Atomic Ampli-Firebox User Manual

USER MANUAL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ..........................4

CONNECTION DIAGRAM. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 5

HARDWARE DESCRIPTIONS .. . . .. . . .. . . . 6-8

EFFECTS & SIGNAL CHAIN ...............8

BLOCK DESCRIPTIONS ...................9

EDITOR PARAMETER SETTINGS .. . . .. . . . 10

GATE/EXPANDER .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 11

COMPRESSOR.. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 12

BOOST / AMP .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 13

AMP SELECTION . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 14

EQ . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 15-16

REVERB ...................................17

CABINET ...................................18

FOOTSWITCHES ..........................19-20

GLOBAL SETTINGS / CLIP WARNING. . . . 21

PRESETS ..................................22-23

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing AMPLIFIRE-BOX, a world-class amp tone and effects
pedal/processor. A powerful and portable device, it is small enough to fit in a
gig bag yet potent enough to please even the most discriminating tube amp
and effects aficionados.

We designed AMPLIFIRE-BOX as an instrument that we, as guitar players, wanted
for ourselves. This meant it had to sound/feel authentic and amazing while being
easy-to-use, portable and road-rugged.

AMPLIFIRE-BOX is equally capable of being a replacement for a physical amplifier
or part of a larger pedal board rig.

HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

• All new, state-of-the-art amp modeling based on Studio Devil’s highly
acclaimed and patented technology

• Blazing DSP powered hardware allowing for complex and
detailed algorithms

• 1024-point cabinet impulses (IRs) with ability to upload 3rd-party IRs

• Effects selection including gate, compression, boost, EQ and reverb

• Dedicated physical amp control knobs for intuitive tone adjustments

• A/B channel switching

• Pristine studio quality audio and ultra-low noise floor

• ¼” Hi-Z input with proprietary processing, separate ¼” and XLR outputs

• Rugged foot switches

• Easy to use as a pedal or desktop device

• PC/Mac editor

• 9 programmable presets

• Field upgradable firmware

Enjoy!

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CONNECTION DIAGRAM

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WAH, OVERDRIVE, ETC.

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1/4” CABLE

XLR CABLE

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CONNECTORS –

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KNOBS

GAIN KNOB – Adjusts the gain control

of the preamp of the virtual guitar
amplifier model.

MASTER KNOB – Adjusts the master

volume control of the virtual guitar
amplifier model.

REVERB KNOB – Adjusts the amount of

reverb effect added to the signal.

LEVEL KNOB – Sets the overall output
level of the device. It can control
both the XLR and 1/4” outputs. See
the GLOBALS section of the editor for
more info.

BASS KNOB – Adjusts the bass

equalization control of the tone stack in
the virtual guitar amplifier model.

MIDS KNOB – Adjusts the mids

equalization control of the tone stack in
the virtual guitar amplifier model.

TREBLE KNOB – Adjusts the treble

equalization control of the tone stack in
the virtual guitar amplifier model.

PRESENCE KNOB – Adjusts the
presence control of the simulated
power amp section of the virtual guitar
amplifier model.

CONNECTORS

GUITAR INPUT – Hi-Z input for

connecting an electric guitar with a
1/4” phone jack.

MAIN OUTPUT – TS unbalanced 1/4”

output jack for connecting to amplifiers,
mixers, computer interfaces, or input
channels of other audio devices.

AUX OUTPUT XLR JACK – Balanced XLR
output jacks for connecting to external
mixer or professional direct recording
equipment.

DC POWER JACK – 9 volt, 200mA

minimum, center negative polarity,

2.1mm coax plug.

USB CONNECTOR – For connecting
to a host PC. Allows for editing of
presets and uploading custom user
cabinet impulse data and firmware via
host editing software.

FOOT SWITCHES

ENABLE – This switch has two modes.

The default is BYPASS mode. This simply
allows you to activate or bypass the
pedal. Holding down the switch for 3
seconds will put the pedal in A/B mode.
In A/B mode, pressing the switch will
toggle between two selectable presets.
See the Foot Switches section of the
editor parametersfor more info.

BOOST – Programable foot switch for
turning the selected effecs on/
off. Custom programmable to control
Boost, compressor, EQ, etc. See
the Foot switches section of the editor
parameters for more info.

TOGGLE SWITCHES

STYLE and CHANNEL – These two

toggle switches work in conjunction
to allow you access to nine different
presets. Each toggle switch has three
different positions.

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+ = Preset 1

+ = Preset 2

+ = Preset 3

+ = Preset 4

+ = Preset 5

+ = Preset 6

+ = Preset 7

+ = Preset 8

+ = Preset 9

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Any preset can be loaded in to any of
these nine positions. We’ve labeled the
switches STYLE and CHANNEL to provide
a logical organization. For example, you
should think of STYLE postitions as:

= Clean = Crunch = Lead

In the Clean STYLE position we’ve
loaded these presets in the three

CHANNEL positions:

1 = D Luxe

3 = Top Boost

2 = ’59 Bman

In the Crunch STYLE position we’ve
loaded these presets in the three
CHANNEL positions:

1 = Kornfield

2 = Rumble Brite

3 = Hot Brit

In the Lead STYLE position we’ve
loaded these presets in the three
CHANNEL positions:

1 = 5051

2 = HBE

3 = Recto

See the Presets section of the
manual for more info.

CAB 1/4”/CAB XLR – This is also a

three postition toggle switch. The
setting of this switch determines if the
speaker cabinet impulse respose is
active on the 1/4” output, XLR output
or both. For live playing, you may have
the 1/4” output feeding a power amp
and speaker cabinet for your own
stage monitoring, while the XLR output
would feed the P.A. system.

In this scenario, you would want
this switch in position 3 so that the
speaker cabinet impulse respose is
only active on the XLR output.

1 =CAB on 1/4” output only

2 =CAB on both outputs

3 =CAB on XLR output only

EFFECTS AND
SIGNAL CHAIN

AMPLIFIRE-BOX offers studio-quality
effects developed by Studio Devil. They
are arranged into the following signal
chain categories (Editor designation is
noted in parentheses):

NOISE GATE (GTE)

COMPRESSOR (CMP)

PRE EQ (PRE)

DISTORTION / SCREAMER /
OVERDRIVE/ FUZZ / CLEAN BOOST
(BST)

PARAMETRIC EQ / PROGRAMMABLE
FILTER (PQ1/2/3)

REVERB (RVB)

The order of these effects cannot be
changed. The noise gate, compressor
and boost effects come before the
amp block and the reverb effect comes
after the amp block. However, the
EQ function has one band dedicated
before the amp block and three other
bands that can be assigned either pre
or post amp block. For more info see
the EQ section of the editor..

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