JAD FREER AUDIO CAPO Tim Lefebvre Edition User Guide
- June 16, 2024
- JAD FREER AUDIO
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JAD FREER AUDIO CAPO Tim Lefebvre Edition User Guide
JAD FREER AUDIO CAPO Tim Lefebvre Edition.
Thank you for purchasing a JF Audio effect pedal! It is our hope that this
pedal will become a mainstay of your rig for many years to come. Your pedal
has been carefully hand-assembled in Italy, using only the best parts
available.The pedal is ready to be used, just connect the 2.1mm DC jack on
your pedal to a 9V, center negative, high quality regulated power supply (Boss
style).A JF Audio DOMINO is a perfect power supply for this and other
pedals.
With this document, JF Audio ensures you a life-time warranty against
defects in materials and workmanship; external parts like pots, jacks and
footswitches have a 24 months warranty. In the event that your pedal becomes
damaged, contact JF Audio and you will receive instructions on how to go
about having your pedal repaired.
The CAPO Tim Lefebvre Edition is a powerful preamp and D.I. capable of studio-grade clean sounds, harmonic saturations and everything in between. It features three different preamps, two XLR balanced outputs and endless routing possibilities in a pedalboard- friendly format.
Extraordinary bassist and JF Artist TIM LEFEBVRE has been the very first CAPO preamp user, owning the serial #001. As much as he was enthusiastic about the sound and features, he wished for a different specific routing option : the ability to switch effortlessly two different sounds out of the DI’s.
As simple as it seems, this has proven not an easy task to accomplish, but now we are ready to present this special edition of our best seller.So what’s different?
At the expense of leaving the Capo’s “B-side” preamp out of the TL edition,
now the pedals patched in the LOOP PRE are activated by the LOOP
footswitch and present at the LOOP OUT DI , while the “A-side” preamp (now
labeled just PREAMP ) and pedals patched in the POST LOOP are present
at the PREAMP OUT DI. The two signals are alternated between the DI’s
(muting each other out) and the unbalanced line out.
If you want to have the traditional CAPO routing, just leave the pedal out
of the TIM mode. It’s the best of both worlds!
PREAMP –
consists of three very different preamps: a fixed-gain clean preamp (unaffected by the GAIN control) is mixed with two saturator circuits via the BLEND mini-knob. You can control the amount of saturation using the GAIN knob and mix the J and F circuits via the STYLE knob (N position is a perfect mix of the two circuits, so you get a boost in volume too).
A three band eq helps in shaping your sound with familiar controls: a BASS control boost and cuts ±12dB @80Hz (shelving), a semi-parametric MID control boost and cuts ±9dB @100Hz- 10KHz (band pass) and a HIGH control boost and cuts ±12dB @4KHz (shelving). DEEP and BITE switches provide a perfectly tailored bottom-end boost and just the right enhance of string attack. LEVEL controls the output of the pedal.
TIM switch
– changes the routing of the pedal: when engaged, the LOOP footswitch
alternate the signal between the preamp and what’s present in the LOOP PRE.
This affects DI’s too, alternating the signal between the two DI’s.
When the TIM switch is off, the LOOP footswitch still controls the
pedals patched in the LOOP PRE but the signal goes into the CAPO preamp
section.
D.I. – the pedal has two XLR balanced outputs that work as long as the
pedal is powered: LOOP OUT is routed right after the INPUT without any
processing, when the TIM switch is engaged the pedals patched in the LOOP
PRE are present at the LOOP OUT DI; PREAMP OUT is routed after the preamp,
eq and POST LOOP. Ground ( GND/LIFT ) can be lifted from both DI’s and
phase ( Ø ) can be flipped from the LOOP OUT output.
EFFECTS LOOP
– The CAPO features two send/return loops: PRE is routed before the
preamp but after the INPUT ; POST is routed after the preamp but
before the PREAMP OUT.
POST LOOP is always active but can be linked to the PREAMP footswitch
pushing the LINK A SIDE switch. PRE LOOP is controlled by the LOOP
footswitch.
Unbalanced OUTPUT and balanced PREAMP OUT are affected by a selectable
low pass filter ( LPF ) tailored to smooth out the top end when needed,
even with the preamp bypassed.
The CAPO is a work of love and dedication, conceived and hand-made by the JF
AUDIO team for you to make music (and make your life easier). Now connect a
mono source to the INPUT jack and enjoy the pedal!
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