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1. SAVE AS EXPORT C SAVE AS Remember to write down and keep your serial number in a safe place You will need it if you ever wish to CABINET IM STEP 1 Enter your SERIAL NUMBER below re install your Studio Devil plug in l 123456 7890 in the future lt 4 RUN AS DEMO COMPRESSOR el vi N FLANGER oy dr di r 8 I PHASER r z 4 MONO ON AMT ATTK MODE TREMOLO IN S VV JIErPTH STAGES REGEN EE a PC G VERB lt GATE m 2 EYES a lee Ed N si P x p CLUB a C A ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 5 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners 3 Your Studio Devil plug in will now PRESET z a TE G co LOAD display your INSTALL CODE COC ON SAVE AS Write down this code or copy it to the clipboard by clicking COPY ACTIVATE YOUR PRODUCT x You will need it for the next step When you are ready click NEXT STEP 2 Copy or write down this INSTALL CODE AQ94 SV3K AQM4 PH39 COMPRESSOR d BACK COPY NEXT gt Pi N F
2. when delay circuits were really expensive and notch filters were a lot cheaper The idea was to try to make a flanger like effect by using a cheaper approach The end result was something actually somewhat different and since then has become a highly sought after effect of its own Studio Devil s PHASER effect remains true to some of the original PHASER designs using a chain of all pass filters modulated by an LFO and recombined with the original signal to make that signature comb filter sounding effect Here s a description of the PHASER controls and how to use them PHASER ON BUTTON Click this button once to turn ON the PHASER effect click it again to turn it OFF You will notice that the PHASER indicator light located to the left of the PHASER label turns on and off in unison with the ON BUTTON This allows you to see if the PHASER effect is on or off even when the PHASER setup panel is not selected and visible PHASER PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the PHASER effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Here s more about these two choices e PRE Selecting the PRE position places your PHASER effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using a PHASER pedal connected between your guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The sound is special because as the phaser s notch filters move up and down in frequency the variations in tone affect your guitar
3. 4kHz MIDDLE CENTER 80Hz 160Hz 320Hz 640Hz 1 2kHz 2 5kHz 5 1KHZ TOP UP 100Hz 200Hz 400Hz 800HZ 1 6kHz 3 2kHz 6 4kHz PARAMETRIC FREQ LEVEL KNOBS These two knobs work together to make a custom tunable EQ band allowing you to boost or cut any frequency range you wish The LEVEL knob gives you control over the amount of boost or cut turn it up clockwise for a boost turn it down counter clockwise for a notch or turn it to the center 12 0 clock position for no effect The FREQ or frequency knob lets you choose the center frequency of this versatile filter Turn it to the left to affect lower frequencies or turn it to the right for higher frequencies Using both knobs together you can fine tune your tone by precisely selecting a particular band of frequencies and then choosing how much to either boost them up or turn them down Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 19 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners MASTER VOLUME There are so many options in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro that can affect the apparent loudness of your tone Therefore we realized that we had to ad
4. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners BAAL Weer F 7 Return to your Studio Devil plug in ema and click NEXT ENEN ON ACTIVATE YOUR PRODUCT STEP 3 Bring your INSTALL CODE to http www studiodevil com activate Fe D are N and follow the directions on the web page to get your er SRM FILTER Bee te cle Rd IS m BAe COM PRESSOR Pi vi N Le REANOER me Ii Ii Ee z Fa Ne 4 MONO ON AMT ATTK MODE TREMOLO ON Seal BWEEP DEPTH STAGES REGEN ECHO Pc G ET ERB GATE P i Pla aa P osT CLUB ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL DM THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUT M TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING aa Ee EE TR SDD 8 Your Studio Devil plug in will now Sees TEER save as exronr ask you to enter the LICENSE KEY you just obtained from our web server STEP 4 Enter or paste your LICENSE KEY below Enter License Key f COM PRESSOR lt BACK PASTE NEXT P ri N e FLANGER pases Kc P rr ede a m p PHASER P MONO ON AMT ATTK MODE artk Mone e TREMOLO TREMOLO NG ON SPEED SWEEP DEPTH STAGES REGEN ECHO PC G EE ET GATE HALL e ri ri F od Pi vi ri Post CLUB a ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE OM LEVEL DM THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL TAT Mo TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING PRESET NAME F Enter or PASTE your LICENSE GEED corse KEY in the space provided When Sores See yo
5. Due ee eek ewe ee 32 IMPORTING PRESE PS zaii Oe ee GED sek ew el citer oaeee a ed Sie nee DE Wee GE DE ee eaat 32 BANK LOCATIONS sies es ged ee ES eg RGN Ed EN Vd Ea aa aaaea aE a A EAA anaia 32 LOADING BANKS ie ES SE ee Ee GO Ee ves AG OO ees Ee GES DR GE DS Oe De es es 33 EDITING sd SE EE EE EE EE ER EO EE N EE EE aaa 33 Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 2 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners SAVING BANKS sis see sies dee ew ed ee de ie dos og We ie dd N Ke de Ve a ee De ke N N We Ao Oe ede EE ee 33 SAV ESAS BANKS ie ee ees cts Seen ed ee vee ee OE se ee Ee De ace Ge Ne Ee ee GES Dee OD es es 33 COPYING BANKS iese see ae Gee SE NN EN ee ee Ee Ge GE ee ee ee WS Oe EN Ve ERG EN Kw Ge ee ae ode dee ie 33 EXPORTING BANKS sees sedes ese eeue ves ee eek ese eek eed eed We ee eg eb deed ees Ke EG e des dee Kus ese ee See wed eb GEN Due Ge EE Ee AR ee 34 LOADING AND IMPORTING BANKS sesse eisers de ed ve seen se se de ee ee ON ee ee see See ed deu eN N ed gee Sek dee ede ee di de 34 MIDI CONTROL ER EE iaai 34 LEARN MIDI CONTROI ies see esse dee Ge de ese eek se ede vee es ee ede Ee Ge D eu e
6. EX ri F is CLUB ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL ON AMT ATTK MODE TRENN IOLO or EP DEPTH THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING If you ever need to contact customer support you will need your serial number You can always get this by clicking MORE on the front panel of your licensed Studio Devil plug in This brings up the Tuner amp Meters screen that displays your serial number and software version number License keys change every time you install your Studio Devil plug in onto a different computer or when you re install your Studio Devil plug in onto the same computer after a fresh operating system installation In these cases you will have to re activate your Studio Devil plug in as described above You are entitled to unlimited activations per purchase But you may only use this software on one machine ata time If you need to run this software on multiple machines you may contact Studio Devil to purchase more licenses NAME mey SD2 ROCK OUT VER TUNING gand Dave Gamble Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro he Studio Devil Logo are trademarks of Gallo ering PLLC Vacuum tube emulation protected by JN ECHO ar REVER o ad d ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE LEYE ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 9 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engine
7. RED means STOP The idea is this small signals light up the GREEN lamp only When the signal gets louder then both the GREEN and YELLOW lamps light up Lastly if the signal is really strong the GREEN YELLOW and RED lamps light up The best setting is to have the GREEN lamp on most of the time the YELLOW lamp turning on occasionally and the RED lamp never or hardly ever turning on This goes for both the input and output levels SETTING THE INPUT LEVEL The input level is not adjustable from the Studio Devil plugin This is intentional because it is Supposed to be set by your instrument and sound card interface To get the best signal processing you need to maximize the use of the dynamic range of your sound card interface This needs to be done on the analog side and can t be controlled from the plugin The idea here is to get the highest possible input signal without clipping your sound interface This insures that you get all the nice tube like distortion from the Studio Devil and none of the nasty digital clips from your sound interface At first turn all the volume and tone knobs on your guitar all the way up for the strongest signal You may even want to switch to the Neck pickup which typically has a higher output as well but this isn t necessary Then once you re setup and plugged in start strumming the guitar a little harder than you think you ll be playing normally While strumming hard adjust the input trim control
8. Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro s CABINET IMPULSE processor So now you know the basics of impulse modeling and cabinet models Now lets see what impulses come with Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro and how to get more CABINET MODELS Amp Modeler Pro includes all of the original 19 cabinet filters from Studio Devil BVC Studio Devil VGA Studio Devil VBA and Studio Devil VGA In addition Amp Modeler Pro comes with 14 new cabinet impulses The following is the list of cabinet styles that Amp Modeler Pro is designed to mimic CABINET SELECTION Full Range You will also find 10 BONUS impulses made especially for Studio Devil by Federico Berti of www guitarampmodeling com in the FB Custom impulses folder www guitarampmodeling com is a great place to look for impulses and swap Studio Devil presets with the amp modeling community Check it out RECABINET EXPANSION PACKS Recabinet is a highly acclaimed library of VER cabinet impulse responses made from real guitar cabinets set up in great recording environments with perfect mic placements Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro comes with 32 DEMO impulses from the extensive Recabinet impulse collections You can try them under the sub menu Recabinet DEMO in the cabinet select of the cabinet impulse processor section To find out more or to purchase impulse modeling packs from Recabinet be sure to visit their website at www recabi net GRAPHIC EQUALIZER AND PARAMETRIC MID
9. VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners The PREAMP CONTROLS let you tweak the 32 preamplifier gain and tone until it s just 1 right for your style They look and work b C NT just like the familiar knobs found on real IGHT GAIN Boost BASS MI TR PR tube amplifiers so you probably already know what they do But just in case here s a bit about how they help you to adjust your sound MEE A u GAIN KNOB This knob controls the amount of guitar signal that s fed into the amplifier Turning this control up to the right means more gain more distortion more clipping more natural compression and more sustain Turning the gain knob down to the left results in a cleaner tone less distortion but more dynamic responsiveness In some amp models this knob also mimics the effects of gain knob capacitors which controls a bit of the high frequency distortion But whichever amp model you choose remember that Studio Devil acts just like a real tube amp you can also use your guitar s volume knob to achieve similar results Experiment with both your guitar s volume knob and the gain control to see what works best with your playing style BOOST SWITCH When everything s on ten where can you go from there Nowhere Well what we do is when you need that extra push over the cliff you Know what we d
10. about which the Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 23 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners fluctuations will deviate A nice trick is to set the SWEEP knob to zero fully counter clockwise while using the DELAY knob to set the overall delay In this mode you can use the DELAY knob to dial in a fixed comb filter There are many more possibilities so be sure to experiment FLANGER REGEN REGENERATION KNOB The REGEN KNOB controls the amount of regeneration or feedback that is re circulated within the FLANGER effect This has the sound of increasing the comb filtering effect while making them narrower and more frequency selective It makes your guitar sound more metallic or jet like when turned up really high which brings out that characteristic FLANGER sound Play with this one a lot it makes a huge change in the sound Turn it up to the right for more feedback and radical tone or turn it down to the left for less feedback and more natural comb filtering effect FLANGER MONO BUTTON Click this button ON to force the FLANGER effect to operate in MONO mode or click it again to return
11. and SHIFT together or if using a PC hold ALT and SHIFT together Then click on the Studio Devil button knob or slider that you want to clear A purplish rectangle now surrounds your control Now click on the same AMP control again and the rectangle should disappear That s it you just cleared the MIDI assignment that was previously in place Now MIDI messages won t affect that Amp Modeler Pro control any more If you want to reassign a new MIDI controller to it just follow the LEARN CONTROL procedure described above as before Remember to make sure that no MIDI messages are sent to Amp Modeler Pro while you are clearing the assignment If any MIDI controller messages are sent to AMP after the first OPTION SHIFT click and before the second OPTION SHIFT click AMP will think this is a LEARN CONTROL and not an UN LEARN CONTROL DON T FORGET TO VISIT We re here for you your tone and your music We love what we do and we know you love what you do let s do it together Visit often DESIRE ANALOG EMBRACE DIGITAL www studiodevil com Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 35 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are
12. and later wanted to remove it you had no choice but to re record the track But what happened if the track was a take of a lifetime and was ruined by a thin amp setting oh well Well that was some of the motivation for creating re amping which stated again is simply to record the guitar s pickup directly and then pump that direct signal into real amps during mixdown Well now you can do the same thing with Amp Modeler Pro Just connect your guitar s output jack which is the pickup output directly to your sound interface s instrument Hi Z input Then add Studio Devil s Amp Modeler Pro to the track s playback effects Now you should be set to record the guitar s pickup directly to the hard drive while listening to Studio Devil on playback with all the freedom of changing sounds whenever you like And with a low latency sound interface you can even hear the amp model during your recording take without committing the sound of the amp to disk Recording new guitar tracks is not the only use for Studio Devil s Amp Modeler Pro You can even use it to modify existing tracks But keep this in mind Studio Devil AMP is an emulation of a guitar amplifier This means it has been designed to work best with guitar tracks that have been recorded direct meaning just the guitar plugged straight into your sound interface This doesn t mean it won t produce good effects on other guitar tracks especially tracks that were recorded clean b
