SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo User Manual
- June 5, 2024
- SolidGoldFX
Table of Contents
SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo
What is the EM-III?
Thank you for purchasing the EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo. We hope you have as much fun playing it as we did design and building this evolution of our Electroman. At your feet (or fingers) you have a multi-head echo with the ability to add a signal an octave lower to the primary head. This results in dancing, rhythmic delays with body and gravitas. Our slow modulation adds a lush, wet chorus with eerie tension and beautiful dissonance. The color knob allows you to dial in warm, murky repeats or suck out the lows for crisp, bright echoes. The EM-III also brings interactive warp and glitch features which either increase the repeats until self-oscillation, creating a swelling wall of sound or replicate the sound of a tape motor on the fritz and a reel snapping. The EM-III is designed to inspire and evoke emotion. It can sound as pretty and cheerful or as dark and macabre as you wish. Tune-up, plugin and let yourself go in the EM-III experience.
What do the knobs do?
Time: Changes the delay time from a double-tracking-Esque 70 milliseconds to a full length second with modulation. Repeat: At zero, you’ll find the humblest of all delays: the slapback. At full-blast, the repeats will run away and overtake your signal. Level: Changes the amount of delay signal from nothing at all to highly involved. Flutter: Controls the modulation.This knob has a center detent which turns off the modulation feature. There are 2 preset modulation speeds. As you turn the knob to the left, you increase the depth of the slow modulation. As you turn to the right, you increase the depth of the fast modulation. Color: Controls the filtering of the delay signal. This knob has a center detent which bypasses the filter feature. As you turn the knob to the left, you darken the delay, remov-ing highs. As you turn to the right, you brighten the delay, removing lows. The Octave is not affected by the color knob.
What about dip switches and power?
Internal Dip Switch: These 2 switches set the default bypass and glitch states
when the EM-III powers up. These features can also be changed using the
footswitches and HEADS/OCTAVE switch.
Dip 1: This switch sets the direction of the Glitch function. Set to ON, the
Glitch ramps down, slowing the delay. Set off, it ramps up, speeding up the
delay. DIP 2: This switch sets the bypass. Set ON, the EM-III is in trails
mode with buffered bypass. When bypassed, the delayed signal will fade
gradually. When set OFF, the EM-III is in true bypass mode. When bypassed, the
delays will cut immediately. 9VDC: The EM-III requires a negative ground, 9V
DC power supply with a 2.1mm barrel plug, and a negative center. The EM-III
draws approximately 39mA of current.
IMPORTANT : USE OF AN IMPROPER POWER SUPPLY WILL VOID WARRANTY
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Warranty Information
All SolidGoldFX products purchased through the solidgoldfx.com website or our authorized dealers come with a three-year warranty against failure resulting from defective parts and/or faulty workmanship. Cosmetic flaws or issues related to wear and tear are not covered. The warranty applies only to the original owner of the product and is not transferable. Warranty coverage terminates three years after the owner receives the product. While a product is under warranty, the product will be repaired free of charge. The owner of the product will be responsible for both shipping to and from SolidGoldFX. Warranty coverage will be automatically canceled should the product be tampered with, modified, abused, damaged through misuse, repaired by an unauthorized third party, or damaged through failure to follow the operating instructions. The use of an improper power supply will void the warranty.
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