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Mini MEGA

®

 Bass Amplifier

Operating

Manual

Summary of Contents for Mini MEGA

Page 1: ...www peavey com Mini MEGA Bass Amplifier Operating Manual ...

Page 2: ... and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the ...

Page 3: ...ent to Peavey s technology driven innovation The MiniMEGA also contains other modern features such as built in compression and a 4 band EQ with quasi parametric mids Complete with an effects loop gain control crunch button tuner output customizable backlighting and more the MiniMEGA contains everything necessary for today s professional bass player Ideal for use in any live or studio setting the b...

Page 4: ...ss tone try setting the frequency ring to about 250Hz and apply a little bit of cut us ing the filter gain knob On the other hand if you want an aggressive rock tone try setting the frequency ring to 800Hz and then apply a little bit of boost to the filter gain knob If you need more cut through a mix try setting the frequency ring to 400 Hz and apply boost High Mid Filter The HI MID filter provide...

Page 5: ...o the low end of the bass spectrum it give punch and attack to the low notes For a more detailed explanation of the effect see the Hints section Narrow Q Preset Buttons This amplifier features two filter presets or Q configurations that narrow the bandwidth Pressing these buttons activates the filter preset For a more detailed explanation of the effect see the Hints section Bright Button This butt...

Page 6: ... terminals in your plug proceed as follows 1 The wire that is colored green and yellow must be connected to the terminal that is marked by the letter E or by the Earth symbol or colored green or green and yellow 2 The wire that is colored blue must be connected to the terminal that is marked with the letter N or the color black 3 The wire that is colored brown must be connected to the terminal tha...

Page 7: ...mount of signal level sent from the amplifier Press this button if the signal to the soundboard is clipping GROUND LIFT BUTTON In the case of humming noises coming from the Direct Interface this button can be pressed in order to remove the ground loop EFFECTS LOOP SEND 1 4 output jack for supplying signals to external low level effects or signal processing equipment EFFECTS LOOP RETURN 1 4 input f...

Page 8: ...ith and without CRUNCH activated start by turning on CRUNCH Dial in the desired amount of the effect using the GAIN control and set your overall volume using the VOLUME control Finally bypass CRUNCH and check the clean volume the volume should be the same or very close between the two HINT For best results turn off the tweeter in your speaker cab when using CRUNCH COMPRESSOR The Mini Mega features...

Page 9: ...ilters respectively because those frequency centers will be very ef fective at making needed tone adjustments when using common bass guitars and bass speaker cabinets Rotating the filter gain control counter clockwise will apply cut and rotating the filter gain control clockwise will apply boost HINT To hear the effect of the mid filters set the gain control to full cut or boost and then sweep the...

Page 10: ...ly farther apart If you are trying to dial in the high mid EQ using the default wide Q setting may result in cutting or boosting undesired areas of the tonal spectrum By the same token using the narrow Q setting on the low mid EQ may result in a peaky sounding response across certain areas of the fret board These are just generalizations don t be discouraged from experi menting with creative EQ in...

Page 11: ... be extremely easy for the power amplifier to reach full power output which may damage speaker enclosures It s important to remember that the power rating of a speaker cabinet is basically a thermal limit and DOES NOT indicate the safe power handling limit in the sub bass region which is a mechanical limit In other words don t assume that using a cabinet rated at 1 000 Watts with a 1 000 Watt ampl...

Page 12: ...ers on MIDI channel 1 B0 cc dd cc dd 0 63 off 64 127 on 01 crunch 02 compressor 03 punch 04 lo narrow q 05 hi narrow q 06 bright 07 kosmos 08 mute 09 effects loop Examples B0 07 7F turns kosmos on B0 08 00 unmutes amp MIDI Programming ...

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Page 15: ...easurements with no more than 1 THD N 8 ohms 700 watts 75 0VRMS 4 ohms 1000 watts 63 2VRMS Headphone Amplifier Specifications Stereo 8 ohm minimum load Power Output All measurements with no more than 1 THD N 8 ohms 250 mW 1 41VRMS x 2 Preamplifier Specifications Settings for the Following Measurements unless stated otherwise Gain 5 12 o clock BRIGHT out CRUNCH out LOW 0 12 o clock LO MID 400 Hz 12...

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