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14. have the same style of distortion as they rise and lower Also since the POST mode applies the TREMOLO after your amp it operates in stereo allowing you to use the PANNER mode see TREMOLO PANNER SWITCH below and hear its stereo panning between left and right speakers TREMOLO SPEED KNOB Sets the speed of the TREMOLO effect Turn this knob down to the left for a slower rate or turn it up to the right for faster fluctuations TREMOLO DEPTH KNOB Sets the depth or strength of the TREMOLO effect Turning the depth knob down to the left lowers the amount of gain fluctuation resulting in a mild effect Turning the knob up to the right increases the amount of the effect With the DEPTH knob turned fully to the right the TREMOLO effect fluctuates the volume as much as it can from full on to full off TREMOLO PANNER SWITCH The TREMOLO effect has two modes TREMOLO mode and PANNER mode In TREMOLO mode both the left and right channels fluctuate together in the same way In PANNER mode the right and left LFOs Low Frequency Oscillators are phase shifted by 180 degrees making a sound like your guitar is running in circles from left to right and back again Both sound really cool but remember the PANNER mode is a stereo effect so it will only work when the PRE POST SWITCH is in the POST position WAVE KNOB The WAVE KNOB selects the WAVE shape of the LFOs Turn this knob to the left for a SINE wave near the middle for a TRIANGLE
15. in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro takes this same approach allowing you to choose from 4 8 or 12 all pass stages corresponding to 2 4 or 6 notch filters accordingly Each sounds a bit different but we love to give you options that s what music is all about PHASER REGEN REGENERATION KNOB The REGEN KNOB controls the amount of regeneration or positive feedback that is re circulated within the PHASER effect This has the sound of increasing the notch filter effect while making them narrower and more frequency selective It makes a nice springy ringing sound when turned up really high which brings out that characteristic PHASER sound Play with this one a lot it makes a huge change in the sound Turn it up to the right for more feedback and spongier tone or turn it down to the left for less feedback and more natural notch filtering effect PHASER MONO BUTTON Click this button on to force the PHASER effect to operate in MONO mode or click it again to return to STEREO mode This button lights up blue when the PHASER is in MONO mode When the PHASER PRE POST switch is in the PRE position the PHASER operates in mono only and so this button has no effect But when using the PHASER in POST mode stereo operation is possible and the PHASER can be switched from mono to stereo using this button In stereo mode two separate notch filter networks are used one set for the left channel and one set for the right channel For the stereo effec
16. interface This insures that you get all the nice tube like distortion from the Studio Devil and none of the nasty digital clips from your sound interface At first turn all the volume and tone knobs on your guitar all the way up for the strongest signal You may even want to switch to the Neck pickup which typically has a higher output as well but this isn t necessary Then once you re setup and plugged in start strumming the guitar a little harder than you think you ll be playing normally While strumming hard adjust the input trim control on your sound interface so that you get the highest signal possible without any clips Once it starts to clip back off the sound interfaces input level just a touch If you still get too many clips turn the input level down on your interface a little bit more but don t turn the level down too much or you won t get the best sound out of the amp modeler This is the same basic technique for recording any other traditional tracks but some extra care is needed here where the distortion and tone from Studio Devil s dynamic amp modeling shouldn t be clouded by harsh digital clips or lost by poor utilization of the dynamic range of the sound interface LATENCY Try to use a sound interface that has a low latency drivers and hardware This way you can record though Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro in real time Studio Devil AMP has been designed to keep the processing demand on the CPU as low as possible t
17. it operates in stereo allowing you to hear a spacious FLANGER effect see MONO BUTTON below FLANGER SPEED KNOB Sets the speed of the FLANGER effect which controls how quickly the delay time and comb filtering variations fluctuate with time Turn this knob down to the left for a slower rate or turn it up to the right for faster warbling sound FLANGER SWEEP KNOB Sets how much delay variation occurs in the FLANGER effect Turning this knob up to the right causes the variation of the comb filtering effect caused by the delay time to vary more noticeably Turning the knob down to the left does the opposite making the FLANGER effect less prominent FLANGER DEPTH KNOB Sets the balance between the original guitar tone and the delayed guitar signal allowing you to hear more or less of the FLANGER comb filtering effect Turn this knob up to the right to hear more of the variable delayed signal or turn it down to the left to hear more of the input guitar signal A good balance is somewhere in the middle which allows the input signal and delayed signal to mix well and interact producing the traditional FLANGER sound we usually look for FLANGER DELAY KNOB This knob is used to set the average delay of the FLANGER effect with respect to the input signal As the delay time of the FLANGER fluctuates between two extremes the DELAY KNOB controls the overall or center delay value This lets you set the main tone of the comb filtering effect
18. on how many mics were used in the setup and they usually don t run more than 1 second with lengths of 2000 to 4000 samples being more common for short impulses from guitar cabinets Before these WAV AIFF impulse files are saved they are carefully trimmed and sliced so that there is no leading or trailing silence much in the same way that loops are cut down with sample accuracy to their start and end points This is done so that the impulses can be used without introducing unwanted latency and to be kept as short as possible to keep CPU usage down Large impulses take more CPU power to use than smaller ones so keeping them as small as possible is always a good thing So now you have this impulse file that you created or downloaded from the Internet but now what How do you use it Well to recreate the tone of the original setup all you have to do is use the impulse response as an FIR filter The easiest Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 17 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners way to do that is to load your WAV AIFF file into a convolution processor like the one that comes built in with
19. on your sound interface so that you get the highest signal possible without any clips i e you get the GREEN lamp on steady the YELLOW lamp on sometimes and never or hardly ever see the RED lamp turn on Once it starts to clip i e the RED lamp turns on back off the sound interfaces input level just a touch If you still get too many clips turn the input level down on your interface a little bit more but don t turn the level down too much or you won t get the best sound out of the amp modeler This is the same basic technique for recording any other traditional tracks but some extra care is needed here where the distortion and tone from Studio Devil s dynamic amp modeling shouldn t be clouded by harsh digital clips or lost by poor utilization of the dynamic range of the sound interface SETTING THE OUTPUT LEVEL Your output level is controlled by using the MASTER VOLUME knob found on the main plug in screen There you can use the CLIP LIGHT to indicate when you are clipping The OUTPUT level meters on the MORE screen just give you a better indication of how loud your signal is and how close it is to the maximum output before clipping The setting of your output level really is more a matter of taste unlike the input Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 30 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of G
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21. switch in this position Almost every decent sized combo and just about every tube head out there uses a Class AB push pull tube power section And this model mimics just that Symmetrical soft clipping perfect for tight punchy compression Crank this one up e FET MOSFET Sometimes you need a sound that s just a little more brittle and crisp Tube warmth is great but some tones need the bright sizzle of a solid state power amp The MOSFET setting selects the transistor based push pull amp which is great for clean sounds solid state lead and crunch tones and bass guitar DRIVE CONTROL KNOB This control varies the drive of the power amp setting the amount of power amp soft clipping that occurs as it s pushed harder to its limit This has the effect of compressing the sound and increasing the apparent loudness of the amp Turn this knob to the left for a sound more like a preamp recorded direct or turn it to the right for more of that miked up power amp sound This knob works well in conjunction with the MASTER VOLUME KNOB control When you turn up the DRIVE KNOB turn down the MASTER VOLUME to compensate for the louder volume Likewise if you turn down the DRIVE KNOB you can turn up the MASTER VOLUME to make up for the loss in level Both knobs should be worked together to get the right amount of volume along with your choice of POWER AMP DRIVE Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 14 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo
22. to quickly turn an effect on or off which makes comparing your sound with and without effects very easy CHORUS T CHORUS TEEN FLANGER Soe ae PRE ay 2 VOICE The CHORUS effect makes your eS Sb ad AE guitar sound like it s being played TREMOLO oN SPEED SWEEP DEPTH with a set of other guitars each playing the same part but slightly out of tune with each other This has the same effect as a group of singers where each singer is just ever so slightly off perfect pitch When several sources play together like this it has a nice choral sound hence the name chorus Here s a description of the controls that let you set your CHORUS just the way you like it CHORUS ON BUTTON Click this button once to turn ON the CHORUS effect click it again to turn it OFF You will notice that the CHORUS indicator light located to the left of the CHORUS label turns on and off in unison with the ON BUTTON This allows you to see if the CHORUS effect is on or off even when the CHORUS setup panel is not selected and visible CHORUS PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the CHORUS effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Here s more about these two choices e PRE Selecting the PRE position places your CHORUS effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using a CHORUS pedal connected between your guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The sound in this position is specia
23. wave or to the right for a SQUARE wave This will affect the sound of the TREMOLO fluctuations the SINE wave will sound like a smooth and gradual volume fluttering while the SQUARE wave will sound abrupt and choppy The TRIANGLE wave will sound somewhere in between Pick what works for you best ECHO So you need some more echo echo echo Well you re in the right place The ECHO section gives you control over Studio Devil s versatile delay engine ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE l From Digital Delay Tape Echo and DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY Analog Delay modes this section has got all the controls to get your echoes going here s how they work ECHO ON BUTTON This one s pretty easy Click it to turn the echo effect ON click it again to turn it OFF This button lights up amber when the echo effect is ON ECHO PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the ECHO effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Both sound a little different so try it both ways the effect is subtle so here s more about what s going on e PRE Selecting the PRE position places your echo effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using a delay pedal connected between your guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The sound is special because as the echo repeats the repeating sounds get fainter and less distorted Because tube amps distort loud signals more than so
24. BEFORE it gets distorted fluctuating how your guitar will distort a very expressive effect Note Since a tube amp is only mono you will lose the stereo effect of the PHASER see MONO SWITCH below If you really need a stereo PHASER effect switch to POST mode instead e POST Selecting the POST position places your PHASER effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting a PHASER pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like having a rack mount effects processor applied to a recorded track in the studio Using the PHASER in this mode makes sure that your amplifier s distortion is applied to your signal before the phaser effect fluctuating the tone of your guitar s distortion without changing how it distorts Also since the POST mode applies the PHASER effect after your amp it operates in stereo allowing you to use the stereo PHASER effect see MONO SWITCH below Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 24 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners PHASER SPEED KNOB Sets the speed of the PHASER effect which controls how duickly the notch filters frequencies sweep up and down the audible spectru
25. DI CONTROL To learn a MIDI control first hold down OPTION and SHIFT together or if using a PC hold ALT and SHIFT together Then click on the knob button or slider of the Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro interface that you want to assign to a MIDI control You should now see a purplish rectangle surrounding the control indicating that it is ready to be assigned Now turn or wiggle the MIDI controller that you want to assign to this AMP control and Amp Modeler Pro automatically assigns it It that simple 7 S Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 34 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners RE LEARN CONTROL Let s say you made a mistake or want to assign a different MIDI controller to a Studio Devil AMP parameter that has already been assigned no problem Just repeat the LEARN CONTROL procedure described above and the new MIDI controller will replace the previous one Easy UN LEARN CONTROL OK so you no longer want a MIDI controller to have control over a particular Amp Modeler Pro parameter that you previously assigned and want to clear it Again no problem just hold down OPTION
26. Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners CABINET IMPULSE PROCESSOR Without a guitar speaker cabinet guitar distortion would sound thin and harsh Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro features a powerful module the CABINET IMPULSE processor which allows you to select a guitar speaker cabinet model giving you the effect of hooking up your amp to a real guitar cabinet Each guitar cabinet and associated mic ing technique is stored ina special file called an impulse file When you select a cabinet from the CABINET IMPULSE processor you actually select one of Studio Devil s built in impulse files for use with your sound mm CABINET IMPULSE HIGHEND FAST 128 256 1K 4K 8K 32K SIZZLE ER SIZE Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro comes with a set of cabinet impulse files for you to get started with right away But the real power of Studio Devil AMP is that it will work with ANY impulse file in standard WAV or AIFF format even impulses that don t match the sample rate of your project We ll get more into that later but for now let s look at the controls of the CABINET IMPULSE processor and how they work CABINET
27. If you need that sound of a large cathedral or stadium then HALL mode is for you REVERB LEVEL KNOB This knob controls the volume level of the reverb Turn to the right for more reverb or to the left for a drier sound You can think of this knob like a mic placement close far knob Turning it up sounds like the mic is far away from the cabinet picking up more of the room sound Turning it down sounds like the mic is really close to the cabinet picking up very little room acoustics Most guitar tones sound muddy with too much reverb This knob lets you set the amount of reverb to get things to sound just right Remember You can achieve the effects of reverb from either the CABINET IMPULSE PROCESSOR or the REVERB effect The difference is that the REVERB effect creates reverberation synthetically using an algorithm whereas the IMPULSE MODELER uses a long pre recorded FIR filter If you are getting a nice reverb from one you don t need it from the other Save some CPU for other plug ins by choosing which way you like best There s nothing wrong with running both especially if it gets you the exact tone you re looking for but your CPU usage might be higher than it needs to be Just some food for thought NOISE GATE Let s face it You can t have a great amp with tons of sweet sounding gain without dealing with some kind of noise Even the world s best tube amps have some hiss buzz and hum Well not surprisingly since Studio Devil accura
28. LANGER Ke vi vi ei m Ek P y PHASER di je N 5 MONO ON AMT ATTK MODE TREMOLO ON SPEED 5S EFP DEPTH STAGES REGEN ECHO PCs G REVERB GATE ri ri 1 Me ice P old P CLUB ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL N THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING 4 Your Studio Devil plug in will now PRESET 7 ETE N ER Ee display instructions on how to bring saveasy exeorr ON SAVE AS your INSTALL CODE to our web 01 American Clean xmi eee server for product activation o5 s o oA TEFIE J ON HI FI 2 9 DEEP Q G Ed BA PS d S T U ACTIVATE YOUR PRODUCT KOR STEP 3 Bring your INSTALL CODE to CABINET IMPU http www studiodevil com activate and follow the directions on the web page to get your LICENSE KEY When ready click NEXT COMPRESSOR lt 4 BACK NEXT gt vi ri N FLANGER KE hg e F Z de di MONO ad ON AMT ATTK MODE TREMOLO ON SPEED EFP DEPTH STAGES REGEN y PHASER A P a Pr G REVERB GATE e HALL e oo lM TER TE ri NE ri 1 aA de b CLUB f D e j ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 6 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engi
29. ONG SWITCH below ECHO DELAY KNOB This knob sets the delay time or interval between the repeating echoes Turn this knob down to the left if you want really short delays times like for a quick slap back or a guitar doubling effect For longer echoes that repeat more slowly with longer intervals between them turn this knob up to the right ECHO REPEAT KNOB This knob is sometimes also known as a FEEDBACK knob It sets how long the echoes repeat by controlling how long it takes for them to fade away Turn this knob to the right for more repeats and a longer fade out or turn it to the left for less ECHO LEVEL KNOB The LEVEL knob sets the volume of the echoes Let s say you want to hear just a little bit of the echoes ok turn this knob almost all the way to the left Or maybe you want to hear the echoes really loud maybe even louder than the direct guitar ok turn the knob all the way up to the right A good starting point is usually somewhere just to the left of the middle say around the 11 o clock position NORM PONG SWITCH This switch selects between the two different ECHO modes NORMAL MODE and PONG MODE They both sound cool but each is a bit different e NORM In NORMAL MODE the delay acts the same on both the right and left channels This sounds a lot like a delay pedal which usually operates in mono If you re looking for the sound of a stomp box delay pedal then this is the mode for you PONG Don t worry y
30. PRESET procedure above Then click on the EXPORT preset button located to the right of the SAVE AS button This displays a file dialog where you need to specify the filename and location where you want the preset exported into Once you enter this file and select the folder location click OK Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro then writes your active preset to this file You can then send or post this file as you would any other in emails on websites or on blogs or any other way that lets you share them with others IMPORTING PRESETS Importing presets from other Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro users is easy First click on the preset IMPORT button located to the right of the preset SAVE button This displays a file select dialog which you will use to locate the file you want to import Once you ve located the XML file you want to import select it and click OK Amp Modeler Pro then imports the file into the active sound and the SAVE button begins to blink This is to remind you to save your imported sound if you want to make a home for it in your bank If you decide to keep this imported sound either click SAVE or SAVE AS to save it into a preset of your bank Remember Clicking SAVE or SAVE AS will permanently overwrite any presets you have in that location so be sure you want to do this before proceeding BANK LOCATIONS Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro allows you to organize your presets into BANKS A BANK is a collection of presets numbered from 001
31. S CONTROL The GRAPHIC EQ and PARAMETRIC MIDS controls let you make precise adjustments to the overall tonal character of your guitar sound Why have another EQ when you already have tone controls Good question First this EQ has more bands and finer control than the PREAMP TONE controls But more importantly you can choose to place this EQ either before the preamp distortion or after TA N PARAMETF nr POST ede a og TN P Fi F A z a LENNI N 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Marshall is a trademark of Marst All other trademarks are property of their respective owners the power amp compression giving you immense tonal variety and control Playing around with the subtle interplay between your tone knobs and the GRAPHIC EQ is where you ll discover all the great tones that Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro delivers Here s how the GRAPHIC EQ and PARAMETRIC MIDS controls work GRAPHIC EQ ON BUTTON Pushing this button turns on both the GRAPHIC EQ and PARAMETRIC MIDS controls together Pushing it again turns them both off You can use this control to make quick comparisons of your EQ settings and to see how they affect your sound This button lights up red to let you know when the GRAPHIC EQ and PARAMETRIC MIDS effects are enabled GRAPHIC EQ PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the EQ effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Bo
32. SELECT TEXT BOX To select the cabinet that s right for you just click on the red text area where you see the cabinet name or on the small down arrow that appears next to it This pulls up the cabinet select menu where you will see the names of all the impulse files stored in Studio Devil s impulse library Studio Devil AMP comes with several impulse files built in so just click on the name of the cabinet you want to try and away you go Some impulse files are arranged into sub menus to keep them organized To access them simply click on the sub menu name to open up the list of impulse files contained within it and then click on the impulse file of your choice You ll find that a lot of the tonal characteristics of your sound come from both the CABINET SELECTION and TONE CONTROLS So even if one cabinet doesn t sound quite right at first a little tweaking of the TONE CONTROLS might take you to the sound you re after Once again experimentation and exploration are the keys here to great sound play around with different cabinets and the tone controls together and see what gets your fingers itching to play that s where it s at CABINET IMPULSE ON BUTTON This small button turns the cabinet modeling engine on and off click it once to turn it on click it again to turn it off The button lights up in red when the cabinet modeling engine is running to remind you that it is ON There are a lot of really great soeaker modeling plug ins o
33. STUDIO DEVIL AMP MODELER PRO USER S GUIDE Version 1 1 January 2010 PRESET NAME LOAD PREAMP MODEL ON HI FI LO CUT DEEP 2 od Id a a a a AMP MODELER PRO more NV PO gst ARA TR AN CABINET IMPULSE HIGHEND TE FAST 128 256 1K 4K 8K 32K 1 A N M ER SIZE SIZZLE COMPRESSOR a CHORUS i VOICE T F h FLANGER 6 P F b be ay 2 VOICE k J PHASER mall we 1 VOICE ON AMT ATTK MODE TREMOLO SPEED SWEEP pla ECHO GATE POST F F F TA 7 ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 1 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners TECHNOLOG Ve Er ae N ee ee ee ee Ee ei ee n Ge Ge ee ee ER Ee GE ee 4 INSTALLING AND ACTIVATING YOUR PLUG IN sssssssnssnunnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 4 INSTALLING YOUR STUDIO DEVIL PLUG IN sae kosse sek ke ees eek N ase eks bed koe oes ee uan dee ke Ne ees we de aaia 4 ACTIVATING YOUR STUDIO DEVIL PLUG IN ssssssusssunsssunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
34. WAH WAH is ON WAH WAH PEDAL SLIDER This slider moves sideways to let you simulate the position of a real WAH WAH pedal Move this slider to the left to emulate moving the WAH WAH pedal down with your heel or move the slider to the right to emulate moving the WAH WAH pedal up with your toes If you use a USB or MIDI foot controller with an expression wah pedal you can assign it to this slider or any other parameter for that matter and use it in real time with your foot See the MIDI LEARN section of this manual for more information EFFECTS Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 20 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners Each of the effects modules in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro has its own unidue set of parameters and controls The following sections describe each of these effects in greater detail and show you how to use their individual controls to sculpt your sound There s a lot here but if you ve ever used these kind of pedals before than you already know most of what s to come read what you can but tweak around with them as much as possible then close your eyes and listen to what th
35. allo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners level which absolutely needs to be as high as possible without clips But having a stronger output signal before clipping is also good practice Follow the same guidelines above for both your input and output levels and your tone will be very happy PRESETS AND BANKS The possibilities for tone with Studio Devil Amp Modeler SAVE IMPORT B Pro are virtually endless and with the variety mele dad ld of playing styles out there its impossible for us to make a set of presets that pleases everybody But finding a sound that works best for you is half of what playing guitar is all about Once you make a custom tone you are going to want to save it somewhere This is where PRESETS and BANKS come in and here s how they work PRESET NAME A PRESET completely saves all of your knob and effect settings It basically stores everything that Amp Modeler Pro needs to restore your sound exactly So whenever you want to save a sound for future use or to share it with your friends you need to store it into a PRESET A BANK is a collection of PRESETS The BANKS in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro have 128 PRESETS so banks here are basically 128 different sounds Most people are fine using one BANK but if you want to organize your soun
36. an ever Here s how LOAD OPTION You might notice that the first item of the CABINET SELECT pull down menu displays a curious looking Load option This option allows you to load any WAV or AIFF file stored on your system into the Studio Devil cabinet impulse processing engine Let s say you just downloaded a cool impulse WAV file from the Internet and Recabinet_1 05_Demo put it on your desktop To use it with Studio Devil Amp lj Studio Devil Modeler Pro simply click on the CABINET SELECT TEXT BOX and then select the Load option A file select dialog box will appear allowing you to select whatever WAV or AIFF file you like Find the file you want to use select it and click OK Studio Devil AMP will now load your WAV or AIFF file into the cabinet processor converting the sample rate automatically to match the sample rate of your project while leaving the original impulse file intact It will even save it or export it along with your preset IMPORT OPTION You might also notice that the last item of each CABINET SELECT drop down menu has an Import option This option works a lot like the LOAD option described above The only difference is that in addition to loading a WAV or AIFF impulse file into the cabinet processor the Import option will also copy the selected impulse file into the Studio Devil impulse library allowing you to select it again more easily from the drop down menu The impulse file gets
