Behringer BASS V-AMP PRO - Manual (Page 4)

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BASS V-AMP/BASS V-AMP PRO
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 BASS V-AMP/
BASS V-AMP PRO.
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 pre-
sent two outstanding
virtual bass amplifiers,
whose advanced sound
capabilities and re-
markable features offer a maximum of flexibility and performance.
The task of designing our new BASS V-AMP/BASS V-AMP PRO
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 of 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 they’ve
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 you’ve
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: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers
mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing
terms for components, etc. Isn’t 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 BASS V-AMP/
BASS V-AMP PRO 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, it’s been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
WARNING!
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We would like to bring your attention to the fact that
extremely loud sound levels may damage your
hearing as well as your headphones. Please lower
all OUTPUT LEVEL knobs all the way to the left before
powering up the unit.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 5
1.1 Before you get started ................................................. 5
1.1.1 Serial number ..................................................... 5
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS ............................................... 5
2.1 Unit top/front side ......................................................... 5
2.2 Rear panel of the BASS V-AMP PRO ........................... 7
2.3 BASS V-AMP connectors (side) .................................. 8
3. APPLICATION EXAMPLES/OPERATING MODES ....... 8
3.1 Selecting an operating mode (CONFIGURATION) ........ 8
3.2 Standard setup ............................................................. 8
3.3 Recording situation ....................................................... 9
3.4 Live setup with a connection to an external bass ........
amplifier ......................................................................... 9
4. PRESETS OF THE BASS V-AMP/BASS V-AMP PRO . 9
4.1 Recalling presets .......................................................... 9
4.2 Editing presets ............................................................ 10
4.3 Saving user presets ................................................... 10
4.4 Overriding edits/Restoring single factory presets ..... 10
4.5 Restoring all factory presets ...................................... 10
5. AMP/SPEAKER SIMULATION .................................. 10
5.1 Amp descriptions ........................................................ 11
5.2 Speaker descriptions .................................................. 12
5.3 Denoiser and compressor .......................................... 13
6. EFFECTS PROCESSOR ............................................ 13
6.1 Pre-amp effects .......................................................... 13
6.2 (OVER)DRIVE simulations .......................................... 13
6.3 Post amp effects ........................................................ 14
6.3.1 Reverb and delay algorithms ........................... 14
6.3.2 Modulation effects ............................................ 14
6.3.3 Special effects ................................................. 14
6.3.4 Virtual analog bass synth ................................ 15
7. TUNER ...................................................................... 15
7.1 Tuning instruments ..................................................... 15
7.2 Setting up the “a” reference tone .............................. 15
8. INSTALLATION ......................................................... 15
8.1 Rack mounting (BASS V-AMP PRO) .......................... 15
8.2 Voltage (BASS V-AMP PRO) ...................................... 15
8.3 Audio connections ...................................................... 15
8.4 MIDI connections ......................................................... 16
8.4.1 Receiving/sending MIDI-SysEx data ................ 16
8.5 AES/EBU and S/PDIF standards ................................. 16
9. SPECIFICATIONS ..................................................... 17
10.APPENDIX ............................................................... 19
11.WARRANTY ............................................................. 20