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ULTRABASS BXL450A/BXL900A/BXL1800A/BXL3000A
FOREWORD
Dear Customer,
Welcome to the team of
BEHRINGER users, and
thank you very much for
expressing your confi-
dence in us by pur-
chasing the BEHRINGER
ULTRABASS.
Writing this foreword
for you gives me great
pleasure, because it
represents the cul-
mination of many months
of hard work delivered
by our engineering
team to achieve a very
ambitious goal: to
present you with an
outstanding range of
Bass Workstations that
is at the forefront of what is technically possible and that offers
you a vast variety of sound shaping options.
The task of designing our new ULTRABASS amps certainly meant
a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing
on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your
expectations also meant a lot o6f work and night shifts. But it
was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people
together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated
in such a project can be proud of what theyve achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because
you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team.
With your highly competent suggestions for new products youve
made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making
it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality
as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely
reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to
your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we manage to produce such high-
quality devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is
quite simple: its you, our customers! Many satisfied customers
mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing
terms for components, etc. Isnt it only fair to pass this benefit on
to you? Because we know that your success is our success
too!
I would like to thank all of you who have made the ULTRABASS
Series possible. You have all made your own personal
contributions, from the developers to the many other employees
at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, its been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 4
1.1 Before you get started ................................................... 4
1.1.1 Shipment ................................................................ 4
1.1.2 Initial operation ....................................................... 4
1.1.3 Online registration ................................................. 4
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS ............. 5
3. FIRST STEPS ............................................................. 6
3.1 Connect your bass and get started ............................... 6
3.2 Sound processing .......................................................... 6
3.2.1 The FBQ equalizer ............................................... 6
3.2.2 The Shape function .............................................. 7
3.2.3 The Ultrabass function
(not available on BXL450 and BXL450A ............. 7
3.2.4 The compressor (only BXL1800/BXL3000 and ....
BXL1800A/BXL3000A) ........................................ 7
4. WIRING EXAMPLES ................................................... 7
4.1 Setup for practicing with playbacks .............................. 7
4.2 Expanded setup for gigs and studio recordings (only ....
BXL1800, BXL3000, BXL1800A and BXL3000A) ......... 7
4.3 The ULTRABASS as a slave with an external pre-amp 8
5. INSTALLATION ........................................................... 8
5.1 Audio connections ......................................................... 8
6. SPECIFICATIONS ....................................................... 9
7. WARRANTY .............................................................. 10
