Fishman PowerTap Earth Manuale utente

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Quick Start Guide

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Welcome

Thank you for choosing Fishman. We are proud to offer you professional-grade

amplification products that will empower you to sound your very best.

Please read through this User Guide to familiarize yourself with the operation of your

PowerTap Earth Blend.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Pickup Voicing

The PowerTap Earth Blend has been carefully voiced to reproduce a balanced string

response. The PowerTap Earth Blend is voiced specifically for bronze or phosphor

bronze strings. If nickel electric guitar strings are used with the PowerTap Earth, the

lower wound strings will overpower the higher plain strings.

Preamp

The PowerTap Earth Blend model features a miniature preamp, housed within the

body of the pickup. A low-noise circuit design preserves the pickup’s performance in

any audio environment. You can plug the PowerTap Earth Blend into an acoustic

instrument amplifier, an unbalanced input of a mixer or a direct box without signal

loss or degradation. You may run cables up to 80’ (25m) in length without audible

signal loss.

PowerTap Earth Blend

As part of the new Fishman Acoustic PowerTap™ series, the PowerTap Earth Blend

pickup system combines the superior performance, and warm, transparent sound of

our Rare Earth Mic Blend with a new soundboard Tap body sensor. The result delivers

a new world of percussive performance elements and tactile dynamics for guitarists of

all styles. With the addition of Tap body sensor technology, players can add new

performance dynamics of Touch, Ambience and Percussion.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Battery Replacement

Remove the mag pickup from the instrument soundhole to access the battery bag

inside the guitar body. Remove the battery bag from the hook and loop patch and

bring it out through the soundhole. After replacing the battery with a fresh 9-Volt,

place the bag back on the hook and loop patch pressing firmly to properly seat the

bag securely to the patch. Replace the mag pickup in the soundhole.

Blend Function – Microphone

The PowerTap Earth Blend model combines the humbucking magnetic sound-hole

pickup with a condenser microphone to provide a wide range of natural sounds,

adaptable to various playing situations. The magnetic pickup’s strength is its

articulation, high gain-before-feedback, and isolation from other nearby sound

sources. The microphone adds body and air to the sound to provide a rounder,

more ambient tone.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Rotate thumbwheel counterclockwise for full pickup

Middle: 50/50 blend

Rotate clockwise for full mic

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Blend Function – Tap Body Sensor

A second thumbwheel pot located in the soundhole acts as the blend level control for

the Tap body sensor. Turn the blend wheel clockwise towards the bridge to add in the

desired signal from the Tap body sensor.

Tap Sensor

location

Neck

RE Mic Blend

Tap Blend

Battery Bag

Mag/Mic Blend

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Less Bass More Bass

Microphone Bass Switch

The Mic bass switch controls the low frequency extension of the microphone. When

switched to the position pointing toward the treble strings, this control will provide

the fullest bass for mic only applications or blended tones where more mic bass is

preferred. The alternate switch position (toward the bass strings) rolls off bass from

the microphone to reduce the risk of low frequency feedback and facilitate playing at

higher volumes. In this scenario, the magnetic pickup becomes the primary source of

bass.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Microphone Placement

The microphone is attached to an adjustable gooseneck that allows you to position the

mic in just the right spot to achieve your desired tone. Try experimenting with micro-

phone placement until you find a position you like. Here are some suggestions to get

you started:

To begin, move the blend control toward the treble strings (full mic).

A suggested starting position would be with the microphone capsule parallel to the

soundboard. Move the mic into varying positions until you find your desired tonality. A

small adjustment can give you dramatically different sounds. Once you find a sound

you like, blend in the pickup to taste. There is no right or wrong position for the mic.

Just experiment until it sounds the way you like it.

Note: To avoid damage to gooseneck and microphone connection, please adjust

position carefully.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

Stereo/Mono Output Options

The PowerTap Earth Blend provides for multiple output and Blend options. Plugging a

mono instrument cable into the primary Jack (Closest to the top of the instrument)

accesses all three pickup signals blended to a mono output.

If you would like to separate the Tap body sensor from the mag/mic signal, simply turn

the body sensor blend all the way counterclockwise. This eliminates the Tap body

sensor from the primary jack. Plug an additional mono instrument cable into the

secondary jack to access the Tap body sensor signal.

POWERTAP EARTH BLEND

To access all three pickup signals separately, plug in a Stereo Y-cable or Y adaptor into

the primary jack and an additional mono instrument cable into the secondary jack. This

will route the signals as follows:

Primary Jack Tip: Mag pickup

Primary Jack Ring: Microphone

Secondary Jack Tip: Body Sense pickup

Primary Jack

Secondary Jack

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