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Thanks Andy, how's the better half? Lovely Now in answer to your questions. I have been using a Duncan Twin Tube for the last couple of years. It was actually a wedding gift to me from the former sales manager at Seymour Duncan who I have developed a relationship though some beta test work I did for them, and NAMM demoing when Duncan launched is DTAR company with Rick Turner a few years back.. Really great people at Duncan , Cathy Duncan is a lovely woman and very down to earth. Seymour is a pickup God and they have a great design team. The Twin Tube uses two 6021 subminiature tubes running at high voltage. It has great dynamic range , two channels, and ranges from clean boost to crunch, to all out Gilmour style distortion wail. It doesn't do extreme metal distortion, they have a Twin Tube Mayhem pedal for that. I've owned many overdrives. Tube screamers, Koln centaurs, early chandler tube drivers Keeley modified pedals, full tone overdrives etc.. What I like about this pedal is it doesn't exaggerate the mid range response or sacrifice any low end or top end to do so. It cleans up very nicely when backing the volume knob off, is very touch responsive and most importantly is sounds great while giving me two extremely flexible channels. Its versatility allowed me to pair down my stomp box board to just on overdrive pedal. If it has any draw backs it would be the slight bit of microphonic pinging that happens when I switch it on and off, but this is not something you can hear while playing the unit, no matter how much gain you are pushing. Also it needs its own 15 volt power supply so it can't be operated by any multiple power supplies like the Voodoo labs pedal power. This doesn't really bother me as the pedal sounds so good. As far as the M-13 goes, you can set it to behave like any other device with a conventional save function or you can use the auto save function like I do. Because each effect you are using at a given time can be tweaked by the corresponding knobs, it is so easy to tweak parameters on the fly that I don't worry about loosing a preset in this way. At any given time each effect has only 5 parameter control knobs for tweaking so it's not like you would have trouble reconstructing your setting if lost, or needing to page through a long list of parameter functions. This thing is "Chimp" simple. The reason I don't redirect to the list is I do like to respond sometimes off list to people personally and from the last bit of shit I stirred up with my, what I thought where off list comments, came back to bite me in the arse. Do you feel me brother??? Bill -----Original Message----- From: andy butler [mailto:akbutler@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 2:41 AM To: LD Subject: Re: Line 6 M-13 and continuos controllers Thanks Bill, great review, I 'd guess that most guitarists don't use an expression ped because it breaks the "maximum of 3 knobs and an on/off switch" rule. William Walker wrote: > musical sounding interaction with common analog stomp boxes. I have a > favorite overdrive that I wanted to integrate with the M-13. I first which overdrive is that?...please tell :-) > save functions, as the M-13 remembers each knob tweak without having to > perform a save. This is very handy when you have to quickly change a > parameter in performance. does that also mean that you lose the preset you saved if you experiment with it? andy butler ps you might like to edit the <reply to> field in your email software, at the moment, anyone who replies to your list mail will send just to you, and not to the list.