Lines: Experimental Multi Effect and Feedback Synthesizer

US Hainbach & AudioThing recreate the Axel Line Simulator 12/10/23

Hainbach and Audiothing have once again collaborated on another experimental plugin effect - this time based on the rather unique Axel Line Simulator. Described as a creative mangler for all kinds of signals, it's capable of making lo-fi telephone sounds, lush phasing, warm distortions, crushing feedback, ring modulation and unique frequency shifting. It can even be an experimental synthesizer based on feedback, allowing for a wide range of inspiring rhythms, pulses, and organic soundscapes. Here's some info on the original device:

Lines has a rare real-life inspiration, the Axel Line Simulator, made in the 1970s in Jamaica, New York by long gone Axel Electronics. Despite its golden disco look, the Axel was never intended as a piece of music equipment. It was used to simulate signal loss over telephone and data lines. It mimics the „worst case" for message transmission, using a plethora of unique analog effects: jitter, noise, intermittent pulses, frequency shift, distortion, bandpass filters for various bandwidths and even playable buttons for phase, amplitude and dropouts.

If you have one or more of Hainbach's AudioThing plugins, you can upgrade to his bundle at a discounted rate.

Find out more here: https://www.audiothing.net/?p=13848&post_type=product&preview=1&_ppp=9888e87232

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