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Shadow Electroacoustic · Josip MarinicHeuwaagstrasse 2 · D-91054 Erlangen · Germany

Phone: International (49) 91 31/8 86 10 9 am to 5 pm MEZ (GMT+1)Telefax: International (49) 91 31/20 19 82 24 hours a day!

E-mail: shadow-joe @t-online.de We welcome your comments!

For the latest in accessories,pickups and electronics for acoustic amplification –please visit our web site at www.shadow -pickups . com

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Digital Effect PreampUser´s Guide

MEGATECH 8

00398_MT8_Anleitung_B_LY 25.09.2000 14:29 Uhr Seite 1

Last name

Address

City

Postal code and country

Telephone * Optional

Telefax * Optional

E-mail address * Optional

Name of store where purchased

Name and type of guitar installed in

MEGATECH 8 Serial number Date purchased

MEGATECH 8 Registration Card

D D M M Y Y



D D M M Y Y

The Shadow MEGATECH 8 Limited Warranty and Service

First name and initial

The MEGETECH 8 is warranted under normal usage against defects in workmanship andmaterial for the original purchaser for 2 (two) years from the date of purchase providing following conditions are met. The warranty service will be performed free of charge except for insurance, postage, handling, transportation and incidental charges. Reduction,exchange and further damage claims in any form are exempted from this limited warranty.

1. The attached warranty card with all required information should be sent to Shadowshortly after purchase. If the purchaser does not send the card and returns the MEGATECH 8 for service or repair under these conditions, the MEGATECH 8 unit must be accompanied by the completed registration card and the original sales reciept proving the date of purchace.

2. The MEGATEC 8 should only be repaired by Shadow Electronics or a licenced servicecenter. This limited waranty is invalid if service or repair by any other party is made.

3. This limited waranty is invalid if the MEGATECH 8 unit is damaged by accident, acts of God, mishandling, damage through battery leakage, failure to follow instructions,improper storage conditions, tampering with the electronic components or otherwise.

4. Batteries, jacks, or the instrument are not covered by this limited warranty.

5. This limited warranty is only for the MEGATECH 8. No other warranty, expressed orimplied, is provided. Shadow Electronics assumes nor responsibility for instrumentdamage, user injury, loss due to theft or vandalisim, or user financial loss due to unit malfunction or damage.

6. The registration card can not be reissued if lost.

Return Instructions:

• The MEGATECH 8 should be returned in a well insulated postal approved packaging to insure no other damage during shipping may occur. The parcel should be insuredagainst loss or damage through postal agents. Service by Shadow, independent fromshipping time, may take up to 4 weeks depending on the malfunction. Include the sales reciept if the registration card accompanies the MEGATECH 8. Do not send quitar.

• The parcel should be addressed as follows:

Shadow ElectronicsMEGATECH 8 Service Heuwaagstrasse 2D- 91054 Erlangen/Germany

Dear Customer,

Thank you for choosing the MEGATECH 8 Digital Effect Preamp for your guitar! After nearly 2 years of developement and programming, we have created a product that not only reflects the cutting edge of music technology, but returns to the basic needs of the performer.

A problem today with most devices are that you need to be a “Rocket Scientist“ to understand the features and applications.Shadow has designed the MEGATECH 8 in a backwards develop-ment – the sound is what is most important followed by the ease of controll. These factors dictated the intergrated digital effect presets, options for self created effects, and overall layout of thecontroll surface and display.

All digital effects have been painstakingly recreated and incorporated in the preset banks to deliver a rich and full sound that does not take away from the true acoustics of your instrument – all preset parameters can even be adjusted!Another great feature is the on board design of the MEGATECH 8.Cables, pedals and clumbsy arrays are eleviated. Just plug in yourjack and the unit activates, choose your preset or self createdeffect and start playing !

