The Guitarist's Guided Panel Tour; The Top Panel; Input Section - Vox Valvetronix Manual

The Guitarist's Guided Panel Tour

ver the next 13 pages we're gonna take a quick peek at the Top and Rear panels
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of your Valvetronix amp. If you haven't already noticed, you're gonna quickly find
out that this unit is laid out exactly like a "real" guitar rig - what a concept! By this I
mean that your signal path is as follows:
one of 10
Stompboxes
To help make this manual "Guitarist's Guide" as painless to use as possible, we've
given it an inside back cover that folds out. And, when you fold it out you'll see nice big
pictures of the amp's Top Panel, Rear Panel and more. Why did we do this? So you can
have pictures of both panels staring you in the face while you read about 'em - thus
avoiding the annoying "flicking between pages" that most manual's require you to do
because there's only one picture of a panel and it's never on the same page you're read-
ing when you want to refer to it! So, fold out that useful back cover and let's go...
A. The Top Panel
1. I S
NPUT ECTION
This, believe it or not, is where you plug your guitar into the amp! There are two (2) input
jacks to choose from: High & Low...
HIGH (high sensitivity)
Strictly speaking (yeah, right!), a high-sensitivity input jack such as this is always
recommended for use with a guitar loaded with low-output pickups, such as sin-
gle-coils. This said, most guitarists ignore this recommendation (imagine that!)
and use this input for axes boasting hot (high output) pickups. Why? 'Cos doing
this helps ensure your guitar's signal is as big 'n' beefy as it can be...works for me!
WARNING: If you plug a guitar that has high output pickups into the HIGH input and
you select the Acoustic Pedal, unless you turn your guitar down, you could well end
up with some nasty, unwanted, high frequency distortion. This is NOT an indication
that your Valvetronix amp is faulty - it is merely telling you that you're driving the
Acoustic Pedal too hard! And just so you know, all "acoustic simulation" pedals and
8
Virtual FX loop
Modulation
one of 16
Delay
Preamp models
Reverb
Power Amp model
Class A
Master Vol
FX loop
Class A/B
depending on the
preamp model chosen
Celestion
guitar speaker(s)