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- Page 1 PROBABLY THE FINEST COLLECTION OF VINTAGE AND CONTEMPORARY ECHO SOUNDS AVAILABLE ANYWHERE TODAY b e t t e r b y e x p e r i e n c e OWNERS INSTRUCTIONS...
- Page 2 FCC - PART 15 RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES Unintentional Radiators Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
- Page 3 KEY FEATURES • Quality steel casing with attractive two tone burgundy and grey powder coated finish for superior ruggedness and long life. • Attractive angled panel design with sunken control area to help protect critical control settings during use. • Ease of operation while still including advanced features. •...
- Page 4 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of the Hall & Collins Signature Echo. You will be rewarded with what we consider to be the finest collection of vintage and contemporary echo sounds available anywhere today in one compact unit, the result of more than four years of painstaking...
- Page 5 Marvin. Always experimenting with design ideas, Charlie developed valve/tube emulation with solid state technology some time before the “Hall & Collins Signature Echo” was conceived. He was always frustrated with the lack of features of existing effects units that prevented highly accurate emulation of specific echo sounds, sounds that...
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Page 6: Operating Instructions
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Please read the operating instructions before using the Hall & Collins Signature Echo for the first time to understand its features for the best results. The input sensitivity and impedance is suitable primarily for use with an electric guitar, however, other signal sources can be used provided the maximum signal level at the input does not exceed around 0.6 volts peak (1.2 volts p-p), which could cause... - Page 7 A play test can commence as soon your amplifier is producing sound. The Hall & Collins Signature Echo has a Preset Bank and a User Bank with 64 patches in each bank. The Preset Bank patches are numbered P01 to P64. The User Bank patches are numbered U01 to U64.
- Page 8 CONTROL SETTINGS FOR PERSONAL SOUND VARIATIONS The 5 rotary controls are described from left to right: The DRY LEVEL control adjusts the gain of the dry signal. Normally this should be set for unity gain (this is when the dry signal is the same loudness as when your guitar is connected directly to your amplifier, ie.
- Page 9 The ECHO LEVEL control adjusts the amount of echo mixed with the dry signal. This is useful for re-balancing the echo amount in case the ECHO DRIVE control or other controls are set to other than the 3 o’clock position, or if your amplifier has less or more mid range frequencies than would be considered normal, or if your amplifier compresses the sound at higher volume levels.
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Page 10: Editing Patches
EDITING PATCHES The patches are grouped in various types as shown below: P01 to P07 ECHOMATIC ECHOMATIC HIGH SPEED P09 to P11 MODEL J P12 to P23 ECHOMATIC 2 P24 to P28 ECHOMATIC (later type) FACTOTUM SPECIAL P30 to P33 LONG TOM P34 to P43 RE-301... - Page 11 When a menu option calls for parameters to be input, the + and - foot switches are used to cycle up and down through a range of values. Parameters such as Individual Head Echo levels and Feedback levels (in decibels, or dB), Head timings (in milliseconds, or mSec), can be viewed and changed.
- Page 12 STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EDITING FUNCTIONS 1. To Copy (Save) a patch to the User Bank In Play Mode, select the patch you want to copy. Press and release the ENTER button. The options Edit, Save, & Exit will be seen. An underscore (cursor) will be seen under the Edit option and the first character (in this case E) will have its background flashing.
- Page 13 Use the NEXT button to move the cursor to the next character location. Use the + and – footswitches and the NEXT button as required until the patch name is as required on both rows of characters. When you have finished editing the name, or wish to cancel the name change, press and release the ENTER button.
- Page 14 Use the + and – footswitches and the NEXT button as required until the patch name is as required on both rows of characters. When you have finished editing the name, or wish to cancel the name change, press and release the ENTER button.
- Page 15 To change the feedback level (F/B Trim) use the + and – footswitches. Monitor the echo sound while you play test the patch and adjust until you are happy with the feedback level. Press and release the NEXT button until the cursor is under Back (if you want to make further changes) or Done (if you are happy that no further changes are needed to the patch).
- Page 16 With the Head you want to change showing, press and release the NEXT button until the cursor is under the hundreds of milliseconds figure. The + and – footswitches are used to change this figure. Press and release the NEXT button until the cursor is under the tens of milliseconds figure. The + and –...
- Page 17 Press and release the ENTER button. The display will read SAVE THIS PATCH? and on the lower row Save Exit with the cursor under Save. Press and release the ENTER button. The screen will change to Save to UXX +/– (where XX is the patch number) with Ok and Back on the lower row.
- Page 18 Here are some of the most popular patches for popular shadows tunes 36-24-36 Apache Atlantis Blue Star Cosy Dance On Don’t Cry For Me Argentina F.B.I. Fandango Find Me A Golden Street Foot Tapper Geronimo Gonzales It’s A Man’s World Kon-Tiki Little Princess Man Of Mystery...
- Page 19 Some Are Lonely Spring Is Nearly Here Stardust Stars Fell On Stockton Sweet Dreams The Boys The Breeze & I The Frightened City The High And The Mighty The Lonely Bull The Lost City The Miracle The Rise & Fall Of Flingel Bunt The Savage The Stranger Theme For Young Lovers...
- Page 20 www.hallandcollins.com Built Entirely in the UK and distributed by Electromech Assemblies CT12 5HG - UK...
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