Mesa/Boogie DC3 manual Output Level, Graphic EQ

MASTER: (Continued)

NOTE: When trying to use your DC-3at extremely low volume levels it will be necessary to reduce the far left Gain control. Once the Masters and Output Levels has been reduced to roughly 1.5 , reducing the Masters or Output Level below this point causes phase interaction that prevents a clean signal from passing through this circuit junction. If you must use your DC-3at whisper levels to practice late at night etc...get used to reducing the Gain as well as the Masters and Output levels. This effect is most noticeable in the Rhythm channel set for a crystal clean sound. In the Lead channel set for a high gain sound the interaction effect is greatly reduced and virtually unnoticeable.

OUTPUT LEVEL:

This lonely knob is the DC-3’sfinal Output knob or overall master. After the relative balance of the two channels has been set with the channel MASTER Controls, use this OUTPUT LEVEL Control to increase or decrease the listening volume. It is also the Effects Return Level control, a point we thought you should know. This

				RHYTHM	ON ON	design element makes setting up a lot easier and gives you one
	0					less knob to deal with when interfacing to your favorite effects.
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2		9
3		7	8			rock, but generally the DC-3sounds best with a setting some-
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LEVEL

GRAPHIC EQ:

The five band graphic provides limitless additional shaping of the already curvacious tone. It is bypassable and channel assignable. It is also footswitchable manually via the stereo 1/4 inch jack located on the Rear Panel. These assignment choices are menued on the Rear Panel around the rotary control that is used to choose each position. The five choices are: “OUT’ all the time (bypassed), “IN” all the time (engaged), “IN” on the Rhythm Channel, “IN” on the Lead Channel and “Footswitchable.” The Graphic is not a necessity to amazing tone, but can greatly enlarge the scope of sonic possibilities through experimentation. If you never turned it on you would still have one of the most amazing sounding amps around...but it’s there...so you may as well take a crack at some tweaking. One setting that keeps popping up as a classic Boogie EQ curve is the fabled “V”. This setting increases the bottom, scoops the mids and leaves the highs to do their harmonic best. Be sure to try this at some point as many Boogie users have found it to be their main sound with its huge wideness and spread. Below are some sample settings that we see used quite often, but by all means experiment.

1. The fabled "V" shape 2.

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