Source Audio EQ2 - User Manual

USERS GUIDE – NEURO DESKTOP – NEURO MOBILE – SUPPORT
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Quick Start Reference Card
POWER: Power your EQ2 with the included power supply, or a regulated PSU with 9 Volts DC
center-negative tip @ 180mA of current.
CONTROLS:
BAND SELECT – Select a band by pressing + turning the Encoder knob. When Split Mode is
enabled, continue turning past the 16kHz band to access and edit Channel 2 settings.
BAND LEVEL ADJUST – Adjust a band +/- 1dB by rotating the Encoder knob clockwise to boost
or counterclockwise to cut the selected frequency.
SET TO FLAT – To quickly revert all band levels back to zero, double-tap the Encoder knob.
OUTPUT KNOB – Rotate the OUTPUT knob to adjust the master output level for both channels
from -∞ to +12dB indicated by the brightness of the blue LED. Unity gain (0dB) is at the 12
o’clock position and is indicated when the blue LED blinks.
SELECT/SAVE Button – Tap to scroll through presets. Press + hold to save a preset.
PRESET SCROLLING – Press + hold the footswitch to scroll forward through presets.
TUNER – Press the footswitch while holding the encoder knob down to access the onboard
chromatic tuner. Tap the footswitch again to return to the pedal’s previous state.
OPTIONS MENU – To enter the Options Menu for parametric EQ editing and additional tone-
sculpting tools, press + hold the encoder knob. Items marked with a “G” are global.
Menu Item
Description
FREQ
Adjust each band’s frequency from 20Hz to 20,000Hz (20kHz).
Q FACT
Adjust the Q Factor (width) of each band from 0.5 (wide) to 10.0 (narrow).
GAIN
Adjust the Channel 1 or Channel 2 gain from
-18dB to +18dB.
SPLIT
Turn on Split Mode to allow Channel 2 settings to be independent of Channel 1.
LIMITER
Enable or disable a hard limiter to prevent unwanted clipping.
GATE
Enable or disable the noise gate.
THRESHOLD
Adjust the threshold of the noise gate from
-100dB to -60dB.
HP FREQ
Adjust each channel’s independent input high pass filter from 10Hz to 80Hz.
SHELF
Toggle between a normal peaking filter to a shelving filter on bands 1 & 10 only.
CONFIG
Toggle between parallel (P) and cascading/series (S) filters.
MIDI CH
(G)
Change the EQ2’s MIDI channel (global).
FS OPTION
(G)
Select the main footswitch operation mode (global).
CRTL OPTION (G)
Select the Control Input mode: 1 (Hub/Exp), 2 (Ext. Switch), 3 (Preset +/
-
), 4 (Tuner)

Source Audio EQ2 Specifications