A tip from the designer:
CAUTION:
A tip from the designer:
A tip from the designer:
The amount of distortion depends on your guitar's pickups. In Clean mode, single-coil
pickups may begin saturating the preamp when the knob is set to about the two
o'clock position; pickups with very high output levels (humbuckers or active pickups)
will evoke mild overdrive at even lower settings. If you want squeaky clean tone,
simply back off the Gain knob accordingly.
Gain control for the Crunch channel. This knob determines input sensitivity in Crunch
mode; use it to dial in the desired amount of preamp distortion.
Extremely high gain and volume levels in Crunch mode can produce
powerful feedback. Avoid feedback squeals; they can lead to hearing loss and damage
speakers! At higher volumes, back off the Gain and Treble levels in order to prevent
unchecked feedback!
Single-coil pickups will evoke mildly overdriven sounds at settings somewhere
between 10 and 2 o'clock. Try settings between 9 and 1 o'clock for pickups with high-
output humbuckers or active pickups. For an even bigger, beefier crunch tone, try
Crunch Gain settings well beyond the 2 o'clock position.
This feature boosts the upper end of the high frequency range in main channel 1,
and
. The red LED above this button lights up to indicate the Bright
function is on. This feature can also be switched via MIDI program change or the
Custom Z-9 Footswitch.
For a crisp or glassy tone, activate the
feature. This setting brightens the sound
of humbucking or muddy pickups. This voicing option ups the twang factor inherent in
certain types of guitars, and lets you put a set of sonic cow horns on those that lack it.
Feel free to control this sound-shaping function remotely via MIDI.
This is the preamp voicing section's passive low-frequency EQ for main channel I's Clean
and Crunch modes.
This is the preamp voicing section's passive midrange frequency EQ for main
channel I's Clean and Crunch modes.
This is the preamp voicing section's passive high-frequency EQ for main channel I's
Clean mode.
This is the preamp voicing section's passive high-frequency EQ for main channel I's
Crunch mode.
Clean
Crunch
Bright
3 Crunch Gain
4 Bright
5 Bass
6 Middle
7 Treble Clean
8 Treble Crunch
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