Heel & Toe secrets For DSP7000/7500/ORVILLE/ECLIPSE ULTRA-HARMONIZERS
There
are a couple of possible workarounds to adjust a pedal's response that come
from my experience on the unit. Besides the automatic calibration procedure,
described in the manuals, you can also manually calibrate the pedal. Here's how:
Connect
the pedal to the POWERED DOWN unit.
Turn
it on.
Go
to SETUP > pedals and look at the values your pedal is expressing, moving
from its minimum position (HEEL) to its maximum one (TOE).
DO
NOT TOUCH HEEL & TOE PARAMETERS YET !
For
instance, this Proel pedal of mine is ranging from 0.0 to 97.7...it's 2.3 below
the necessary 100.0 max level.
How
does one fix it?
Leave
the pedal in the max position...flat out...down TOE
Start
MANUALLY DECREASING the TOE parameter slowly, while watching the pedal value
going UP.
Stop
when the pedal monitor hits 100.0
Look
at TOE: it's down to 97.7% ! ! !
I
have just compensated for the missing 2.3 % range from the pedal into the unit.
That
works flawlessly.
If
you had the other end of the range working funny, the HEEL position, you would
only need to do stop the pedal at its lowest position...HEEL...then MANUALLY
INCREASE the HEEL value up to the point where pedal hits 0.0% as its proper
min.value.
Rule
of Thumb:
To
adjust pedal top range DECREASE TOE value; to adjust bottom range, INCREASE TOE,
in both cases, of the same amount it's missing to reach either 100% or 0%.
All
this process is what AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION takes care of. BUT...in the case of a
pedal working very funny, manual calibration could work much better than the
automatic one. You can compare Manual & Auto Calibrations: they should
compensate a missing range of the same exact amount, like in the real case I
have just described.
PEDAL Calibration is lost anytime an OS update is executed or a CLEAR SETUP
operation is done.
You
always need to calibrate a pedal after a new OS has been installed.
BUT...
you
can always save your calibration settings as your own custom SETUP and recall
them after OS upgrades.
A SETUP contains :
-ALL
your settings done in ALL SETUP area menupages
(dsp
A - dsp B (Orville) - analog - digital - audio - midi - external - display -
pedals - next prog - misc)
-ALL
your settings done in LEVELS area menupages
(dsp
A lev&mix - dsp B lev&mix - meter - inputs - outputs)
-ALL
your settings done in the BYPASS area
(Bypass
System - bypass machine)
...as
stated clearly in your beautiful blue manuals!
Once
a FULL SETUP has been set, SAVE IT!
You
can save it by PRESSING & HOLDING the PROGRAM key ONCE...this takes you to
ROUTING save area...release the PROGRAM key then RE-PRESS & HOLD it to
access the SETUP save area.
Here,
you can choose if you want to save the setup in INTERNAL ram or CARD ram,
you can NAME your setup, select the number where you'll save it and choose if
you want to associate 2 patches to it, at recall times.