Compact 60/4
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Playalongs
The Compact 60/4 is a professional, compact and powerful amplifier system. Especially developed for the enhancement of acoustic instruments it is nonetheless suitable for other instruments, even electrical ones. Our design concept was focused on the singer-/songwriter who requires outstanding reproduction of his/ her instrument and vocals yet needs a handy unit with gigbag which is easily portable (even via public transport). We sought to produce an amp that would accomplish this while astonishing audiences as well as sound-engineers through excellent sound and professional instrumentation. All AER amplifier systems employ dynamic range control, which ensures reliability and low distortion even at high volume despite strikingly small size and light weight. Read on and have fun using your Compact 60/4!
Controls and connections:
Channels 1 + 2:
- Input: (ch. 1) input channel 1, 1/4" (6,35 mm) jack socket, instrument or line input
- High/low: attenuator, high = att. off, low = att. on
- Clip: overload indicator
- Gain: input level control
- Colour: tone colour filter activation switch up= not active, down= active
- Bass: bass level control
- Middle: middle level control
- Treble: treble level control
- Input (ch. 2): Input, channel 2, combo socket for ¼" (6.35 mm) jack or XLR, with following connection options: • XLR connector: microphone, balanced, with 48 V phantom power • stereo jack connector: microphone, balanced, without phantom power • mono jack connector: instrument, line, or microphone, unbalanced, without phantom power.
- Line/mic: signal source selector switch: line (only via jackplug) for instruments (pickup) and other line level sources, mic for microphones.
Effects:
- Pan: effect distribution control
- Select: effect select switch
- Level: level control internal effect
Mains & Master:
- Power: on/off status indicator
- Master: master level control (volume)
Rear side:
- Aux level: Level control for aux in
- Aux in: Auxiliary input, 3.5 mm jack socket. Additional input for general sources with line level, e.g. CD player Mono or stereo jack plugs can be used.
- 9 V (ch. 1): Switches on the 9 V phantom power for channel 1 (see 5.4)
- DI out pre/post fx: Adds the effects (internal and external) to DI-out
- Line out: Preamplifier output post master and tone controls, with effects
- Headphones: Output for headphones. The loudspeaker of the amplifier is switched off when this socket is used.
- Send: Output for external, parallel effect loop (see 5.2) in conjunction with return
- Return: Input of the external, parallel effect path Can also be used alone as an additional input.
- Tuner: Output, pre master, for a tuner.
- Footswitch: Connector for a dual footswitch switching the internal and external effect on/off. Stereo jack socket, assignment: Tip = switch for internal effect Ring = switch for external effect (send / return)
- DI-out: Balanced XLR output, pre master, switchable with or without effects.
- Power: Power on/off switch, combined with mains inlet (IEC C14 type) and compartment for mains fuse (see technical data).
Technical specifications:
- Channel 1: 6.3 mm (1/4”) input jack socket as high impedance line input stage with pad (high/lowattenuation) 9 V phantom power and gain control
- Channel 2: combined XLR/6.3 mm (1/4”) input jack socket as high quality line or balanced microphone input stage 48 V, gain control
- Equalizer: three band tone controls for channel 1 and two band tone controls for channel 2
- Colour: ‘mid-cut-treble-boost’-filter
- Digital effect processor with 4 presets: 2 x reverb, delay, chorus
- Power amp: 60W / 4 ohms, dynamic control
- Speaker system: 8” (200 mm) dual cone full-range speaker, bassreflex enclosure
- Features: headphones, line out, switchable DI-out, external effect loop via send and return, footswitch, aux in (internal/external effect on/off )
- Dimensions: 260 mm x 325 mm x 235 mm (10.20“ x 12.80“ x 9.25“), HxWxD
- Weight: 7.1 kg (15.6 lbs)
