Line 6 BackTrack User Manual

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BackTrack Series

Pilot’s Guide

Manuel de pilotage

Pilotenhandbuch
Pilotenhandboek

Manual del Piloto

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You should read these Important Safety Instructions.

Keep these instructions in a safe place.

Before using your BackTrack, carefully read the applicable items of these operating instructions and the safety suggestions.

1. Obey all warnings in the BackTrack Pilot’s Guide.

2. Do not perform service operations beyond those described in the BackTrack Pilot’s Guide. Service is required when the
apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as:

• liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus

• the unit has been exposed to rain or moisture

• the unit does not operate normally or changes in performance in a significant way

• the unit is dropped or the enclosure is damaged.

4. Do not place near heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, or appliances which produce heat.

5. Guard against objects or liquids entering the device. Do not use or place unit near water.

6. Do not step on cords. Do not place items on top of cords so that they are pinched or leaned on. Pay particular attention to
the cord at the plug end and the point where it connects to the device.

7. Always switch to OFF and unplug the guitar cable when not in use for extended periods of time for extended battery life.

8. Clean only with a damp cloth.

9. Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.

10. Prolonged listening at high volume levels may cause irreparable hearing loss and/or damage. Always be sure to practice
“safe listening.”

THIS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN TESTED AND FOUND TO COMPLY WITH THE LIMITS FOR A CLASS B DIG ITAL DEVICE PURSUANT
TO PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CON DITIONS: (1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT
CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCE PT ANY INTERF EREN CE RECE IVED, INCLU DING
INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRABLE OPE RATION.

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Line 6, the Line 6 logo, BackTrack and POD are trademarks of Line 6, Inc. © 2008

Welcome to BackTrack

BackTrack makes it easy for you to capture and replay any moment of musical inspiration, without preparing
to record it in advance.

BackTrack can constantly capture everything you play to its internal Flash memory. It notices when you start
and stop playing, and automatically splits out individual audio events for each of these musical moments.

This makes it easy to mark individual events as ones that you want to save and return to. After one of these
happens, press the MARK button, and BackTrack will mark this as something important that it will keep. Press
the play button, and you can hear that event played back again, giving you instant replay for inspiration.

It’s also easy to select any other marked event to play back. Playback can be looped, so you hear one particular
event over and over again, while you jam on other ideas to go with it. You can also choose to revew all the
audio in BackTrack’s memory, just in case there was some other recent moment that you didn’t mark, but want
to return to.

Connect BackTrack to your computer, and you’ve got access to all these audio events as individual .WAV files.
There’s one folder for the MARKED events, and another folder for the UNMARKED ones. The MARKED files
will never be erased by BackTrack, unless you remove them yourself while connected to the computer. The
UNMARKED files may be deleted by BackTrack when it needs to make room to capture newer audio events.

Make copies of the files on your computer to build up a library of inspiration, burn them to CD, or convert them
to MP3 to share them with your fans or collaborators. You can play them in your favorite audio software, and
even load them into your recording software as a foundation for a fuller recording of your ideas.

You can also put other .WAV files in the USER folder on BackTrack to have them available for playback away
from your computer.

The included software lets you choose the quality settings that will be used for audio capture. BackTrack
supports CD-standard 44.1 kHz, 16 bit quality, as well as settings up to 48 kHz, 24 bit. Chose lower settings
to increase recording capacity, or higher settings for pristine audio quality. (See pages 9 thru 12 for details.)

For added versatility, BackTrack also includes these features:

• Flip the switch to PLAY ONLY for those times when you don’t want auto capture

• Forced Capture lets you use BackTrack as a regular recording device, for planned recordings (see page 4)

Ready to learn more? Flip the page... and look for

to indicate other “hidden” features.

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Side Panels & Connections

• No mic or stereo output

PLAY

MARKED

ALL

PLAY

MARKED

ALL

Microphone

Capture Source for BackTrack + Mic

• Disconnect IN jack to use the mic to capture
audio.

• IN jack will always be used as source for audio
capture if connected.

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ON

PLAY
ONLY

OFF

• Includes mic & stereo output

ON

PLAY
ONLY

OFF

Stereo/Headphone Out

• Volume adjust affects this output only

• This jack receives playback of audio captured
from mic as well as IN jack

• The OUT jack is disabled (does not output
audio) when the stereo/headphone jack is
connected

+MIC

VOLUME

Hook Up

+MIC

or

only

or

oror

Alternate Hookups to Record and Playback Processed POD audio

+MIC

MARK

+MIC

INOUT

MARK

INOUT

Amp out

Connect headphones directly to OUT jack
or loop back to POD as shown

MARK

INOUT

CD/MP3 input

Amp out

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