ULTRAVOICE VX2000
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FOREWORD
Dear Customer,
welcome to the team of
BEHRINGER users, and
thank you very much for
expressing your confi-
dence in us by purchasing
the ULTRAVOICE.
Writing this foreword for
you gives me great
pleasure, because it re-
presents the culmination
of many months of hard
work delivered by our
engineering team to
achieve a very ambitious
goal: to present you with
an outstanding product
whose flexibility makes it
an ideal tool both in
studio and live sound
environments. The task
of designing our new ULTRAVOICE 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, and what a great
feeling it is when all who participated in such a project can be
proud of what theyve 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 youve
made a significant contribution to shaping our company and
making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising
quality (manufactured under ISO9000 certified management
system) 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: its you, our customers! Many satisfied customers
mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing
terms for components, etc. Isnt 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 all of you who have made the
ULTRAVOICE possible. You have all made your own personal
contributions, from the developers to the many other employees
at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, its been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you very much for expressing your confidence in
BEHRINGER products by purchasing the ULTRAVOICE VX2000.
With the ULTRAVOICE you now own a very useful device that
allows you to creatively enhance your music. With its professional
features, the VX2000 produces impressive results both in a studio
environment and in live applications. Functions such as the opto
compressor or the voice-optimized EQ enable you to process
highly dynamic signals and adapt them to the overall sound of
the music program. The BEHRINGER ULTRAVOICE unites a
microphone preamplifier, control amplifier and equalizer, and
connects seamlessly to hard-disk recording systems, for example,
to record vocals directly to disk. As a result, you get signals of the
highest quality, as there is no insertion into a mixing console which
deteriorates the audio. But also in live applications your
ULTRAVOICE offers pro-level signal processing functions to
optimize vocal signals.
In order to get to know the VX2000 and its functions, simply
connect an audio signal and try each single control.
Uncompressed signals, e.g. your own recordings, work best to
get an idea of the opto compressor and how it works. Professional
CDs usually contain pre-compressed material, so that sound
changes through an additional compression stage cannot be
perceived as easily.
Once youve developed a feeling for the individual components
of your VX2000, you can start combining the various functions to
freely unfold your creativity.
1. INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION........................................................ 4
1.1 Before you get started .................................................... 5
1.1.1 Initial operation ..................................................... 5
1.1.2 Warranty ............................................................... 5
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS ............................................. 5
2.1 Discrete vintage input stage ........................................... 5
2.2 Expander and tube emulation ........................................ 6
2.3 Opto compressor ............................................................ 6
2.4 Voice-optimized EQ ........................................................ 7
2.5 Opto de-esser and master section ................................. 7
2.6 Rear panel ...................................................................... 8
3. RECORDING WITH THE ULTRAVOICE ................... 8
4. MIXDOWN WITH THE ULTRAVOICE ....................... 9
5. THE ULTRAVOICE IN LIVE APPLICATIONS ........... 9
6. INTEGRATION INTO A RECORDING SYSTEM ....... 9
7. AUDIO CONNECTIONS ............................................ 9
7.1 Rack mounting ................................................................ 9
7.2 Audio connections .......................................................... 9
8. SPECIFICATIONS ................................................... 10
9. WARRANTY ............................................................ 11
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