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Summary of Contents for Jaen SIRACUSA 15R
- Page 1 MAN.SR.V1.1 - Feb. 2022...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS 3 ⚠ CARE MAINTENANCE Changing Strings Adjusting the Bridge Height Adjusting the Compensation Adjusting the Truss Rod Tension Adjusting the Pickup-String Clearance Replacing the Battery Electric Controls Deciding on the Amplifier Connecting Your Guitar Anti-Feedback Plug Specifications... -
Page 5: Care
CARE The Siracusa family has a very light construction, with very thin plates that can be easily damaged. This is not a conventional archtop with plates that triple the thickness, virtually indestructible. In fact, you could open a ⚠ ⚠ hole on some places of the top by simply pressing hard with your finger. - Page 6 Try to clean the strings after use with a dry clean cloth. Avoid the contact with alcoholic beverages. If it happens sometime, absorb them with a dry cloth without rubbing. Connect your instrument only to reliable equipment that have a ...
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Page 7: Maintenance
MAINTENANCE Changing Strings You should do this… Whenever the strings don’t sound bright, are worn or dirty or have tuning problems in certain areas of the fretboard. Necessary tools and materials: Pliers and strings. Method: Loosen one string. To untie it from the machines and the tailpiece, ... -
Page 8: Adjusting The Bridge Height
Adjusting the Bridge Height You should do this… Whenever there are buzzes in wide areas of the fretboard. The height may be lowered if the action is too high and there are no buzzes. Necessary tools: Small Hex (Allen) key, supplied with the guitar. Method: Depending on the problem affecting more the bass strings than the treble... -
Page 9: Adjusting The Compensation
Adjusting the Compensation This procedure must be performed so that all the notes and their octaves sound reasonably in unison, independent from their position on the fretboard. A guitar that is not well compensated can be especially unpleasant when playing chords that mix notes fingered in high frets with open strings. - Page 10 bridge will have to be moved closer to the tailpiece. Otherwise, move it further away from the tailpiece (see drawing). Check the same for the fifth string, but this time try to move only the bass side of the bridge, as you should not modify its position for the string that you adjusted first.
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Page 11: Adjusting The Truss Rod Tension
Adjusting the Truss Rod Tension You should do this… When there are buzzes but the action is high. This has three main probable causes: - Change of the tension exerted on the neck, usually following the change of the string gauge or alternate tunings. - Wood adaptation to the strings/truss rod tension and compression forces. - Page 12 If the gauge doesn’t fit, turn the adjustment nut with the large Allen key, counter-clockwise as seen from the peghead end, an eighth of a turn or less (see drawing). Wait until the following day, then adjust the height of the bridge (Page 6) and repeat the process.
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Page 13: Adjusting The Pickup-String Clearance
Necessary tools: You will need a small Hex (Allen) key, supplied with the guitar. Method: The magnetic pickup in Siracusa 15R/16R guitars is set at a fixed height, so all the adjustments will be only on the individual polepieces, two per string. Turn them clockwise to reduce the output of a string, and counterclockwise to increase it. -
Page 14: Replacing The Battery
Replacing the Battery The battery will typically last hundreds of hours. It will need to be changed when you notice distortion or reduced volume. To do it, remove the four screws on the wooden cover located near the output jacks. Please notice that the cover has a preferred mounting position: internally, there is a TP sign that must be pointing at the tailpiece. -
Page 15: Use
Electric Controls All the controls are located at the pickguard: Magnetic Pickup Volume Pot Piezo Pickup Volume Pot HB/SingleCoil Switch Magnetic Pickup Tone Pot Master Volume Pot... -
Page 16: Deciding On The Amplifier
The independent volume controls for the two pickups, magnetic and piezo, are located close to the pickup, still above the pickguard. The master volume, which allows you to set the volume of both pickups at the same time, is located below the pickguard, just as the tone control for the magnetic pickup. -
Page 17: Connecting Your Guitar
Audio Sprockets, between the piezo output and the amplifier. Connecting your Guitar The Siracusa 15R/16R has two jacks at its side, shown here: #1 is a Mono jack and #2 is a Stereo jack, both for 1/4” plugs. We’ll explain a few things about plugs now. - Page 18 Now a few words about cables: A cable with 1/4” TS plugs at both ends is known as Guitar Cable. A cable with a 1/4” TRS plug at one end can be several things, depending on what’s at the other end. Among all the possibilities: If there is another TRS plug, this is usually known as Stereo ...
- Page 19 Guitar Cable in #1, nothing in #2 This is just like any conventional electric guitar with a magnetic pickup. You’ll have two volume controls available (the one close to the pickup plus the master volume below the pickguard), plus the tone control and the HB/SingleCoil switch, these two Ch.A below the pickguard.
- Page 20 Nothing in #1, Insert Cable in #2 You can route the signals to two separate amps/amp channels for your piezo and magnetic pickups. The black (or white) TS plug at one end of the Y corresponds to the Ch.A Ch.B piezo, the red TS plug at the other end corresponds to the magnetic.
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Page 21: Anti-Feedback Plug
Anti-Feedback Plug All Siracusa guitars have a very responsive soundbox, prone to feedback easily in high volume situations. The anti-feedback plug is a device, included with all Siracusa guitars since 01/2022, that can be pressed gently into the soundhole, closing the soundbox and raising the feedback threshold. -
Page 23: Specifications
(43 mm). The scale can also be 25” or even 24 . The nut width 11/16 may be 1 ” (44.5 mm). Soundbox depth: usually around 65-70 mm. Siracusa 15R: 15 inches at lower bout. Siracusa 16R: 16 inches at lower bout ... - Page 24 Guitarras Jaén - Fernando A. Jaén Ctra. De Pozorrubio, 92 16410 Horcajo de Santiago (Cuenca) SPAIN www.guitarrasjaen.com jaen@guitarrasjaen.com Tel: +34 620791064...