Line 6 DL4 - Still Awesome in 2021? 

That riff @ 10:13 is wicked as bloody hell!

No, *you're* the absolute legend! :) To be fair, the DL4 is legendary on its own, it's basically the pedal that started it all. Super glad you're enjoying it!

Buying one of these in USA… now that I’ve seen this video. Thanks for going through it.

When you haven't had your coffee yet, and you are not sure if Leon just did the intro twice :D

Great demonstration! Once again, I am reminded to dig deeper into the gear that I have before wanting the next shiny new thing. Thank you!

MY EARS BURNED THROUGH THE AIRWAVES. Your chops are nuts bro! Awesome demo, I might need to try one of these, I really liked the sound of that upbeat swing’n Whitesnake bit.

That looper! Both of the looper pieces (but especially the first) were just fantastic. Great composition and playing to boot.

Wow thank you mate, I’m just beginning to fall in love with delay and I’m looking for exactly what u showed with the sweep effect, then the looping omg that’s beautiful, it’s funny how the feel of a guitar can inspire different playing and the same applies to the tech we can now attach to it, can’t wait for guitar to arrive into this century, wow

I had one of these 23 years ago. Great pedal. Gotta get another.

Hell ya I bought this very soon after it came out.. that looper taught me to play lead.. I sold it after a few years and bought it again a few years ago.. I love it

Love the intro intro!! Great vid

I really love the line 6 dl 4 it's amazing how you can create loops, you are doing it great !!!

Hey Leon that was really helpful, thanks! I'm clueless about my DL4 and you just showed me heaps of shite I can mess around with! Stoked

10.05 in the video I got kicked out of my chair! F...ing hell nice od sound. great video man :)

I still have my dl4. That pedal is legendary. I love the lofi setting

The last couple of times I saw KIng's X live, this is the exact delay that Ty was using. He had an expression pedal attached and was doing all sorts of crazy things with it during some of the "Jam Sessions" in some of the extended versions of some songs like Over My Head and things like that. I was sold completely. I do think that modding it and getting better switches on it seems to be the way to go as many people have remarked that the switches seem to go pretty quickly. Great sounds brotha :-)

Double intro, Jeff is ledge!

Hi Leon- not a multi delay but I bought a Vox Time Machine about 15 years or so ago and love it- haven't bought another delay since :)

That sweep echo sounds very cool, I'm a bit of a phaser fan.

Funny enough, I was thinking about this pedal recently. Never owned one, but I've seen tons of em on used gear shelves. I was tempted, but now I'm getting one next time I see one. Delay has become my best friend, my carbon copy is my fav pedal. All the best!

Such a naturally flowing demo. This guy is really good.

Cool vid man.

Hey man such a great demo taste and playing as well 👍

I buy a dl4 3 months ago, it is my first delay, I found some presets and some sounds but I didn't find the utility of them, I was regretting buying it... But now with this video you give a now perspective of all the awesome things you can do, thank you Leon :)

I still rock the M13 pedal, which I believe has all the DL4 stuff in there!

Hey Leon, thank you very much for a very nice review of the DL4 delay! I'm looking out for one of these, as it sounds great, and is easy to use! At around 9:24, you are showcasing the "Analog with Mod patch", with grease! And that grease was so good! Can I have some more grease please? Can you reveal a little about the "ingredients" of that wonderful sounding "grease". Is it a pedal, amp/ model... ???

Dude this vid is so useful thanks man.

Oh my god that tone at 14:15

great rundown and you are a beast however you may have overlooked(most people do) one of the greatest features this pedal has in usage. When you use the continuous controller with this pedal if you have the knobs in one position and cycle the pedal it will remember the knob settings ,say toe down. if you then position the knobs to a different location and cycle the pedal to the opposite ,say heel down , the controller will then become a multidirectional control. Leon kind of poo pooed the reverse delay but when you can stick a note and then roll it into full wet reverse delay as well as come out cleanly in a live situation its a win. I loved my dl4 and regretted selling it in the 90's so i replace it with a flashback fx4..........not even close to as good.

"Do I need to do the digital delay?" Absolutely! 👍

I have Line 6 M5 that has those same sounds as DL4 (and some other Line 6 pedals) and it sounds amazing. Bought it because it was cheap and I've needed some multifunctional pedal to keep pedalboard small and practical. Ended up loving it. Reverse delay is great. Feedback all the way, trails on and it becomes a micro looper. :) Good sounds don't get outdated no matter the technology used. Design-wise it's outdated: weird power connector, bad ad/da buffers, unnecessary big ... And Line 6 keeps selling them and doesn't even bother to update a power supply.

Hi Leon, the DL4 MK II is just released, find one from local distb for video demo.. actually it sounds good for vocal, synth & others inst too .! 🤟🤟

hello! nice sounds!! how you recommend to connect it in effects loop or in front of head/combo?

The jazz guitarist Bill Frisell still uses one of these. He creates all kinds of loops and ambient sounds

Leon buy an HX Effects, you'll love it it has ALL the Legacy M-Series effects Green - DL4, MM4, FM4, M13 etc Plus the new Helix effects are Awesome! Josh from JHS is always stressing that all the sought-after 'boutique pedal builders' actually worked / works at Line6. Great demo

" Good Morning LT!" We " Longhairs" are Guilty of " Hairacy!" Pleasantly surprised by this gear! Thanks for sharing Brother and Be Well All!

