Roland VS-1824 Effects Section, About the Effect Expansion Board, Connecting Effects, Insert

Chapter 1 Before You Start (VS-1824 Terminology)

Effects Section

About the Effect Expansion Board

One VS8F-2 effect expansion board is pre-installed in the VS-1824. Up to two of these effect expansion boards can be installed in the VS-1824. With and additional VS8F-2 effect installed in the VS-1824, up to four high-quality stereo effects will be available for your use.

With just a single VS8F-2 installed, you will be able to use EFFECT A (FX1/2). With two VS8F-2s installed, you will be able to use both EFFECT A (FX1/2) and EFFECT B (FX3/4).

*To install a VS8F-2, please refer to “Installing the Effect Expansion Board” (User Guide p. 6, 9).

Connecting Effects

On the VS-1824, there are two ways to connect the effects devices. Please read and understand these differences described below.

Insert:

The channel’s signal is re-directed into and out of the effect between the channel’s equalizer and fader, or before the Master fader. Connect an effect in this manner if you want it to change the characteristics of the sound itself, such as when using distortion or overdrive effects or dynamics processing such as compression or vocal multi-effects.

When inserting an effect into one of the channels or into the Master Block, the effect cannot be used in another channel. For example, if you insert FX1 into Channel 1, then no other channel can access FX1.

EQ Fader Pan MIX bus or REC bus

Loop:

Besides the RECORDING bus and the MIX bus, the output of each channel can also be sent to the EFFECT bus. Use this routing with effects such as reverb and delay, when you want to mix the original un-effected, or “dry,” sound with the sound after effects have been applied.

EQ	Fader	Pan		MIX bus or REC bus
		FX Pan	FX1	FX bus

*The VS8F-1 effect expansion board is for use with the VS-880. It cannot be used in the VS-1824.

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