Line 6 | 3 years ago
This pair of videos showcases the new amp voicings we created for the Catalyst guitar amp family. Performed by Los Angeles-based session guitarist, songwriter, and producer Steve Fekete, what you’re hearing in Video #2 are two Original Amp Designs, unique amp sounds that are not a model of an existing physical amp. They were crafted by the Line 6 Sound Design team and employ our celebrated HX technology. Featured in this video are:
ARISTOCRAT – Derived from the Litigator amp found in Helix. For that amp design we wanted to recreate the sound and feel of an impossible-to-find and prohibitively expensive boutique amp. This isn’t a model of any existing amp, however, and the features aren’t limited by what can be done easily with analog tube circuits.
KINETIC – Derived from the Cartographer amp in Helix, which is based on a heavily modified Canadian tube amplifier. All the preamp stages clip at roughly the same time, allowing the amp to go from mostly clean to heavily distorted using the guitar's volume control. Boost reconfigures the gain stages, adding a midrange bump.
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BACKSTAGE WITH LINE 6 – A DEEP DIVE INTO SOUND DESIGN
This video series is an exploration of our history in amp modeling, a showcase of what we're working on now, and it gives some hints as to where the future may take us. The team at Line 6 is passionate about guitar products and are constantly striving to create gear that musicians will love and gain inspiration from. These videos look behind the scenes at what makes our sound design efforts tick, and who the people are that are dedicated to this work.
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