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Ravish Sitar
Sitar Emulator
Congratulations on your purchase of the Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar, a highly
customizable sitar emulator. Electro-Harmonix is proud to bring you a product that
accurately transforms your guitar into a sitar without making alterations to your
instrument or needing any other accessories. The Ravish is practically an instrument
unto itself. It is very deep and has many possibilities. We recommend you spend
some time with this manual so you and the Ravish can be brought to a higher plane.
Before proceeding further into the manual, it may be helpful to become familiar with
some terms associated with the sitar:
LEAD
– The main strings played on the sitar. These strings can be plucked and bent at
the player’s will just like a guitar’s.
SYMPATHETIC STRINGS
– There are 11 to 17 sympathetic strings within the body of a
sitar that ring out at all times. They cannot be plucked. These strings are tuned to the
key and scale determined by the player. Playing lower notes will encourage lower tones
to resonate and playing higher notes will similarly encourage higher tones to resonate.
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Special Features of the Ravish Sitar
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Independent timbre controls for the
lead
and
sympathetic string
tones.
Independent volume controls for
dry
,
lead
and
sympathetic string
voices.
Play in all twelve chromatic keys in major, minor and exotic scales.
Create your own custom sympathetic scales; up to 17 notes, including microtones.
Freeze the sympathetic strings by holding down the PRESET footswitch.
Fade and freeze sympathetic strings with optional expression pedal.
Control the decay of the lead sitar notes.
Modulate the sympathetic notes to create movement similar to that of a tanpura.
Bend the pitch of the
lead
voice from one semitone up to one octave with an optional
expression pedal.
Separate outputs for main mix and sympathetic strings.
Selectable Q control on lead voice allows variation from organic to synthetic.
10 fully programmable presets or leave it in What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
mode.
WARNING:
Your Ravish Sitar comes equipped with an Electro-Harmonix 9.6DC-
200 power supply (same as used by Boss
®
& Ibanez
®
: 9.6 Volts DC 200mA /
Center Negative). The Ravish Sitar requires 160mA at 9VDC with a center
negative plug. The Ravish does not take batteries. Using the wrong adapter may
damage your unit and void the warranty.
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– QUICK START GUIDE –
This Quick Start Guide will help you get started using your Ravish Sitar
immediately. For detailed information on all of the Ravish Sitar's features and
functions, please refer to the rest of this owner’s manual.
Setup
1.
Using an unbalanced instrument cable, plug the output of your instrument
into the INPUT jack on the right side of the Ravish.
2.
Connect an unbalanced instrument cable from the MAIN OUT jack on the
left side of the Ravish to the input jack of an amplifier.
3.
Connect the included AC Adaptor to a wall outlet and plug its barrel
connector into the 9V power jack at the top of the Ravish.
4.
Turn on the amplifier and turn up your instrument’s volume. Press the
BYPASS footswitch so that the STATUS LED is lit; the Ravish is now
activated.
A. Preset Settings
Press and release the PRESET footswitch to cycle through the Ravish’s
preset settings. Each factory preset has been carefully prepared to utilize
the deep sonic capabilities of the Ravish. You may overwrite the factory
presets with your own sound creations whenever you like.
B. Manual Settings
1.
To begin, turn the Ravish’s knobs to the following positions:
DRY LEVEL:
3 o’clock
LEAD LEVEL:
2 o’clock
SYMPATHETIC LEVEL:
12 o’clock
LEAD TIMBRE:
2 o’clock
SYMPATHETIC TIMBRE:
10 o’clock
2.
Ensure the green PRESET LED (under left segment display) is off. If it is
on, turn the white MODE/PRESET knob clockwise until the PRESET LED
shuts off. This action deactivates the currently loaded preset.
3.
Press and release the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle into KEY mode. This is
denoted by the KEY LED being lit as well as a dot in the bottom-right
corner of the right segment display. Rotate the MODE/PRESET knob until E
MAJOR (or any key you like) is selected.
4.
Press the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle to the DECAY control. This is
denoted by the DCY LED being lit. The right segment will display a number
between 0 and 9. Select 3 for a short decay resembling that of an actual
sitar.
5.
Press the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle to the MODULATION control. Select
a value between 1 and 3 for a nice, slow modulation or 0 for no
modulation.
