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BAM 210 Operation Manual
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Intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. Intended to alert the user of the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the product. CAUTION: Risk of electrical shock — DO NOT OPEN! CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover. No user serviceable parts inside.
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ENGLISH ™ BAM 210 BASS MODELING AMP Do you think achieving a virtually unlimited collection of bass amp and cabinet tones out of a compact 2 x 10 combo is impossible? Not with the BAM 210 from Peavey Electronics. Years of research and development have produced a feature-packed bass modeling amp engineered to please today’s discriminating bassist and those who listen to the music. From its user-friendly interface to its 1/4" and XLR external outputs, the BAM is the amplifier that will take bass s
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prior to your purchase. If you become dissatisfied with your user presets at any time, reinitialization will return all user presets to the factory settings. Suppose you like factory setting A 1 but desire more low frequency response. Press the USER button on the front panel. Since the unit has been reinitialized, user preset A 1 is the same as factory preset A 1. Now simply adjust the low frequency to your liking and press STORE twice. The increased low-frequency setting will be called up whene
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(5) USER This control determines whether the presets available at the PRESET MATRIX (4) selector (4) are factory settings or user settings. The adjacent yellow LED will illuminate when the user presets are active. (6) STORE This control allows the storage of presets in specific locations. When a preset has been finalized and is ready for storage, press this switch once. The LED indicating the current storage location will begin to flash. If the storage location is to remain the same, press the s
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been selected via the MODEL SELECTOR (12) control, pressing this button allows the user to change cabinets without altering the amplifier selection. For example, the current model is B-MAN 2X12. To hear this amp through a 1X15, press the CAB SWAP button. The adjacent green LED will illuminate to indicate Cab Swap mode. Rotate the MODEL SELECTOR switch to the FLIPTOP 1X15 setting. The sound is now B-MAN 1X15 (amp model B-MAN; cab model 1X15). See the chart below for a description of cabinet chara
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(15) EQUALIZATION The EQ on the BAM 210 allows adjustment of the amp model selected. Each of the models emulated has differences in EQ circuitry, whether it be active or passive, or just a different center frequency or bandwidth. Since the EQ on the BAM simulates the EQ on the amp it is modeling, adjusting the controls in this section is like adjusting the controls on the amp being modeled. Regardless of the amp, rotating the LOW control clockwise boosts the low frequencies; the MID control the
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BACK PANEL 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 24 25 35 (23) CIRCUIT BREAKER RESET This button resets the internal circuit breaker. Under normal operating conditions, the breaker should not trip. Conditions such as a short circuit or continuous operation at overload or clipping may cause this breaker to trip. In the event this occurs, turn off power to the unit and wait 60 seconds before pressing this button to reset the breaker. Efforts should be made to determine the cause of the overload. If the br
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(28) MIDI IN / FOOTSWITCH This 8-pin DIN is receives MIDI commands from an external controller. It will accept both standard 5-pin DIN cables as well as Peavey’s 8-pin MIDI/Communication combo cable. The 8-pin cable provides connection and power to the footswitch (supplied). Refer to the FOOTSWITCH / MIDI section of this manual for more information. (29) EXTERNAL SPEAKER JACK This 1/4" mono (TS) jack allows the connection of an external speaker cabinet(s). The jack is wired in parallel with the
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decrease as the note comes closer to tune, and rotation will stop when the note reaches correct pitch. The LEDs for the SPEED/ADJ (17) control show a more standard tuning display where the 12 o’clock position illuminates when the note is in tune. The DEPTH (18) control sets tuner volume in this mode. In the Bass mode, the tuner searches for standard bass notes and automatically selects the closest standard tuning note in relation to the note being played. In the Chromatic mode, the tuner tracks
