TH3 User Manual
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1. PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Es Randall LynchBox Plexi Randall LynchBox Topboost Randall LynchBox XTC a ss ES Randall LynchBox Grail Randall LynchBox ThreadPlate Randall LynchBox Ultra Ea Randall LynchBox Ultra XL Randall LynchBox Mr Scary 28 Authorized modeling of the Randall Plexi MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall Topboost MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall XTC MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall SL MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall Grail MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall Threadplate MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall Ultra MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the Randall Ultra XL MTS module into the Lynch Box head Authorized modeling of the George Lynch signature Randall MTS module IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Randall T2 Clean Authorized modeling of the Randall T2 head This model produces an extremely powerful punishing tone powered by the Valve Dynamic technology2. OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL adjust the Level knob until the OVER light Inserting a Rack Effect wreor Look at the Component panel and from the dropdown list select Reverb to only see the reverb effects Now point the AQTX Spring Rev rack effect and drag n drop it close to the right side of the Brunetti Metropolitan cabinet SETTINGS MIDI MANUAL INFO THO LEVEL NH MASTER ive TUNER MUTE LOOPER PRESETS COMPONENTS 100 150 200 Rack effects usually come after the cabinet The specific one we just added is a spring reverb In a common setup you may need to use more than one rack effect TH3 will settle them together in stacks of three This will keep the sound chain short and still allow you to see and operate on all the components of the rig Almost all rack effects have the OVER indicator that shows when the effect output level is too high In case you can 22 OVERLOUD Parallel Sound Chain When you select the parallel sound chain as an alternative to the linear one two additional modules are present the Splitter and the Mixer Splitter The splitter is placed at the beginning of the parallel processing section Its function would have been almost self explanatory wasn t it for some extra features we added THO SPLITTER X OVER FREQ X OVER MODE TILT Md BANDPASS NORMAL gt OFF FREQ SPREAD X OVER MODE there are three crossover modes OFF all controls but
3. Heavy51 US Peavey 5150 High Wattage Normal Hiwatt Custom 100 Lab Series L5 Mesa Boogie Mark IIC Modern US Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Overange 120 Orange Graphic 120 mkIl Overloud Custom Crisp Overloud Custom amp 26 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON I E Overloud Custom Rhythm Overloud Custom amp Overloud Custom Power Overloud Custom amp Overloud Prog Overloud Custom amp Overloud Rhythm Overloud Custom amp Plexi Voice 1 Marshall 1959 Plexi 50W Randall LynchBox Authorized modeling of the BlackFace Randall BlackFace MTS module into the Lynch Box head Randall LynchBox Clean Authorized modeling of the Randall Clean MTS module into the Lynch Box head Randall LynchBox SuperV Authorized modeling of the Randall Super V MTS module into the Lynch Box head Randall LynchBox Tweed Authorized modeling of the Randall Tweed MTS module into the Lynch Box head 27 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL
4. fs Randall T2 Overdrive The Overdrive channel of the Randall T2 amplifier Randall T2 Boost The Boost channel of the Randall T2 amplifier Marshall JTM45 Marshall JCM800 Marshall JCM900 Marshall JCM800 2210 29 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON i 88 US Clean Soldano x88r THD Flexi 50 Authorized modeling of the THD Flexi 50W head THD Univalve Authorized modeling of the THD Univalve Single Ended Class A amplifier Top30 UK Normal Vox AC30 Tumble ODS Clean Dumble amp Overdrive Special amm Tweed Deluxe Fender Tweed Deluxe Bass 900 Ashdown ABM900 Bass SuperTube CL Ampeg SVT CL 30 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Bass SuperTube VR Ampeg SVT VR 31 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLO
