Line 6 3.7 manual Other Effects, Bronze Master, Sub Octaves, Comp Compressor

Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Model Gallery

same sort of territory, with a bit of a uniquely Line 6 bent. Choose this distortion for your bass or any other signal and it will immediately become a very close and furry friend. Note for non-bass players: this stomp box absolutely rocks on signals other than bass. No, really, try it.

Bronze Master

The Maestro® Bass Brassmaster is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of bass distortion units, and ultra-rare bird designed in the early ‘70’s for Maestro® by synth genius Tom Oberheim. It showed up on Chris Squire’s gear list in a mid-70’s Yes tour program. In fact, the Brassmaster was the first distortion unit we can think of designed primarily with the bassist in mind, and man, did Mr. Oberheim get it right! The original has a fairly elaborate set of controls, include two separate volumes and toggles for accentuating different harmonic voicings. We weren’t able to make an exact duplicate of some of that complexity when creating the Bronze Master for GearBox, but you’ll find that this model does give you a luscious palette of super-sweet bass fuzz in the style of the Brassmaster, with righteous distortion that doesn’t take away that all-important low end. For guitar players, think of it as somewhere between an Octave Fuzz and a synth. You can get positively freaky with this one.

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Sub Octaves

All bassists know that in just about every musical situation, lower can be better! But we couldn’t just let bass players have all the fun, so we’ve included an Octave device that’s inspired by the very popular Boss OC-2. Your Sub Octave gets you down into booty-shaking territory mighty quick. Use it to create additional voices below what you’re playing. Remember, lower can be better, especially when it makes the booty shake!

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Other Effects

Comp (Compressor)

The Comp (Compressor) effect in GearBox is modeled after* the classic, studio-standard LA-2A® tube compressor. It’s just the thing when you want to smooth out your levels the way that you would typically do in a recording studio. The THRESHOLD knob determines how aggressive the compressor will be in smoothing things out. Turning the knob farther to the left give you more aggressive compression. The GAIN knob lets you increase level once you’ve smoothed things out. But be careful: if you add too much gain here, you may see that you start clipping, and need to back off again on the gain.

*LA-2A® is a trademark of William Putnam 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.

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