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| hydrargyrum
Intermediate Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 109 Registered: 3-2004 |
Pending my arrival of my newly acquired SF-2, I was wondering if any of the six string brethren out there would care to share their SF-2 settings. I am quite anxious given everything I have heard about them. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 444 Registered: 7-2004 |
Kevin: The following is offered with the caveat that I am still tweaking and learning. First, the question is where to place the SF-2 in your system. You have two choices: between guitar and amp or in the effects loop between pre-amp and power amp. If used between the guitar and amp, the SF-2 acts as a pre-amp, factory set at a 10db boost. You can change this internally to either 0 or 20 db. I can't offer much advise on such a set up as I use mine in the effects loop of my Boogie Mark III. Assuming you will be using the SF-2 in mono mode, think of it as a 3 channel mixer. One channel is the direct signal. The other two channels are each through a filter. I set one as a low pass filter and the other as a high pass filter. I turn down the gain on both to 0, then tweak my guitar through the non-filter channel. When I'm happy with the basic sound, I turn the direct channel to 0 and turn up the gain on one of the filter channels, tweak it, turn back to 0, turn up gain on the other filter, tweak it, turn it back to 0, and then turn the non-filter channel gain to 10 and start bringing up the two filtered channels, one at a time. I set the high pass filter channel to accentuate the highs and the low pass channel to accentuate the lows. While I'm still experimenting (as regular readers of this sire are aware, my bass player has appropriated my SF-2 for extended periods while his made two visits to Alembic General Hospital), I have at least figured out that setting one channel at a time by itself seems to work better than trying to tweak everything at the same time. Good luck with your SF-2, I'm sure you will very quickly fall in love with it. Bill, tgo | ||
| hydrargyrum
Intermediate Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 110 Registered: 3-2004 |
Thanks so much for the advice, Bill. Tell me, do you happen to know how to conect the sf-2 for mono? Do you use the front input and output of channel B, or do you use the channel a in, and the channel B out? I have the same question for the effects loop also. Thanks, Kevin | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 445 Registered: 7-2004 |
Kevin: I don't have my SAF-2 manual at home - it's in the studio which I won't be going to until next Wednesday. (You should definitely get a manual from Alembic). Here is what I rememeber - first, there is a mono/stereo switch on the back. As for where to plug in, it isn't dependant on mono/stereo. Rather, if you are using the SF-2 as a pre-amp between guitar and amp, (or "amps" if you are using it stereo), you plug in the front. If you are using it in an effects loop, you input throught the back, thus bypassing the pre-amp section. IIRC for mono you plug in the A input and out the B output. I'll check on Wednesday, or, if I'm wrong, I suspect someone around here will give a holler. Bill, tgo | ||
| hydrargyrum
Intermediate Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 111 Registered: 3-2004 |
Thanks again Bill for your excellent advice. I'll seek out a manual as soon as possible. I think I can proceed from here for now with the set up you mentioned. I think I'll give it a shot through my soldano's fx loop to see what develops. Kevin | ||
| bob
Senior Member Username: bob Post Number: 425 Registered: 11-2002 |
Yep, Bill's memory is holding up fine. For use in an effects loop, in mono, just make sure the rear panel switch is in mono position, use Ch A Input and Ch B Output on the rear, clearly labeled on the bottom as In-Mono-Out. | ||
| hydrargyrum
Intermediate Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 113 Registered: 3-2004 |
I'm happily tweaking away now. Can anyone tell me how I might acquire a manual? It isn't available as a pdf by any chance is it? | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 446 Registered: 7-2004 |
I think they are working on it, but as of yet the manual is not up on the site. But if you ask nicely, I believe the Alembic elves will be happy to send one your way forthwith. Bill, tgo |
