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The GigRig
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Mar 2009
The GigRig ltd. Wet Box, Revised Feb 2009
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TheGigRig
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Wet Box Manual
TheGigRig WetBox is the ultimate guitar/effects signal mixing system.
It can be manually set or controlled by the GigRig EXP Expression pedal and
used on your pedal board, in the input or in the effects loop of your amp.
Basic operation:
There are so many great ways to use your Wet Box, here are just a few examples.
1. as a parallel mixer
You start with your guitar signal in ‘signal A’ input. The guitar signal is split at this point
and a mirror image of what is at the input is sent out of send B. Plug the send B into the
inout of the effect you want to mix in parallel with your original signal. You can plug
anything in here from Fuzz’s to delays, even drum machines. The output of the effect is
plugged nto the ‘return B’. Use the
‘balance’
control to balance between the ‘A’ signal
(your original signal) and the ‘B’ signal (the effect that is in the parallel loop). Use the
‘gain’
control to set the overall level of gain or master volume. Using the ‘gain’ control
the output can be boosted by 2 or attenuated (reduced) to 1/3.
Phase switch
- If as you mix the effect into your original signal the output seems to get
weaker, this means that the effect that is in the loop is ‘out of phase’ with your original
signal. Simply select the phase button to change the phase at ‘input b’ to correct this
problem.
The phase switch reverses this signal before it is mixed with input A.
2. A---B mixer
This is a really cool way to use the WetBox. If you split your original signal before the
WetBox (with a HumDinger for example) and send these two signals into 2 different
effects (chorus and OverDrive for example) you simply take the outputs of these two
effects and plug them into ‘input A’ and ‘input B’. Now as you dial the balance knob you
can ‘blend’ these two effects in parallel. Try it, it sounds amazing.
