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Page 3 When R.G. Keen (Visual Sound chief engineer) and I first began designing the Workhorse amps, we had only two goals in mind: ) Make sure it sounds great, both clean and with effects pedals; ) Make sure it doesn’t break!
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Page 5: Caution/ Safety Precautions
Proper line voltage Your Workhorse amplifier comes set up for the country where it’s sold. It is possible to change the line voltages inside the amp for most countries other than Japan’s 00Vac.
Page 6 Unlike many other amplifiers, the Workhorse series has been designed to make itself safe in a short time after it’s turned off by running down the power supply capacitors so they don’t hold a deadly voltage for a long time. But any good amp tech will tell you that he’ll still be very careful.
Page 7 Okay. Now that we’ve covered the general safety rules for using your new Workhorse, are you ready to play? If your Workhorse is chomping at the bit (get it?), you can go straight to the Quick Start in the next section and you’ll be up and running in no time.
Page 8: Quick Start/ Immediate Gratification/ Sample Settings
Quick Start & Immediate Gratification 1. plug your guitar in... Since your Workhorse Amplifier came with our best-selling Jekyll & Hyde pedal, you’ll want to plug your guitar into the pedal’s input and use a standard guitar cable to plug the output of the pedal into the amplifier input.
Page 9 Drive, Tone, and Volume knobs to set the overall style of sound. With the ability to use both halves separately or together, the sonic possibilities are endless. Following are some settings to get you started: (Use Visual Sound 1 SPOT, Ibanez, Dunlop, Boss PSA, Morley or other regulated 9VDC center negative polarity adapters, or 9V alkaline battery.)
Page 10 Beware using Jekyll & Hyde together with both Drive knobs all the way up as it may cause feedback. All Visual Sound pedals are warranted for 1 year from purchase. If you ever have any problems or questions, just call 800-686-3317 or e-mail service@visualsound.net.
Page 11: Registration Information/ Benefits
Here at Visual Sound we all try to have real lives outside the office, and we don’t like this kind of thing either. We almost didn’t include the card because of that. But we finally decided that the advantages outweighed the bad impression a warranty card would leave.
Page 12: Front Panel Details
CD player or signal source. A M/ foot long DC power cord is shipped with all Workhorse amplifiers for use in this plug. The miniature phone jack end goes into the amplifier, the barrel shaped plug on the other end of the cord goes into a standard effect DC power jack.
Page 13 This will take approximately two minutes. The warm-up time on Workhorse amplifiers is slower than most vacuum tube amplifiers. This was done deliberately to ensure that the vacuum tubes start up slowly and softly with no sudden surge of electricity to their heaters. This helps extend the life of your tubes.
Page 14 No amp damage should occur, but you may cause nuisance tripping of the internal fuses and may wear your tubes out more quickly than they would otherwise wear out. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • ...
Page 15: Rear Panel Details
The fuse is a standard mm x 0mm type. Be sure that if you replace this fuse, you replace it only with the proper type and current rating. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • ...
Page 16: External Speaker Jack
LED’s are green, you’re ready to play… and you just saved yourself some time and money by not having to bring your Workhorse to an amp tech! You should check the biasing every few weeks or so in case the tubes have changed their values slightly due to heat, heavy playing, etc.
Page 17: Tube Orientation/ Bias Adjustment Details
We asked for suggestions and put our targets where the majority of techs whose opinion we respected said to put them. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • 7...
Page 18: Troubleshooting- Support/Service Contacts
Troubleshooting- Support & Service Your Workhorse amplifier is designed not to need service very much. The circuits inside are designed to self-protect against many problems that would otherwise need service. For instance, there are inrush slow-down parts to stop the sudden surge of electricity into the amplifier when it’s first turned on, both on the main AC power line and on the...
Page 19 Note which tube has no glow and go to c. Check for poorly seated tubes. Rotary-rock the tubes in their sockets; if sound returns, the sockets are dirty. Remove and reinstall the tubes. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • 9...
Page 20 Hum from speaker Check your guitar cord by replacing it with a known-good one. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • 0...
Page 21 If that does not help, go to step . Burning smell, or smoke Turn it off, unplug it and take it in to a qualified tech for repair. Visual Sound • Workhorse Manual • ...
Page 22 Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and has no affiliation with ® Visual Sound LLC. Please feel free to contact Visual Sound directly regarding any questions or problems with your Workhorse amplifier by going to www.visualsound.net. Up-to-date contact information can be found there.
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