5. 16 OVERLOUD Inserting an Amplifier Look at the Component panel and from the dropdown list select Amp to only see the amplifiers Now point the Brunetti Metropolitan and drag n drop it close to the right side of the Vanilla Add matching cabinet Do you want a 1x8 Brunetti Metropolitan with that YES PLEASE NO THANKS MOULU sort Deve NO AND DON T ASK AGAIN TH3 will ask you to also add the matching cabinet This is a very convenient feature most of the times even if you always will be allowed to add the matching cabinet by right clicking the amp in an empty area SETTINGS MID aS LEVEL MASTER LIVE PRESETS BANKS Experience TH3 2 TH3 what s new Classic Sounds Meet The Randalls LynchBox Meet The Randalls T2 Brunetti Love ADD REMOVE PRESETS o 100 150 200 and choosing Add matching cabinet Let s choose No for now to also see how to insert a cabinet afterwards USER MANUAL Now that there is an amplifier let s see how to use it You should have no problems to use knobs we already have seen how to operate with them And the same with switches The LEVEL knob sets the output level of the amplifier without any influence to the harmonic content so feel free to adjust it if needed because it won t participate to the quality of the amp sound As for any other component you can right click it on an empty area no knobs nor switches to see the contextual po
6. USER MANUAL OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION Thank you Cool Features Disclaimer ABOUT TH3 The User Interface Tools Tuner Looper NNMNDN N GETTING STARTED Create your User Account Authorize TH3 De Authorize TH3 Authorization Limits Run TH3 Presets The Sound Chain View About TH3 Components Components TH3 Top Panel Input Level Adjustment Master Live Mode Tuner BPM Input and Output Level Meters Looper TH3 Top Bar SETTINGS MIDI MANUAL INFO UNDO REDO How to work with TH3 Insert a component Move a component Remove a component ODAMAONN NOUA BB BWW W _ O ee e LH BW VI ed VI VI VI Create a new setup from scratch Oo OVERLOUD Inserting a Stomp Box Inserting an Amplifier Inserting a Cabinet Inserting a Rack Effect Parallel Sound Chain Splitter Mixer TH3 Component Reference Technical Support gt USER MANUAL 16 17 18 22 23 23 23 25 45 OVERLOUD INTRODUCTION Thank you We d first like to thank you for purchasing TH3 Our goal when developing TH3 was to create a flagship application encompassing the features of the previous version TH2 TH3 incorporates modules with the best emulations of real guitar rig elements achieved with top quality software DSP Cool Features TH3 has the following main features e Comes in the following formats VST Audi
7. Technical Support If you need technical support please first take a look at our FAQ pages online at www overloud com There you ll find answers to the most common questions If the FAQ pages didn t help you can get free technical support online at www overloud com clicking on SUPPORT 45 NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party
8. UK Laney IRT212 Mesa Boogie 4x12 Rectifier 1x12 Overloud Overloud custom 2x10 OB Prince US Fender Princeton Chorus a 4 a 2x12 Randall CB Randall 2x12 CB 4x12 Randall XL Randall 4x12 XL E o 4x12 Randall XLT100 Randall XLT100 4x12 Randall LB George Randalll LB George Lynch Lynch 34 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON 2x12 Slo 12k US Soldano 2x12 Black 1x10 Studio US Mesa Boogie Sutdio Caliber g p 2x12 OB Top30 UK Vox AC30 Brian May E 4x10 OB Tweed 59 US Fender Bassman m 2x10 OB Vibro US Fender Vibrolux Reverb 4x12 Vintage UK Marshall JCM800 can with Vintage 30 speakers BA 1x12 OB Wanted US Peavy Bandit 112 Eo 1x10 Winner US Fender Champ B 4x10 Bass Ashes Ashdown 410H 35 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON gt 1x15 Bass Tube Ampeg SVT 15E oe _ Brunetti Taxi Drive Authorized modeling of the Brunetti TaxiDrive overdrive pedal TC Electronic Pre Diode250 DOD 250 n o T
9. Balance are deactivated The Splitter acts as an off the shelf splitter NORMAL the crossover works as a common high pass low pass network You can process lower and higher frequencies separately in the two parallel paths va USER MANUAL X OVER FREQ and SWAP are active in this mode BANDPASS the crossover works as a band pass band reject filter network You can process mid frequencies and high low ones separately in the two parallel paths All parameters are active Splitter Controls Swap button this button swaps the destination paths of the filter networks when X OVER MODE is not in the Off position X OVER FREQ sets the frequency around which the filters operate FREQ SPREAD in BANDPASS mode it controls the width of the band reject filter allowing for a partial layering of the signals for added flexibility BALANCE it simply sets the amount of signal directed to the upper 1 and lower 2 path Mixer The TH3 Mixer is placed at the end of the parallel processing section and allows you to trim each path s signal to your needs THO MIXER DELAY 1 WIDTH 1 LEVEL 1 _ s a a DELAY 2 WIDTH 2 LEVEL 2 OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PHASE controls the phase of the input channel DELAY controls the amount of delay of the input channel Optimal control to correct phase delay problems as a creative tool to dial in complex comb filtering like effect WIDTH sets
10. MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Director Ring Maestro Ring Modulator GOP organizer Overloud custom Overloud custom Pitch Shift Overloud custom Wham me Overloud custom wae AQTX Spring Rev Accutronics spring T Hall Rev Overloud Breverb 42 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party E OVERLOUD USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Inverse Rev Overloud Breverb Plate Rev Overloud Breverb Overloud Breverb Cabinet IR Overloud custom S Fender Twin and Vox AC30 tremolos B 200 JC Vibrato Roland JC 120 A UniVibrato Univibe j Auto Wah Overloud custom 43 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party BERDAEDLE k OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL Mu Wah lt 7 _ ee Gate Expander Overloud custom D AcGtrSimul VOLUME Overloud custom 44 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL
11. accepts WAV files as sources with any resolution best is 24 bit or 32 bit floating point and sample rate The Cabinet IR module is mono meaning that it will accept only mono IR each cabinet speaker is mono by definition Use the IRs Once you ll have created the groups and imported your IRs you ll be allowed to use the IRs with the Cabinet IR Click the large button inside the frame IRA to select the first IR from the group of your Interest The IR is applied immediately upon the selection You also can scroll the other IRs with the lt and gt buttons As said you can load up to two IRs IRB management is the same as the one described IR A Delete is a command to The option Invert phase is present to optionally invert each IR This is useful when the IRs come from different sources and could incur into some phase artifacts when playing together Balance A B adjusts the mix between A and B IRs THC USER MANUAL Delay A B sets a delay between the two IRs emulating different distances of the virtual microphones from the speakers thus introducing lots of comb filtering Filters apply a steep high pass and or low pass filter to the cabinet sound to get rid of annoying frequencies Accuracy sets the overall accuracy of the IR in the lowest frequencies sub 80 hz Usually Low L is good for CPU overhead unless you need a very faithful and deep bass response then choose either Mid M or High H
12. gt one the double click it If you have the guitar connected you already can play and test it even if this is The empty preset will be loaded so you quite an uncommon setup will have a clear sound chain to start with Try moving the controls turn the power switch on and off Inserting a Stomp Box I p Also click the different zoom buttons on In a common guitar rig stomp boxes are the bottom of the Sound Chain View to SETTINGS MIDI MANUAL INFO TH eveL n MASTER ive TUNER OUT e LOOPER Distortion BANKS ITEMS 1 Experience TH3 i Brunetti Burning Box e ee 3 Classic Sounds z 2 Brunetti Mercury Box 4 Meet The Randalls LynchBox 5 Meet The Randalls T2 tevel iea Brunetti Vanilla 6 Brunetti Love i mt Sf CAT a Diode69 PRESETS d 1 Pure Class A 990 4 DistOne 5 gt p Jor DANG _A am 2 Vanilla dream distort 3 Major Harmonic 4 Dirty Golder FatMuff 5 Heavy Golder MetalTone 6 Swedish hugga 4 LOAD x SAVE 100 150 200 at the first stage before the amplifier So experiment how the view gets rescaled we ll start describing how to add a stomp This looks pretty useless with a single box component pedal but you ll find it very convenient hen the guitar rig will b ded Look at the Component panel The drop UBUD E E ya ear ge esse eee down list selects the category of the effect that are listed below The All selection includes all type of components Let s
13. select the output channels Active input channels select the input channels Sample rate select the sample rate of the audio interface Many audio interfaces can work ad different sample rates The default rate is 44100 Hz OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL Audio buffer size Audio buffer size is very much dependent on your computer overall performance and on the kind of audio device connected Usually 256 Samples is a good starting point you might want to lower this to 128 samples or even to 64 samples if your audio hardware supports them Pay attention that a too much low setting can affect TH3 SELECT A MONO INPUT FROM A STEREO COUPLE If you select Active Inputs 1 and 2 of a stereo audio interface some devices don t allow to select a single channel from a stereo couple for mono sources like a guitar you can still set TH3 in order to only consider the left or right channel of the stereo input Access the Master panel clicking on MASTER and look at left side of the panel In Source or the whole computer performance bringing to clicking and crackling better known as buffer dropouts Active MIDI inputs select the physical or virtual MIDI inputs you mean to use to remotely control TH3 TH3 by design listens to MIDI input flow on all channels of the selected ports simplifying your work Authorization The authorization of your license of TH3 is mandatory in order to let it run The authorization procedure i
