Line 6 M13 manual Classic Distortion, Heavy Distortion, Colordrive

Distortion Models

Classic Distortion

Based on the ProCo Rat from the late ’70s. The Rat was the beginning of a new generation of distortion boxes, with a sound that was angrier and more aggressive than a conventional fuzz tone.

AClassic Dist

DIST

FILTER

DRIVE

TREBLE

BASS

OUTPUT

•Knob 3 functions like the original Rat’s Filter control, which gives you a brighter tone at lower settings, and a darker tone at higher settings.

Heavy Distortion

Based on the Boss® MT-2 Metal Zone, which was introduced at the height of the big-hair metal craze of the late ’80s/early ’90s. Heavy and scooped, the tones of this model beg to

be chunked upon.

A

DIST

MID

Heavy Dist

DRIVE

TREBLE

7•3

BASS

OUTPUT

Colordrive

Based on the Colorsound® Overdriver, which originated from London’s Macari’s Music

Exchange in 1965. With a high demand for Tone Benders at that time, brothers Larry and

Joe Macari started building their own unique pedals under the name Sola/Colorsound.

A

DIST

MID

Colordrive

DRIVE

TREBLE

BASS

OUTPUT

• Knob 3 at 50% has no effect on the Mids; below 50% is a cut, above 50% a boost.

*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. Colorsound® is a registered trademark of Sola Sound Limited Corp.