Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler

I found it pretty easy to use, but was left a little flabberghasted with the "Multi-head" model. I find it really hard to use, but once you put the time in with this pedal, you really get rewarded. Its easy enough to use, especially with the handy stickers provided (to explain what "tweek" an "tweez" do for each model!), but it is always a good thing to read a manual for Line 6 products to get the most from them as quickly as possible

My set up is: Fender Telecaster-Digitech Whammy4, Boss sd-1,Crybaby wah, EH Small stone, Boss TR-2, Line 6 DL4, Line 6 Pod v2.0 - amp

I am really happy with the sounds i get from it. I had a Boss DD-3 before, and i was a bit sick of the digital delay. It was too pin point accurate for me. I love the sound of Space Echoes and Memory Mans, so for me, this was great. Also the sweep-delay is fantastic.

Im a massive Radiohead/ Pink floyd fan, and i find i can get so many of their sounds using this pedal. Its great!

Gets 10 for amazing sound, but also for "Delay tail" function.

I've only had mine for a month and it hasnt been gigged, but so far its doing great. I've a friend who keeps having the tap tempo button screw up, but he bought it second hand. Also read so many bad reports, but what the hell, i want to see if mine is any different. So far so good! I look after my stuff too

If i gigged (ever! lol), i wouldn't bother with backup

8 as i havent had it that long, but i have faith!

I've dealt with Line 6 before, and they are crap. Straight up shit

I think its a great unit, and im very happy with it. It's really quite expensive, but it does so much more than many other delay units available. Fair enough, it doesnt sound EXACTLY like all the models on it, but im a student for gods sake. How can i afford a Space Echo and TC Electronics? Beggars cant be chosers, but this beggar is happy with his find!

The product is relatively easy to use. The loop sampler is incredibly easy to use. The user- friendly aspect of this modeling pedal by FAR the greatest thing about it.

good sound quality. generic tone but like most line 6 stuff, it is very tweakable.

Pathetic..... OK ladies and gents...as probably one of the first owners of this modeling pedal (owned it since 2001) I can tell you that I know this product very well. The warranty lasts for one year. Most people who buy this product do not need it because the lifespan of this product is anywhere from 1-3 years. After about the third year, that is when the problems arise. There are many factors but the most important one is simply the fact that one (for most of its usage) is using their feet to STOMP on the product. Needless to say, this is no excuse for its poor craftsmenship or poor engineering. To make a long story short, the line 6 delay is not a ROAD hog.... I, under no circumstance, would recommend this product for live gigs due to its lack of dependibility, inconsistency, and sheer unfaithfullness. DUE yourself a favor and buy another delay modulator...there are plenty of other ones out there....

Ok...but not useful after the warranty has expired.....

Below mediocre....do not recommend buying

I found it easy to use, and though I am not a manual guy, I found the manual to be super helpful in guiding me to the sounds I wanted and in easier ways of using the pedal for all its worth. I was primarily a boss loop station user, but found that using the 2 pedals together helped fill in the gaps. Because what one pedal misses, the other seems to have.

I use a telecaster, varying fender amps, and after the line 6, a boss loop station. I never had problems with noise, but sometimes distorion being run through the pedal cause awful overtones.

It worked for a year, then the lights would come on but it wouldn't work, so I took it apart, cleaned it out, and it worked again. Then after about 8 months, it just quit. Doesn't work at all. I was dumb enough to have not registered for a warranty, but hell, for 250+ bucks I expected more. Don't know if I'll ever buy another one.

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I play rock/country/grunge/americana.
Was planning to buy another until i saw the 8 billion reviews here saying their $%^& quit like mine. I don't think i can part with another 250-300 for such crappy reliability.
The number one and two advantages over a boss loopstation is that you can make really short loops and you can begin recording immediately when the first loop repeats.
When it worked, I rate it a 9.
Now it's in the closet. A rated negative whatever. Waste of 250 bucks for a lot of people.

10! Very easy to use, very convenient tap tempo for on the fly tempo change. Not much to programming it, like they say, no weird button combinations or banks to scroll through, just knobs and buttons. The manual is not only helpful and easy to follow, but these guys are a trip so it'll keep you entertained.

8. I'd give it a 10 except for one minor (strange) problem. The effect actual lowers your signal level when it's turned on! It isn't a drastic change, but definitely noticable. I'm going to have mind modified by Robert Keeley (www.robertkeeley.com, check it out, they're amazing!) which corrects this problem... but in my opinion, I shouldn't have to spend an extra 100 bucks to make a 250 dollar pedal work like it should! Other than that problem, it's amazing sounding. Very accurate representations of the original effects, low noise.

