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Line 6 GearBox 3.1 – Basic Features Guide
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What is A.I.R.?
A.I.R. is the Line 6 exclusive Acoustically Integrated Recording technology that accurately
simulates the sound of a microphone and recording space. Click on the A.I.R. icon when the
effects panel is shown, and you will be able to adjust A.I.R. for the current Tone. Point your
mouse at items in the effect panel and look at the Info Bar for more information on those items.
Settings made to A.I.R. are saved and loaded with Tones.
Note that the order of the “stomp box” icons in the row show you the signal flow order of the
Effects, starting from the Gate effect, and flowing to the right through the effect icons. Effects to
the left of the A.I.R. icon are running "Pre" (before the amp, cab and mic models) and effects
shown to the right of the A.I.R. icon are running "Post" (after the amp, cab and mic models).
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What are the Amp, Cab and Effect Models?
Line 6 pioneered the use of modeling technology for guitarists with the world's first modeling
guitar amp. Since then, all Line 6's products have included Models developed through extensive,
meticulous studies of guitar equipment heralded for its classic tone qualities.
To create a Model, we first locate an absolute mint version of a particular piece of equipment,
with that special sound quality that makes it a truly remarkable guitar sound machine. We lock
ourselves away in the Line 6 labs and sound studios to study this piece of classic equipment in
exhaustive detail. We play guitars through it, listen to it, measure, write software, and then play
and listen some more as we carefully craft a software Model that captures the signature qualities
of the equipment being studied.
The resulting Model is designed to emulate the controls and sound qualities of the original
equipment studied, including the beloved quirks and unruly qualities that made the original
equipment classic in the first place. Each model is painstakingly perfected until it becomes an
organic, living thing with guitar tone pumping through its veins. And when they're finally ready,
we unleash these software Models in revolutionary new products like GearBox.
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