KEY POINTS TO CARE FOR YOUR GUITAR
1.
Natural woods require an environment with stable temperature
and humidity. Ideally a temperature of between 20° and 25° Celsius
(68° and 77° Fahrenheit) and a humidity of between 45% and 55%.
Use a humidifier in the dry season and a dehumidifier in the humid
season to maintain these conditions.
2.
Avoid impact damage. Quality repair work is expensive and, no
matter how expertly done, the instrument is unlikely to sound the
same after repair.
3.
When you have finished playing the guitar, please detune by one or
two notes below standard pitch.
The high tension of the strings can
gradually cause the soundboard to lift and/or the neck to bow upward.
This could result in a high action which is uncomfortable to play.
4.
We recommend that you store your guitar in a hard shell case.
It is
easier to control the humidity in the small enclosed space of a guitar
case and the guitar will also be protected against impact damage.
5.
The Preamp is switched on by plugging a cable into the output jack.
To preserve battery life, unplug the cable from the guitar’s output
jack when you are not amplifying your guitar.
Unplugging the cable
also removes the possibility of tripping over the cable and damaging the
guitar as well as injuring yourself. The tuner can still be selected
without the output cable.
How to adjust the ‘BiFlex’ truss rod
WARNING
Don’t adjust the truss rod by yourself. Please ask your dealer or a
guitar technician to make this adjustment.
To flatten the neck if it is too convex
turn the Allen wrench anti-clockwise.
To flatten the neck if it is too concave
turn the Allen wrench clockwise.
Neck too concave
Neck too convex
Preamp instructions
If your Crafter is an electro/acoustic model, it will be fitted with a
pickup and a preamp with which to control the tone and volume. The
pickup is located underneath the bridge saddle. Should you remove all
the strings, the bridge saddle will be loose. The bridge saddle keeps the
pickup in place so handle the guitar carefully. It is important not to shift
the position of the pickup. Refer page 9 to learn how to reset your
pickup.
Crafter uses a number of different preamps across the product range.
However the principles of operation are common to all. Briefly the functions
and controls are;
Volume
: Either a slider or a rotary control marked “Vol”.
Tone
: Slider or rotary controls marked “Bass”, “Middle”, “Treble” and
“Presence” control the tone. Two or more of these controls will be found
on your Crafter preamp. The Bass and Treble controls are “shelving”
filters to boost or cut the low and high frequencies over a broad range.
The Middle and Presence (found on some of our preamps) controls are
“band pass” filters which operate in the middle and upper frequency
range.
Phase
: The push button phase switch will invert the phase of the signal.
Phase affects the way that the guitar is pressurized by the sound waves
from the loudspeakers. Feedback between guitar and amp is minimized
when the sound waves emanating from the guitar and from the
loudspeaker are out of phase with each other. A proper phase
relationship will also help the sound to have more clarity. It is
recommended to try both phase settings (with the push button in and
out) in each new venue to find the best setting.
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Low Batt. :
The “Battery” light turns on when the battery is low and needs to
be replaced. If you are not going to use your guitar for a while please remove
the battery from the preamp.
Tuner :
Most Crafter electro/acoustic models incorporate an electronic tuner
with LCD screen built into the equalizer. The Tuner push button selects the
chromatic tuner and mutes the sound. When the tuner is switched on but the
guitar is not being played, the screen backlight will be off. When a string is
plucked, the screen will light up orange if the note is out of tune and green if
it is in tune. (Please note that some of our preamps have a white backlight, not
orange/green)
Each string will tune as follows;
6
th
to E, 5
th
to A, 4
th
to D, 3
rd
to G, 2
nd
to B and the 1
st
to E.
Once in tune turn off the tuner to reconnect the sound. The tuner turns off
automatically after 7 minutes to preserve battery life.
Notch Filter
: Our top end preamps now also include a Notch Filter which is
a powerful tool to reduce acoustic feedback. The filter operates in a narrow
band of frequencies so as to have minimal effect on the overall sound. When
it is set to coincide with the frequency at which there is feedback, the
amplification is sharply reduced (at just this frequency) thus stopping the
feedback. When you have a feedback problem, simply rotate the notch filter
control slowly until you reach the point where the feedback reduces and stops.
Output Jack
:
Our Acorn battery box/output jack/strap button combination
is mounted onto the reinforced area where the strap button is located.
Mounting all these functions onto a reinforced part of the guitar improves the
tone as well as the strength.
To improve an uneven pick-up response
If the amplified volume of each string is uneven, reseat your undersaddle
pickup by placing a dowel rod (wood stick) against the saddle between
strings 3 & 4 and give it a gentle but firm tap (refer illustration above).
Repeat between strings 1 & 2 and strings 5 & 6.
Urethane Hammer
Wood Stick
Pick-up
Saddle
Bridge Pin
Bridge
WARNING
Tap firmly but gently – not so hard that you crack or damage the
saddle or bridge.
Battery Case
Output Jack
Under Saddle Pick-up
Preamp
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