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Line 6 FM4 Classic Filter Stompbox Modeler Details
The Mu-tron Bi-Phase; the Korg X911 Guitar Synth—are these rebel fighter ships from The Empire Strikes Back? Or maybe proton thrusters from outtakes of Babylon 5?
Nope. These, and the other 13 techy tone temptations loaded into Line
6’s galactic-purple FM4 Filter Modeler stompbox, represent the outer
limits of guitar filter effects, a territory many consider to be
today’s most fertile terrain for discovering new sounds, timbres and
tone colors.
In looking forward, Line 6 first looked
back, to the filters, vocoders and guitar synths that players from
Frank Zappa and Ernie Isley to Robert Fripp and Peter Frampton have
made synonymous with creative guitar playing. “The Throbber” will have
your tone gurgling with synth-approved LFO from four wave shapes,
including square or triangle waves; “Tron Up/Tron Down” literally drips
with auto-wah style response in either Low-, Band- or High-Pass
varieties; “Synth-O-Matic” simulates the notably nasty filter sections
and wave shapes of prized vintage synths from the Prophet 600 to the
legendary Arp Explorer.
Of course, you already use a filter effect all the time; every Wah-Wah
pedal is a variable filter, and the FM4 includes a superb “Q Filter”
that allows you find and fix that golden frequency notch, in the same
spirit as “parked wah” practitioners like Queen’s Brian May and soul
superstar Prince. Want to make it a more traditional wah? Just hook up
the optional EX-1 expression pedal, and save a “Q Filter” sound to both
a low frequency (heel down on the EX-1) and a high frequency (toe down
on the EX-1) and you’ve got a more versatile wah than any off-the-shelf
pedal, not to mention a pristine 24-bit signal path, stereo ins and
outs, and true bypass switching.
Like
all Line 6 stompbox Modelers, the FM4 boasts a simple and sturdy front
panel design, with four footswitches for saving and recalling your
sounds, and six knobs for selecting models and tweaking parameters,
with distinct assignments for each knob depending on the model you’ve
chosen. The Line 6 FM4 is for the true explorer of new sonic galaxies;
expect to be surprised, stimulated and encouraged to absolute
synth-fulness...
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respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with
Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to
identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds
were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.
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