Sincerely Yours,

Josip MarinicPresident - Shadow Electronics

P.S.: Don´t let me try to convince you – the MEGATECH 8 sound will…

COPY HERE FOR YOUR RECORDS


General Functions . . . . . . . . . . 4

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Back Light Options . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Tuner Options . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Equalizer Options . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Factory Preset Bank 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Factory Preset Bank 2 . . . . . . . . . . 10

Factory Preset Bank 3 . . . . . . . . . . 11

Adjusting the Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 12

Reverb – RVB . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chorus – CHR . . . . . . . . . . 14

Compressor – CMP . . . . . . . . . . 15

Tremelo – TRE . . . . . . . . . . 16

Delay – DEL . . . . . . . . . . 17

Flanger – FLN . . . . . . . . . . 18

Noise Gate – NSG . . . . . . . . . . 19

Saving a User Preset . . . . . . . . . . 20

Recalling a User Preset . . . . . . . . . . 21

Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . 22

Limited Warranty & Service . . . . . . . . . . 23

Contents


Before you start - install 6 fresh 1,5 V AA Batteries. The battery compartment is located on the back of secondary MT-8 unit. Observe correct polarity for each individual battery –electronic damage could occur if installed incorrectly.

General Functions

Potentiometerrotary potSelection buttons*

*Actual selections are marked with an arrow.

Max. 30 min. of power available

when lit.

Phase switch when pressed will compensate enviornmentals

and quell the feedback.

Selection buttons*

Multifunction buttons

Backlight dot matrix display screen

Low Batteryindicator

Anti Feedback

Getting Started

The arrow beside DNT (dreadnought) shows that this preset is in use. If you want to select from other presets press the corresponding push button and the arrow will move to new selected preset.

With the potentiometer rotary pot you can adjust the volume level – the number in right corner shows the level from 0 to 100.

Controll Basics

The green push button and the button above the green one have multiple functions. They can be pushed in two ways: press and release or press and hold for few seconds.

When you press and release the ESC button, the preset bankchanges. The MT-8 has 3 Factory Preset and 3 User Preset Banks.

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Plug in a regular guitar cable andconnect with the

amplifier.

The following display will

appear.

After few seconds display

will changeto following:

You are ready to

play!


Back Light Options Tuner Options

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By selecting OFF the back light will remain unlit.

Use the 5SE (5 second delay) mode to conserve battery energy.After pushing a button or turning the rotary pot the back light willilluminate, then automatically switch off after 5 seconds.

Select ON and the back light will be remain on as long as the cable jack is plugged in the guitar.

In the Main Screenpress and hold the ESC button, the following displaywill appear.

Press and releasethe button aboveLIGHT

This screen appears and allowsyou to select the wayyour back light willfunction.

Press and release ESC to activate changes and return to the previous menu screen.

When you are finished ...



Press and releasethe TUNER button.

The TONE screen will appear next.

The MEGATECH 8has an automatic

chromatic Tuner withCalibration option.

In the TUNERmode the sound

will be temporarilymuted.

Pluck a string. After TONE: will appear the note your string is tunedto. The A5 string by most tuners of this kind can temporarily read as E instead of A. The reason is the third harmonic that appears byacoustic guitars. When tuning, the tone bars will pull left (b - flat) orright (# - sharp) The tone bars will remain centered in the square when the string is tuned correctly. To calibrate turn the rotary potbetween 430 and 450Hz. The value is displayed above ESC with anarrow. You will need this feature if you need to tune your guitar with an instrument, a piano for example, which is tuned slightly different.


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Adjusting the 6 band equalizer. Select the band range by pressingthe L (left) and R (right) buttons to move the cursor – the active frequency bar selected will blink. The selected frequency value (shownhere 0.2 as 200 Hz) and amplification value (shown here + 08 dB) will be displayed up to + /–12 dB. To change the value turn the potentiometer rotary pot. Select thenext frequency and adjust as described. To start with a flat response(all frequency bars at 0dB) press and release FLT then adjust the frequency bars as desired.

Equalizer OptionsPush and releasethe EQ button andthe 6 band equalizerscreen will appearnext.



Factory Preset Bank 1

Press and release ESC to move to the next factory preset bank ...

Press and release EQ to adjust the equalizer - page 8.