37. ap between them too If you like one preamp be sure to check out the others with some tweaking you might find another setting that works well too or even better Remember it s all about exploring tonal possibilities and what playing styles they inspire don t be afraid to click around a lot PREAMP ON BUTTON Click the small round red button to toggle the preamp ON or OFF This button lights up red when the preamp is enabled If you re just starting out make sure this button is ON to get Studio Devil to do its thing If you are using another third party amp modeling plug in and want to use Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro as an effects processor only you should disable the preamp by clicking it OFF HI FI HIGH FIDELITY SWITCH This switch lets you choose the quality of the tube amp emulation If you re just jamming along and you have an older CPU that s having a hard time keeping up flip this switch down to the OFF position for a lower quality but faster tube amp emulation On the other hand if you re mixing down or if your blazing fast new CPU is having no trouble keeping up with Studio Devil then be sure to get the best quality and flip this switch up to the ON position LO CUT SWITCH This is a 3 Way switch that lets you select the type of low frequency roll off that gets applied to your pickup before getting processed by the Studio Devil amplifier engine It lets you get a bright crunchy tone from pickups that might be too d
38. d ode ed doe Ge Gede AER 34 RE LEARN CONTROL SS SS lec aan a be ees es Guat a Gee Ee eene Gee GR Dee a es ee 35 UN EEARN GOWN ER OU ese se oe Ns ce ee ERG Gede ne NE we Ke dads De es we ew Ge Ge ae ke ed ee EG ENG SE DE ER EE 35 DON TEORGET 10 VISIT ee ie ER N ee ee Re Ee Ge ee Een eb EE ORN Ge eeu ie ee ee ee 35 Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 3 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners THANKS FOR USING STUDIO DEVIL Thanks for using Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro the ultimate vacuum tube guitar amplifier modeling plug in We know you re going to love the way you sound with Studio Devil TECHNOLOGY Studio Devil s Virtual Tube Amplification is a breakthrough in vacuum tube amplifier modeling technology Our patented tube modeling process is based on the dynamic characteristics of real 12AX A vacuum tube preamplifier stages the building blocks of the world s most coveted tube amplifiers By accurately mimicking these preamp tube stages virtually any tube amp can be built through unique configurations and combinations of them Amp Modeler Pro represents just a few of the infinite number of vi
39. d one dedicated volume control to simplify the setting of the overall volume of each preset If your preset has the exact tone you re looking for but its just a little bit too loud or too low use the MASTER VOLUME controls to tweak it so that it s just right The MASTER VOLUME control also helps you to adjust the volume of each of your presets independently so that you can make a set of presets that all sound at the same volume The MASTER VOLUME section has a level knob and a clip light to help you get the right level Here s how they work MASTER VOLUME KNOB Turn this knob down counter clockwise to reduce the output volume or turn it up clock wise to make your signal louder The CLIP LIGHT illuminates when your signal volume is too loud and needs to be turned down Setting the MASTER VOLUME KNOB at the center 12 0 clock position is a good place to start when creating a new preset because that s where the master volume control is at unity gain and has the largest range of adjustment CLIP LIGHT This is an indicator light and NOT a button The CLIP LIGHT turns on when the output signal of Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro exceeds the normal maximum limits When this happens your signal might experience digital clips which sound harsh crackly and thin If the CLIP LIGHT comes on you might need to turn the MASTER VOLUME KNOB down a bit to lower the output level below these limits If the CLIP LIGHT turns on once in a while thi
40. ds into separate places you ll need to arrange them into separate BANKS Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro gives you full control over your presets and banks so you can save and organize all of your custom tones And what s really awesome is that Studio Devil AMP lets you import and export all of your presets so you can share them with others and get more customs tones from the web This may seem confusing at first but it will all be clear once we run through some examples of how to use PRESETS and BANKS so here goes LOADING PRESETS To LOAD a preset click on the PRESET NUMBER box located to the left of the PRESET name This displays a drop down list of presets numbered from O01 to 128 with their respective names Select the preset you want to LOAD from this list by clicking on it Amp Modeler Pro will then load that preset into the active sound CAUTION Loading a preset will discard any current changes or edits you have made to your sound If you began working on a new sound remember to save it before you load a new preset see EDITING AND SAVING PRESETS below EDITING AND SAVING PRESETS We re sure that it won t be long before you get inspired to make new presets of your own And Studio Devil AMP makes it easy First just turn the knobs and switches on the Studio Devil AMP panel until things start sounding the way you want Notice that once you begin editing the controls the SAVE button located to the right of the preset name begins to bl
41. eep and muddy For deep thick tones especially if using a bass guitar keep this switch in the BOTTOM position The MIDDLE position rolls off some bass for a crunchier tone The TOP position rolls off even more bass for a really bright and raspy sound Try all three LO CUT modes with different guitars and different pickups the possibilities are endless DEEP BUTTON Pushing this button turns on the DEEP feature which adds more low end to your tone If you like your sound with lots of bass push this button on If you re playing through smaller speakers and want to back off the deep low end for more of a classic tone push this button again to turn it off This button lights up amber to let you know when the DEEP effect is enabled BRIGHT BUTTON This works a lot like the DEEP button except it controls the high end treble Some preamp settings can sound a bit noisy especially when the GAIN or DRIVE is turned way up You can help correct this by pushing the BRIGHT button off But if you like crisp punchy highs then push this button on to add more high frequencies to your tone This button lights up amber to let you know when the BRIGHT effect is enabled Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 12 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification
42. effects And Studio Devil AMP has got em Built in to Amp Modeler Pro are a Studio Devil s high quality CHORUS FLANGER PHASER and TREMOLO TREMOLO effects Particular detail has been paid on making these effects sound more like the kinds of classic effects and pedals you would find in a real guitar player s rig Here s the controls for what you got Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 21 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners EFFECT SELECT TABS The left side of the EFFECTS section contains the four EFFECT SELECT TABS labeled CHORUS FLANGER PHASER and TREMOLO accordingly Click on each of these tabs to select the corresponding control panel for that effect making it visible in the EFFECTS section and allowing you to edit and customize the effect s parameters EFFECT INDICATOR LIGHTS To the left of each EFFECT SELECT TAB is a small INDICATOR LIGHT These four lights indicate whether the corresponding effects are on or off allowing you to see what effects are enabled at one glance without having to visit each effect control panel individually You can also click on each INDICATOR LIGHT
43. ering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners HOW TO USE THIS PLUG IN and a bit about re amping Sure amp modeling plug ins replace the time consuming process of trying many guitar amps and speaker combination until you get the right sound But what happens if later in the mix you find that the right sound isn t quite so right after all and wish that you could change the amp settings or speaker cabinet This is called re amping and is where the real power of amp plug ins shines Let see how it works In the old days some guys had a pretty neat idea Instead of plugging a guitar into an amp they plugged it directly into the recording console That way the guitar s pickup was recorded directly to tape Then when playing back the recording they could patch the pickup track into any amplifier during mixdown and get sounds just like if the same guitar was playing through it By doing this the engineers had full control of the guitar sound They could decide the type of amp and cabinet the amount of gain and distortion even the cabinets and mic placement DURING the mix Before this if you recorded a guitar with a lot of distortion
44. ey sound like that s the quickest way to learn what works best LIN IN GJ PS IVI ee aia COMPRESSOR SUSTAINER COMPRESSOR Need some sustain No problem you ve come to the F fi right place The COMPRESSOR SUSTAINER boosts Fes your guitar signal when begins to fade while trying to i keep it at the same level This effect helps notes ring ATTK MODE out longer and it also fattens the sound of clean guitar tones making them louder and thicker When you pick hard the COMPRESSOR SUSTAINER backs off letting your tone flow unaffected again The net result is to reduce dynamics to produce a mellow even tone with greater sustain The COMPRESSOR in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro is NOT a studio grade compressor nor was it intended to be This effect is modeled after the compressor sustainer pedals that are used in typical guitar pedal setups It might not have the versatility and control found in a studio compressor but it sure does a great job of emulating the sweet spot most guitar compressor pedals like to sit in and your guitar will like sitting there too There s not much to tweak with this effect but here goes COMPRESSOR ON BUTTON You guessed it it turns the COMPRESSOR on or off Click to turn it on click again to turn it off This button lights up amber when the COMPRESSOR is ON AMT AMOUNT KNOB Basically this knob controls how much sustain you get by setting the peak gain boost of the compressor Turn th
45. ft signals putting your echo effect in the PRE position makes the earlier louder echoes sounds more distorted and the later softer echoes sound cleaner It s very expressive but since a tube amp is only mono you will lose the stereo effect of the echo If you really need a stereo or ping pong delay switch to POST mode instead Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 26 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners e POST Selecting the POST position places your echo effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting a delay pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like having a rack mount delay processor applied to a recorded track in the studio Using the echo in this mode makes sure that your amplifier s distortion is applied to your signal before the echo effect so that the echoes will have the same style of distortion as they repeat and decay This mode is less expressive but tighter and more consistent Also since the POST mode applies the delay after your amp it operates in stereo allowing you to use the PING PONG mode and hear stereo echoes bouncing between left and right speakers see NORM P
46. g default folders WINDOWS INSTALLATION FOLDERS WINDOWS VST C Program Files VSTPlugins Studio Devil Amp WINDOWS RTAS C Program Files Common Files DigiDesign DAE Plug Ins MAC INSTALLATION FOLDERS Mac VST Library Audio Plug Ins VST Mac Audio Units Library Audio Plug Ins Components Mac RTAS Library Application Support Digidesign Plug Ins Mac RTAS Presets Library Application Support Digidesign Plug In Settings In most cases these folders will automatically be recognized by your host application But in some cases you will need to add the appropriate folder to your host application s list of plug in folders Consult your host application s documentation for instructions on how to do this if necessary Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 4 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners ACTIVATING YOUR STUDIO DEVIL PLUG IN Before you can use your Studio Devil plug in you need to activate it by getting a LICENSE KEY from our web server Only YOU are entitled to activate your product You are entitled to install and activate this software as many times as needed b
47. he original preset you were working from No problem Amp Modeler Pro allows you to save your edited preset into any preset location you wish using SAVE AS Once you are ready to save your active preset click on the SAVE AS button located underneath the SAVE button This displays a drop down menu of all the available presets Select the destination preset for your new sound and Studio Devil AMP overwrites that preset with your active sound COPYING PRESETS Sometimes you need to copy a preset from one preset number to another This might be to reorganize your bank or just to use one preset as the starting point for editing another preset In either case copying a preset is easy First load the preset you want to copy by using the LOAD PRESET procedure Then click on the SAVE AS button This displays a drop down menu of all the available presets Select the destination preset by clicking on it and Studio Devil AMP copies your original preset overwriting it to your selected destination EXPORTING PRESETS Once you create some really awesome custom tones we re sure you re going to want to share them with others Amp Modeler Pro makes this really easy with the EXPORT preset feature which allows you to save any preset as an XML file You can then email or share this file with other users of Amp Modeler Pro who can then import them into their banks as they desire To EXPORT a preset first load the preset you want to export by using the LOAD
48. ightly so flip this switch back to NORM to hear the impulse in its original form for comparison Then choose which mode sounds and feels best for you FILTER LENGTH SELECTOR SWITCH This switch allows you to shorten the size of your cabinet impulse enabling you to reduce processing and to change the cabinet tone and response Longer impulses typically have more low end capture more of the room ambience and reverb and have a lot of frequency detail in them They also take a lot more processing power to compute On the other hand shorter impulses have a tighter sound Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 15 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners stripping most of the room ambience and room acoustics and leave an in your face speaker tone They also take a lot less processing power Studio Devil AMP lets you choose the balance between these two extremes that works best for your setup and tone Sliding the switch to the left trims your impulse response down in size giving you tighter and more efficient cabinet processing Sliding it to the right leaves a longer impulse with greater detail r
49. ink This is to remind you that the sound you are hearing needs to be saved Then once you are sure you want to save your changes click on the blinking SAVE button to overwrite your changes into the current PRESET Now every time you reload this PRESET your new sound will be loaded instead RE NAMING PRESETS Once you make changes to a preset you may want to rename it To RENAME a preset just click on the preset name located to the right of the preset number This highlights the preset name and allows you to type a new one Type ina new name for your preset and press ENTER Once you make this change notice that the SAVE button begins to blink again This is to remind you that something was changed that needs to be saved Just like any other parameter the PRESET name needs to be saved to make your change permanent Click SAVE to finalize your new preset name Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 31 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners SAVE AS PRESETS Let s say you loaded your favorite preset and made some small changes to it Now you want to save your changes but you don t want to lose t
50. is knob to the right for more sustain and boost or to the left for less gain and more subtle compression The actual gain will taper off as you play harder or will ramp up to the peak gain as your notes decay and fade ATTK ATTACK KNOB Sometimes compressor sustainers can squash or deaden the attack of your guitar making the picking and strumming of your notes sound muffled or muddy In part this is how a compressor actually works but having control over how quickly or how slowly the compressor affects your picking is a nice feature to have The ATTACK KNOB does just this allowing you to control how much of your guitar s attack or picking is allowed to slide though giving your tone a sharp biting tone along with the compressor s sustain Turn this knob up to the right for more attack or turn it down to the left for more of a traditional compressor pedal sound COMPRESSOR MODE SWITCH This switch selects between two different compression algorithms The engineers at Studio Devil came up with two methods of gain reduction that we call HYPERBOLIC and EXPONENTIAL modes They sound fancy but they really are just two ways of doing the same thing The differences are subtle but having a choice is always good Play around with both modes and see if you like one more than the other then stick with the one you like and rock on MODULATION EFFECTS SELECTOR FLANGER PHASER No guitar setup is complete without some toys you know
51. l because the chorus effect will affect your guitar BEFORE it gets distorted by youramp model Note Since a tube amp is only mono you will lose the stereo effect of the CHORUS If you really need a stereo CHORUS effect switch to POST mode instead e POST Selecting the POST position places your CHORUS effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting a CHORUS pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like having a rack mount effects processor applied to a recorded track in the studio Using the CHORUS in this mode makes sure that your amplifier s distortion is applied to your signal before the CHORUS effect fluctuating the tone of your guitar s distortion without changing how it distorts Also since the POST mode applies the CHORUS effect after your amp it operates in stereo allowing you to hear a lush and spacious CHORUS effect CHORUS SPEED KNOB Sets the speed of the CHORUS effect which controls how quickly the apparent pitch variations fluctuate with time Turn this knob down to the left for a slower rate or turn it up to the right for faster warbling sound CHORUS SWEEP KNOB Sets how much pitch variation occurs in the CHORUS effect Turning this knob up to the right causes the pitch variation of the choral voices to vary more noticeably and to deviate further from the pitch of the input guitar signal Turning the knob down to the left does the opposite making the chorus effect less prominent CHORUS DEPTH KNOB Sets the bala
52. ll sound more natural but might also let short bursts of noise pass through The optimum setting of this knob is very sensitive to your individual playing style and may even vary from song to song or passage to passage Spend time tweaking this control until it works for your picking style Well that s it for the controls of Studio Devil s Amp Modeler Pro pretty straightforward and simple But the main thing to remember is this is all about tone and getting a great sound Experiment with the controls until you find what you like And take your time to listen and play a while through your changes You will find that Studio Devil reacts just like real amps small changes in your settings add up to a very different feel and texture of your sound Keep tweaking until it s just right TUNER AND LEVEL METERS Ep Of course rockin out is what it s all about But 9 there are times when you need to check your i AMP MODELER PRO tune and to check your levels to make sure your pep tone is coming across loud and clear Thankfully 999990000909 Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro comes with O everything you need to keep your instrument in tune and to make sure that your input and le ER NA 123456 709090 output levels are set to get the most out of Your es sound To bring up the TUNER and LEVEL Ne Deve cambie Studio Devil amp Madese Pro meters click on the MORE button located just E EE ee ee a above the MASTER VOLUME control This bri
53. m Turn this knob down to the left for a slower rate or turn it up to the right for faster fluctuations PHASER SWEEP KNOB Sets how far the notch filter frequencies Sweep across the audible spectrum Turning the knob up to the right causes the notch filter frequencies to fluctuate across a large range of tones from deep bass to higher treble Turning the knob down to the left makes the notch filter frequencies fluctuate across much narrower extremes With the SWEEP knob turned all the way down fully to the left the filter notch frequencies don t move at all and remain fixed at their original frequencies PHASER DEPTH KNOB Sets how much the notch filters attenuate your signal at the notch filter frequencies This is done in the traditional PHASER style by controlling how much of the all pass filters are recombined with the original signal Turning this knob down to the left makes the notches in the spectrum less prominent and noticeable while turning this knob up to the right increases the notching effect of the filters With the DEPTH knob turned all the way down fully to the left the filter notches are so small they are hardly audible 4 8 12 STAGES SWITCH No this switch doesn t choose how many gigs you re going to play this month This switch selects the number of all pass stages used to make the notch filters for the PHASER effect In a traditional phaser two all pass stages are used to create each notch filter The PHASER
54. nce between the original guitar tone and the pitch varied choral voices allowing you to hear more or less of the CHORUS effect in proportion to the direct or dry input guitar signal Turn this knob up to the right to hear more of the pitch shifted choral voices or turn it down to the left to hear more of the input guitar signal A good balance is somewhere in the middle which allows the input signal and choral voices to mix well and interact producing the traditional CHORUS sound we usually look for 1 2 4 VOICE SWITCH The switch selects how many pitch shifted choral voices are used to generate the CHORUS effect This is like choosing how many people are in a choir the less you have the less of a choral effect you get The more you have the sweeter and more lush of a chorus effect you get at the expense of greater CPU power of course So set this switch where your ears and CPU can both live in blissful harmony Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 22 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners CHORUS DELAY KNOB This knob is used to set the overall delay of the choral voices with respect t
55. neering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners OO Studio Devil Product Activation EnterInstallCode DO Z http studiodevil com activate 5 Launch your web browser and go to N http www studiodevil com activate lid hd to display our product activation web EE EE SG ES ER ES EE page Enter or PASTE the INSTALL CODE you just obtained into the space provided and click GET LICENSE KEY Studio Devil Product Activation To activate your Studio Devil product please enter your INSTALL CODE into the space below NOTE This is NOT your serial number To get your install code launch your Studio Devil plug in and follow the product activation steps until your INSTALL CODE is displayed Then paste or type it into the space below and click Get License Key YOUR INSTALL CODE AQ94 SV3K AQM4 PH99 ex XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Copyright 2007 2008 Gallo Engineering LLC StudioDevil is a registered trademark of Gallo Engineering LLC Vacuum tube emulation and guitar tube amp plugins protected by U S Patent Pending All rights reserved VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Audio Units is a trademark of Apple Inc RTAS and ProTools are trademarks of Avid Inc SONAR is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems Inc All other trademarks and brand identities are used for descri
56. ners always turn the NOISE GATE back on afterwards For live use and rhythm guitar you usually want the noise gate ON to clean up your sound Like always experiment to find what s best for you NOISE GATE THRESHOLD KNOB This knob sets the level where the noise gate kicks in and it acts like a bouncer at a club It only lets signals through that are bigger than the threshold and it stops anything lower This is how you use it Turn the knob all the way counter clockwise to turn off the noise gate this lets all signals through loud and soft Then during a quiet passage of your track or while your guitar is plugged in and on but not playing anything turn the knob slowly to the right clockwise until you hear the hiss noise fade away If you hear some more noise later turn the knob up a little more to the right or if your guitar begins to cut off or sound choppy turn it down a bit to the left Be careful not to turn the THRESHOLD up too much or the gate won t let anything through even your guitar Well that was easy wasn t it NOISE GATE SLOPE KNOB This knob adjusts the smoothness of the noise gate as it opens up and clamps shut If you turn the SLOPE KNOB to the right the noise gate will open and close really sharply This will kill your noise more quickly but might sound too synthetic or choppy Turning the SLOPE KNOB down to the left will make the noise gate open and close more smoothly in response to your playing This wi
57. ngs NEE Bonding Al rights reserved up the MORE screen which displays your serial ELE EE EER REVERS Wa Co number the product version number and Studio EER LUP N Eie EN s Q Devils TUNER and input output LEVEL meters C A Z room ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE _ON LEVEL ON THRESH SLOPE Here s how to use them DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING TUNER See that arc of lamps panning across the upper left portion of the MORE screen Yep that s the TUNER METER And just below it just under the TUNING label is the TUNER KEY window The TUNER KEY window displays the musical note that your guitar tone is closest to and the TUNER METER indicates whether your note is sharp or flat and by how much Here s how to use the TUNER METER and TUNER KEY to tune your guitar First of all tuning is done one string at a time If you pluck two or more strings at the same time you will confuse the tuner and it won t know which tone to track You can start from any string and work along in any order you wish but you must work with one string at a time When you pluck the string pluck it normally not too strongly or too softly and let the note ring out or decay naturally while holding the note While the note decays turn your tuning peg to adjust the string tension If the note decays too much you may lose the tuning signal Pluck the string again let the note decay naturally and continue like this un
58. nk that is on disk CAUTION Once you click the SAVE BANK button your bank will be permanently overwritten and any presets you may have had in the original bank will be lost If you are not sure you should SAVE AS instead see SAVE AS BANKS below SAVE AS BANKS If you want to save a custom bank of presets without overwriting the current bank you can use SAVE AS to make a new bank using the current set of active presets First click on the bank SAVE AS button located underneath the bank SAVE button Clicking on this displays a file dialog requiring you to supply the filename of the bank The default location is the Desktop to make exporting banks easier see EXPORTING banks below You will need to change this to the Amp Modeler Pro banks folder listed above Make sure you are saving your new bank to the Studio Devil banks folder enter a new name for the bank and click OK Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro then creates a new bank XML file in the banks folder with the name you specify and writes your current 128 presets into this new bank To make it your active bank it now appears in your banks list when you go to change banks Select this new bank from the LOAD bank list and Amp Molder Pro sets it to your active bank Now whenever you save changes to your presets and decide to save the BANK you will be saving to this new copy instead of the original bank COPYING BANKS Sometimes it s safer to experiment with a copy of a bank instead of the o
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60. ntrols POWER AMP POWER is what guitar amps are all about The POWER AMP section controls the amount of compression and soft clipping that occurs in the power amp portion of real guitar amplifiers This is where you can set the amount of punch and drive to your tone The controls are simple nere s how POWER AMP SELECT SWITCH Here you ve got a 4 way switch with an OFF mode and three power amp models to choose from and each sounds just a little bit different Here s what s going on e OFF This switch setting disables the power amp emulation If you re using Studio Devil AMP with a real guitar power amp and cabinet you may want to choose this mode Also turning this switch to the OFF position gets more of a sound like recording direct which can sound pretty cool for some tracks Try your sound with and without the power amp to see what works best for you Remember the DRIVE KNOB has no effect in this mode and is disabled along with the power amp emulator e A TUBE CLASS A This mode mimics a Class A biased single power tube like the kind you would see in a small vintage combo amp You ll get asymmetrical clipping with this model which sounds kinda fuzzy and burnt out when turned up to high This can be cool for crunchy boxy rhythms and leads e AB TUBE CLASS AB By far this is the most common guitar power amp out there If you re not sure what to do with these POWER AMP controls you can t go wrong by just leaving this
