move the M5 between two positions in the signal chain- let's say you want it before a distortion pedal for one sound, and after it for another. Your guitar goes to the input of the switcher, the M5 goes in loop A, the distortion in loop B, and the output from the switcher goes to your amp. A->B gives you the M5 before dirt, B->A gives you the M5 after. There's no reason you can't put more pedals in loop B- you could even include your amp's input and effects loop send as part of that loop.
I built my own switcher from the plans on the General Guitar Gadgets page (uses a 4PDT switch instead of 3PDT for an LED indicator, which is very useful to have), but you can buy a ready made one from Bright Onion (called the "shifter switch").
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I can see how the M5 would work really well in a switching system- you really get your money's worth when you can move it in the chain and control it with MIDI.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Obvs.
Also worth trying out the whammy model, or just using it to toggle between fast and slow speeds on the Leslie sim.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
I think they call it "Rotary drum" and "rotary drum and horn" on the M5- a Leslie speaker was originally a Hammond organ accessory, but what with all the drugs and stuff, someone discovered in the 1960s that it sounded great with guitar. It's sort of a chorus effect, but a very specific one. When you hear it, you'll recognise it from all sorts of stuff if you like 60s and 70s rock.
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