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A lesis MICROVERB III Users Manual[...]
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MICROVERB III Before Unpacking Y our Unit... Introduction Born from the original Alesis MICROVERB and MICROVERB II, the units that launched the revolution in low cost professional digital reverberation, the MICROVERB III carries on this same tradition of world class performance at a phenomenal price. Using 16 bit linear PCM processing like its pred[...]
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CONTROLS INPUT ST A TUS INDICA TOR The INPUT ST A TUS INDICA TOR is actually a 3 colored LED that shows several input conditions. When the indicator glows yellow , the input signal to the MICROVERB III is too low and the INPUT level should be increased. When the indicator glows green, the signal presently being fed to the MICROVERB III is a usable [...]
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INST ALLA TION Before unpacking your new Alesis MICROVERB III unit, take a moment to look through this instruction manual. We’ve made it brief and informative and it will answer any questions that you might have. Some helpful setup thoughts are included along with some useful application hints. CONNECTING TO INSTRUMENTS, MICROPHONES The Alesis MI[...]
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FIGURE 2 STEREO CONNECTION TO MIXING CONSOLE VIA AUX SENDS AND RETURNS Another way of interfacing the MICROVERB III unit to a mixer or recording console would be in-line across the output of your mixing console. See figure 3 This method should only be used if you needed to effect the entire mix, since the same ef fect would be on all of the instrum[...]
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OPERA TION MICROVERB III is easy to use in almost any application. Simply do the following: 1. Apply a signal to either the right input jack for mono (used with a single instrument), or both left and right jacks for stereo. 2. Increase the INPUT control until the INPUT ST A TUS INDICA TOR briefly lights red on occasional program peaks. The LED shou[...]
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APPLICA TIONS About Reverb... Reverb can be thought of as a great number of distinct echoes (called reflections) that occur so fast and in such large number that our ear hears them and interprets them as one sound - the distinct sound we know as reverb. Different size spaces give distinctly dif ferent sounding reverbs, depending on the size and sha[...]
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GA TES Gated reverb is a very popular effect on drums first found on English records in the early 1980’s. The MICROVERB III’s gate programs simulate applying a noise gate (a device that automatically decreases or cuts off the volume once a signal falls below a certain level) across the output of the reverb causing the initial attack of the reve[...]
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SPECIFICA TIONS ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS FREQUENCY RESPONSE 20Hz - 15KHz (Effect), 20KHz (Direct), ± 2dB DYNAMIC RANGE 85dB HARMONIC DISTOR TION .15% @ 1KHz @ 0 dBV INPUT NUMBER OF CHANNELS 2 NOMINAL LEVEL +4dBV MAXIMUM LEVEL +20dBV IMPEDANCE 50K Ω per channel in stereo 25K Ω per channel in mono A/D - D/A CONVERSIONS CONVERSION SCHEME 16 bit[...]