Line 6 Flextone Cab 212S user manual INTRODUCTION1, FLEXTONE! Meet the Flextone, Tubetone Modeling

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INTRODUCTION: FLEXTONE! MEET THE FLEXTONE....

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FLEXTONE! MEET THE FLEXTONE....

Thanks for buying a Flextone, the flexible Digital Guitar Amplifier System with the killer tone (and you were wondering how we came up with the name). There’s a bunch of stuff we have to talk about and only a few pages to do it in, so let’s jump right in and get started.

What makes the Flextone so different from every other guitar amp? It’s...

TUBETONE™ MODELING

Well, just what is it, and why is it so important? (By the way, you sent in that registration card, right? OK, just checking.)

Tubes, we can all agree, are the heart and soul of every legendary guitar amp and are responsible for the warm, harmonic-rich tone quality of those amps. Solid state devices (transistors) are simply unable to duplicate tube warmth and performance. And “hybrids” – a tube in a circuit along with a bunch of transistors – are really a vain attempt at warming up a transistor-based tone. They fall short in any comparison to a 100% tube circuit. So that’s it – tubes or nothin’, right? Well, not any more....

You see, the engineers at Line 6, being an adventurous lot, and totally pumped about this whole guitar tone thing as well, decided to stock up on the coffee, bust out the engineering equipment, and get down to learning everything there is to know about tubes. Riding high on the caffeine wave, they began a three-year project to analyze and map out exactly how different types of tubes respond under various conditions typical of guitar amplifier design. How tubes process an input signal, how the signal is colored and shaped, at what point it begins to distort, the quality and characteristic of the distortion – complicated stuff, but all analyzable as electronic data. A guitar pickup output, after all, is an electronic signal, and tubes are really just a complex form of signal processing.

Having sussed it all out, the Line 6 engineers were then able to apply their digital expertise to develop software which simulates the tube and other circuitry’s signal processing entirely within the digital domain. Cool, huh?

This revolutionary software-based modeling technology, called TubeTone, gives

Line 6 the power to create butt-kickin’ Digital Guitar Amplifier Systems like the

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Contents Floor Board and FB4 Page Serial no Page Grand Tour Page Quick Start Guide MANUAL? I DON’T Need no Stinking ManualRegister and GET Great Free Stuff GET ON-LINE INTRODUCTION1 FLEXTONE! Meet the FlextoneTubetone Modeling AMP Models Front Panel Controls Grand TourChannel Select Switches A, B, C, D You use these Grand Tour Front Panel Controls Rear Panel USE the Right Cable Effects Send and Return HD folks, see . For allFlextone Flavors Which Amps are MODELED? Modeled AmpsModeled Amps Which Amps are MODELED? Modeled Amps Which Amps are MODELED? Modeled Amps Which Amps are MODELED? Flextone Signature Sounds Modeled Amps Flextone Signature Sounds Onboard Effects Flextone EffectsFlextone Effects Onboard Effects Flextone Effects Onboard Effects Combined Effects Delay/ChorusUsing the Manual Channel Features Using the Channel MemoriesCreating & Storing Sounds Edit Mode Preset Reset Button Page THAT’S Using Your Feet Using the Floor Board with the FlextoneGetting Connected Channel Select Mode TWO ModesBanks Manual Mode Editing and Saving Setups with the Floor BoardChannel Select Tap Tempo TunerWah Pedal Effect ON/OFF Mode Volume PedalDistortion Drive/BoostTrem/Chorus Delay Effect On/Off Settings Stored With Programmed ChannelsReverb Using the FB4 with the Flextone Flextone HD Inside Your HeadFront Panel Heat Sinks and Fans Fans and What Makes Them GOEffects Loop Series VS. Parallel Making Connections Using the Effects LoopSetting Effect Levels Direct OutputsDirect Output Level Take a Load OFF MONO/STEREO DetailFeeling UNBALANCED? Floor BOARD, More MEMORIES, & Midi Midi OUTMore Memory Midi Program Change & Flextone Channels Things to Remember with MidiMidi Continuous Control Midi Program Changes & Flextone Channels Visual Aid Cabinet HOOK-UPS Volume LevelsCarrying a Load Flextone HD Power OutputOPEN-BACK /CLOSED-BACK Emulation Cabinet ChoicesTypical 16 Ohm Wiring Setup Rewiring 16 OHM CabinetsHD Cabinet HOOK-UP Drawings 715 HD Cabinet HOOK-UP Drawings 717 HD Cabinet HOOK-UP Drawings 719 HD Cabinet HOOK-UP Drawings This page should be Left Blank do not Print this Text Appendix a AMP Models Appendix B Effect Parameters WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? Flextone Design TeamFlextone Manual was brought to you by Index Fans Flextone HD Manual Mode 23, 51, 52 Closed-back cabinet Tone emulation with HD This page should be Left Blank do not Print this Text
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