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Aura
Acoustic Imaging Blender
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™ Acoustic Imaging BlenderAura 2
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™ Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Warnings Table of Contents Quick Start 4 CAUTION Risk of electric shock. Introduction 5 Do not open. Product Registration Welcome No user serviceable parts inside. What Is a Sound Image? Refer servicing to qualified personnel. Aura Capabilities Do not expose to rain or moisture. Aura, the Internet and You Controls and Rear Panel Connections 8 Important Safety Instructions Rear Panel To ensure your personal safety and the safety of others, operate this apparatus
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™ Quick Start Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Input Requirements • Acoustic Guitar: Use only an undersaddle pickup or a magnetic soundhole pickup. Other Instruments: Use only a bridge mounted pickup. If your pickup system has an onboard microphone, shut it off. If your pickup system has onboard EQ, set all the controls flat. TIP: Always start with the Edit/Play switch in the Play position, and Get Your Feet Wet select your program number before you switch over to the Edit mode. This wa
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™ Introduction Acoustic Imaging BlenderAura Product Registration Please fill out the Product Registration form online at http://www.fishman.com/register.asp Why register? When you do, we have your information on file should your Aura Acoustic Imaging Blender ever require warranty service. Your registration also keeps you on the cutting edge: we can let you know when updates and upgrades for the Aura become available. Welcome! We at Fishman thank you for purchasing the Aura Acoustic What Is a So
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™ Introduction Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Aura Capabilities Size Matters What does it do? There are good reasons why acoustic guitarists gravitate toward The Aura is the logical extension of Fishman’s Blender one body style or another. Strummers often go for the big, technology. With a traditional Blender, we combine the utilitarian boomy rhythm that only a dreadnought can produce. function of a pickup with the unquestionable realism that only a Fingerstylists tend to favor smaller instrume
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™ Introduction Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Aura, the Internet and You More Sound Images are at available at The Aura ships with sixteen factory-loaded Sound Images of www.fishmanaura.com ! various guitar, microphone and pickup combinations. Of these Although we include a representative group of instruments with sixteen factory-loaded Sound Images, twelve can be replaced the Sound Images presently in your Aura, we understand that with new Sound Images. Why would you want to start replacing you
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™ Controls & Connections Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Rear Panel 1 XLR Out Connect this balanced -4dBu level output to the input of your PA system, recording console, or to a microphone input on a portable amplifier. The Sound Image/pickup mix gets routed through this output. 2 Gnd/Lft Move the Gnd/Lft switch to the “Lft” position to eliminate the ground loop hum that can occur when you use the XLR and (1/4”) Outputs together. 3 Output Plug this unbalanced -10dBu output to your stage amplifi
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™ Controls & Connections - continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Front Panel 7 LED Display 1 Output Level Knob The LED display references the 11 parameters in Edit mode, Sets the overall level at the XLR and ¼” outputs. the 50 program locations in Play mode, and the pitch names and calibration frequencies in the Tuner mode. 2 Phase Switch Use this global phase switch to improve the amplified 8 Data Knob response at low volumes and to help reduce feedback at This multi-function knob affects the
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™ Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Chapter 1 Control Panel Overview 10
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™ Control Panel Overview Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura The Five Basic Control Groups The Aura control panel can be divided into five functional groups: 1 Input/Output (see page 15) The Input Level control sets the optimum amount of gain for your pickup. The Output Level sets the level going to your amp or mixer. The slide switch marked Phase corrects phase anomalies that can degrade your sound or cause acoustic feedback 2 Play Mode (see page 16) Move the switch from Edit to Play and use the
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™ Control Panel Overview - Continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura LED Display The LED Display is your guide for navigating through the Play, Edit and Tuner modes. 1 Play mode: The display shows your present program location. 2 Edit mode: Shows the status of a selected parameter. 3 Tuner mode: Displays the note name and calibration frequency of the tuner. In Play mode, the Aura’s LED displays the number of the Compressor program you are in. = off 88 Play to = Programs 1 through 50 88 to
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™ Control Panel Overview - Continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Edit/Play Switch Use this switch to navigate between the 50 program locations in Play and the 11 selectable parameters in Edit. The mixes you create in Edit will automatically be placed in the last selected program location when you move the switch to Play. Move the switch to Play and the numbers in the LED display will refer to the 50 program locations available in the Aura’s memory. Use the Data Knob or the Up and Down footswi
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™ Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Chapter 2 Inner Workings 14
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™ Inner Workings Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Input /Output Input Level and LEDs Use the Input Level control and the multi-colored LEDs to set the gain structure for the Aura. When you plug into the Aura, play your instrument aggressively and adjust the Input Level control so that the green LED (signal present) lights brightly, the yellow LED (optimal level) flickers often and the red LED does not flicker on at all. If the red LED lights up at all, lower the Input Level accordingly. Signal P
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™ Inner Workings - continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Why a Phase Switch on the Parameter Knob? A Sound Image is created from an actual microphone in front of a guitar. So the distance of the mic from the instrument and the polarity of the mic capsule will contribute to relative phase of the signal. Because the Aura blends a Sound Image signal with a pickup signal there is a 50% chance that the two will clash. The clash will manifest itsef as a loss of bass response, shrill treble, and a g
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™ Inner Workings - continued Acoustic Imaging BlenderAura You can choose how the Aura changes programs in Play Mode Instant Change Mode (factory default) In the Instant Change Mode the program changes as soon as you hit the up or down footswitch. TO ENABLE: Hold down the right footswitch for over 2 seconds, while plugging in 9V power plug. The prompt will appear in the display. 88 Pre-select Change Mode In the pre-select change mode, you can continue playing in one program while you sc
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™ Inner Workings - continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Edit Mode Edit/Play Switch Move this switch to access the 11 selectable parameters in Edit mode. The mixes you create in Edit will automatically be placed in the last selected program location when you move the switch to Play. When you move the switch to Edit, the numbers and letters in the display will refer to the Aura parameters. In Edit, you select a Parameter, then dial it in with the Data knob. Data Knob In the Edit mode use the
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G FFIS ISH HM MA AN N G IN IN P PJJO O A AW W C CEEK KR RR RIN ING G ™ Inner Workings - continued Acoustic Imaging Blender Aura Parameter Knob With the Parameter knob, you can access the components used to build Sound Image/pickup mixes. There are two main groups of discrete parameters for the Aura effect and the pickup, plus three other parameters common to both. To make the parameters available, move the switch to Edit, then move the pointer on the Parameter knob to the parameter that you wou
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™ Inner Workings - continued Acoustic Imaging BlenderAura Aura Equalization The bracketed Bass, Mid and Treble parameters next to the “Aura” designation are for equalizing the Sound Image in the mix. We recommend that you use these controls sparingly, especially when boosting. Most often a very slight cut or boost is all that is needed get a Sound Image dialed in. Set Blend to A when you equalize the Sound Image. Bass Use the Data knob to change the behavior of the Bass control. The default Ba
