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Summary of Contents for Jaen Siracusa 15R+
- Page 1 MANSR+V10 - November 2023...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS 3 ⚠ CARE MAINTENANCE Tools Changing Strings Adjusting the Bridge Height Adjusting the Compensation Adjusting the Truss Rod Tension Adjusting the Pickup-String Clearance Checking/Replacing the Battery Electric Controls Box: Magnetic Pickup Mode - Enhanced Single Coil 14 Deciding on the Amplifier Connecting Your Guitar Box: Plugs and Cables Specifications... - Page 4 Congratulations on your purchase of this Siracusa 15R+ or Siracusa 16R+ guitar! Your satisfaction is my number one priority. Thank You for choosing my product, and please consider my guitars for future purchases.
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Page 5: Care
CARE ⚠ Siracusa guitars are nothing like conventional archtops with plates that triple the thickness, virtually indestructible. So, please, read and observe what follows. ⚠ Do not allow the guitar to stay in places where humidity, temperature or light conditions are extreme. These can affect very seriously the stability of wood and adhesives. - Page 6 Clean your instrument with well proven products designed specifically for this job. Avoid abrasive cleaners or those containing silicone or solvents such as alcohol or acetone. Do not try to lubricate the machine heads. Try to clean the strings after use with a dry clean cloth. ...
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Page 7: Maintenance
MAINTENANCE Tools Your guitar comes with a tool pouch, enough for the most common operations described below. It contains a small (2 mm) and a large (4 mm) Hex keys. 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. -
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: You will need the small Hex 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 Hex 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
Adjusting the Pickup-String Clearance You should do this… When you notice that the amplified sound of a string or group of strings is louder or weaker than the others, or when the output of the pickup is too high or too low. This adjustment is only for the magnetic pickup. Necessary tools: You will need the small Hex key supplied with the guitar. -
Page 14: Checking/Replacing The Battery
Checking/Replacing the Battery The battery will typically last hundreds of hours. It can be checked by inserting the small Hex key (supplied) into the hole in the battery cover (A in figure). Push gently and notice the color of the LED next to it: if green, the battery is fine. -
Page 15: Use
Electric Controls All the controls are located at the pickguard: Magnetic Pickup Volume Pot Piezo Pickup Volume Pot Magnetic Pickup Mode Magnetic Pickup Tone Pot Master Volume Pot... -
Page 16: Box: Magnetic Pickup Mode - Enhanced Single Coil
The independent volume controls for the two pickups, magnetic and piezo, are located above the pickguard, close to the magnetic pickup. 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: Deciding On The Amplifier
Deciding on the Amplifier This guitar can be used either with a single amplifier with two independent channels or with two separate amplifiers. Separate amps will have the obvious advantage of their physical distance. If you are a fan of tube amps, they’ll work great for connecting your magnetic pickup, but not so for your piezo, that needs some processing to sound natural. -
Page 18: Connecting Your Guitar
Connecting your Guitar Before explaining this subject, you’ll need some information about plugs and cables, summarized in the following table: PLUGS There are many different types, but conventional electric guitars use 1/4” TS Plugs. The TS indicates that they are designed to be used with a Shielded (hence the S) cable with a single conductor inside, available at the Tip (hence the T). - Page 19 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. The most useful ways to connect this guitar are: Guitar Cable in #1, nothing in #2 This is just like any conventional electric guitar with a magnetic pickup.
- Page 20 Guitar Cable in #1, Guitar Cable in #2 You can route the signals to two separate amps/amp channels for your piezo and magnetic pickups: #1 is the magnetic, #2 is the piezo. All the controls shown on Page 13 are operational. This has the advantage that it uses Ch.A Ch.B Guitar Cables, easily available...
- Page 21 of two amplifiers located far from each other. Your guitar comes with a Hosa STP-204 cable, that you can use even if the amps are separated by meters. If you forgot to bring it to the gig, then use two guitar cables, as explained above in (b).
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Page 23: Specifications
Specifications Variable Materials: Wood: Usually maple, walnut or sapele for the back and sides, and spruce for the top; maple for the neck. The fretboard, peghead face, bridge and tailpiece are usually made of ebony. The pickguard skin is made of ebony most times (its core is always carbon), and the pickup is usually made of ziricote or ebony. - Page 24 Guitarras Jaén - Fernando A. Jaén Ctra. De Pozorrubio, 92 16410 Horcajo de Santiago (Cuenca) SPAIN www.guitarrasjaen.com info@guitarrasjaen.com Tel: +34 620791064...