14. Press this button to turn on or off the Michelangelo.
*Take note that the Air control is greatly affected by the Calibration controls in that the harder you drive the
Calibration, the less db swing you will see from the Air control
**Do not be afraid to significantly boost the High and Air controls to compensate for the darkening of the signal.
***Your Michelangelo EQ has been calibrated to give as neutral a tone as possible with your EQ knobs in the noon
(50%) position. You will notice that not all of the knobs run the full range from 0-100% - that is perfectly normal. The
Michelangelo was designed to be sonically rich and harmonically complex, and that ended up meaning that not all of
the EQ controls lined up perfectly. Rather than altering the circuit to accommodate aesthetics, the decision was
made to stick with what sounded best and just calibrate the knobs to be in the correct position.
****Again…DO NOT REMOVE THE KNOBS AND LINE THEM UP UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR MICHELANGELO
TO NO LONGER BE SONICALLY NEUTRAL IN THE 50% POSITION.
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Aggression control on the 0% position.
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Trim control on the 100% position.
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Bass Shift switch in the down position (150hz).
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Mid Shift switch in the right position (full).
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Character switch in the left position (Modern).
Your Michelangelo is calibrated to be sonically neutral with the Output Impedance switch in the down position (LoZ).
You will notice that switching between LoZ and HiZ will alter the overall sound of the EQ and will require a
recalibration. HiZ has a very large interaction with other gear following the Michelangelo and thus will sound different
in various locations in your signal chain. LoZ will have lower overall color but will interact much less with other gear
following the Michelangelo.
For calibration of the EQ, the following tones are typically used: Low = 80hz, Mid = 1Khz, High = 5khz, Air = 10Khz.
Do not be overly concerned with making all levels exact for the EQ is very interactive with the source material and
precise levels will be constantly altering. Differences up to .3db between bands is ok.
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