TC Electronic ComboStaccato - Manual (Page 11)

5 – TUBETONE™
Tubetone™ allows you to alter the “personality” and sound of
your RH450. The effects you can achieve range from a small
touch of classic tube amp response and character through
obvious, but pleasant “tube attitude” to highly overdriven.
Contrary to many tube simulations, Tubetone™ recreates both
the entire preamp section (located before the tone control
section) and the power amp section (located after the tone
controls). Not only does this give you the most realistic and
flexible recreation of the actual tube sound and response, but it
also allows you to alter the behavior and character of
Tubetone™ through the RH450 tone controls as you would on
an actual tube amp.
The TUBETONE knob adjusts the amount of both the preamp
and the power-amp tube simulation.
5 – PRESET LEVEL (in Shift Mode)
Press SHIFT and then turn the TUBETONE knob to adjust the
level of the currently selected MEM/preset. When you haven’t
been using the RH450’s front panel controls for about twenty
seconds, the LED will flash rapidly, and the RH450 will
automatically return to normal mode. In normal mode, the
TUBETONE knob controls the intensity of the Tubetone™ effect.
Range: -12 dB to 0 dB
6 – MASTER
Use the MASTER level knob to set the overall output level of the
amp. The master level also controls the level of the headphone
output.
7 – PHONES
This is a ¼" connector for headphones. Our studio quality
headphone amp – with a mild speaker filter added to the bass
sound – caters for great sound in the headphones.
The headphone output also plays back any signal connected to
the AUX IN (“Rehearsal”) input jack found on the rear panel of
the RH450. This feature allows you to play along with e.g. an
MP3 player (e.g. an iPod®), a signal from a computer soundcard
or any other audio source playing background tracks – excellent
for rehearsing or checking out new tracks without disturbing the
neighbors.
Notice that the RH450 works equally well with or without
a speaker cabinet connected.
OPERATION – FRONT PANEL
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