Ring Modulator
It’s out there somewhere between Plan Nine From Outer Space and Phantom Menace. Ring modulators are for those special
times when you want different, weird, distinctive, strange and otherwise nontraditional guitar sounds. It’s a very percussive
sounding effect, and sounds almost like you’re messing with your signal in a twistedly mathematical, torturing-the-computer
sort of way. TWEAK adjusts the shape from sine to square wave. TWEEZ gives you a choice of modulation flavors – AM
(amplitude modulation), FM (frequency modulation), or somewhere in between.
Panner
From here to there and back again, what can you say about a panner? Well, I guess you can say this: a panner makes your sound
constantly pan back and forth between left and right channels. If you’re looking for something to keep you up late nights with
your headphones on, this is it. This effect is only gonna work for you in stereo, by the way; if you try and run it in mono, it’s basi-
cally tremolo. TWEAK knob lets you choose the waveform that controls the movement of your sound from left to right – from
smooth to an extreme bouncing sort of experience! TWEEZ adjusts volume sensitivity (peak follower).
Pitch Vibrato – based on Boss
®
VB-2
This model is based on one of those really cool effects you’ve always wanted to use, but could never justify buying. The VB-2
featured a bucket brigade circuit that produced bubbly vibrato, but its big claim to fame was the “rise time” control. Thanks to
this clever circuit, each time you kicked it on, it sped up to where you last had it set. Pretty keen, right? TWEAK adjusts the
rise time. TWEEZ gives you a “peak follower” control, allowing you to make the vibrato rate sensitive to input level, so that a
louder input signal speeds up the vibrato, and a lower volume input slows it down.
Tri Chorus – based on* Song Bird / DynoTronics Tri-Stereo Chorus
You may have never seen one, but you’ve heard it hundreds of times – this was the definitive chorus of Michael Landau, Tim
Pierce, Steve Lukather, Dann Huff and most of the L.A. Studio scene. This analog chorus featured 3 chorus circuits working off
of 12(!) low frequency oscillators and three separate delay lines. Nothing produced a wider, more spacious stereo image than this.
And if you had one in your rack-system, you probably paid dearly for this holy grail of chorus tone. DEPTH adjusts the depth
of circuit 1. TWEAK adjusts the depth of circuit 2. TWEEZ adjusts the depth of circuit 3.
* All product names used in this manual are trademarks of their 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. Boss® is a registered trademark of Roland Corp.
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