Employee Spotlight: Rich Renken, Artist Relations/Customer Advocate
Sep 23, 2011 Line 6 Spotlight
1. How did you come to work at Line 6? I met a super-cool cat who works for Line 6 named Darrell Smith and learned that he was a killer keyboardist and musician. On a project I was engineering and mixing, we hired him to play keys. We became good friends and he and I [...]
Tags: Bass Player, Employee Spotlight, line 6, lowdown, m13, m9, Rich Renken
Employee Spotlight: Kris Daniel, Senior DSP Software Engineer
Jul 8, 2011 Line 6 General
Before you came to Line 6, what, if any, was your previous experience working in the music industry? I worked for a start-up company in Philadelphia called G-Vox for about three years. We made these funny magnetic hexaphonic pickups for electric guitars that would connect to your PC and it would output MIDI, mostly for [...]
Tags: amp, amp modeling, DSP, dt50, employee, guitarport, HD, hd300, hd400, hd500, m13, midi, modeling, philly, pod, POD HD, software
Employee Spotlight: Dan Castillo, Lead Product Tester/Lab Coordinator
Jun 3, 2011 Line 6 General
Before you came to Line 6 what was your experience working in the music industry? Before working at Line 6 I went to school for recording engineering. I was in a band and used my education to record our album while working at the school helping students with their recording projects. How did you come [...]
Tags: dt50, games, hd500, inspire, m13, pod, POD HD, pod xt live, recording, technology, tester, testing, toneport, ux8
Employee Spotlight: Dave Patrikios, Creative Manager
Feb 24, 2011 Line 6 General
What do you do at Line 6? I have a great job, I’m the Creative Manager. My main responsibility is making sure all of our marketing and advertising supports the Line 6 brand. Line 6 takes its brand very seriously. Whenever someone comes in contact with Line 6 through our website, product packaging, magazine ads, [...]
Tags: checkout girls, creative, dt50, EX1, fbv, m13, mkii, petty, replacements, spider IV, teenage fanclub, tonecore, wah, wilco
M9: Replacing Teddy’s NYC Subway Pedal Board
Dec 10, 2010 Line 6 General
When tone-tweaker and M13 evangelist Teddy Kumpel needs to pare down his rig and brave the New York City subways, he grabs his M9 and heads out the door. But it wasn’t always this easy… By Teddy Kumpel If you’ve read my other blog posts (here and here), you know by now what a fan [...]
Tags: distortion, echo, gig, kumpel, m13, m9, modeler, new york, nyc, pedalboard, pedel board, scene, stage, stompbox, subway, teddy, tuner, volume, wah
M13 and Teddy’s Tones, Pt. 2
Apr 2, 2010 Line 6 Artists
By Teddy Kumpel Guitarist Teddy Kumpel has a lot of tone tricks up his sleeves. He shares a few more favorites from his M13 Stompbox Modeler. More freaky M13 Stompbox Modeler tricks that blow my mind… I use it as a freak-out sound-design box when I play with my trio. I do a lot of [...]
Tags: artist, effects, guitar, looper, looping, m13, m13 stompbox modeler
A Message from JT of Hawthorne Heights
Nov 16, 2009 Line 6 Artists
At Hawthorne Heights, we know only 2 things: hard work and touring, and they seem to go hand in hand. To hype our new record, called Skeletons, we are stripping away all the extravagances of a normal Hawthorn Heights tour. Instead, we will be rocking out in small clubs across the US to bring our [...]
Tags: artist, guitar, hawthorne heights, jt, m13, m13 stompbox modeler, m9, m9 stompbox modeler, spider valve mkii, tour, variax
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