Behringer V-TONE GM110 - Manual (Page 4)

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V-TONE GM110
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
V-TONE.
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 de-
velop an outstanding
guitar amp that is at the
forefront of what is
technically possible and that can be used in many different
applications. Our guitar amps offer you strong performance,
their sound is amazingly clear, and they are easy to use both as
direct recording amps as well as stage amps. The task of designing
our new V-TONEs 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 V-TONE
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, it’s been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
1. INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing the V-TONE GM110. The GM110 is
a modern Guitar Workstation that sets new standards in practice
amp engineering.
When developing the GM110, our primary objective was to
reproduce the authentic sound of analog guitar amplifiers and at
the same time provide you with a tool for straightforward
recording. The concept of intuitive operation remained a central
consideration.
Many people contributed to this intense development project:
studio musicians, collectors of vintage guitar amps, music and
guitar lovers alike. We even invited guitar amp tuning experts to
help us develop an amplifier that unites the very best of both
worlds.
The demands placed on a guitar amp are nowadays very
broad. A guitarist should offer a wide array of sounds, but at the
same time be able to quickly adapt to specific requirements of
various applications—be it home recording, studio, live perfor-
mances, etc. That’s why it is very important to us to be able to
offer you a maximal sound diversity as well as diverse connection
possibilities with our V-TONE. Fret not: you will quickly master
the V-TONE and will be able to quickly learn how to use all of its
capabilities easily and intuitively.
With its up-to-date circuitry, the V-TONE features the
functionality and dependability of a truly modern guitar amp. Yet
it is user-friendly and problem-free as if it were a classic tube
combo. We highly recommend taking your time to truly learn all of
the V-TONE’s functions so you can reach its maximum potential.
1.1 The design concept
The philosophy behind BEHRINGER products guarantees a
no-compromise circuit design and employs the best choice of
components. The operational amplifiers employed by BEHRINGER
and used in the V-TONE GM110 are exceptional: they boast
extreme linearity and very low distortion characteristics. To
complement this, the choice of components includes low-tolerance
resistors and capacitors, high-quality potentiometers and
switches, and several other carefully selected elements.
The robust housing of your V-TONE, with its oversize power
supply, gives you the peace of mind that the V-TONE will hold its
own even under the most demanding stage conditions. The
housing is made of high-grade, environment-friendly MDF wood
consisting of multiply impregnated layers.
1.2 DYNAMIZER technology and
analog modeling
When an electric instrument is amplified, that’s where you
either make it or break it. Unlike the signals that have been mixed
and mastered, the signals of electric instruments have extremely
high signal peaks, placing the dynamic range of the amp’s circuitry
under immense strain. How your amp reacts to these signal
peaks is one of its most defining characteristics.
That’s why we’ve equipped all V-TONE Series amps with our
unique DYNAMIZER preamplifier circuitry. It guarantees a lively
sound with a lot of punch, even when the amp is pushed to its
limits. Combine that with our V-TONE analog modeling, and not
only do you have amazingly authentic tube sounds at your
fingertips, you also get the dynamic performance typical of the
respective amp type. Crystal-clear guitar tones come through
with transparency, warmth and the compression typical of tube
amps. Even as distortion increases, the sound remains lively
and full of power, without losing any of its assertiveness.
All along, you have full control over the volume. Plainly talking,
you can take the same sound you are used to at your practice
room and replicate it in your bedroom at much more reasonable
volume levels, or you can even record yourself while playing.