KHE AUDIO ELECTRONICS ACS Series Operation & User’s Manual

AMPLIFIER CABINET SELECTOR ACS – Series A Switching-System for Guitar Amplifiers, Speaker Cabinets and Load Boxes. "... focus on your sound and creativity, instead of wasting your time with plugging cables and waiting for amps to heat-up!" IMPORTANT: READ THIS MANUAL BEFORE USING THE SWITCH ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 2 / 23 For reasons of the product liability, we are obligated to make clear certain safety aspects which must not be ignored under any circumstances: - Read, retain, and follow all instructions. Heed all warnings. - To prevent damage, fire or shock hazard, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 3 / 23 Congratulations on your purchase of a KHE Amplifier Cabinet Selector ! The KHE ACS is a switching and routing system for guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets and load boxes. Connect them to the ACS, power them up, and you are ready to go : Switch and play between all your amps, speakers and lo ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 4 / 23 Controls & Display 5 Guitar Input 6 Amplifier Switching 6 Cabinet & Load Switching 7 Attenuator Insert 8 FX-Loop Switching 9 Tuner Output 10 Re-Amping 10 Ground Lift 10 Recall Mode 10 Setup Procedure 11 ACS 4x2 12 ACS 4x4 12 ACS 4x4 FX 12 ACS 8x4 12 ASX 8 13 CSX 8 13 AFX 8 14 Feature List 14 ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 5 / 23 AMPLIFIER SWITCHES Switches to enable, disable or change amplifiers. No need to disable an amplifier before activating a different one – the ACS manages the complete switching procedure! Amplifiers can not be enabled if no cabinet is activated. All amplifiers are protected by an internal lo ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 6 / 23 The KHE Amp Switchers features two guitar inputs, one on the front panel and one on the rear panel. The front input has higher priority than the rear input. The KHE ACS guitar input works perfectly with reamping boxes, stomboxes like overdrives, boosts and distortions and effect pedals like d ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 7 / 23 The KHE Amp Switchers let you switch between load devices like speaker cabinets and load boxes. Instantly by the single push of a button. No need to stop or interrupt playing. WIRING  Connect the load devices to the red CABINET jacks. Use high-quality speaker cable only (we recommend 1,5mm ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 8 / 23 The Attenuator Insert is an post-amplifier pre-speaker insert loop. It lets you use an power attenuator across all amps and attenuate the volume of all amps simuntaneously, and switch the attenuated output signal to all connected cabinets or loads. The Attenuator Insert feautre is disabled by ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 9 / 23  Like the cabinet jacks, the Attenuator Insert gets supervised for a proper load. If no attenuator is connected, it wont get activated (error shown by 5x blinking the Amp4-Led).  The state of the attenuator insert function gets saved and recalled when powering up the ACS.  When linki ...

www.KHE-AudioElectronics.com 10 / 23 the construction of the amp (channel-volume, master volume, fx-level) and probably needs some trial and error.  Clean power sources & wiring is needed to make the fx-loop switching work without noise, hum, or clicking.  Gates in the fx-loops can be side-chained from the tuner output of ...