Press and hold EQ to adjust the selection´s parameters - page 12.

Turn the rotary pot to adjust the volume.

The MT-8 will alwaysstart with DNT

Push and release abutton to change tothe desired preset;CHR for example.

The arrow will appear next to your selection.

Dreadnought - This effect will simulate the acoustics of a typical dreadnought quitar with light reverbaration.

Dreadnought with chorus - The dreadnought acoustics areaccompanied with a chorus effect.

Dreadnought with reverbaration - Reveb will accentuate thedreadnought acoustics.

Dreadnought lead - The quitar will have crisper sound whenplaying lead.

Tremelo effect - A dreadnought sound with a noticable tremelo effect.

Delay effect - A delay effect will accompany the sound.

L R

Anyadjust-ments inthe EQ

option will onlyaffect the selected preset.

Bar Value0.2 = 200 Hz0.5 = 200 Hz1.2 = 1.2 KHz2.4 = 2.4 KHz5.4 = 5.4 KHz9.2 = 9.2 KHz


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Factory Preset Bank 2 Factory Preset Bank 3By pressing and releasing ESCwe have now movedto the next bank.

Your selection arrowwill remain on the lastpreset untill anotherpreset position is selected.

This is the last actorypreset bank.

By pressing and releasing ESC the 3

user preset banks willfollow. They contain

no effects unless youhave saved an ad-

justment - page 20.

Press and release ESC to move to the next factory preset bank ...




Jumbo guitar - This effect simulates the acoustics of a jumbo guitar.

Reverb, chorus and tremelo combination.

Reverb, tremelo and delay combination.

Dobro guitar - Steel cased guitar sound - clear, pure and crisp.

Flanger effect.

Reverb, chorus and delay combination.

Press and release ESC to move to the user preset banks - page 21.




Reverb, tremelo and chorus combination.

Long delay effect preset.

Delay, flanger and reverb combination prest.

Jumbo guitar with delay and tremelo effect preset.

Tremelo, reverb and delay combination preset.

Dry acoustics - All EQ frequencies are at 0 db with no effects.


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Adjusting the Parameters Reverb (RVB) ParametersIf you are in any of the factory or user preset banks,here DNT, press and hold EQ toadjust the parame-ters. The adjustmentschange the selectedeffect only!

In the main parameters screenPress and release

the RVB button.

The parameter options screen

for RVB will appear.

The sound of allRVB parameters

can be listened toduring adjustment.

Parameteradjust-ments willbe lost

as soon as the jack is removed. To save youradjustments see page 20!

Select between serial - SER or parallel - PAR by pressing thecorresponding button. An arrow will appear next to the selection.

An arrow will automatically appear beside volume - VOL. Then adjust the volume by turning the rotary pot.

To change room size, select using the button above CUTand turn the rotory pot to desired value.

To change depth value, select using the button above DPTand and turn the rotory pot to desired value.

Reverb – see page 13.

Chorus – see page 14.

Compressor – see page 15.

Tremelo – see page 16.

Delay – see page 17.

Flanger – see page 18.

Noise gate – see page 19. Press and release ESC to activate changes and return to the previous menu screen.



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Chorus (CHR) Parameters Compressor (CMP) ParametersIn the main parameters screenPress and releasethe CHR button.


the CMP button.





The parameter options screen for CHR will appear.

The sound of allCHR parameterscan be listened toduring adjustment.


for CMP will appear.

The sound of allCMP parameters


Sinus curve character.

Triangle curve character.

Rate.

Depth.

Attenuation.

Release.

Threshhold.

Rate.


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Tremelo (TRE) Parameters Delay (DEL) Parameters





In the main parameters screenPress and releasethe TRE button.


the DEL button.

The parameter options screen for TRE will appear.

The sound of allTRE parameterscan be listened toduring adjustment.


for DEL will appear.

The sound of allDEL parameters


Pre effect - modulation before other effects.

Post effect - modulation after other effects.

Sinus curve character.

Triangle curve character.

Rate.

Volume - the effect´s audible transparency strength.

