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Line 6 GearBox 3.1 – Basic Features Guide
Effects
Delay
Delay Effects create echoes by repeating a delayed version of the signal that feeds them. The
FEEDBACK knob on Delay control panels determine how many repeats you'll hear. TIME determines
how late the echo will be versus the input signal, and allows Tap Tempo. A short delay time and low
feedback setting will give you a classic "slap back" delay. Longer delay times give you a distinctly
separate echo, and higher feedback settings increase the number of echoes. There's always a MIX
control, and each of the Models has a few other controls as well....
Analog Delay w/Modulation
The Analog Delay w/ Modulation model is based
on* the Electro-Harmonix® Deluxe Memory Man
which is a pedal that uses the "bucket brigade"
electronics of other analog echoes, and adds a
chorus circuit to boot. This adjustable chorus is
applied to the echoes only, leaving the direct
sound unaffected. The Memory Man, with its
warm, distorted tone and swimming echoes,
became an important tool for many guitarists, and
was an essential part of the guitar sounds for the
first U2 album. Part of the Deluxe in Deluxe
Memory Man was the increased delay time of 500
milliseconds. Analog w/Mod emulates that classic
Memory Man tone with the added advantage of 2 seconds of delay time. The mod speed and
depth controls set up the chorus on the delays.
* ELECTRO-HARMONIX® is a trademark of New Sensor Corp. and is in no way associated
or affiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the
sole purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during Line 6’s sound
model development.
Tube Echo
The classic 1963 Maestro EP-1 was the first of a series of
"Echoplex" designs distributed by the company, and made by
Harris-Teller in Chicago. As touted in a Maestro advertisement,
the Echoplex's "...special effects range all the way from a
controlled high speed reverberation to a full, throbbing echo"!
The main feature of the Echoplex design is a special cartridge of
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