Reggie Watts is my DL-4 hero... if there were such a thing.

i got the m9 usually i use it for my pedal steel but i wonder how close its delay section is to the original ive sadly never owned a dl4 and im a huge dave knudson fan ive seen minus the bear back in like 03-04. also being a big ian williams from don cab and then battes i got to play the same venue i first saw battles live it was the atlas tour time period and watching him and hearing his writing style had a long lasting impact on my style i dont 2 hand to death but i love very tasteful 2 hand chord play not so much single fast tapping solo runs thats not my thing my biggest influences are probably steve howe robert fripp curtis mayfield ian williams mahavishnu orchstra radiohead godspeed you black emperor mogwai do make say think mastodon but im a multi instrumentalist playing drums banjo mandolin violin cello stand up bass drums synths acordion horns i love sound music is my life i wish i could be more motivated to create again i think to much time alone not having other people to bounce ideas off of or be inspired by because improv has always been one of my strongest traits i play stuff once alot of the time but it will blow peoples mind away its so hard lagistically doing a one man fluid act my goal has always been making soundtracks composing for film but god i want to feel the that feeling of playing music with other people again in a live setting

Balls! You beat me to this one!!

I’m surprised no one is talking about it but I’ve had so many problems with this pedal, which is too bad considering how powerful it is. It’s so hard to find conversations about this problem online too which is also weird! I caved and just bought one that will be coming in tomorrow. I’m sure it will malfunction in some way. Will update.

Shawn Lane used it and made some incredible improves with it. Highly recommended for a listen if you like experimental nutjob solos. Nice demonstration by the way!

I love that heavy blues influence in your playing. That said, I have a dumb question. When you start playing with a lot of gain and distortion at 10:03 (which sounds great), are you using strictly that pedal or adding distortion from somewhere else?

That beginning clean tone was what EVH used for “Can’t Get This Stuff No More” …. (or at least pretty damn close)

Leon, excellent review/demo of the DL4. Question - say you select Tape Echo via the Model Selector, are you able to save 3 different settings say short, medium, long delays of this via the A,B & C switches ? Are you then able to select via the Model Selector Tube Echo and save 3 different settings of this via the A,B & C switches ? Following this can you return to Tape Echo via the Model Selector and access the previous saved settings you made ?

Line6 is the most bashed manufacturer of great equipment ever. Almost all of their products are great

I just bought one. I’m trying to get East Bay Ray’s (Dead Kennedys) sound on the song Police Truck. Help please.

It's a good pedal, I have one in the "junk trunk" of pedals past.

10:05 what is that distortion pedal? awesome video, man

Leon would my mxr isobrick power this thing or is it on its own power supply?

what battery do u have in it/ how did u set it up bc rn i can’t figure out how to get it to work!

The DL4 will always be awesome in any year

What pickups did you use on PRS? Sounds killer!

How does the DL4 compare to the Boss DD20. Which is better ? I’m looking at both at the moment

if you’ve got 3 presets how do you change modes?

I'm thinking you have a large amount of pedals and gear that you use for oddball stuff outside of your regular recording and live gear Leon. 😁

The awkward repeating yourself at the Intro 🤣

Another video on the same unit that I purchased but none of them show you how to plug into the back

Let's just take a moment to notice how well his guitar matches the DL4 unit. I'll bet Leon has a guitar in every color of the rainbow. Whatever color effect box he is using, he has a guitar to match it! LoL!

Did you know if there is a difference of tone between the old and the new one please ? Thanks by advance.

Still a great pedal.

I still have a Line6 EchoPark, but the line-in has broken off. What can I say? One of those infamous single plugs to connect pedals. Don't ever use those. And well, I can probably let my EchoPark be fixed, but eh.

I’m after an echo pro

The DL4 is my all time favorite delay pedal. It sounds so good. It just sucks you can’t change presets via midi

my DL4 is suddently death just now. well isnot the first time. so i just need to fixed again

DL4, Mesa Boogie and an American strat...that's all I need!

The fun part is looking up who were associated with working at Line6 at the time of DL4. It's pretty ridiculous, certainly names you recognize.

This sounds incredible but mostly it’s your playing

You couldn’t play bad if you had too. It’s not in you blood. Dude you are an amazing musician. End of discussion

Bit of a green theme going on here haha

The DL4 is the ONLY remaining pedal from its series that's still manufactured.. that says something. The AM4, DM4, FM4, JM4, and MM4 are loooong discontinued.

Of course it is. It's not like 2021 music is better than 2001 music.

Major volume drop so beware using for guitar solos against a live band. Ditched mine for a Timefactor - much better.

I really don’t think the new version sounds better than this one... anyone?

DL4 build quality is really the worst I've seen. The battery clip craps out first, then it's the power jack and then the whole unit will fail eventually. They sounded nice, but that constant fear of it breaking down is insane.

Woah! Less than 1 second in, and I've had to switch off: "legends". Im outta here.