True to the Music
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Radial Engineering Ltd.
EXTC Stereo™
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If you notice that the signal is ‘thinning out’ when the BLEND control is
around the 12 o’clock position this may be a result of phase cancellation
between the wet and dry signals. The most common culprit of this
problem are pedals that invert the phase of the signal, and may be more
likely with vintage effects. Should you encounter this problem, simply
engage the PHASE switch to reverse the polarity or ‘phase’ of the signal
from the effects insert.
After you have spent some time dialing in the controls on your effects
pedals and the EXTC Stereo, you can easily A/B between your current
settings and the original unprocessed signal using the EFX LOOP on/
off switch. This gives you an instant reference point without having to
change settings in your DAW or alter the controls on the EXTC.
ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS
The EXTC Stereo was designed to easily send audio tracks to and from
a set of stereo guitar pedals, but its usefulness in the studio doesn’t stop
there. The following diagrams show three additional ways you can put the
EXTC Stereo to use with your guitar and amplifier effects.
Reamping through one or two amplifiers
The front panel insert SEND jacks on the EXTC Stereo can be used to
feed guitar amplifiers and digital amp FX modelers. This allows you to
play your dry guitar tracks through an amplifier to experiment with amp
settings and microphone placement, using the original method for studio
Reamping®. Both the left and right SEND jacks are transformer isolated
to help prevent hum and buzz when connected to two separate devices.
In this application, the RECV jacks and the +4dB OUTPUTS of the EXTC
Stereo would go unused. To feed the signal back into your recording
system you would place a microphone on the amplifier or connect your
amp modeler directly to your recording interface.
Connecting amplifiers and amp modelers to the EXTC Stereo