The Advanced Digital Microphone System for Acoustic Guitar USER MANUAL
Contents Table of Contents Contents 2 English 3 iRig Acoustic Stage 3 Register your iRig Acoustic Stage 3 Installation and setup 4 Cancel feedback button 10 Tone button 11 Instrument calibration 12 Calibration process 12 Phase switch 14 AUX IN 15 Low battery indications 15 Specifications 16 Warranty 16 Support and more info 16 中文 17 iRig Acoustic Stage 17 注册您的iRig Acoustic Stage 17 安装和设置 18 取消反馈按钮 23 音色按钮 24 乐器校准 24 校准处理 25 相位切换 27 AUX输入 28 电池电量不足提示 28 规格参数 29 保修 29 支持和更多信息 29 Regulatory 30 2
English iRig Acoustic Stage Thank you for purchasing iRig Acoustic Stage. Your package contains: • iRig Acoustic Stage • 2xAA batteries • iRig Acoustic microphone • Belt clip • Pouch • Quick Start Guide • Registration Card iRig Acoustic Stage is a revolutionary digital microphone system for Acoustic Guitar, both with steel and nylon strings.
English Installation and setup 1. Insert the provided batteries in the battery compartment. You can use both Alkaline or Ni-MH rechargeable batteries. High energy Ni-MH will last at least 18 hours. Tip: If you play frequently, a good suggestion is to have 2 sets of rechargeable AAs, one in use and the other on charge and swap them every 2-3 gigs. 2. Connect the iRig Acoustic microphone. 3. Fix the microphone to your instrument.
English 4. Connect the iRig Acoustic Stage output to the PA mixer or to an acoustic guitar amplifier, as you would do with a normal acoustic-electric guitar. 5. Turn ON the unit.
English 6. While you can immediately start using your iRig Acoustic Stage with great results, if your instrument already features an onboard undersaddle piezo pickup system you can also connect its output to iRig Acoustic Stage. This will give more flexibility to your tone, allowing you to mix the iRig Acoustic microphone and the guitar built-in pickup system.
English 7. When recording the guitar in the studio or performing live on acoustic sets, best results will be obtained by using the iRig Acoustic Stage microphone only. This is obtained by just leaving the AUX input disconnected, or by rotating the MIX control completely clockwise. When performing live with loud sets and, depending on the type of sound you’re after, it might be useful mixing-in a portion of the guitar’s built-in piezo pickup.
English 8. When mixing the guitar’s on-board pickup system with iRig Acoustic using the MIX control, always start by setting this switch to the 0° position. On certain guitars you might get a fuller and more natural sound by flipping the phase of the AUX input by setting this switch to the 180° position.
English 10. Use the belt clip to attach the iRig Acoustic Stage to your belt or your instrument’s shoulder strap. 11. iRig Acoustic Stage can also be used as a digital recording interface for computers. Just plug the USB Digital Audio Output to any computer equipped with recording software (for example Apple’s Garage Band) and you’ll be ready to record the guitar with a pristine full digital path. This will ensure professional quality recording results with a minimal effort and ultra quick setup.
English Cancel feedback button In case of a feedback tap the “CANCEL FEEDBACK” button and the troublesome frequency is instantly notched out of the mix, thus eliminating feedback without sacrificing tone quality. This feature set individuals notch filters (up to 10) for multiple feedback frequencies. 1. Press this button while a feedback occurs. Available filter storage locations are: “10”. When a filter is stored the button will flash one time red. If no filter is stored no flash will occur. 2.
English Tone button Press TONE multiple times to select the tone you prefer. • “NATURAL” provides a balanced tone typical of a large diaphragm microphone placed at the golden spot when making studio recordings. • “WARM” provides a smoother tone, useful when NATURAL tends to sound a bit too harsh or edgy • “BRIGHT” gives a brighter tone, useful to have it cutting thought the mix in complex live setups All the three settings apply to both steel and nylon strung instruments.
English Instrument calibration The calibration process improves the overall response of the presets by tailoring them to the specific response of your instrument. By default this button’s LED is red to indicate no user calibration has been performed yet, and the factory calibration is loaded. This factory calibration has been created to make virtually every instrument sound natural and balanced.
