Tone
The Tone module is your quick, always-there voicing. Three knobs, plus presets and a bypass.
Bass, Mid, Treble. Each is a boost or cut around its part of the spectrum: low, middle, and high. Center is flat. Turn up for more of that range, down for less.
Presets. Five voicings on buttons, so you do not have to dial the same shape twice:
- Flat leaves the tone untouched.
- Warm lifts the bass and softens the top.
- Vocal pushes the midrange forward.
- Bright lifts the treble.
- Loudness is a smile curve, bass and treble up, for quiet listening.
Pressing a preset moves the three knobs to match, so you can see what it did and nudge from there.
Bypass takes the whole Tone stage out of the signal, so you can A/B your voicing against the untouched sound.
Power Output
Power Output is the last module in the chain, where the finished signal leaves the rack.
Level is your final output trim. It sets how hot the signal is leaving the rack, after everything else has had its say.
Speakers or Headphones. A two-position switch. Headphone mode applies a gentle crossfeed so a hard-panned mix does not sit awkwardly inside your head on cans; Speaker mode leaves the stereo image wide.
VU meters. The pair of needles show the actual output level, left and right, with the slow ballistics of real VU meters. They read loudness, not instantaneous peaks, so they tell you how the mix feels rather than chasing every transient. Meter segments running hot mean you are pushing past the reference level.
Tone here versus an equaliser from the store
Tone is deliberately simple: three broad bands for a fast voicing. If you want surgical control, more bands, or a live response curve, that is what the equalisers in the Audio Store are for. They sit in your component slots and stack on top of Tone; they do not replace it.