ERNST The Rover années 2000

All tube guitar preamp, rarely seen on the market. Fantastic sounds

Full of options, MIDI, Loops : pre and post, serials, parallels etc..

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'Ernst Guitar Amps & Customizing' designs and customizes tubeamplifiers since 1987. This has resulted in a design in which the wishes of our customers, which we used in previous designs, are incorporated. A 'Rover' in the Irish meaning of the word, is someone who roams about and stays wherever it suits him. This amplifier gives you metaphorically speaking the same freedom and possibility to set new boundaries.

'The Rover' is a tube-preamplifier in which the four channels are fully seperated. Over the years we have 'borrowed' the ears of different guitarplayers, to develop the nature of the sounds.
The gain- and tonecontrol for each of the four channels of 'The Rover' are individually designed and are electronically separated from eachother. This results in the possibility of making combinations of different channels without affecting the original sound of that channel.

The 'Bright' control of all channels is variable, adding transparent highs to the clean-sound, bite to the lead-sounds as well as influencing the distortion. For each channel the place of the gain and tonecircuits, in the signalchain, is chosen for the desired sound.

All of the channels have one thing in common: they respond to every nuance in your playing and even with the heaviest distortion you can still hear the characteristic sound of your guitar. With the volumecontrol of your guitar and the way you hit the strings you are in complete control of the tone and amount of distortion of the amplifier. Even at low volumelevels the distortion is warm and tight.

A MIDI-interface is incorporated in 'The Rover'. Storing of channels, Pre-loop and external functon in any programnumber from 1 to 127 is done by holding the switch or switches (channel combination) on the front until the corresponding led(s) have turned off and on.

Options:

• effect-mixer
• VCA
• footswitch

The effect-mixer enables you to connect a number of external effects to 'The Rover'. There are serial and parallel effectloops. The PL1, 2 and Aux inputs have their own volumecontrols for mixing the incoming signal with the original dry signal.

Serial:

• Pre Loop
• Post Loop AB/CD
• SL 1
• SL 2 (stereo)

Parallel:

• PL 1 (stereo)
• PL 2 (stereo)
• Aux input (stereo)

The VCA controls the overall volume by means of an external pedal connected to the VCA input. The VCA is placed between the postloops AB/CD and SL 1 so that it has no effect on the decaytime of a reverb or delay unit. Because the volume is controlled internaly, long signal-cables are illiminated thus preventing loss of signal.

Channel configuration:

• Channel A Clean
• Channel B Clean/Crunch
• Channel C Crunch/Lead
• Channel D Lead/Lead-lead

Combination of channels possible:

• Channel A + C
• Channel B + C
• Channel A + B + C

Is it possible to combine channel D with A/B or C:

• Only if you insist

Switch logic:

• Manual Switches on front of apparatus
• MIDI-interface on board

What does the MIDI-interface do:

• Receives programchanges and controlchanges.
• Remembers what preamp-channel you would like to hear as you send a programchange.
• Every channel and every combination has its dedicated controllernumber.

Power requirements:

• Primary 110/120VAC AC 50/60 Hz - Fuse: 1.6A Slow Blow
• 220/230 VAC AC 50/60 Hz - Fuse: 0.8A Slow Blow
• Power consumption - 80 W

Frequency respons:

• Any guitar

Valves:

• 7 x 12AX7WA