User Manual

H9 User Guide Setting Levels
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Setting Levels
The H9’s input and output levels can be adjusted to optimize performance in
most setups but inputs are optimized for instrument level. There are some
important distinctions between setting input and output levels.
Input level is adjusted for best audio performance. For example, the H9 may be
connected to a guitar with low level pickups and the guitar signal will not be ‘hot’
enough and the H9 will sound noisy. In this case you’ll want to increase the H9’s
input level (input gain).
It’s important to note that if you add gain with the input level control, the output
gain will be automatically cut to preserve unity gain through the stompbox.
Output level is a bit of a different story. It is sometimes desirable to adjust the
level of a given Effect/Preset. For example, an effect like Rotary can have wide
swells of amplitude and, depending on a given Preset’s parameter settings, you
may find it too quiet or too loud. This is a consequence of the effect and not a
question of level matching to best fit in a setup. For this reason, Output Level
settings can be tweaked and saved with the Preset.
Setting Output Level
To set output level:
1) Press Left Footswitch to Bypass the Preset.
2) Press and hold the Left Footswitch, the Preset will now be Active.
3) After holding for 2 secs the display will show [OUT+0] (default value).
4) Continue holding the Left Footswitch while turning the Knob to adjust
output level from -12 dB [OUT-12] to +12 dB [OUT+12] in 1 dB
increments.
Note: Preset output levels must be saved even if there are no other changes to the
preset or the output level will revert to its previous setting the next time the
Preset is loaded. In other words, if you want the adjusted output level to ‘stick’,
you must re-save the Preset.