Control Features - Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 FLOOR Manual De Instrucciones

Black Spirit 200 Floor – Manual 1.0
that may take some time getting used to: The knob setting programmed
in a preset is independent of the knob's physical position. In other words,
when you switch from one preset to another, the knob's actual position
may not reflect the setting programmed in the preset, and you may well
hear something other than what you're seeing would suggest. The knob
will respond like any other conventional pot as soon as you move it. The
Store LED in the Master section tells you the knob setting stored in the
preset. It lights up when the physical position of the knob corresponds to
the preset setting.
Heads up: You may hear a soft background noise when twisting knobs.
This sound is made by the Programmable Resistor Network, or PRN™, as
it switches its 256 resistors. Each of these smart rotary controls consists of
256 individual resistors in serial array, 256 switches, and a memory with the
ability to save and recall every switch's position.
2.2 The Black Spirit 200 Floor app for iPads
and Android devices
All controls and buttons on Black Spirit 200 Floor are MIDI-enabled, so
we programmed an app that makes the most of MIDI to extend the amp's
capabilities.
This app lets you:
• Give every preset a unique name
• Visually monitor all parameters in real time
• Remotely control all parameters in real time
• Save presets in the App
• Download and upload presets to and from the amp
• Share presets via email or text messages.
• Create and organize preset lists.
Available at the Apple App Store and at Google Play, this free app
connects to Black Spirit 200 Floor via Bluetooth. For more on this, see
chapter 6, Bluetooth.
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3 Control Features

3.1 The channel section
Black Spirit 200 Floor sports four channels, each voiced very differently
and accessible via a chicken-head selector switch. The power amp feedback circuit, which has a formative hand in shaping your tone, is
also reconfigured during channel switching. The programmable knobs
afford you full access to all sound parameters on every channel. We even
painstakingly fine-tuned the knobs' control ranges and characteristics to
match the selected channel's voicing.
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Input: Connect your guitar to this input using a shielded cord equipped
with 6.3 mm (1/4") jack plugs. It is located on the left of the amp.
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INPUT
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Gain: The Gain knob determines input sensitivity and therefore the
preamp's saturation level. It is your most important sound-sculpting tool
alongside the Boost and Sagging controls.
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Clean Channel: Black Spirit 200 Floor's Clean channel certainly
merits its name. It delivers sparkling fresh sounds and offers tons of
headroom. It's worth your while to experiment with different Gain and
Sagging settings in combination with the switchable Boost.
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Crunch Channel: Your first stop for classic overdrive at its finest. This
channel sweeps the sonic spectrum from clean to mean, and countless
tones in between. In this channel, Boost brings up specific midrange
frequencies and ladles on an extra helping of gain to lend your tone a
harder-rocking edge.
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Lead Channel: This channel's masterfully musical compression
sends those riffs and licks flying off your fingertips. In this channel, Boost
increases compression and gives you more fluid gain for lead lines.
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Ultra Channel: Get your high-gain tone right here. The Ultra
channel's top end slices, dices, but never sacrifices its thunderous low
end for raging metal riffs and larger-than-life lead tone. Dropped tuning
conjures a quasi-religious experience.
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Boost: Boost targets specific frequency ranges in your tone and kicks
them up a notch. This yields even more assertive, creamier, or punchier
tone, depending on the channel.
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Bass, Mid, Treble: The three-band voicing section's sound-shaping
action is fine-tuned for each channel, and it specifically addresses the
frequency ranges that define each channel's characteristic tone.
Heads up: These are classic passive tone controls that influence one
another. For example, if you crank the Mid knob, the Bass knob will be
less effective than when you back the Mid knob down. Presence and
Resonance are independent of the three-band voicing controls; that is,
their action remains unaffected by the other knobs' settings.