61. o 11 It s one louder Flipping the BOOST switch gets you there flip it up for ON or down for OFF Here s a trick Even though a high gain knob setting with the boost switch off may have the same overall gain as a low gain knob setting with the boost switch on they will sound very different Try both to see what works best for your style of play TONE CONTROLS BASS MIDS TREB PRES These tone settings control the bass mid treble and presence frequencies between the preamp and power amp stages Although these knobs control the settings of the tone stack a circuit in tube amps that sets the tone of the guitar you can think of these controls as a simple four band EQ In actuality each amp model has a different tone circuit and you will find that these tone controls react differently when you change your choice of PREAMP But it s all about tone experiment until you find what works best for your sound PREAMP MODELS For those of you that like to know what amps are under the hood of Studio Devil the following is a list of the amplifiers that Amp Modeler Pro is designed to mimic and how to get them Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 13 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are
62. o allow even slower hosts to run the amp model in real time but if your driver is slow you ll still hear a lag Try ASIO drivers too they re sometimes faster REVERB amp DELAY In addition to the DELAY ECHO and AMBIENCE effects of AMP your host should come with some of the best reverbs and delays too You ll find that adding a little touch of your favorite ambiance reverb or guitar solo delay is really going to fatten up your tone try it There s not much else too it except to pick up your favorite axe and start laying down the best directly recorded guitars tracks of your life Remember when you sound good we all sound good Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 11 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners AMPLIFIER CABINET AND TONE SHAPING CONTROLS The controls of Studio Devil s Amp Modeler Pro are pretty easy to understand We designed them to be intuitive simple and easy so you can get the tone you want quickly and without having to flip through menus hidden screens or dragging effects around If you ve used a guitar amplifier before then you already know how to
63. o breathe some life into your track Here s how REVERB ON BUTTON Yep click once for ON click again for OFF It lights up amber when the REVERB is ON Pretty simple One thing to note here though if you re using another reverb that sounds great don t forget to click this button OFF you can save some CPU processing for other plug ins REVERB TYPE SWITCH Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro provides three popular reverb styles to choose from ROOM CLUB and HALL This switch lets you select which reverb type works best for your tone Here s more about what the three reverb modes sound like and what to expect ROOM This mode sounds like a really small room with some bright reflections It has a short decay time and mimics the live sound of a small practice space or amp room This works great with dry sounding cabinet impulses to give them a sense of dimension and life e CLUB This reverb is designed to sound like an averaged size club with some nice warm decay and moderate size This is probably the reverb you will use most of the time because it adds just the right amount of space and openness to your tone This mode works great even with cabinet impulses that already have some early reflections and ambience giving them the additional room and depth they might need e HALL Sometimes you just gotta feel like you re playing in a huge stadium with loads of long tailed reverb decay and that s exactly what the HALL reverb delivers
64. o the input signal and ranges from about 0 1 to 30 milliseconds The reason for this control is that the CHORUS effect will create a comb filtering effect much like a flanger if used without any delay time Adding some additional delay allows the CHORUS to sound less like a flanger and more like a well CHORUS Too much delay however will make the CHORUS feel like it has too much latency so Studio Devil gives you the option to choose the sweet spot that works best for you A good starting place is halfway with the knob at the 12 0 clock position FLANGER ER ERGER FLANGER pee A FLANGER effect comes from PHASER IDDA delaying your guitar signal slightly C on SPEED SWEEP DEPTH DELAY REGEN and then recombining it with the SE ot original signal to produce metallic and jet like swooshing sounds When a signal is delayed and then recombined with the original in this way a comb filtering effect results putting many filter notches into the guitar s spectrum The delay time in a FLANGER effect is fluctuated between two extremes to give the effect a sense of motion while the notch frequencies of the comb filtering effect move up and down the audible spectrum Many guitarists have made this effect famous and now you can too with Studio Devil Here s how to set your FLANGER up to work with your tone FLANGER ON BUTTON Click this button once to turn ON the FLANGER effect click it again to turn it OFF You will notice that
65. on that appears at the bottom of the list This pulls up a file dialog allowing you to select any bank XML file on your hard drive Find the file you want select it and click OK Amp Modeler Pro now loads that bank into the active bank You can also IMPORT this custom bank into your banks folder very easily from this menu too Choosing the Import menu option at the bottom of the list will load the bank file you select and will copy it into your banks folder so that it will then appear in your banks select list the next time you go to load a bank MIDI CONTROL Most audio host applications already have the ability to map MIDI control changes to effect plug in parameters For example if you want your keyboard parameter wheel to control the amplifier gain most audio hosts will let you map the controller wheel to the plug in s gain parameter The steps required to get this done vary from host to host so you should consult your audio host s documentation or contact the audio host provider for more information This is the best way to go but will require digging into your audio host s advanced features If this fails you can always use Studio Devil s built in MIDI learn function You first have to make sure that MIDI messages are passing through the channel that you have Studio Devil AMP inserted into Then you can have Studio Devil learn to map MIDI control messages to knobs on its front panel all by itself here s how LEARN MI
66. oom acoustics and a heftier processor load It s up to you slide it until your ears and processor tell you it s right Note The markings for each position of the switch represent the size of your impulse response in samples not that you really need to know but it s there just in case HIGHEND SIZZLE KNOB Whether it s a veggie burger or a steak sandwich the sound of sizzle usually means something good is on the way not always true with guitar tone though High frequencies can sound bad with high gain guitar so Studio Devil AMP gives you a knob to tame them Usually a good speaker cabinet impulse model does the job of removing them but not all impulse files you find and use will remove enough of these sometimes annoying ultra high frequencies Also who knows you might actually find a tone that sounds good with a lot of these high frequencies In either case Studio Devil AMP gives you control of them with the HIGHEND SIZZLE KNOB turn it up clockwise for more sizzling high end or turn it down counter clockwise for a darker and deeper tone USING IMPORTING NEW CABINET IMPULSES Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro comes with a set of cabinet impulse files to help you get started with cabinet modeling But before long we re Sure that you will be downloading purchasing or even making your own impulse files to add to your Studio Devil cabinet library So we made adding and managing impulse files within your impulse library easier th
67. operate Studio Devil AMP But just in case you want to know more here s a description of the controls what they do and how to use them to sculpt your tone PREAMP SELECTION PREAMP MODEL 298 0 0 ON HI FI LO CUT DEEP BRIGHT GAIN The PREAMP is where all the guitar magic happens This is the part of a tube amp that has the preamp tubes and tone circuits and it s where most of your guitar tone and distortion comes from But unlike simple distortion effects preamplifiers made with real tubes have a dynamic behavior and distortion characteristics that change and react to your playing style Studio Devil s patented tube emulation processor captures these subtle nuances and puts them under your control in Amp Modeler Pro s PREAMP SELECTION panel Here you can select which tube preamp you want to play though and set some options to customize your sound Here s how they work PREAMP SELECT TEXT BOX Amp Modeler Pro comes with several different preamps to choose from To select the preamp that s right for you just click on the red text area where you see the preamp name or on the small down arrow that appears next to it This pulls up the preamp select menu where you will be able to choose from the list of Studio Devil s built in preamps Now just click on the name of the preamp you want to try and away you go Not bad eh There are countless playing styles covered by these preamps And there is a lot of overl
68. ou re computer won t turn into a black and white TV with paddle controllers that plays table tennis but your guitar might sound like it Flipping this switch to PONG MODE selects the PING PONG delay In PING PONG mode the echoes bounce from left to right and back again as they decay sounding a lot like you re watching a tennis match PONG MODE brings out the stereo image of your guitar sound and can sound really interesting with short delay times And with longer delay times and higher repeat settings you can get some sweet cavernous echoes Try this mode on a solo so sweet NOTE PONG mode does not work with the PRE POST switch set to the PRE position the PRE position is a mono effect chain which does not support the stereo effect of PONG mode Make sure you set the PRE POST switch to POST if you want to hear the effects of PONG mode ECHO STYLE KNOB This is the coolest knob of the DELAY ECHO section It allows you to choose between an analog delay style a tape echo style a digital delay style or sweep anywhere in between By controlling the filtering of the feedback path in the delay each of these unique styles can be selected Turning the knob all the way to the left selects ANALOG DELAY mode which has echoes that become increasingly darker as they repeat just like in an old analog delay If you turn this knob to the middle 12 o clock position you can choose TAPE ECHO mode where the echoes become progressively nasal as they repeat thro
69. placed into the sub folder in which the Import option was selected so be sure to click Import from the sub menu in which you want the impulse file to later appear For more advanced impulse file organization such as moving deleting or renaming impulse files refer to the ADDING AND MANGING YOUR IMPULSE FILES section below CABINET IMPULSE Recabinet_1 05 Demo Studio Devil Load Impulse Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 16 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners ADDING AND MANAGING YOUR IMPULSE FILES When you click on the CABINET SELECT TEXT BOX Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro searches its application impulses folder and all of its subfolders for any WAV AIFF files that may be stored there and then displays them in the CABINET IMPULSE drop down select menu enabling you to choose which impulse file you want to load into the CABINET IMPULSE processor The nice thing about this feature is that any files or subfolders you create inside the Studio Devil AMP impulses folder will appear as sub menus in the drop down select menu maintaining your o
70. ptive purposes only and remain the property of their respective owners GOG EE ET GESIE EE EE ES 6 The Studio Devil web server will now respond with your LICENSE KEY Write down or COPY your LICENSE KEY You will need it for the next step a EE TEE N N ET AN Your License Key Request Is Approved Here is your LICENSE KEY Please copy this LICENSE KEY or write it down You will need to paste or type it back into your Studio Devil plug in during the next activation step to unlock your product and complete your product activation Copyright 2007 2008 Gallo Engineering LLC StudioDevil is a registered trademark of Gallo Engineering LLC Vacuum tube emulation and guitar tube amp plugins protected by U S Patent Pending Al rights reserved VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Audio Units is a trademark of Apple Inc RTAS and ProTools are trademarks of Avid inc SONAR is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems Inc All other trademarks and brand identities are used for descriptive purposes only and remain the property of their respective owners Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 7 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
71. quency bands go from bass lows to treble highs The frequencies for each band are specifically chosen to work well with guitar and bass but they can be adjusted to one of three different setups see the EQ TYPE SWITCH below for more information about choosing which set of frequencies work best for your instrument and style LEVEL SLIDER The rightmost graphic EQ slider controls the overall LEVEL of the EQ s output This comes in useful to balance the overall volume of your guitar between EQ ON and EQ OFF settings Sometimes a radical EQ setting can really make your volume too loud or too soft The LEVEL SLIDER allows you to compensate for this so that your volume can remain consistent even with drastic EQ settings Another useful trick is to set the EQ sliders all in the middle for no tonal change and use the LEVEL slider just to control the overall volume output Either way the LEVEL slider lets you set your output volume only when the EQ is enabled GRAPHIC EQ TYPE SWITCH This three position switch lets you choose from three different sets of frequency bands for the graphic EQ Each has a slightly different effect on your tone and you might want to experiment with all three settings to see which one gives you the exact control you re looking for The table below lists the three different EQ TYPES and their corresponding frequency bands EQ TYPE SWITCH POSITION EQ SLIDER CENTER FREQUENCIES BOTTOM DOWN 63Hz 125Hz 250Hz 500Hz 1kHz 2kHz