If I could give it a negative 10 for reliability, I would. I have bought THREE (yes... THREE) of these guys. I'm so paranoid about them locking up or frying that I actually keep two of them on and powered up on my pedal board at all times! That says a lot for how amazing the quality is when they're working though right? All three of them have had to be sent in for service, and all three, after being serviced, still have occasional lockups and glitches (and it's almost like they KNOW I'm in a gig because they always lock up DURING perfomances!) I ended up selling the third one but now I gig with a backup that I program with mirrored settings to the first and leave in my effects chain and powered up just in case.

Again, if I could give it a negative 10, I would. The customer support on the website, and the guys on the phone, are very helpful. BUT! Here's the problem. Line six whores out their service to "repair centers" all around the country. Basically third party music stores or electronic repair places that fix them, and line 6 pays them to do it. Each one of these places that I have contacted have acted like they were doing me a HUGE favor for letting line 6 pay them to fix my equipment. They have all mentioned that they don't make any money off of fixing line 6 equipment (which I know is a lie, why would they do it if they weren't making money? It's not like line 6 forces them to be their repair centers!?!?) I had one store tell me it could be up to 2 months to get my pedal fixed, the other center told me, after having it in hand for a month, that "he hadn't had a chance to look at it yet" and "he has to make a living, so his other customers that he gets commission on take priority." By the way, if you are in or around Charlotte, NC... AVOID TRITECH ELECTRONICS and BROOKS MAYS MUSIC!!! You're better off getting a five year old to hit it with a hammer and pray that in doing so, something gets knocked back into place. These guys are incompetence in it's highest (lowest?) form.

If they were reliable and there were no issues with repair on the outside chance that there was a problem... I'd give it a 10 no question. Sounds amazing, easy to use, brilliant concept! Only problem is I cringe every time I turn the effect on out of fear that I'll step on that switch and it'll just laugh at me. Feel free to e-mail me if you're considering buying one... or if you have one and have similar problems, we can share our horrible experiences.

you really have to read the manual and look at everything to get a truly good sound out of it. i was the type of guy that knew exactly what i wanted, so i just kind of dialed everything in and had my perfect sound right then. the manual is really good and really fun to look through, it tells you all about the history of delays and all of the ideas behind the presets on the pedal. overall it doesnt take much to get a good sound out of it, you just have to know what you want and what you're doing

i've experienced some signal droupout on a couple of my presets, this was pretty upsetting for a 250 dollar pedal. the delay sustain isn't that great.
there are a lot of effects in my rig and i lost some tone with this but i have a BBE in my rack so that makes up for any loss of tone. i have a gibson sg standard and a fernandes vertigo elite, into a dual rec.
overall this pedal sounds good, definately one of the better delays on the market but i think that you don't get enough bang for your buck

these things are built like tanks, mine has heavy road use and after 8 months hasn't gotten faulty at all. then again, i keep it in a pretty heavy duty pedal case. but the pedal itself is completely reliable, as long as youre not using it with batteries

they have tons of customer support on their website, and the dudes are really nice over the phone as well. my friends have only had good things to say as well

i play progressive-tinged metal that has a fair amount of ambient clean parts, this does exactly what i want it to there. i had a sound in mind and this thing delivered. i've been playing guitar for 5 years and this is one of the best pedals ive owned, its just a little overpriced and i think overrated. i wish the power cable came with it, thats kind of ridiculous. it definately never gets in the way, its grown to be a pretty crucial part of my rig

This is an amazing pedal. I don't know of a better pedal for the money. It would be nice with a digital display, but it is still reaally easy to get an amazing sound out of it; it just takes a little playing around with it (just like with anything else).

I have been playing guitar for seven years, and I play a Schecter Diamond Series Omen 6 through a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12 with the Line 6 delay as my only effect at the moment (hopefully I'll have a vintage Rat soon!). It sounds great. The overdrive on the amp is plenty for what I'm doing right now, I only want a Rat to have a little more control over the tone and volume. The sound is perfect for what I want.

I've had the pedal for a year and a half with no problems at all.

I've never really had to deal with the company, but my only complaint about the pedal is that you have to buy the power adapter separatly, and it's kind of pricey.

I love the Coldplay, Jon Buckland sound of guitar, and this is perfect. If it were stolen or lost, I would probably go on a crazy rampage and destroy things with tears in my eyes (or something similar to that basic description). I've played around with a friend's Boss DD4 (which I hope to have one day), but the line 6 kicks its tail. With a good distortion pedal, the line 6 can make some of the most pure, full-bodied sounds come from any guitar or amp. It really helps me with creativity, because it fills out even the simplist single notes or chords such that there is a much greater aray of things I can do with less work.

I just spent some time experimenting without the manual, then read the manual, experimented again. Seems easy enough, this is probably where people are all over the place in difference. I have used other delays that are more complicated.

