FRONT PANEL FEATURES
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8 – CHANNEL SELECT LED
Illuminates GREEN when the Overdrive channel is selected.
9 – OVERDRIVE CHANNEL VOLUME CONTROL
This controls the amount of overdrive generated by the
preamp signal that is sent to the Valve Reactor power am-
plifier. Use this to set the loudness required for your use,
and also to balance the overdrive sound against your clean
(Normal) sound.
10 – BASS CONTROL
This controls the amount of BASS in the Overdrive chan-
nel.
11 – TREBLE CONTROL
This controls the amount of TREBLE in the Overdrive chan-
nel.
12 – MASTER VOLUME
This controls the amount of volume produced by the VR30’s
Valve Reactor power amplifier circuit, and therefore the
overall volume that your VR30 supplies to any of the loud-
speaker systems that are connected — whether it is the
internal 10" loudspeaker, an external loudspeaker system,
or headphones.
13 – MASTER REVERB
This controls the amount of spring reverb that is mixed with
the direct signal to produce a slight shimmer of reverb (low
settings) to concert hall depth (at high settings).
The built-in spring reverb can be cancelled or activated by
the optional VF-002 Footswitch. (Channel-Reverb)
You may notice a splash of reverb when switching between
the Overdrive and Normal channels depending on your
settings. This is normal.
14 – POWER LED
Illuminates RED when your amplifier is switched on, and is
also connected to a suitable mains power supply.
15 – MAINS POWER SWITCH
Turns your VR30 OFF/ON from the connected mains power.
1 – INPUT JACK
Connect your guitar into this socket.
2 – NORMAL VOLUME CONTROL
This controls the volume of the clean (NORMAL) channel.
At lower settings the sound will be very clean and bright, at
higher settings the sound will become somewhat thicker
and warmer, whilst at the highest settings the sound will
“break up” into a natural vintage style distortion.
As different types of electric guitars have vastly different
amounts of tonal qualities and output levels, your guitar
will have a major influence on where you will need to set
the position of the controls on this amplifier to achieve the
response you desire.
Please Note — for this control to be functional
the amplifier channel switching facility needs to
be set to the Normal channel.
3 – BASS CONTROL
This controls the amount of BASS in the Normal channel.
4 – TREBLE CONTROL
This controls the amount of TREBLE in the Normal chan-
nel.
5 – CHANNEL SWITCHING BUTTON
This button controls whether your amplifier is set for Nor-
mal or Overdrive — OUT = NORMAL, IN = OVERDRIVE.
Your VR30 can also be channel switched by using the op-
tional VF-002 Footswitch (connected via the back panel
Footswitch Jack (16)). This function can only be operated
when the front panel button is “IN” position.
When the Normal channel is selected, the LED (8) is not
illuminated — when the Overdrive channel is selected, the
Green LED is illuminated.
6 – OVERDRIVE STYLE BUTTON
This button changes the distortion characteristics (STYLE)
of the Overdrive channel — OD1 or OD2.
OD1 is a warm natural “vintage” overdrive flavour, ideal for
“blues” based sounds.
OD2 is a harder, more aggressive, high gain style distor-
tion, more suited to “modern” playing.
7 – OVERDRIVE CHANNEL GAIN CONTROL
This regulates the amount of preamp “gain” and therefore
the amount of overdrive or distortion that is generated by
the Overdrive Channel. Like the Normal Volume control,
lower settings means less distortion, higher settings means
much, much more distortion!
