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Introducion/Technical requirements 2

Recording the Guitar 3

Working with ReValver® MK III 8

The Modules 10

Complete ampliiers 10

Pre-ampliiers 16

Power ampliiers 19

Stomp boxes/Pedals 22

Speakers/Cabinets 27

General Efects 28

Miscellaneous Uiliies 32

Tweaking Modules 35

MIDI Control and automaion 41

Plug in automaion 41

Finding a good sound/FAQ 43

License and copy protecion 44

Credits and Copyrights 44

Introducion

Congratulaions on your purchase of ReValver® MK III ! ReValver MKIII is a revoluionary 64-bit

ampliier modeling sotware that captures the true characterisics of vacuum tubes while allow-

ing users unprecedented control over their tonality and gain structures. ReValver includes 65

incredible linkable sub modules that model legendary ampliiers, stomp boxes and rack efects,

making ReValver MKIII the most advanced virtual ampliier on the planet! This program works

both as a standalone using miscellaneous sound card driver models, or as VST/AU plug-ins on vari-

ous hosts. The program is designed for minimal latency (input/output delay) which is only limited

by the plug-in host.

Technical requirements

Mac

OS: Mac OSX 10.4.X (PPC, Intel)

CPU: G4 or later. 1GHz minimum for saisfactory usage (certain presets require more CPU capac-

ity).

The Live Host of ReValver MK III requires CoreAudio for playback, and MIDI for MIDI control. (MIDI

opional.)

AU plug-in requires AU host.

VST plug-in requires VST host.

OS: Microsot Windows 2000/XP or later

CPU: Intel Penium II, AMD Athlon or later. 1GHz minimum for saisfactory usage (certain pre sets

require more CPU)

The Live Host of ReValver MK III require either ASIO, MME, WDM or DirectSound for playback,

and MIDI for MIDI control. (MIDI opional.)

VST plug-in require VST host.

Compaibilityissues

While every measure has been made to resolve any compaibility issues with various VST/AU

hosts and sound cards, some issues may remain. If you believe you have found a new compaibil-

ity problem, please browse to www.peavey.com/products/revalver. There you will ind product

updates and user forums.

LoadingtheVSTorAUplug-inintotheDAW

On a Mac, a plug-in in the VST or AU format is automaically located by the host and no acion

needs to be taken for the VST/AU host to ind the ReValver® plug-in. It should be automaically

listed among the available plug-ins ater a rescan.

In Windows, it is possible to install the VST plug-in at any locaion. To make the VST host aware of

this locaion it must manually be pointed to. During the installaion of ReValver, you are given a

choice of locaion to install the VST (separate from the stand-alone version). We recommended

that you install ReValver to a locaion you have already used with the host. Most DAWs provide a

means to list available VST paths.

For example:

Reaper:

Menu: Opions -> Preferences -> Plug-ins -> VST

Press “Add” to browse to the VST path where the ReValver VST is installed. You then press “Rescan

directory.”

When the host recognizes ReValver, you should insert the program on each track that you wish to

use it. This method varies between DAWs.

RecordingtheGuitar

Recording a Guitar is not as easy as it might seem, but it doesn’t have to be diicult. If your Guitar

is not powered by a batery (and very few are), then it is generaing an electrical signal which is

not compaible with most sound cards.

There are common electrical standards between audio gear, and unfortunately the Guitar falls

completely outside those standards because it is passive . The electrical signal from the Guitar is

the result of the movement of metallic strings over a magneic pickup, and this is rarely accept-

able as an electrical source when you connect it directly to a computer sound card.

ConnecingtheGuitartothesoundcard

Here are three ways to connect your Guitar to the computer:

1) The simplest opion is to hook it up to the sound card Line-In jack using a suitable connector,

usu ally a 1/4” to 1/8” adapter. The advantage is that you don’t have to buy any addiional gear

(except maybe the cable adapter) but the sound is not ideal, probably not even good. The reason

for the dull and boring sound is due to an impedancemismatch.

The sound card input is designed to accept input from electrical devices which have adequate

driving signal; a Guitar does not have enough signal. The input impedance of a sound card is in the

order of a few thousand ohms (kOhm), while ideally, you want it to be around a mil lion ohms (1

meg ohm).

2) Another opion is to use a Direct (D.I.) box or Preamp. DI stands for Direct Input or Direct

Interface. It is an electrically powered box that can be used to match the input impedance of the

sound card and the output impedance of the Guitar. The simplest DI box could cost around $20,

but there are boxes that could easily cost $200 if you want all the “extras,” too. A DI box has a Hi-Z

input , (“Z” is the unit of Impedance; High Impedance input, in other words). To record, you just

plug the DI box directly into the computer Line-In jack.

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