I keep hearing more and more about the Line 6 M9 and thought I’d give my opinion.

The M9 is a multi-effects processor that takes the Line 6 stompboxes and puts them into one unit. You can get sounds from the DL4, MM4, FM4, DM4 as well as the Verbzilla. It was made to be used going into an amp afterwards and you can even use it with other pedals. The M9′s big brother, the M13 was cool, but just way too big.

I was attracted to it when I saw it was about the same size as the DL4 (a little bigger) and could do all the DL4 could, but was built better and sounded just as good, if not better. You could also have 6 presets at a time, allowing 3 to be on at a time. There were also some really cool reverb patches as well. Once I got mine, I sat down with it for a few hours and dialed in all different kind of sounds. They sounded great, were easy to access and seemed to be an all around great unit.

When I put it on my pedalboard in place of my DL4, I started thinking about how this would change my pedalboard a lot. I didn’t need to pedal to do drives or modulation as I had that covered. I only needed the delays I had on my DL4 and maybe a few reverbs. Then I realized that my DD-20, Timefactor and DD-5 (whichever combination of those I have on my board at the time) can do a lot already and I really only need my DL4 to do those 3 delays I like a lot (with the 3 other setting via the expression switch). Having the M9 just to do a few delay sounds would be overkill for my rig. I thought it might be nice to have for smaller gigs and flight dates and such, but I’ve already got a flight board too and don’t really ever play a lot of smaller coffee shop-type gigs to make it worth it.

However, it is a great unit and worth looking into to replace your DL4, MM4 and just to have in general. Check it out!