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SINGTHING User Manual
5.2 Mix
The Mix button gives you control over the balance between the different
elements of your sound. You can change the volume on your Headphones, Guitar,
Guitar Reverb, Aux/Keys Input, and Looper relative to one another. Use the Left/
Right Navigation buttons to choose what you’re adjusting, and turn the Control
Knob to change the level. The obvious next step is to add Mix Master to your job
description or business card.
Setup
The Mix button’s secondary feature, as you may have guessed from the helpful
“Hold for Setup” text on the button, is the system Setup menu. You can switch
Setup pages using the Left/Right buttons, and change the settings by turning the
Control Knob. The Setup menu has 11 pages:
1. Mic Type
There are 5 Mic Types to choose from:
a)
Dynamic
– this is the most common type of vocal microphone. Most
industry standard vocal mics like the Shure SM58 are dynamic microphones.
b)
Condenser
– more common in the studio, condenser mics tend to be more
sensitive than dynamic mics. Condenser mics also need a power source,
which is turned on automatically when you select Condenser as your mic
type. If you plug in a mic and can’t hear anything coming out of the speaker
on the Dynamic mic setting, your microphone is probably a condenser,
or broken.
c)
MP-75
– we put one of these in the box for you! A dynamic microphone with
Mic Control.
d)
E835FX
– a premium-quality Sennheiser microphone with Mic Control.
If you happen to own one, lucky you!
e)
MP-76
– the upgraded MP-75; same great sound, 4 extra buttons for
enhanced control.
2. Tone Style
We’ve built a vocal producer into SingThing to help your voice sound its very best.
The Tone feature adds compression, EQ, de-essing, and gating to your voice, all
features to give your voice the clarity, warmth, and definition that it deserves. We
recommend leaving Tone on all the time! There are 8 Tone Styles to choose from:
a) Normal
b) Less Bright
c) Warmth
d) More Compression
e) Normal – No Gate
f) Less Bright – No Gate
g) Warmth – No Gate
h) More Compression – No Gate
3. Global Pitch Correct
Pitch correction gives your voice a little bit of a nudge to the note closest to what
you’re singing. It can be subtle or an extremely obvious Auto-Tune style as you
increase the level towards 100%. Some presets have pitch correction built-in;
when you turn on Global Pitch Correct, it will be active in the background all
the time.
4. Guitar Bodyrez
Bodyrez enhances the sound of your acoustic guitar by boosting the warmth and
resonance that’s lost through your guitar’s pickups. It makes the amplified signal
sound more like your guitar when it’s unplugged.
5. Loop Input
Use this feature to change which inputs are captured by the looper. You can loop
your voice, guitar, aux input, or all three.
6. LCD Contrast
You can increase or decrease the text/background contrast to suit the brightness
of your performance space.
7. Global Key
When you turn on Global Key, the harmony setting for all of your presets will be
derived from the same key.
8. Global Tempo
When you turn on Global Tempo, all of the effects that use a tempo (echoes,
delays, etc.) will use the same tempo, which you can adjust with the Tap
Tempo button.
9. Bass Extend
Why have less bass when you could have more bass? Turn on Bass Extend to feel
some more low-end in your mix.
10. Guitar Tuner
Pretty self-explanatory: plug in your guitar, strum a string, and adjust until the
tuning needle points straight up!
11. Product Info
This page displays your current firmware version, serial number, and the date
your SingThing was brought into the world.
5.3 Store
When you’ve crafted the perfect mix of effects for your song, the Store button
allows you to save your special sonic recipe and recall it whenever you want.
You can overwrite an existing preset, or save to one of the blank slots starting
at Preset #235. There are 500 total slots available, and we’ll be mad impressed
if you manage to fill all of them. Remember, you can also download packs
of professionally crafted presets from VoiceSupport and sync them to your
SingThing by plugging it into your computer with the supplied USB cable.
Press the Store button to bring up the Preset Storage screen. Press the Genre
button to switch between Preset Naming and Preset Slot selection. When you’re
in Naming mode, use the Left/Right navigation buttons to jump between letters
or spaces, and use the Control Knob to choose a letter or character. Once you’ve
chosen a name for your preset, press Genre again and use the Control Knob to
select a Preset Slot. Blank slots begin at #235. Finally, press Store to save your
artfully named preset to the chosen slot.
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