User manual DIGITECH ACCESS

[. . . ] WARNING FOR YOUR PROTECTION, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Water and Moisture: Appliance should not be used near water (e. g. near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, laundry tub, in a wet basement, or near a swimming pool, etc). Care should be taken so that objects do not fall and liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings. POWER SOURCES: The appliance should be connected to a power supply only of the type described in the operating instructions or as marked on the appliance. [. . . ] On Double programs you can add up to four copies of your voice, making for thick and full doubled vocal sounds. A single voice assigned to doubling can also be selected in Chord and Scale programs. This is done by turning on the Double voicing button when making a voicing selection. This helps to thicken the overall harmony sound. 11 The Aux Input to Reverb This input jack allows you to share the reverb processor in Access with the other instruments in your band or with other tracks in your recordings. Here are a couple of points to help you get the most out of this handy little feature. First of all, the amount of signal level you send to the Aux Input to Reverb is controlled by your mixer. The Input level knob on Access is used only to set the input level of your microphone or line input to the harmony processor. The Clip LED on Access is used to monitor when the combination of the Aux Send to Reverb and the mic/line signals is near clipping. Second, any instruments you send to the Aux Input to Reverb will come out of Access' stereo (or mono) output 100% wet. You'll need to mix the dry sound from your instruments through your mixer to achieve a nice wet/dry balance. Third, you'll probably want to set Access' Global Mix and Global Reverb parameters to On. This configures Access so that if you're changing programs to make different harmony sounds, the reverb mix and reverb types will stay the same. It's important to get your dry mix of vocal, instruments, and harmonies right first. Only when your dry mix sounds good should you add some of Access' reverb to the lead voice and harmonies. As a final touch, turn up the aux send on the channels you want to send through Access' reverb. Turning the reverb on and off with the optional FS300 footswitch will affect the instrument reverb also. 12 ACCESS has the easiest editing system* you are ever likely to see. Here are the guidelines to be aware of for editing: How do you get in to EDIT mode?The EDIT LED will light and you will jump to the first editable parameter on the LCD display. The parameter which is editable will always be flashing on the LCD display. To select another parameter continue pressing the Data Entry Knob/Switch. The parameters which you can EDIT vary slightly based on the Harmony Control Mode you are using. To exit EDIT mode press and hold the Data Entry Knob/Switch for a couple seconds. [. . . ] Scale harmonies will sound correct in many songs but not all and this is why you have a choice between the two. Chord Harmony requires you to input a different chord change for every chord in a song. This is only the practical difference between the two Harmony Control Modes, we now need to explore the theoretical differences. 22 In the previous example showing the principle of diatonic harmony, we were showing a scale harmony. That is, one whose harmony notes only fall within the notes that belong to that particular scale. [. . . ]