Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie

So, I’ve got the M13 and have now grasped the ideas of scenes. I’ve worked the pedal into the pedal board and into my amp’s effects loop (which I hadn’t been doing for a while out of laziness and lack of cables, but I actually like the delay and mod effects going through there better. Especially if I use the amp’s 2nd distortion channel. It does some weird thing with the overdrive when not in the loop… anyway).

I’ve created a scene for when I play at church that I’m pretty happy with, although I might make another one later with more options for delay, chorus and reverb. I left the first of the 4 ‘slots’ available to run in the front of the amp for distortions, so the delays, chorus and reverb are running in the loop in slots 2-4. Now, I generally don’t like don’t like distortion sounds or fuzzes because they just don’t seem to fit or have much use, so I probably wasn’t going to use them at all BUT, in an effort to be more experimental and open, I’ve decided to give them a chance. After I tweaked around with a few of the distortions on there and have settled with a Line 6 distortion, heavy distortion, and a fuzz model which escapes my memory now. Some ‘modern’ sounding distortion might be appropriate here and there.

I must say, whatever fuzz I’m using (sadly, I’m not by the M13 right now to check) for chording (of the power variety) sounds pretty good to my ear. For leading, eh, but otherwise, I might enjoy being a little bit more flexible once I get in a band type setting with these.

Another thing I had wanted to test out was using a boost type pedal. Now, the thought of spending money on such a thing or even a volume pedal just seems a bit foolish to me. Almost like spending money on a tuner. Get a tuner please, but you want me to pay $100 for a pedal that does nothing but tune my guitar? I’d rather unplug quickly and then plug in quickly. I’ve mastered the pop-less unplugging technique. So yeah, a pedal that ‘boosts’ my signal seemed kinda like a waste of money. Fortunately for me, the M13 models MXR’s micro-amp which I had noticed the other day at the store and though, I should give this thing a try. So, now, I’ll also be experimenting with a little boost for leads and stuff like that whenever those opportunities pop up.

Due to the scene set up, the boost resides in the effects loop, so I’ll be making another scene where I can put it in front of the amp since it seems that would be a better spot for that sort of thing. I do think I will be enjoying the boost though, so I’m a bit sold on that one and might look for a dedicated pedal, but I’ll need to test these things out in the real world to see how I like it.

I’m looking forward to creating my 12 delay scene though. I’ve already experimented with an analog delay into a reverse delay setting and I liked it a lot.