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Inside Your Head: DIRECT OUTPUTS
7•6
if you crank up the HD’s Master Volume you don’t blow Mr. Sound Man away since
the direct outs are independent of Master Volume. Do whatever you would do with a
microphone output in your recording or live setup – run into your preamp and then to
tape. Or plug into the mic snake at the club to feed a couple of the house PA’s mic
inputs. You’ll get the sound of microphones in front of your cabinet, but with the
added advantage of no feedback, perfect tone at any cabinet volume (including
silence), and a simple setup that sounds great no matter what sound disasters the room
you’re playing or recording in might have. When the Flextone HD is turned on,
the direct outs can put out a load pop; be sure to lower your monitor levels
– and tell the person running the sound board to lower theirs!
TAKE A LOAD OFF
Running the Flextone HD without a load (that means without speakers
attached) is no problem (this is something you don’t want to do with a
tube-based amplifier). You do not need to have speakers connected to the
amplifier in order to use the balanced Direct Outputs. So, for instance, you
can run without speakers for recording situations when you don’t need to drive a
cabinet, or live direct-to-the-house setups where you don’t need the HD to drive any
speaker cabinets on-stage.
MONO/STEREO DETAIL
When using only the Left/Mono speaker output, the effects will be switched to mono.
This also effects the Direct Outputs – they switch to mono, too (meaning the exact
same thing comes out both jacks). If both left and right speaker outputs are in use, or
neither are connected, the effects and direct outputs will be in stereo. Which leads us
to a handy tip: to get stereo direct outputs or effect send while running a mono cabinet
setup, plug an extra 1/4" ‘dummy cable’ (it doesn’t have to plug into anything else)
into the right speaker output from the HD to force the HD to run stereo.
FEELING UNBALANCED?
When running the Flextone HD’s Direct Outputs into unbalanced line inputs, use a
cable that has a female XLR connector on the HD side, and a 1/4" mono (tip-sleeve,
but no ring) connector on the line input side. For the XLR connector, leave pin 3 not
connected, and wire pin 2 of the XLR connector to the tip of the 1/4" connector, with
pin 1 of the XLR connector wired to the sleeve (fortunately, this is the standard wiring
configuration for off-the-shelf XLR to 1/4" adapters).
Flextone Manual Rev E; bookfile Page 44 Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:31 AM