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Owner’s Manual
Owner’s Manual
No. Title
Description Example of its use
1 BRIGHT ROOM
This room has a bright tone with lots of scattered
refl ections to simulate harder, more refl ective
surfaces.
Useful on vocals that require a brighter re-
verb to cut through the mix, or for giving
acoustic instruments a livelier vibe.
2 WARM LOUNGE
This preset features a medium sized room/lounge
sound, with just enough enhancement of the lower
mids to produce a warm tone.
Useful for vocals on songs that require
a larger, more “wet” sound, or for giving
dimension to bright horns without adding
harshness.
3 SMALL STAGE
This preset simulates the sound of a small concert
stage, with a medium reverb time and reverberant
space.
Useful for vocals or guitars in fast paced,
high-energy songs that call for a “live”
sounding reverberation.
4 WARM THEATER
This reverb has a warm bodied tone and medium
long reverb time to simulate the live acoustics of a
theater space.
Perfect for vocals, drums, acoustic and
electric guitars, keyboards, and more.
5 WARM HALL
This reverb simulates the sound of a spacious,
yet cozy, heavily draped and carpeted concert hall
with an especially warm tone.
Perfect for adding natural concert hall
ambience to close-mic’ed orchestral
instruments.
6 CONCERT HALL
This hall reverb is characterized by its large, spa-
cious sound, long pre-delay, and vibrant tone.
Adds life to acoustic instruments and
vocals from solos to full-on symphonies
and choirs.
7 PLATE REVERB
This preset emulates vintage mechanical rever-
beration that was generated with a metal plate.
Its sound is characterized by lots of early refl ec-
tions and no pre-delay.
Perfect for thickening percussive instru-
ments, such as a snare drum, or tight
vocal arrangements.
8 CATHEDRAL
This reverb emulates the extremely long tails,
dense diffusion and long pre-delays and refl ec-
tions that would be found in a very large, stone
walled house of worship.
Gives amazing depth to choirs, wind
instruments, organs, and soft acoustic
guitars.
9 CHORUS
This preset provides a soft, ethereal sweeping
effect that is useful for thickening and for making
a particular sound pop out of the mix.
Perfect for enhancement of electric and
acoustic guitar and bass, or to add a dra-
matic effect to vocals, particularly group
harmonies and choirs.
10 CHORUS + REV
This preset perfectly combines the chorus effect
above with a large, roomy reverb.
This lets you both thicken your sound
with the chorus effect while adding
warmth and spaciousness thanks to the
smooth reverb.
11 DOUBLER
This effect simulates the sound of a vocal or
instrument being recorded twice (double tracked)
on a multi-track recorder. (50MS)
Provides a vibe that is similar to chorus
without the subtle swirl.
12 TAPE SLAP
This effect provides a single, relatively rapid delay
of the original signal, with the added warmth that
vintage tape-based echo units provided. (180 MS)
Often used on vocals for a 1950’s era feel,
or on guitars for a surf-type tone. Often
used by people whose favorite number is
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DELAY 1 (300MS)
DELAY 2 (380MS)
DELAY 3 (480 MS)
These delay presets provide around three repeats
of the original signal. The default delay time for
each preset is shown in ms - the smaller the time,
the faster the delay.
These work best with full, up-beat music
like rock where the delay needs to cut
through the mix.
16 REVERB + DLY
(250MS)
This effect combines the warm theater reverb ef-
fect with the echoes of the 3-repeat delay effect.
Perfect for thickening vocals while adding
dimension, it can also be used as a spacey
effect on electric guitars.
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