Line 6 M13 presets

I'm just interested in how people use theirs and sounds they like out of them.

I use it differently for every gig. I just program in what I need for the situation. But it's really fun putting a Jet Flanger before an Opto Tremelo with the depth on 100 and the speed at an 8th note. You can use tap tempo to lock it in with the song. I did this on the bridge of Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" to get a totally demonic sound.

Also, try "AutoVolume Delay" into "digital delay" with the digital delay having a time of about 400 ms, 25% volume and 25% repeats. It gets you a nice pedal steel sound.

There is no bad spot on the script phaser.

And I love to play with "synth string" into a hard "opto tremolo" or into "seeker" and control the trem/seeker speed with tap tempo. It's just a weirdly huge sound you wouldn't expect out of a guitar. Very pop, and although I don't like candy-coated electronic pop, it's a lot of fun to play.

I use my M9 in scene mode. (which is really the way it should be used)

- longish delay ~325ms with the mix kinda low. (my main sound)
- slapback delay
- optical trem + delay
- fassel wah + delay
- octoverb (weird stuff) + delay
- dual digital delays for U2-ish things.

Everything is tied to the expression pedal to vary the intensive of the effect settings.

All my dirt is from the amp or seperate pedals as I'm not a huge fan of the Line 6 drives, distortions, and fuzzes. However, I will drop out of my first scene to click on a Tube Comp if needed. I've also used the Screamer model in the past with generally good results but prefer my stomp for the TS sound.


Also, I reserve one column of the m9 for reverb for my reverb-less amps. I just flip through the scenes and turns them on/off as needed for the amp before I start playing.

For a clean amp, I use the Tube Comp for warmth. In the same column, I use the Tube Drive for light distortion. For an M13 (vs an M9 where you only have 2 columns) i'd recommend a higher gain Tube Drive so that you have a Tube Comp > Tube Drive (light) > Tube Drive (heavy) array. I generally keep the middle two columns for modulation. For example, column 2 would be chorus, tremolo, phaser, etc. Column three would be my expression pedal range - wah, synth (pitch via expression), particle verb (decay via pedal), etc. Column four would be my delay effects - slapback delay, analog delay controlled via tap tempo, and favorite reverb (63 spring).

I've come to love the M9 which occupies my primary practice space because it forces you to stack things. I use the Tube Drive on column 1 and an identical Tube Drive on column 2. It let's me use the Tube Drive stacked (biting high gain), or the Tube Comp + Tube Drive (warm, great for soloing).

I use my M9 for delay, reverb, modulation, and as a volume pedal. I also use the tuner - I think it is fine - and the global noise gate is a plus, as I run mine after compressor and dirt.

You can really unlock a lot of the M9/13's potential and your own creativity with an expression pedal. I use the ernie ball 25k one, works great. A few of my effects are set up so they are mixed completely out (dry) when at heel down and I can mix them in gradually as I like. And I'll sometimes do that for multiple effects, blending in a synth as I blend out a delay, gradually going to and from drastically different sounds on the fly which IMO totally beats tap dancing, both musically and logistically. The thing is literally a foot operated computer, and your expression pedal is kinda like your mouse.

I love pushing delays into self-oscillation and back out again with an expression pedal. Or playing whale songs with a volume pedal into the cave reverb. Or imitating pedal steel bends using the pitch shifter with mix at 50%. I like to have two of the same delay in one column, one set to quarter or eighth notes, the other set to dotted eighths, then I can go back or forth easily at the same tapped tempo. Just a couple ideas there off the top of my head....

I think you can also build or use a latching switch in lieu of a pedal to jump between two different settings of the same effect.

I set mine up so that effects feed into each other from right (input) to left (output), just like real pedals. It seems more natural for me to think about them that way when I am setting up scenes.