72. r guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 25 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners sound is special because as the tremolo fluctuates the variations in gain make your guitar sound like there is a variation in distortion just like if you were to turn your guitar knob up and down in a back and forth manner Because tube amps distort loud signals more than soft signals putting your TREMOLO effect in the PRE position makes the distortion vary in this way Note Since a tube amp is only mono you will lose the stereo effect of the PANNER mode see TREMOLO PANNER SWITCH below If you really need a stereo PANNER effect switch to POST mode instead e POST Selecting the POST position places your TREMOLO effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting a TREMOLO pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like having a rack mount effects processor applied to a recorded track in the studio Using the tremolo in this mode makes sure that your amplifier s distortion is applied to your signal before the tremolo effect so that the gain variations will
73. r trademarks are property of their respective owners EXPORTING BANKS Let s say you ve been making a whole bunch of killer tones in your custom bank And now you want to share them with friends band mates producers engineers or whomever Well Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro makes this really easy You can export your bank To EXPORT a BANK just click on the bank SAVE AS button located underneath the bank SAVE button Clicking on this displays a file dialog requiring you to supply the filename of the bank The default location is the Desktop to make finding your exported banks easier Enter a new name for the bank and click OK Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro then creates a new bank XML file in the desktop or folder you specified with the name you specify and writes your current 128 presets into this new bank You can now copy email post and share this file with everyone They can now import this bank into their own copies of Studio Devil AMP and indulge in your custom tones LOADING AND IMPORTING BANKS You re not limited to loading banks from the banks folder only Let s say your friend just emailed you a bank xml file that he wants to share with you You save it on your desktop and now you want to use it Easy Click on the BANK NAME box located to the right of the preset controls This displays a drop down menu allowing you to select which of the available banks to load Instead of clicking on a bank name click on the Load menu opti
74. rforms a high quality sample rate conversion every time you load a new impulse into the cabinet processor to make sure it matches the sample rate of your interface while leaving the original impulse file intact Yes we know you love us We love you too MORE ABOUT CABINET IMPULSES So what is all this cabinet impulse stuff anyway Well this is probably best explained by describing how cabinet impulses are made and how they are used So here goes When a cabinet impulse is made the first thing that is done is a guitar cabinet microphone and room acoustics are all set up to achieve a good tone just like you would if you were about to record a real track in a real studio Then once things are sounding just right a short tick or pop is played through the cabinet to record the way in which that particular setup responds to a short electrical burst The recorded response to this short tick is Known as the impulse response for that particular setup Every setup has a different impulse response if you move the mic change the speaker do it in another room change anything at all then you have a different impulse response just like a fingerprint unique to that particular setup The impulse response is basically just a recorded audio file typically saved in WAV or AIFF format and it s usually pretty short After all it s just the recording of a short tick played though a speaker in a room They can be mono or stereo depending
75. riginal so in case anything goes wrong you always have the original as a backup This is where copying a bank comes in handy To copy a BANK just click on the bank SAVE AS button located underneath the bank SAVE button Clicking on this displays a file dialog requiring you to supply the filename of the bank The default location is the Desktop to make exporting banks easier see EXPORTING banks below You will need to change this to the Amp Modeler Pro banks folder listed above Make sure you are saving your new bank to the Studio Devil banks folder enter a new name for the bank and click OK Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro then creates a new bank XML file in the banks folder with the name you specify and writes your current 128 presets into this new bank To make it your active bank it now appears in your banks list when you go to change banks Select this new bank from the LOAD bank list and Amp Molder Pro sets it to your active bank Now whenever you save changes to your presets and decide to save the BANK you will be saving to this new copy instead of the original bank Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 33 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All othe
76. riginal file organization and making it easier for you to find impulses as your library gets bigger The Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro impulses folder can be found at the following locations On Mac Library Application Support StudioDevil AMP impulses On PC c Program Files StudioDevil AMP Impulses If you want to use your own WAV AIFF impulse files with the CABINET IMPULSE processor simply drag them into these folders and they will magically appear in the drop down select menus of the CABINET SELECT TEXT BOX How cool is that But wait there s more When your collection of impulse files gets large you might want to group them into sub menus to make them easier to find and use That s no problem To make impulses appear in a sub menu of your cabinet processor drop down select menu simply create a new sub folder within the Studio Devil impulse folder shown above and drag your impulse files into it The name that you give to this sub folder will be used to name the sub menu in the drop down list It s that simple If you need to rename delete or move any impulse files around simply rename delete or move the associated impulse file as you would any other file and the changes will be automatically reflected in the CABINET SELECT TEXT BOX the next time you go to select a new cabinet Also you don t need to worry about the original sample rates of your WAV AIFF impulse files Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro automatically pe
77. rtual amplifiers that can be built with this technology When you play through Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro you will notice that it responds just like a real tube amp The tone is rich simple and inspiring And the dynamic gain structure reacts to your fingers and picking style allowing expressive playing just like the real thing You ll be amazed at how good your tone sounds playing through Studio Devil s virtual tube amplifiers Until now digital never sounded so analog So enjoy the newly found warmth of digital enjoy Studio Devil INSTALLING AND ACTIVATING YOUR PLUG IN INSTALLING YOUR STUDIO DEVIL PLUG IN If you purchased your Studio Devil plug in as a download then you will first need to open and extract the downloaded ZIP file for Windows users or DMG file for Mac OSX users If you purchased your Studio Devil plug in on DVD CD ROM just insert the disc into your CD DVD drive and open its folder to access the installation files After opening your CD DVD drive folder or unzipping your download you will see two installers For Windows double click Setup exe to begin the installation On Mac systems double click the Mac Installer mpkg to begin the installation Installation of your Studio Devil plug in is pretty straightforward The only key point is that in some cases you will need to know or specify where your Studio Devil plug in will be installed Your Studio Devil plug in is installed into the followin
78. s is not necessarily a problem it really depends on how it sounds to you After all clipping is something that amps are designed to do in the first place so getting some output signal clipping may not be a bad thing But too much output clipping usually sounds bad and so to help you avoid this the CLIP LIGHT gives you a heads up to when it s starting to happen WAH WAH FILTER One thing is for sure it tough to talk about guitar without getting into the WAH WAH What s a wah wah Well it s one of those stomp boxes that looks like a big overgrown gas pedal you wiggle your foot on it from heel to toe to control that cry baby sound that so many guitarists have made famous Well Studio Devil loves the WAH WAH just as much as the next guy and so we just had to add one into Amp Modeler Pro A wah wah pedal is basically a band pass filter placed between your guitar and amp and the wah wah s pedal adjusts the filter s center frequency All wah wahs are slightly different using various center frequency ranges and band pass filter widths The WAH WAH filter in Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro is modeled after a wah wah made by a three letter brand that starts with V and ends with X It s one that we liked the best and found it to be the most versatile for classic sounds Here s how to use it ON BUTTON Click this button to turn the WAH WAH ON or click it again to turn it OFF The button lights up red when the
79. sets are reloaded from your selected bank EDITING BANKS Once you make a change to a PRESET in a bank and SAVE it you will notice a small star or asterisk gets placed after the BANK name This is a reminder that the current bank does not match the one on disk This is OK if you are only working with one project session because your host application will always use this modified copy of the bank whenever you reload your project After all you might want to make a change to the bank in a current project but not make a permanent change on disk However if you want your changes to be available every time you start a new project in all audio hosts you will need to make them permanent and save the bank to disk see SAVING BANKS below SAVING BANKS Once you make changes to your bank in a project session in your host you will need to save them to make them available to new sessions For example if you edited your bank while working on one song you might want to have those changes available when you start a new song or project in your host For this you need to either SAVE your bank or SAVE AS Saving your bank is easiest Just click on the SAVE bank button located to the right of the BANK name Once you click on this button the current set of 128 presets gets overwritten to the bank file on disk using the bank name as the filename The asterisk star next to the BANK name is cleared indicating that the current bank now reflects the ba
80. t the notch filter frequencies of the left channel sweep out of phase with those of the right channel increasing while the others are decreasing and vice versa This has the effect of two voices operating out of phase with each other and creates a nice stereo effect In MONO mode the notch filter frequencies of both right and left channels Sweep in unison creating a mono sounding effect TREMOLO GOORSE O PANNER FLANGER PHASER The TREMOLO effect causes a variation in volume or gain of your guitar signal Sometimes this is called vibrato and it sounds like an old surfer tweed classic amp The effect can range from a subtle pulsation to a quick fluttering sound Here are the controls that let you set this effect exactly the way you like it TREMOLO ON BUTTON Click this button once to turn ON the TREMOLO effect click it again to turn it OFF You will notice that the TREMOLO indicator light located to the left of the TREMOLO label turns on and off in unison with the ON BUTTON This allows you to see if the TREMOLO effect is on or off even when the TREMOLO setup panel is not selected and visible TREMOLO PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the TREMOLO effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Here s more about these two choices e PRE Selecting the PRE position places your TREMOLO effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using a TREMOLO pedal connected between you
81. tely mimics these amps it also suffers from the same noise problems You can try to keep this down to a minimum by using professional pickups and high quality sound interfaces but even the best equipment won t eliminate noise entirely It s just a part of tube amplifier life But not to worry You can use the built in noise gate to tame that annoying hiss and get the quiet guitar tracks you re after Here s a description of the noise gate s controls and how to use them NOISE GATE ON BUTTON Click ON click OFF This button lights up amber when the NOISE GATE is enabled and running If you have another noise gate plug in that you like better and want to save some processing power or if you just like the sound of good ol tube hiss then click this switch OFF Note Sometimes even the best noise gate can interfere with sustained notes and intentional feedback you should track with the noise gate off to allow notes to ring out more and to get that natural feedback tone that happens with high gain sounds you can Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 28 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective ow
82. th sound very different so try it both ways PRE Selecting the PRE position places your EQ effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using an EQ or tone pedal connected between your guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The sound is special because this makes the EQ affect the tone of your guitar BEFORE it gets distorted In a way having your EQ in front of your amp allows you to control what frequencies get distorted more than others You can even get the nasal and moaning tones usually associated with wah wah effects There s a lot to explore here so have fun e POST Selecting the POST position places your EQ effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting an EQ pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like adding EQ effects to the tone of a recorded track in the studio This is different from the PRE position because is affects the tone of your guitar AFTER it gets distorted In this position the EQ shapes the tonal color of your distortion leaving your amplifier to choose how your guitar is distorted It is very different from the PRE position so you should try them both to see what works for the tone you are looking for GRAPHIC EQ SLIDERS Each of the graphic EQ s seven sliders starting from the left lets you adjust the boost or cut for frequencies within a certain band Slide the handle up for a boost slide it down to cut or set it in the middle for no effect Going from left to right the fre