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BANK SELECT MODE Pressing button 37 when in Preset Mode selects Bank Select Mode. The corresponding yellow LED (A, B, C, D) will blink as an indication of the active bank upon entering this mode. Buttons 38 - 41 change the active bank. The LED will illuminate continuously when a bank is selected. Pressing button 37 again returns to the Preset Mode. EFX SELECT MODE Pressing button 36 selects this mode. The corresponding green LED will illuminate when this mode is selected. Buttons 37 - 41 functi
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The green LEDs indicate the note the tuner is tracking. In the chromatic mode the two LEDs that a note falls between will light if the note being tracked is not a note in standard bass tuning. Once a note is being tracked, the yellow and red LEDs function similarly to a strobe tuner, that is they light sequentially to form a ring. Counterclockwise movement of the ring indicates the note being tracked is flat; clockwise movement indicates it is sharp. The rotation speed will decrease as the note
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DETAILS PRESET: • Analog Overdrive Enable - Enabled or disabled by amp model selection, after which this can override. • Tweeter Enable - Enabled or disabled by cabinet model selection, after which this can override. • Tweak 1 & 2 - See table below. GLOBAL: • MIDI Channel - Goes from 1 (matrix LED A1) to 16 (matrix LED D4). Footswitch / Sysex will always work. Channel messages will be sent with this channel, and will be ignored upon receive unless on this channel. (default = 1) • User on Powe
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EFFECT PARAMETERS / TWEAKS Effect Speed/Adj Depth Tweak 1Tweak 2 Chorus Speed Depth Crossover Frequency Flanger Speed Depth Delay Time Crossover Frequency Phaser Speed Depth - - Octave Dry Level Wet Level Tone - Synth Sensitivity Mix Frequency Resonance Fretless Sensitivity Mix Frequency Resonance Funk Wah Sensitivity Mix Frequency Resonance Distortion Pre Gain Post Gain Low Rolloff Dry Level MIDI IMPLEMENTATION ™ The BAM is designed to be an all-in-one bass amplification system using the PFC4B
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PRESET BACKUP You can back your presets up to a computer, sequencer, or other type of MIDI librarian / recorder. ™ You can also transfer them to another BAM ! Connect a MIDI cable from the BAM’s MIDI Out to the MIDI In of the recording device. Prepare the recording device or software program to receive data. (In the case of transferring to another BAM, it just needs to be on.) We’re now ready to send the presets. To initiate the transmission manually, hold the amp’s CAB SWAP button and then pres
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Here is the common part, along with descriptions of each byte’s purpose: F0 - Start of Sysex [SOX] 00 00 1B- Peavey Manufacturer ID = 00 00 1B 11 - BAM Product ID (10 for PFC4B commands: CMD = 00, 01) 00 - Reserved for future use (keep fixed at zero) CMD - Command byte that defines which Sysex message it is - Optional data F7 - End of Sysex [EOX] NOTE: Each time a preset is recalled, it is first loaded into a RAM buffer that we call the Edit Buffer (could also be called “current preset”)
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Partial addressing is a way of programming a portion of an EdBuf byte, while not disturbing the other bits in that byte. A partial address is made up of 3 bytes. The first is the byte address of the preset byte you are targeting (00-1E). The second byte is the bit number you want to start writing at (0 for least significant, 7 for most significant). The third byte defines how many bits you want to program. The next byte will be the value, and since it is a partial value, it does not need to be n
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PRESET DEFINITION Address Name Range (Decimal) (Hex) 00 Model Selection High nib is Cabinet Model, 0-7 Low nib is Amp Model, 0-7 Clockwise rotation for both nibs: 0 = Red / 2x10 1 = 360 / 1x18 : : : 7 = Freddie K / Alloy 4x10 01 Hardware Control Bits 0-3,7 = 4 = Compressor On 5 = Analog Overdrive On 6 = Tweeter On 02 0 03,04 Pre Gain (non-boost, boost) 1-33 (active when Analog Overdrive enabled) 05,06 Low (non-boost, boost) 1-33 07,08 Mid (non-boost, boost) 1-33 09,0A Mid
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GLOBALS Offset Name Range (Decimal) (Hex) 00 Reserved (keep at zero) 01 Bank Select Method 0 = Preset (1-4) stays the same after bank select (default) 1 = Preset goes to #1 after bank select 2 = Preset light blinks, waits for user preset selection 02 PFC4B All Info 0 = Inactive mode - LEDs off 1 = Inactive mode - LEDs dim (default) 2 = Inactive mode - LEDs bright for both modes 03 MIDI Channel (- 1) 0-15 for 1-16 (default = 0, channel 1) 04 Global Bits Bit 0 set for User pat
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20 BAM 210 BLOCK DIAGRAM
