AudioDesign Gipsy 8 MKII Battery Powered Portable Amplifier Owner’s Manual
- June 13, 2024
- AudioDesign
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Battery Powered Portable Amplifier
Gipsy 8 MKII
Owner’s manual
Gipsy 8 MKII Battery Powered Portable Amplifier
Congratulations on choosing the Gipsy 8 guitar amplifier. It is a latest generation product with generous performance that, thanks to the battery, integrated inside, allows maximum versatility and flexibility of use.
Main features:
- Fully portable with Li Ion battery (up to 8-10 hours working time)
- Bluetooth connection: to reproduce music in connection with a computer , a smartphone, a tablet or a portable MP3 reader
- USB Reader (for MP3 and WAV files)
- USB Recorder (MP3 files)
- Balanced Input for acoustic guitar with bass / high / reverb control
- Unbalanced Input for microphone or instrument with bass / high / reverb control
- Possibility of fast variation (- 10 dB) of the Jack and combo input level
- Stereo 3,5 mm Jack Input: to connect and external source (computer , smartphone, tablet or MP3 reader)
- Speaker stand pole
- Shoulder strap hooks and strap included.
- Angled shape for better sound reproduction
- Transport handle
- Class D amplifier (25 W RMS – 50 W Max)
- Size: LxHxD: 34 x 25 x 23 cm
- Weight: 4 Kg
Connections and controls:
- Input Ch 1: ACOUSTIC GUITAR – Balanced 6.3 mm Jack, input impedance 10 KOhm
- Volume Ch 1 and push button – 10dB
- Bass: Adjust low tones on Ch 1 – 60 Hz +/- 15 dB
- Treble: Adjust high tones on Ch 1 – 10 KHz +/- 15 dB
- Reverb: Adjust the Reverb effect level on Ch 1
- Input CH2: MICROPHONE or INSTRUMENT – Unbalanced XLR or 6.3 Jack, impedance 1 KOhm
- Volume Ch 2 and push button – 10dB
- Bass: Adjust low tones on Ch 2 – 60 Hz +/- 15 dB
- Treble: Adjust high tones on Ch 2 – 10 KHz +/- 15 dB
- Reverb: Adjust the Reverb effect level on Ch 2
- Input Ch 3 AUX IN: Jack 3,5 stereo. This Ch is managed by master volume only.
- Master: Adjust the volume of signal to send to the amplifier.
- V-: a short pressure means “PREVIOUS”. A long pressure reduce the volume
- Mode: A short pression pause the reproduction. A long pression change the function between Bluetooth / USB reader and USB recording. These last functions are available only if a USB key is inserted.
- V+: A short pression means “NEXT”. A long pression increase the volume.
- Tone: Pushing this button, there is the choice between 5 different tone preset or a flat response. Last preset is memorized, separately for Bluetooth or USB Reader.
- USB: Insert a USB key or use to power ( 5V) an external device. (If used to power a device of course the battery life will decrease)
- LED: Indicate working status of each mode (See page 7)
- Power: On/Off switch
- Phones: Inserting a Stereo Jack 6,3 of a headphone, the main speaker will be automatically disconnected
- Power indicator: LED can have 3 different colors:
- BLUE: Full charged battery
- PURPLE: Battery medium charge
- RED: Battery LOW. Switch off and recharge.
- To recharge, switch off the amplifier and connect the battery charger to DC IN socket. When charging the LED is flashing PURPLE and when fully charged change to fixed BLUE. If, once connected the battery charger no LED light on, please charge for 24 hours or up to get a fixed BLUE LED. If the LED have no light, the battery is dead and must be replaced (see owner manual) 22. DC: Connect here the supplied external battery power charger (DC 13,8 V – 2000 mA – inside positive) 23. DI OUT: Stereo pre-master output
Multimedia Mode instructions:
Stand by Mode: When you switch on the amp, if no USB key is inserted, the
USB reader / Bluetooth receiver is switched off and the light is off.
Bluetooth Mode: if no USB key is inserted, press any button to activate
the Bluetooth mode that connects the Gipsy 8 device and the LED starts
flashing. The lit LED indicates successful pairing. You can control your
Bluetooth device with the “PREV” “NEXT” buttons pressed briefly. If you briefly
press the MODE button, playback will pause and LED light will be fixed.
USB reader mode: automatically turns on when a USB key (2.0 or 3.0 with
maximum capacity 32 GB) is inserted. The player reads files in WAV or MP3
format. If the key contains songs it automatically switches to playback, if it
is empty it will be left to record. You can manage playback with the “PREV”
“NEXT” buttons. If you briefly press the MODE button, playback stops and the
LED no longer flashes but remains steady.
USB recording: with a USB key inserted (necessarily type 3.0 to have an
adequate recording speed and formatted in FAT32 format), long press the MODE
button to access the recording function. Briefly press the MODE button to start
recording (LED flashing) and press again to pause (the LED flashes slowly).
Double click the MODE button to save the audio file (the LED stops flashing).
During recording the volume is determined by the volume of the individual
input channels while the MASTER has no influence on the volume of the recording
and therefore it could also be put to the minimum. It is therefore possible to
record, listening to yourself on headphones without amplifying the sound from
Gipsy8 To listen to a recording, once you get to the USB menu, press the > and
< keys simultaneously and immediately release them and the recording just made
will be played (in the case of multiple recordings they will be played in
sequence and in a loop) until, by pressing the key MODE you want to stop
playback. During playback, the> and <keys give you the option to go forward or
backward through a song.
Other functions:
The V+ and V- keys, long pressed allow to increase or decrease the volume.
The Tone button gives access to 5 tone adjustment presets.
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