83. the FLANGER indicator light located to the left of the FLANGER label turns on and off in unison with the ON BUTTON This allows you to see if the FLANGER effect is on or off even when the FLANGER setup panel is not selected and visible FLANGER PRE POST SWITCH This switch selects where the FLANGER effect sits in your effects chain either in front of your amp PRE or after your amp POST Here s more about these two choices e PRE Selecting the PRE position places your FLANGER effect BEFORE your guitar amp This is like using a FLANGER pedal connected between your guitar cord and the front input jack of your tube amp The sound in this position is special because the FLANGER effect will affect your guitar BEFORE it gets distorted by your amp model Note Since a tube amp is only mono you will lose the stereo effect of the FLANGER see MONO BUTTON below If you really need a stereo FLANGER effect switch to POST mode instead e POST Selecting the POST position places your FLANGER effect AFTER your guitar amp This is like putting a FLANGER pedal in an amplifier send return loop or like having a rack mount effects processor applied to a recorded track in the studio Using the FLANGER in this mode makes sure that your amplifier s distortion is applied to your signal before the FLANGER effect fluctuating the tone of your guitar s distortion without changing how it distorts Also since the POST mode applies the FLANGER effect after your amp
84. through 128 and is stored in an XML file Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro looks for these bank files in the following locations Mac Library Application Support StudioDevil AMP Banks PC C Program Files StudioDevil AMP Banks When you start a new project in your audio host only the banks located in these folder locations will be available to Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro AMP loads the banks stored at these locations for use in your project so whenever you want some sounds to be available to any new project you begin you will need to update these banks or add bank XML files to these folders Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 32 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners LOADING BANKS To load a new bank click on the BANK NAME box located to the right of the preset controls This displays a drop down menu allowing you to select which of the available banks to load This list is populated by what files Amp Modeler Pro finds in the banks folder so you must have your banks located there in order to load them Once a bank is loaded the name of the file is shown in the BANK NAME box and all 128 pre
85. til you are in tune Because you need to turn the tuning keys while the note is sustaining most people use open string notes or harmonics to tune their instrument Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 29 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners Begin by plucking a musical note on one string of your instrument Typically this is an open string but it can be any note at all Once it s struck you will see the note appear in the TUNER KEY window of the Studio Devil tuner If you are picking an open string and using standard tuning you should see one of the following notes in the TUNER KEY window 1st String 2nd String 3rd String Ath String oth String 6th String mr gt roguam Regardless of which tuning you use or which note you pluck if the note that appears in the TUNER KEY window does not match the one that you expect then you need to tune up or down to get it close before you can move on For example say you pluck the open E string and the TUNER KEY window displays an F In this case you will need to tune down until the TUNER KEY window displays an E before you can fine tune that s
86. to STEREO mode This button lights up blue when the FLANGER is in MONO mode When the PRE POST switch is in the PRE position the FLANGER operates in mono only and so this button has no effect But when using the FLANGER in POST mode stereo operation is possible and the FLANGER can be switched from mono to stereo using this button In stereo mode two separate delay buffers are used one for the left channel and one for the right channel For the stereo effect the delay time of the left channel sweeps out of phase with the delay time of the right channel increasing while the other are decreases and vice versa This has the effect of two comb filters operating out of phase with each other and creates a nice stereo FLANGER effect In MONO mode the delay times of both right and left channels sweep in unison creating a mono sounding effect FLANGER PHASE BUTTON Click this button ON or OFF to toggle between positive and negative feedback In one mode the FLANGER will sound metallic in the other mode the FLANGER will sound jet like Push this button to choose the mode that turns you on the most PHASER Is CHORUS PQST 7 oa a 2 FLANGER AAS No you are not a captain of a PHASER 1 starship your friend does not have TREMOLO on SPEED SWEEP DEPTH he EE REGEN pointed ears and this PHASER is never set for stun The PHASER effect tries to mimic the sound of a flanger by using notch filters instead of delays It was created a long time ago
87. trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners ADDING NEW PREAMP MODELS Underneath the simple controls of Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro is a fully programmable preamplifier emulation engine The preamp models that are available in the PREAMP SELECT TEXT BOX drop down menu are just a few of the possibilities that the Studio Devil engine is capable of reproducing In the future more preamps will be made available for you to add into the Studio Devil preamp library so be sure to check out our website from time to time at www studiodevil com The Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro preamp library is located in the following folders Mac Library Application Support StudioDevil AMP Preamps PC C Program Files StudioDevil AMP Preamps Each preamp model is stored in an XML file which contains all of the parameters that define it and make it unique When new preamps are made available they will be distributed in similar XML files that you will be able to download and copy into the Studio Devil preamp library folders above This will add these new models to the PREAMP SELECT TEXT BOX the next time you click on it to select a preamp You don t need to worry about this now but we just wanted you to know that when you purchased Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro you invested in a platform that will expand and grow Thanks for choosing Studio Devil and for choosing to grow with us Now on to more co
88. tring Once the correct musical note appears in the TUNER KEY window you can then use the TUNER METER to fine tune your string precisely You will notice that the TUNER METER is an arc of lamps with a single RED lamp in the center When the RED lamp is lit your string is perfectly in tune If the TUNER METER displays a lamp to the LEFT of the center RED lamp then your string is flat and needs to be tuned up Likewise if the TUNER METER displays a lamp to the RIGHT of the center RED lamp then your string is sharp and needs to be tuned down The amount of sharpness or flatness of your string is indicated by how far from the center the TUNER METER displays the lamp indicator If you are new to tuners this process may take some getting used to but if you are already accustomed to them then you ll feel right at home with the Studio Devil tuner we designed it to be familiar and easy Once the TUNER METER hovers about the RED lamp consistently your string is tuned and you can move on to the next one Repeat the process for each string until all your strings are in tune Then play a chord and thank the tuning gods for the awesomeness of tone Now that wasn t too bad eh LEVEL METERS The INPUT and OUTPUT LEVEL meters are located just above the Studio Devil Logo Each meter uses three lamps to indicate the strength of the input and output signals and they work just like a traffic light GREEN means GO YELLOW means you re still OK but watch out and
89. u are finished click NEXT EE N KEER 2 9 DEEP 2 GA sd a ACTIVATE YOUR PRODUCT STEP 4 Enter or paste your LICENSE KEY below FAST 128 256 IK JYPN JYNS H76E GJQW ORM FILTER MEE d BACK PASTE vi vi N GE 9 FLANGER p Jie m e I j 5 e PHASER Ne 4 MONO ON AMT ATTK MODE srk Move TREMOLO ETECO SWEEP DEPTH STAGES REGEN ECHO Pre G CET ERB GATE SA lt Pla aa E CLUB ROOM ON PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON LEVEL ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUR M TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 8 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners 9 That s it Your Studio Devil plug in is now activated Click START ROCKIN to begin using Studio Devil COMPRESSOR area TR BAN EE ee BA mg N SAVE IMPORT ka N LOAD SAVE AS EXPORT I LO oe s9 EE KITT E SAVE AS PRODUCT ACTIVATED Your product is now activated Thanks for choosing Studio Devil START ROCKIN gt Al vi N FLANGER oy OE ed a PHASER 4 MONO STA AGES REGEN ECHO m m Pr G VERB GATE e HALL ATATA si
90. ugh a band pass filter Or if you turn the STYLE knob all the way to the right you can get DIGITAL DELAY mode which puts no filtering on the repeats allowing each one to sound exactly like a digital copy of the previous one But the nice thing is that you can sweep in between these styles Just give this knob a whirl until you get the sound that gets you jamming REVERB Reverb is the thing that makes your guitar sound like it s in a real live space Without reverb guitar sounds dry and lifeless Natural reverb usually comes from the kind of room that a guitar amp sits in when it s recorded Sometimes you want just a little reverb in a small room or 4 sometimes you want a lot of reverb in a large room Sometimes you don t want any at all it just depends on yY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO your taste But the cool thing is that Studio Devil Amp Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 27 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners Modeler Pro gives you three superb guality reverb algorithms letting you add just the right amount and type of reverb that works for you Dial some of this in if you want t
91. ut there and we want you to be able to use them to get your sound with Studio Devil If you decide to use a third party cabinet or impulse modeler or if you want to use Studio Devil AMP live with a real guitar cabinet you will need to turn this button OFF to disable the Studio Devil cabinet processor That way you won t get the clashing effects of two speaker cabinets running together But unless you re using another cabinet emulator or playing live though a real guitar cabinet you ll usually want to leave this button ON NORM FAST SWITCH This switch allows you to remove the latency or delay that might be found in some of the impulse files you use The cabinet impulse files that come with Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro are already trimmed to provide zero latency so most times you will want to leave this switch in the NORM position However when you start to download impulse files from the Internet or begin to record your own impulse files you might find that some will introduce an internal latency or delay to your guitar sound This delay can come from the position of the microphone that was used to record the impulse or can be because the original impulse file wasn t properly trimmed before saved as a WAV file In either case flip the NORM FAST switch to the FAST position and Studio Devil AMP will convert your impulse file to a minimum phase version that strips the latency off This process might change the sound of your impulse model sl
92. ut you are limited to using it on one machine ata time If you plan on using this software on multiple machines at the same time you will need to purchase additional serial numbers Contact customer support at Support studiodevil com if you need to request additional license keys or if your activation fails The following are step by step instructions on how to activate your plug in and get you up and running quickly 1 Insert your Studio Devil plug in into EE ae as EE your host application and open it f save AS ExPoRT SAVE AS If you are running the plug in for EED the first time you will see the following screen EENS X x ACTIVATE YOUR PRODUCT z If you do not have a serial number CABINET iM STEP 1 Enter your SERIAL NUMBER below you may run the demo mode Enter serial number version of the plug in by clicking jw s RUN AS DEMO If you choose to 4 RUN AS DEMO COMPRESSOR purchase a serial number ata later f PA Ve FLANGER JISY 1 ee 2 A time you can resume this y PHASER Er died activation by clicking MORE from ET ATTK MODE TREMOLO Ad Si c IE TH STAGES REGEN CH Pr G E WE 3 P GATE demo mode lm Il P Nea ri r j cS 4 N PRE DELAY REPEAT LEVEL NORM STYLE ON f ON THRESH SLOPE DIGITAL VACUUM TUBE TECHNOLOGY amp EFFECTS BY GALLO ENGINEERING 2 When you are ready to begin enter your serial number and click NEXT Ki i n SAVE IMPORT a De u LOAD
93. ut you might be disappointed if you try to use it on tracks that have already been recorded with another tube amp just like you d probably be disappointed if you plugged the output of one tube amp into the input of another We don t want to discourage experimentation but we have a good idea of what works here direct guitar works best Also few singers plug mics into Marshall half stacks but hey you never know The best part is you can always undo whatever you try with the click of the mouse Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro User s Guide Page 10 of 35 2009 2010 Gallo Engineering PLLC All rights reserved Amp Modeler Pro Studio Devil AMP Studio Devil and the Studio Devil logo are trademarks of Gallo Engineering PLLC Marshall is a trademark of Marshall Amplification VST and the VST logo are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH All other trademarks are property of their respective owners SETUP TIPS Here are a few tips about setting up your Studio Devil plug in for the best sound HI Z INPUT Always use a good quality sound card interface with a Hi Z input The Hi Z input allows you to connect a guitar directly with a 1 4 guitar cord without degrading the guitar s output signal If you don t already have a sound interface with a Hi Z or Instrument input invest in one you ll need it SETTING A GOOD LEVEL The idea here is to get the highest possible input signal without clipping your sound

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