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You should read these Important Safety Instructions. Keep these instructions in a safe place • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Read these instructions. Keep these instructions. Heed all warnings. Follow all instructions. Do not use this apparatus near water. Clean only with dry cloth. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
1. MODEL SELECTOR - This is where you pick the model you want to use; it comes up pre-set to a great sound. 2. DELAY TIME - Typically sets the amount of delay time. Check the delay model descriptions for more details. 3. REPEATS - Typically adjusts the amount of repeats of your delay from one to infinity. Check the delay model descriptions for more details. 4. TWEAK - This is a special control unique to individual delay models. Check the delay model descriptions for more details.
10 9. INPUT/OUTPUT - Just follow the labels and plug in the inputs and outputs. The left input also acts as an on/off switch: the unit will be off if no cable is connected here. When running with batteries, unplug the left input to conserve power when not using the pedal. 10. EXPRESSION PEDAL - The optional Line 6 expression pedal lets your foot control one or more of the parameters of your effect while your hands are busy making music.
Tube Echo – based on* Maestro® EP-1 The classic 1963 Maestro® EP-1 was the first of a series of “Echoplex” designs distributed by the company, and made by HarrisTeller in Chicago. As touted in a Maestro advertisement, the Echoplex’s “...special effects range all the way from a controlled high speed reverberation to a full, throbbing echo”! The main feature of the Echoplex design is a special cartridge of looped 1/4” tape that wraps past separate record and playback heads.
Analog Echo – based on* the Boss® DM-2 Analog echo units like the DM-2 were designed as improvements over the tape echoes that came before them, using “bucket brigade” electronics to give guitarists echo units that were more reliable than the tape-based delays. Analog delays are treasured for the warm, distorted tones they produce, and are also great for creating more experimental sounds.
Digital Delay w/ Mod Choose this model to add a chorus effect to your digital delays. Like the chorus of the Analog Delay w/ Mod, this modulation is applied to the delay repeats only, leaving your direct sound unaffected. TWEAK adjusts modulation speed. TWEEZ adjusts modulation depth. Rhythmic Delay This is a handy place to come when you want a delay that keeps a certain rhythm with your music. Here’s the basic idea: you tap quarter notes on the tap tempo switch.
Reverse. !seltaeB eht dna xirdneH imiJ ekil tsuJ – Take a step back in time with your cool new reverse delay. Whatever you play in comes back at you backwards, delayed by the time you set with the DELAY TIME knob (1.25 seconds max). To use this little wonder most effectively, try playing a legato lick, ignoring the reverse playback as well as you can. Longer licks can translate into very cool reverse phrases.
Using your LOOP SAMPLER Turn TWEEZ to minimum to turn off the Pre-Loop Echo unit, and set MIX straight up. Play a rhythm guitar part. Once you’ve got a groove, tap the RECORD/OVERDUB switch at the downbeat of your measure, record two bars worth of rhythm, and then stomp on PLAY/STOP again at the downbeat of what would be the third measure. Now you can overdub a lead part.