English 3. Proceed playing 6 strings clusters in semitones steps on your guitar. Try playing these clusters using the same dynamics you will be averagely using when playing. If you play too soft during calibration, the system will probably deliver a too bright response. If you play very hard the system will produce a too soft response. We suggest checking the online tutorial videos to see how calibration clusters should be played.
English 5. To abort the calibration press the FEEDBACK CANCEL button. iRig Acoustic Stage will return to the previous state. 6. To return to the factory default calibration: start the calibration as per point (1) above then, while the calibration process is going on, press the Tone button for at least 2 sec. NOTE 1: the calibration process has a time out of “60” seconds. After this time the process automatically ends. NOTE 2: the calibration can start only if the microphone is connected.
English AUX IN Most acoustic guitars used for live performance includes a piezo pickup in the bridge. This is of course very useful to amplify the instrument but we all know the sound of the piezo pickup does not actually represent the true tone of the guitar when played acoustically. With iRig Acoustic Stage AUX IN you can connect the output of your guitar to this input and mix the stock guitar pickup output with the iRig Acoustic microphone tone.
English Specifications COMMON Microphone type: high performance MEMS element, soft rubber elastic enclosure Conversion: 32-bit A/D, 32-bit D/A Sampling Rate: 48 kHz Power: Battery powered (2xAA) Battery Life: approximately 12 hours of continuous usage with alkaline batteries and 15 hours with rechargeable high quality Ni-MH AA cells (2000 mAh and up) Frequency response: 30 Hz to 20 kHz Signal to noise ratio: 101 dB(A) MICROPHONE INPUT Connector: female 2,5mm TS Jack AUX INPUT Connector: unbalanced, TS 1/4”
中文 iRig Acoustic Stage 感谢您购买iRig Acoustic Stage.
中文 安装和设置 1. 在电池盒中装入提供的电池。还可以使用碱性或镍氢可充电电池。高能量镍氢电池可续航至少18个小 时。Tip：如果您常常弹奏，最好有2套可充电AA电池，使用其中一套的同时可以给另外一套充电，方便随时更 换。 2. 连接iRig Acoustic麦克风。 3.
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中文 6. 您可以立即开始使用iRig Acoustic Stage，并会获得很好的结果，如果您的乐器上已经有板载下弦枕下压电 拾音器系统，也可以连接它的输出到iRig Acoustic Stage。这可在音色上带来更多的灵活性，允许您混合使用 iRig Acoustic麦克风和吉他内置拾音器系统。 7.
中文 8. 使用MIX控制混合吉他的板载拾音器系统和iRig Acoustic，要将设置开关调到0°的位置再开始。在一些吉他 上，通过设置开关到180°位置轻弹AUX输入相位，可能获得更加完整、更加自然的声音。当AUX输入断开连 接这个开关保留iRig Acoustic Stage输出相位，在大舞台监听前演奏是有用的，试试两个位置找到那个有较少 反馈和更坚实音色的位置。 9.
中文 10. 使用腰带夹将iRig Acoustic Stage夹到腰带或乐器肩带上。 11.
中文 取消反馈按钮 在出现反馈的情况下点击“CANCEL FEEDBACK”（取消反馈）按钮，恼人的频率会立即消失，从而消除反 馈，而不会损坏音质。这种功能设置单个消除滤波器（多达10个）适用多种反馈频率。 1. 反馈发生时按这个按钮。可用的滤波器保存位置是：“10个”。滤波器保存了按钮会闪红色光一次。没有保 存按钮不会闪光。 2. 当达到最大滤波器保存量，再按一下按钮按钮会闪烁四次。 3.
中文 音色按钮 多次按下TONE（音色）按钮，选择一个你喜欢的音色。 “NATURAL”（自然）提供了一个平衡的音色，典型的在录音棚录音时放置在黄金点的大光圈麦克风。 “WARM”（温暖）提供了更加平稳的音色，当自然音色听起来有点太粗糙或尖锐时，这个就很适用。 “BRIGHT”（明亮）提供更加明亮的音色，可用在复杂的现场设置中切割混音。 这三种设置都适用钢弦和尼龙弦乐器。Nylon（尼龙）将在每次预置循环切换时打开或关闭。 在使用尼龙弦乐器时确保NYLON（尼龙）是开着的（当然，包括尤克里里！） 每次按下TONE（音色）按钮都可选择不同的预置，像这样循环：NATURAL（自然） -> WARM（温暖） -> BRIGHT（明亮） -> NYLON (on)（尼龙-开启） - > NATURAL（自然） -> WARM（温暖） -> BRIGHT（明 亮） -> NYLON (off)（尼龙-关闭） - > NATURAL（自然）......
