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Radial Engineering BASSBONE OD User Manual

Manual is about: BASS GUITAR OVERDRIVE

Summary of BASSBONE OD

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    Bass guitar overdrive www.Tonebone.Com true to the music ® user guide radial engineering ltd. 1588 kebet way, port coquitlam bc v3c 5m5 tel: 604-942-1001 • fax: 604-942-1010 email: info@radialeng.Com.

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    Table of contents page introduction .............................................................................................1 overview .................................................................................................2 features .......................................................

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 2 overview the bassbone od is a powerful two channel instrument preamp that is able to handle all types of instruments, depending on how it is confi gured. Some examples include: • two channel preamp with one bass • selecting between two elect...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 3 feature set 1. Drive: used to set the desired level of overdrive that will be applied to the signal. 2. Mix: sets the relative ‘dry-wet’ mix between the original bass tone and the overdrive, effects loop or both. 3. Tone: adjusts the sonic c...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® feature set 17. A/b footswitch: used to toggle between channel-a and channel-b. 18. Efx assign: three position switch sets the overdrive footswitch function for overdrive, effects loop or both. 19. Overdrive footswitch: activates the overdrive...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® start by setting the controls on your bass amp so that they are fl at and the controls on the bassbone od to the ‘start’ position as shown below. Set all the recessed function switches on the sides to their outward position. Set the controls a...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 6 using the channel eq controls now that you have sound, adjust the three-band eq controls on channel-a. You will fi nd them to be very powerful! The passive-interactive eq works a lot like a vintage guitar amp whereby when you turn the eq dow...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 7 optimizing the input impedance over the past 20 years, radial has been investigating the effects of varying the impedance when applied to different pickup types. For instance, we discovered that traditional magnetic pickups as found on a fen...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 8 typical setups using one bass: plugging your bass into input-a lets you use the a/b select footswitch to toggle between channel-a and channel-b as if playing through a two channel amp. This is because input-b is equipped with a special switc...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 9 using the effects loop when using pedals with the bassbone od, they can be positioned in a number of locations within the signal path depending on what you are attempting to do. For example, you could have some effects dedicated to one bass ...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 10 to use the effects loop, connect the send jack to the input of your pedal chain and the output from your pedals to the recv (receive) jack using standard ¼” coaxial guitar cables. 180° polarity for loop you can activate the effects loop in ...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 11 using the overdrive the bassbone od is equipped with a great sounding overdrive circuit that can be used to add a slight bit of grit to a signal or be pushed hard to create excessive distortion and harmonics. What few realize is that by add...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 12 the balanced xlr di output whether you are recording or playing live, capturing a direct feed before the sound hits a ‘live bass amp’ can be very benefi cial. For starters, each and every room sounds different as the acoustic space is diffe...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® 13 the balanced xlr out is wired to the aes standard with pin-1 ground, pin-2 hot (+) and pin-3 cold (-). Use a standard balanced xlr cable to connect to the microphone input of a mixing console. This lo-z output can drive balanced cables 100 ...

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    Radial engineering ltd. Bassbone od™ true to the music ® specifications* audio circuit type: ................................................Discrete and integrated, class-a circuits frequency response: ...................................20hz ~ 18khz (tailored for bass instruments) total harmonic di...

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    ® www.Tonebone.Com three year transferable limited warranty radial engineering ltd. (“radial”) warrants this product to be free from defects in mate- rial and workmanship and will remedy any such defects free of charge according to the terms of this warranty. Radial will repair or replace (at its op...