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Pedal board power supply

support@line6.com — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:55:22 GMT

I recently purchased an M9 to replace several cheap pedals on my pedal board. Now my pedal board consists of a wah,the M9, and a Behringer GDI-21 for recording. The pedal board has a power supply similar to the Visual Sound 1 Spot where the power is daisy-chained between pedals. I got a Line 6 power cable adapter for the daisy-chain and the power works. Unfortunately, I have found that there is a hum that pulses to the beat of the tap-tempo on the M9. I've found information that suggests that this is due to the digital Line 6 modelers not playing well while sharing power with other analog pedals.

I then had to start using the Line 6 power supply, which takes up extra space on my pedal board, and plugging that and the daisy-chained power supply into an extension cord that I run to the wall socket in order to get power to all my pedals. I had also read suggestions to use an isolated power supply. I tried a Joyo JP-02 for which I could not find any information for the actual output specs pre-purchase, but I went with this one because I found it for about half the price of the next lowest priced isolated power supply. It turns out that the highest output for any of the 9V ports is 500 mA, so I can power all of my other pedals, but there is not enough power for the M9. I'm back to where I started in that I have to run two power supplies to the wall outlet (or through a shared extension cord like I have been doing)

I've read that the Voodoo power supply works for the other Line 6 modelers, but that it will not work with the M9 and M13 because they require more power. Others have said that these types of power supplies wouldn't work with the M9 and M13 because these pedal units require AC power rather than DC that most pedals require. And I've also read explanations that the AC Line 6 adapter is simply used so the same power supply will work with many pedals from Line 6 and that the pedals themselves have the components to internally convert AC to DC. That seems to be the case with the M9 since the Visual Sound Line 6 adapter works fine to power my M9 with a DC power supply.

Hopefully, I have made my situation clear as to what I'm looking for. Is there an affordable isolated power supply that is powerful enough to work with the M9 as well as my other analog pedals, or will I be stuck having to run power to the M9 individually?

Layered delays

support@line6.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:14:26 GMT

About 4 years ago, I purchased a used Flextone III Plus. I really liked the amp, but I didn't play much guitar at the time as I am a bass player. Because I didn't have much experience tweaking effects to begin with, I found setting up any sounds I liked to be a bit overwhelming. I ended up selling that amp because I wasn't getting much use out of it. In the last year or so, I've started playing a little more guitar and recording some of my own music, so I purchased several low-end effects pedals to play around with. I am now in the market to upgrade my amp, but most of the ones I'm interested in have built-in effects. If I'm going to use an amp like that, I would want it to replace all my effects that I currently use.

Part of my effects chain consists of layered delay pedals - one set to triplets and one set to 1/8 notes. Their tempo is synched by connecting a footswitch with a Y-splitter to each delay. Because I am somewhat familiar with Line 6 Monkey, I think the Spider IV 75 would work best for me, but I was wondering if I would be able to mimic the layered delay pedals using the editing software. If not, would any other Line 6 amps offer this, or do they all strictly limit a single delay setting per preset?

I suppose if the amp doesn't offer this that I could continue to use my current delays, but there are a couple drawbacks to that. (1) I wouldn't want to have to use any other pedals if I have an FBV controller to do everything else. (2) The delay pedals I have do not offer true bypass, so even if they are not engaged, they kill the volume level of my guitar. I have to use a booster to offset this issue and that muddies up my tone a little.

Re: Problems with Download Java Runtime Environment for Line 6 Edit v 3.02

support@line6.com — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:04:05 GMT

I ran into this error when installing Line 6 Edit after getting a new computer. I went to Java.com and found out it is because they have ended support for Java 5 and moved the download location. I eventually found a link to their archived versions of Java, but I was wondering if anyone knows if Line 6 will be releasing a version of Edit that can run on Java 6 since the Java developers are apparently trying to make version 5 obsolete.

Edit: I revisited the Line 6 download page and saw that it states Edit 3.02 works with Java 6. I'm not finding that to be the case, and the JBuster work around that someone else linked to still says it requires Java 5 to be downloaded. I'd rather not install any additional software if I don't have to. Is there a setting I can change to make Line 6 Edit recognize Java 6 since it says it is supposed to be compatible?