Short - time (TME ) from 0 to 1.5 seconds.

Long - time (TME ) from 1.5 to 4 seconds.

Time - value for short or long selection.

Feedback - controlls feedback rate.

Volume - the effect´s audible transparency strength.


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Flanger (FLN) Parameters Noise Gate (NSG) Parameters





In the main parameters screenPress and releasethe FLN button.

The first parameter options screen - P1for FLN will appear.


the NSG button.

Press and releasethe P2 button. Thesecond parameter options screen - P2for FLN will appear.

The sound of allFLN parameterscan be listened toduring adjustment.


for NSG will appear.

The sound of allNSG parameters


Rate.

Depth.

Volume.

Sinus or Triangle curve character.

Delay.

Feedback.

Attenuation.

Release.

Threshhold.

Rate.


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Saving a User Preset

Recalling a User Preset

Say you have fine tuned the DNT parametersand want to save.

1.Press and releaseESC until a user pre-set bank appears.

2.Select an emptyposition, here B4for example.

Press and hold B4and the MT-8 will askif you want to save tothis position.

3.You return to the previous screen if you select NO.

When YES is selected, the MT-8will permanently saveyour adjustments tothe selected positionthen return to the previous user presetscreen.

…recall your savedpreset by selecting

the position, C3 for example.

Press and releaseESC until the user

preset bank with yoursaved effect position

appears…

If you press and hold the button over a factory preset, you can not save any adjustments. Move to a user preset, then save!

Tip: Write down where you just saved to prevent overwriting!

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3 Rememberto save tothe sameor a new

user preset positionif further parameteradjustments aremade. These mustbe manually saved!


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Quick Reference

DNT - DreadnoughtCHR - DNT & chorusRVB - ReverbDNL - DNT leadTRE - Tremelo (vibrato)DEL - Delay

JMB - JumboRCT - RVB, CHR & TRERTD - RVB, TRE & DELDOB - DobroFLN - FlangerRCD - RVB, CHR & DEL

RTC - RVB, TRE & CHRLDL - Long delayDFR - DEL, FLN & RVBJDT - JMB - DEL & TRE TRD - TRE, RVB & DELDRY - No effects EQ at 0

RVB – Reverbaration• SER - serial• PAR - parallel• CUT - room size• DPT - depth• VOL - blend intesity

CHR – Chorus• SIN - sinus character• TRI - triangle character• RTE - rate• DPT - depth• VOL - blend intesity

CMP – Compressor• ATT - attenuation• REL - release• THR - threshhold• RTE - rate

The main parametersscreen can be accessedat any time in the factoryor user preset banks.

TRE – Tremelo• PRE - pre effect• PST - post effect• SIN - sinus character• TRI - triangle character• RTE - rate• VOL - blend intesity

DEL – Delay• SRT - short, 0 -1.5 sec.• LNG - long, 1.5 -4 sec.• TME - time• FBK - feedback• VOL - blend intesity

FLN – FlangerP1 - page 1 options

• RTE - rate• DPT - depth• VOL - blend intesity

P2 - page 2 options• SIN - sinus character• TRI - triangle character• DEL - delay• FBK - feedback

NSG – Noise gate• ATT - attenuation• REL - release• THR - threshhold• RTE - rate

Press & release

Press & release

Press & release

Press & release

Press & release

Press & release

Press & hold

Press & release

Press & hold

Press & release

Press & release

Press & release

Light & Tuner options Equalizer options


Last name

Address

City

Postal code and country

Telephone * Optional

Telefax * Optional

E-mail address * Optional


Name and type of guitar installed in


MEGATECH 8 Registration Card

D D M M Y Y



D D M M Y Y

The Shadow MEGATECH 8 Limited Warranty and Service

First name and initial

The MEGETECH 8 is warranted under normal usage against defects in workmanship andmaterial for the original purchaser for 2 (two) years from the date of purchase providing following conditions are met. The warranty service will be performed free of charge except for insurance, postage, handling, transportation and incidental charges. Reduction,exchange and further damage claims in any form are exempted from this limited warranty.

