User Manual

English - User’s manual
the powerful mid sweep Eq. Hot Fusion takes it all over the top; huge gain, sustain and with the
combined EQ’s, everything from metal to all out fuzz at your fingertips.
• With Le Bass, the ultra clean Channel A is perfect for today’s modern techniques with lightning
fast response and a full spectrum of tone. Channel B tips its hat to the foundation of rock bass
with solid punch and a sweet break up available when things get down and dirty. Cold Fusion
lets you live in the limelight with the best of both worlds while Hot Fusion lets you take center
stage with searing bass from a focused distortion to synth-like growls.
6 Product description
6.1 Side views
You will find in this first table a description of the various inputs and outputs featured in your new
Le Preamp. Please refer to the Figure 1, page 3.
1 Channel A footswitch
This footswitch activates the clean Channel A or changes the page/parameter in MIDI programming.
If the Channel A is already selected, pressing a second time will put your Le Preamp in bypass mode.
2 Instrument input
Connect a 1/4" unbalanced shielded cable to your guitar or bass.
3 Thru output
Connect a 1/4" unbalanced shielded cable to feed an amplifier with your instrument signal. This can
be useful on stage of you want to keep an amp as monitor, or to record the dry signal from the guitar
in studio.
4 FX Loop Send output
Plug here a 1/4" unbalanced shielded cable to send the preamp signal to the pedals you want to
put after the preamp stage. The FX Loop is bypassed when the Le Preamp is bypassed. In other
words, the effects pedal that you put in this loop won’t be heard when your Le Preamp is bypassed.
That is very interesting in case you have several Le Preamp and you wish to assign specific effects to
each preamp.
5 MIDI input
Connect a MIDI controller (to remotely control your Le Preamp) or another Le Preamp to this input.
Use only a cable featuring a 5-pin DIN connector with all the pins wired (some cables only have pins
4, 2 and 5 connected). Pin 1 and 3 are used to carry the Multi-channel message.
6 Power adapter connector
Plug here your power adapter.
7 Headphones output
Plug your headphones and play in the middle of the night without disturbing anybody! With head-
phones, and in case you don’t have speaker simulator such as a Torpedo C.A.B. in the FX loop, we
recommend you activate the analog speaker simulation.
8 Speaker Simulation
This analog speaker simulation is specifically voiced for your Le Preamp Model, and based on our
Torpedo simulator. This speaker simulation affects the DI output and the Headphones output.
9 Ground Lift switch
If your DI output signal suffers from unwanted noise (interferences, hum), lifting the ground can lower
the noise level.
10 Balanced DI output
This direct balanced XLR output should be connected to a mixing desk, or a sound card for a record-
ing. With the speaker simulation on that’s all you need to achieve a great sound!
11 MIDI output
Connect this MIDI output to a MIDI device or another Le Preamp you wish to control with your
preamplifier.
12 FX Loop Return input
Plug here an unbalanced 1/4" cable connected to the last pedal you put in the loop. The FX Loop is
bypassed when the Le Preamp is bypassed.
13 Instrument output
Connect this output with a 1/4" unbalanced shielded cable either to a power amplifier or a speaker
simulator such as the Torpedo C.A.B., or directly into your digital audio interface for a recording.
14 Channel B footswitch
This footswitch activates the B "dirty" channel or enter a page in MIDI programming. If the channel B
is already selected, pressing a second time will put your Le Preamp in bypass mode.
6.2 Front view
You will find in this table a description of the volume, tone and channel selection options. Please
refer to the Figure 2, page 4.
Two notes Audio Engineering Le Preamp 13