Seems to be fairly worthy of a 7. Some tone loss, but for the most part I like the sound I get out of it.

Still new, Ill be back if it breaks like all these horror stories on here. I have seen stacks of people use this pedal, and never heard a face to face story bashing this pedal. Only recommendations.

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I bought this to replace my Boss RC20XL loop station, as well as to get a new delay. The whole thing takes some time to get use to. Although its not perfect for what I want, the delays, and the looper are solid.
The delays have been modelled well. And the looper is 14 seconds with a tap tempo, works fine for me.

I was unhappy with the audio loop in the RC20xl because it was half the sample rate and resolution. The DL4 seems to sound stronger.

very easy to use but presetings are really annoying because u cant change them. the manual great

Its not noisy at all, in fact the noise gate means u have a better sound than b4. I use a marshall 100dfx amp and a 1962 fender jaguar u can sound excactly like JOHN FRUSCIANTE and OMAR RODRIGUEZ.

absolutely shite it broke after 2 hours, just woudnt turn on again
i hope the replacement wont break as easy, luck of the draw me say.

brilliant when working, they lie about battery life in manual. WHY WOULD U DO THIS 2 ME LINE 6
I SPENT MANY HOURS WORKING IN THE MEAT FACTORY IN IOWA. FUCK I HAD TO SELL MY LITLE WIG AND PANTIES TOO THE LOAN SHARK. ILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN.

It's very easy to use if you read the manual and remember that you can always return to factory settings

The sound quality is excellent. I play tons of jobs both private and bar & nightclub stuff. I'm constantly amazed at some of the comments from from people that must be analyzing equipment in a lab or a bedroom. The noise floor in a night club is such that I don't think any of these noise comments are relavent to live playing, in different rooms every night. This pedal is the pedal boards of Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Brad Whitford,Keith Urban and tons of others, seems like it works for them, so some of these comments seem a little silly

Seems like alot of these people have alot of breakdowns. I guess I'm lucky because everything always works if I take care of it, no mattter how much I use it other than old tube and tube amps. But that's just routine maint.

Deal with who you bought it from. Who has time to contact the factory when you are supposed to contact your dealer anyway. Deal with your local store and keep you reciept, any Guitar center or decent dealer will always work with you if you have your reciept and follow the return or repair rules of the dealer. Why would any one contact line 6 for a local repair problem?

Excellent, 20 years ago all we had were boss dd-2's and dm-1's, and they were great as well, it's all in the hands and these things just make playing more fun. I remember when you got laughed at for buying a seventies Strat new, and now they are "vintage instuments". Well there is more to good equipment than chat room misinformation. Try keeping an echoplex in good working order and than tell me how bad this pedal is. Most of these people have no idea how good some of this stuff is, or how bad some of the older "but not really good then" stuff is.

The control knobs make it easy to use and control the various make-up of each type of delay. It is a little tricky configuring the pedal at first, but easy once you figure it out.

I found the manual really helpful as it gives you the background of each type of delay setting and references popular guitarists that used that particular delay.

The loop setting is very easy to use after a little practice.

I wish there was a digital display to see exactly how many micro-seconds the delay was holding. It's like using a tuner knob on a radio, instead of showing 99.1FM (for example). You have to guess and adjust to make it fit the music.

I would like to have more than 3 user-settings, but it sure beats a single delay pedal.

I've been playing guitar for 10 years and over the past years have primarily played acoustic (Takamine Santa Fe 93-c w/ turqoise inlays). Since purchasing the DL-4, the Takamine has been collecting dust in my closet.

The sound is great. I especially like the way you can set it to keep playing the delayed sound even after you've hit the bypass switch. The echoes trail off and this sounds very professional.

Mine works fine. Although, I have heard others say it arrives broken or buzzes.

For the buzz/hiss problem, you can simply use a noise gate. Line 6's distortion pedal has this built in. But, you would have to run the distortion pedal after the delay pedal which I do not prefer. This makes some difference when changing between distortion and clean, when you want either sound to trail off with the delay.

Again, I have had zero problems with mine. I've found it's usually the guitar cable or amp that has hissing problems.

Haven't had any problems. No opinion here.

I play anything from Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, and Coldplay to Dave Matthews Band to Pixies to TV Theme Songs (James Bond Theme is awesome). Of course, I would prefer to have each of the original delay pedals that this thing emulates, but, for the price, this thing does everything you need and sounds almost identical.

The loop setting can really be helpful when your trying to put a rhythm and lead section together... or more than 1 guitar track at the same time.

This pedal eliminates the need for multiple delay pedals, a loop pedal, an e-bow, and a reverse pedal. It is wonderful, whether you want some of that new Modest Mouse / Coldplay sound or some old school Hendrix / Clapton / Eddie Van Halen stuff.

Buy one now.