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VINTAGER AC112
FOREWORDDear Customer,
Welcome to the team of VINTAGER users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in
BEHRINGER products by purchasing the AC112.
It is one of my most pleasant tasks to write this letter to you, because it is the culmination of many months of
hard work delivered by our engineering team to reach a very ambitious goal: To present you with a really
out-of-the-ordinary vintage guitar workstation.
What remains indispensable on the stage is the musical expression a good amplifier must reproduce with full
detail. For this reason, we did not simply install a triode stage in a solid-state amplifier, but implemented the
proven UTC circuitry from our studio processors. Thus, we achieved a particularly musical compression effect,
open sound and gradual shift to the upper harmonics spectrum, which could be produced before by pure-tube
amplifiers only. So, your playing dynamics and personal sound will not be confined in the amplifier but will be
reproduced and inspired even further. In particular, we made sure that the AC112 will give you lots of fun with its
intuitive user interface, so that you can focus entirely on playing your guitar.
The task to design the VINTAGER certainly meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by
focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. It also meant a lot of work and night shifts to accomplish
this goal. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great
feeling it is when everybody who participated in such a project can be proud of what weve achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our joy with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER
family. With your highly competent suggestions for new products youve greatly contributed to shaping our
company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality as well as excellent
technical and audio properties at an extremely favorable price. All of this will enable you to fully unfold your
creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we can make it possible to produce such high-grade devices at such unbelievably low
prices. The answer is quite simple: its you, our customers! Many satisfied customers, mean large sales
volumes enabling us to get better conditions of purchase for components, etc. Isnt it only fair to pass this
benefit back to you? Because we know that your success is our success too!
I would like to thank the following people, whose help on Project VINTAGER has made it all possible:
sThe existing users of BEHRINGER equipment, whose comments and suggestions have made them the
most important members of the BEHRINGER design team,
sJan, whose passionate work has made the VINTAGER a revolutionary vintage guitar workstation,
sThorsten who designed this marvelous manual,
sVolker and C.W. for the fine mechanics,
sand all the others, who have made very personal contributions.
My friends, its been worth the trouble!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer