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SONIC EXCITER SX3040
FOREWORD
Dear Customer,
Welcome to the team of
SONIC EXCITER users,
and thank you very much
for expressing your
confidence in us by
purchasing this device.
Writing this foreword for
you gives me great
pleasure, because it
represents the
culmination of many
months of hard work
delivered by our
engineering team to
achieve a very ambitious
goal: to present an
outstanding
Psychoacoustic
Processor, whose neutral
sound makes them ideal
for studio use. The task of designing our new SX3040 certainly
meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by
focusing on you, the discerning user and musician.
Meeting your expectations also meant a lot of work and night
shifts. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a
lot of people together. What a great feeling it is when all who
participated in such a project can be proud of what they’ve
achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because
you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team.
With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve
made a significant contribution to shaping our company and
making it successful. In return, we guarantee you
uncompromising quality as well as excellent technical and audio
properties at an extremely reasonable price. All of this will enable
you to give free rein to your creativity without being hampered
by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we manage to produce such high-quality
devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite
simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers mean
large sales volumes, enabling us to get better purchasing terms
for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit on to
you? Because we know that your success is our success too!
I would like to thank everyone who has made the SX3040
possible. From the developers to the many other employees at
this company, each has made a personal contribution to you,
the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, it’s been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 5
1.1 Before you get started ................................................... 5
1.1.1 Shipment .............................................................. 5
1.1.2 Initial operation ..................................................... 5
1.1.3 Online Registration............................................... 5
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS ................. 6
2.1 Front panel ..................................................................... 6
2.2 Rear panel ...................................................................... 6
3. PRACTICAL APPLICATION ............................................... 7
3.1 Functioning of the unit ................................................... 7
3.2 Application examples ..................................................... 7
3.2.1 Series cable connection (Insert mode) ............... 7
3.2.2 Parallel cable connection (Aux Send mode) ....... 7
3.2.3 Live sound ............................................................ 7
3.2.4 Studio application ................................................. 8
3.2.5 Stage operation with instrument amplifiers ......... 8
3.3 Basic operation .............................................................. 9
4. INSTALLATION .................................................................... 9
4.1 Rack mounting ............................................................... 9
4.2 Audio connections .......................................................... 9
4.2.1 Cabling with jack cables ...................................... 9
4.2.2 Connection with insert cables ............................ 10
5. SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................. 10
6. WARRANTY ....................................................................... 11
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