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Ravish Sitar

Sitar Emulator

Congratulations on your purchase of the Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar, a highly

customizable sitar emulator. Electro-Harmonix is proud to bring you a product that

accurately transforms your guitar into a sitar without making alterations to your

instrument or needing any other accessories. The Ravish is practically an instrument

unto itself. It is very deep and has many possibilities. We recommend you spend

some time with this manual so you and the Ravish can be brought to a higher plane.

Before proceeding further into the manual, it may be helpful to become familiar with

some terms associated with the sitar:

 LEAD – The main strings played on the sitar. These strings can be plucked and bent at

the player’s will just like a guitar’s.

 SYMPATHETIC STRINGS – There are 11 to 17 sympathetic strings within the body of a

sitar that ring out at all times. They cannot be plucked. These strings are tuned to the

key and scale determined by the player. Playing lower notes will encourage lower tones

to resonate and playing higher notes will similarly encourage higher tones to resonate.

– Special Features of the Ravish Sitar –

 Independent timbre controls for the lead and sympathetic string tones.

 Independent volume controls for dry, lead and sympathetic string voices.

 Play in all twelve chromatic keys in major, minor and exotic scales.

 Create your own custom sympathetic scales; up to 17 notes, including microtones.

 Freeze the sympathetic strings by holding down the PRESET footswitch.

 Fade and freeze sympathetic strings with optional expression pedal.

 Control the decay of the lead sitar notes.

 Modulate the sympathetic notes to create movement similar to that of a tanpura.

 Bend the pitch of the lead voice from one semitone up to one octave with an optional

expression pedal.

 Separate outputs for main mix and sympathetic strings.

 Selectable Q control on lead voice allows variation from organic to synthetic.

 10 fully programmable presets or leave it in What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)

mode.

WARNING: Your Ravish Sitar comes equipped with an Electro-Harmonix 9.6DC-

200 power supply (same as used by Boss

& Ibanez

: 9.6 Volts DC 200mA /

Center Negative). The Ravish Sitar requires 160mA at 9VDC with a center

negative plug. The Ravish does not take batteries. Using the wrong adapter may

damage your unit and void the warranty.

– QUICK START GUIDE –

This Quick Start Guide will help you get started using your Ravish Sitar

immediately. For detailed information on all of the Ravish Sitar's features and

functions, please refer to the rest of this owner’s manual.

Setup

1. Using an unbalanced instrument cable, plug the output of your instrument

into the INPUT jack on the right side of the Ravish.

2. Connect an unbalanced instrument cable from the MAIN OUT jack on the

left side of the Ravish to the input jack of an amplifier.

3. Connect the included AC Adaptor to a wall outlet and plug its barrel

connector into the 9V power jack at the top of the Ravish.

4. Turn on the amplifier and turn up your instrument’s volume. Press the

BYPASS footswitch so that the STATUS LED is lit; the Ravish is now

activated.

A. Preset Settings

Press and release the PRESET footswitch to cycle through the Ravish’s

preset settings. Each factory preset has been carefully prepared to utilize

the deep sonic capabilities of the Ravish. You may overwrite the factory

presets with your own sound creations whenever you like.

B. Manual Settings

1. To begin, turn the Ravish’s knobs to the following positions:

DRY LEVEL: 3 o’clock

LEAD LEVEL: 2 o’clock

SYMPATHETIC LEVEL: 12 o’clock

LEAD TIMBRE: 2 o’clock

SYMPATHETIC TIMBRE: 10 o’clock

2. Ensure the green PRESET LED (under left segment display) is off. If it is

on, turn the white MODE/PRESET knob clockwise until the PRESET LED

shuts off. This action deactivates the currently loaded preset.

3. Press and release the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle into KEY mode. This is

denoted by the KEY LED being lit as well as a dot in the bottom-right

corner of the right segment display. Rotate the MODE/PRESET knob until E

MAJOR (or any key you like) is selected.

4. Press the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle to the DECAY control. This is

denoted by the DCY LED being lit. The right segment will display a number

between 0 and 9. Select 3 for a short decay resembling that of an actual

sitar.

5. Press the MODE/PRESET knob to cycle to the MODULATION control. Select

a value between 1 and 3 for a nice, slow modulation or 0 for no

modulation.

Summary of content (5 pages)

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– QUICK START GUIDE – This Quick Start Guide will help you get started using your Ravish Sitar immediately. For detailed information on all of the Ravish Sitar's features and functions, please refer to the rest of this owner’s manual. Ravish Sitar Sitar Emulator Congratulations on your purchase of the Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar, a highly customizable sitar emulator.
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– SWITCH FUNCTIONS – MODE/PRESET Encoder – This white knob has three functions: 1. When in preset mode turn this knob to scroll through the presets, though it will not load the preset. To load the selected preset, press and release the PRESET footswitch.* 2. Press and hold the PRESET knob for 3 seconds to save a preset.* 3. Press and release the PRESET knob (without holding it down) to toggle through the PRESET, KEY, DECAY, MODULATION, PITCH BEND and Q modes.** *See the PRESETS section for more on presets.
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– KEY MODE – The Ravish Sitar can be put into KEY MODE by pressing and releasing the MODE/PRESET encoder. When in KEY MODE, the KEY LED will light as well as the TUNE LED and one or more of the SHARP, MAJOR, MINOR and EXOTIC LEDs. A decimal point will be visible in the bottom-right corner of the right segment display and the selected key will be displayed. A “K” will briefly display on the left segment display.
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– I/O CONNECTIONS – INPUT – Connect the output of your instrument or another effects pedal to this jack. – DECAY MODE – From KEY MODE, press and release the MODE/PRESET encoder once to put the Ravish into DECAY MODE, denoted by the DCY LED being lit as well as a “D” displaying briefly on the left segment display. In this mode the user can change the note decay of the lead sitar sound. This parameter ranges from 0 to 9 with 0 being the shortest decay and 9 being the longest. The default value is 3.
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– PRESETS – Press and release the PRESET footswitch once to enter PRESET MODE. The Ravish has ten fully programmable presets. Saving a preset will capture the setting of each of the five black knobs and all internal settings. Once a preset is saved, the Ravish will remember its settings after power has been disconnected. Preset ten is denoted by the Roman numeral “X”. The Ravish also has What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) mode, denoted by a “W” on the preset display. Preset Save Procedure 1. 2. 3. 4.