1. The attached warranty card with all required information should be sent to Shadowshortly after purchase. If the purchaser does not send the card and returns the MEGATECH 8 for service or repair under these conditions, the MEGATECH 8 unit must be accompanied by the completed registration card and the original sales reciept proving the date of purchace.

2. The MEGATEC 8 should only be repaired by Shadow Electronics or a licenced servicecenter. This limited waranty is invalid if service or repair by any other party is made.

3. This limited waranty is invalid if the MEGATECH 8 unit is damaged by accident, acts of God, mishandling, damage through battery leakage, failure to follow instructions,improper storage conditions, tampering with the electronic components or otherwise.

4. Batteries, jacks, or the instrument are not covered by this limited warranty.

5. This limited warranty is only for the MEGATECH 8. No other warranty, expressed orimplied, is provided. Shadow Electronics assumes nor responsibility for instrumentdamage, user injury, loss due to theft or vandalisim, or user financial loss due to unit malfunction or damage.

6. The registration card can not be reissued if lost.

Return Instructions:

• The MEGATECH 8 should be returned in a well insulated postal approved packaging to insure no other damage during shipping may occur. The parcel should be insuredagainst loss or damage through postal agents. Service by Shadow, independent fromshipping time, may take up to 4 weeks depending on the malfunction. Include the sales reciept if the registration card accompanies the MEGATECH 8. Do not send quitar.

• The parcel should be addressed as follows:

Shadow ElectronicsMEGATECH 8 Service Heuwaagstrasse 2D- 91054 Erlangen/Germany

Dear Customer,

Thank you for choosing the MEGATECH 8 Digital Effect Preamp for your guitar! After nearly 2 years of developement and programming, we have created a product that not only reflects the cutting edge of music technology, but returns to the basic needs of the performer.

A problem today with most devices are that you need to be a “Rocket Scientist“ to understand the features and applications.Shadow has designed the MEGATECH 8 in a backwards develop-ment – the sound is what is most important followed by the ease of controll. These factors dictated the intergrated digital effect presets, options for self created effects, and overall layout of thecontroll surface and display.

All digital effects have been painstakingly recreated and incorporated in the preset banks to deliver a rich and full sound that does not take away from the true acoustics of your instrument – all preset parameters can even be adjusted!Another great feature is the on board design of the MEGATECH 8.Cables, pedals and clumbsy arrays are eleviated. Just plug in yourjack and the unit activates, choose your preset or self createdeffect and start playing !

Sincerely Yours,

Josip MarinicPresident - Shadow Electronics

P.S.: Don´t let me try to convince you – the MEGATECH 8 sound will…

COPY HERE FOR YOUR RECORDS


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ugh o

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manufactured

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right fo

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and/o

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elcome your com

ments!

For the latest in accessories,pickups and electronics for acoustic am

plification –please visit our w

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.shadow-pickups.com

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Though our products are manufactured for optimal

performance, we reserve the right for technical, functional

and /or colour changes. Copyright © 2000 Shadow

Shadow Electroacoustic · Josip MarinicHeuwaagstrasse 2 · D-91054 Erlangen · Germany

Phone: International (49) 91 31/8 86 10 9 am to 5 pm MEZ (GMT+1)Telefax: International (49) 91 31/20 19 82 24 hours a day!

E-mail: shadow-joe @t-online.de We welcome your comments!

For the latest in accessories,pickups and electronics for acoustic amplification –please visit our web site at www.shadow -pickups . com

MT-

8 Re

gist

ratio

n

Shad

ow E

lect

roni

csHe

uwaa

gstr

asse

291

054

Erla

ngen

GE

RM

AN

Y

Ple

ase

affix

p

ost

age

IMPORTANT:Please take the time after you have read

the service and warranty conditions, and fill out the registration on the

reverse side of this card!

Digital Effect PreampUser´s Guide

MEGATECH 8


[email protected] (49) 9131/2019 82 shadow ...info.shadow-electronics.com/shadow owners...

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