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InVettagating: Line 6 - Marcus Ryle - Jan. 2006 page 3
Thanks go out to all the Marcus Ryle and Line 6, they have been very kind and helpfull.
What kind of music do you like or maybe influenced you? Me? I’ve got a pretty wide range of musical interest. What I found in general is that in any musical style you can find a true artist. Unfortunately, in any musical style you can also find some pretty poor execution. I try not to dismiss any musical style, modern or classic, because I think there are great musicians everywhere. An early influence for me, besides classical music, was progressive rock. Bands like Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and others like that. When I was a session musician, I became more appreciative of the detail going in to more commercial music, pop and rock, which were more the types of music I was playing in the L.A. sessions scene. A bit of everything. More currently, I like think the latest U2 album is great, I also like Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, and Beck. As for guitarists, I have had the honor of knowing many great players for a long time, and they’ve all had a musical influence on me, including Steve Morse, Alan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather, and Jay Graydon. Great players and great guys. Although playing music is what inspired my path, my passion for developing products and technology is really where I wanted to spend my time. As a result, I didn’t pursue further being a session musician, or choose it as a permanent career.
One thing that comes to mind is the confusion on the different forums on how the name Line 6 was established. Something to do with a telephone board? Could you tell us, once and for all… Of course Vinny. As I was saying, our amp modeling experiment was a private research project. As with any kind of research, you start something and you don’t know how it’s going to turn out. It was quite possible we would discover there still wasn’t enough DSP power or that it wouldn’t sound good. We didn’t know what we would do with it and we wanted, in essence, to keep it a secret until we had figured it out. We were doing development for other companies, and we would be visited sometimes by people we were doing work for. One of the difficult parts of keeping our research a secret is that we had to take old classic amps and turn them up very loud (since that’s when they sound best), and do our measurements. Of course, you’d hear the guitars blasting from the back of the building. We realized that we would need to stop playing when we had visitors, since there was no good explanation as to why we would be blasting guitars at the office. So we needed a simple code to let the folks in the back know that a visitor was up front and that they should stop playing guitar. At that time. Fast Forward Designs was the name of our company, and we had 5 phone lines. Whenever we had a visitor at the front that we didn’t want to know about this research, the receptionist at the front desk would innocently page one of us on the intercom system of the building. The message was that we had a phone call on line 6.
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