中文 乐器类型 钢弦琴 校准 可选，会提升每个乐器，尽管出厂校准已经听起来 很棒。 钢弦琴 - Jumbo, Parlor, “001”, 以及其他不 同于 Dreadnought的类型 可选，有效，但取决于乐器，也可以“拉平”一些 特殊方面的吉他音色。由于结果取决于乐器，可以 进行尝试。 通常不用。出厂校准在尼龙弦乐器上听起来很棒， 但可以进行尝试。 不建议使用。会使乐器听起来不自然。出厂标准在 这些乐器上听起来已经不错。 尼龙弦琴 – 任何类型 非吉他乐器如：尤克里里，原声贝斯，曼陀林等 校准处理 校准完成后按钮会变成绿色。开始校准前需连接iRig Acoustic麦克风： 1. 持续按住TONE（音色）按钮至少2秒（2秒后开始校准过程）。 2.
中文 3. 在吉他上的每品大横按6根弦弹奏。每品都弹，按平时弹奏的力度。如果在校准过程中弹奏太轻柔，系统可能 会输送一个太亮的响应。如果弹奏很用力系统则会产生一个太弱的响应。我们建议您观看在线教程视频，看看如 何弹奏校准横按。Tip: 事实上校准的结果取决于如何弹奏校准横按，一旦习惯了会发现它实际上非常有用，因为 它允许对乐器有具体的校准，只要在校准过程中改变弹奏方法。熟悉了以后会觉得很有意思，因为它能够让您用 您的乐器创建非常具体而个人的音色！ 4.
中文 5. 中止校准请按FEEDBACK CANCEL（取消反馈）按钮。iRig Acoustic Stage会回到这之前的状态。 6.
中文 AUX输入 多数用于现场表演的原声吉他上都有一个琴桥下压电拾音器。 这当然在放大乐器方面非常有用，但我们都知道当弹奏原声时，压电拾音器的声音不能够实际表现出吉他的真实 音色。 有了iRig Acoustic Stage的AUX输入您可以连接吉他输出到这个输入，混合吉他拾音器输出和iRig Acoustic麦 克风音色。 这将允许继续使用强大而可靠的压电拾音器输出，在舞台上反馈苛刻的情况下，只需触碰混合的iRig Acoustic 麦克风就能让声音听起来更原声和丰富。 使用MIX控制来平衡压电拾音器（全CCW）和iRig Acoustic麦克风（全CW）之间的音色。 当同时使用AUX和iRig Acoustic声源确保PHASE（相位）开关在iRig Acoustic Stage左侧，确保将它设置在 两个声源混合最好的位置。 电池电量不足提示 当电池电量低的时候，所有（开启的）LED显示灯会每2秒快速闪烁。当电池电量很低的时候，音频输出会静 音，LED显示灯持续闪烁。 28
中文 规格参数 常见参数 麦克风类型: 高性能MEMS元件，软橡胶弹性外壳 转换: 32-bit A/D, 32-bit D/A 采样率: 48 kHz 供电: 电池供电(2xAA) 电池续航能力: 碱性电池可连续使用约12小时，可充电优质镍氢AA电池可连续使用15小时(2000 mAh及以上) 频率响应: 30 Hz到20 kHz 信噪比: 101 dB(A) 麦克风输入 连接器: 插座2,5mm TS 插头 AUX输入 连接器: 不平衡, TS 1/4” 插头。Tip: 信号/屏蔽: 接地 AUX输入阻抗: 1MOhms 线性输出 连接器: 不平衡, TS 1/4” 插头。Tip: 信号/屏蔽：接地 线性输出阻抗: 50Ohms (可以驱动长线材，没有任何损失) 其他输入/输出 USB: 1x Micro-USB B type. USB类兼容的音频输出(48kHz/24bit) 保修 请访问： www.ikmultimedia.com/warranty 了解完整的保修政策 支持和更多信息 www.ikmultimedia.com/support www.irigacousticstage.
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