14. some bars or a dot depending on a preference setting on the right side of the central area then you have to loosen the string on the guitar If you see the bars on the left side then you have to pull the string Adjust your string until you only see the note name alone Activate the MUTE to temporarily mute the TH3 output while you tune your guitar OVERLOUD Set the option Auto mute when the tuner is on to on in the TH3 preferences to connect the MUTE on off setting to the Tuner power BPM TH3 supports time based parameters that can be optionally synchronized to the BPM of the song TH3 can take the BPM from three different sources HOST e INTERNAL PRESET When HOST is selected TH3 detects the BPM from the DAW application Logic Pro ProTools Sonar Live Cubase It keeps a connection to the BPM even when it varies across the song When INTERNAL is selected TH3 generates an internal beat as if it would receive it from a DAW The BPM can be set by double clicking the currently displayed value or rhythmically clicking tapping on the TAP circle When PRESET is selected TH3 generates and internal beat The BPM value gets saved with the current preset Input and Output Level Meters Input and Output levels are shown constantly with two meters FH USER MANUAL The IN meter displays the Input level of the input channels of TH3 You should try to keep the input l
15. the stereo width of the input channel 0 equals to Mono 100 to stereo and 100 to inverse stereo swap of L and R inputs PAN sets the panpot or panorama position of the input channel at the output For stereo signal it acts as a balance control at minimum it will only pickup the left channel signal at maximum only the right channel will be preset at the mixer output LEVEL the reference level of the channel BALANCE this control allows you to dial in a real time balance between the two mixer channels MONO STEREO sets the output mode of the mixer Mono merges all inputs to mono 24 OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL TH3 Component Reference NOTE The following list could change without notice due to software updates upgrades PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Bassface 59 US Brunetti Metropolitan Brunetti Mercury Brunetti R Evo Brunetti Singleman BurnSphere Clean E AGIAN D Caliper Studio 50 Darkface 65 US 25 Fender Bassman Brunetti Metropolitan Brunetti Mercury Brunetti R Evo Brunetti Singleman Engl Fireball Mesa Boogie Caliber 50 Fender Twin 65 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON DVmark Maragold DVmark Maragold
16. UBE NINE Ibanez Tube Screamer V Treble Booster Vox Treble booster 36 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Brunetti Burning Box Brunetti Burning Box Brunetti Mercury Box Brunetti Mercury Box Brunetti Vanilla Brunetti Vanilla 37 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON re Sola Tone Bender Foxx Tone Machine Digital Chorus Overloud custom Boss Dimension C Solina String Ensemble 38 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD USER MANUAL je PICTURE MODELED ON Filter Chorus Overloud custom Overloud custom em o ASTRTSS D Delay eee o Overloud custom Overloud custom Digital Delay Overloud custom smo o S555 E555 Smell B Spatial Delay Overloud custom Overloud custom Ove
17. UD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON lt i B 2x12 Alnico 58 US Fender Twin 59 E E 1x12 Bluelux US Fender Blues Deluxe 2x12 British State UK Marshall Valvstate 1x12 Brunetti Brunetti 1x12 cabinet E i 7 2x12 Brunetti Brunetti 2x12 cabinet 4x12 Brunetti Custom Brunetti 4x12 Custom cabinet F ras sles 1x8 Brunetti Metropolitan Brunetti Metropolitan cabinet 1x12 Brunetti Singleman Brunetti single man cabinet 1x12 Clst UK VHT pitbull combo E IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON 2x12 OB Darkface 65 US Fender Twin 65 4 remeare 1x12 OB Eastern JP Yamaha G50 E _ T 1x12 GK US Gallien Krueger NEO 2x12 OB Green UK Marshall JTM45 4x12 Green UK Marshall JCM800 cab with Greenback speakers 4x12 Heavy 51 US Peavey 5150 4x12 HiPower UK Marshall JCM900 1960 33 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON 2x12 Jazz 12 o JP Roland JC 120 2x12 Lane
18. USB removable device Choosing this computer you will enable your computer to run TH3 This is usually the easiest and fastest option to authorize TH3 and forget about authorization Our licensing management lets you remove your authorization by your own for example if you are going to sell your computer OVERLOUD Choosing USB removable device this option is only present if you have plugged a regular USB device to your computer you will store the authorization on the USB device and you ll be able to move bringing the USB key with you This is particularly suitable when you are changing computer often or either if you use to reformat your system from time to time De Authorize TH3 You can de authorize TH3 in two ways from inside TH3 itself or from your User Account online page To de authorize from TH3 click SETTINGS and Manage your Authorizations You will see the list of all your active authorizations each with a Remove button next to it Just click that button for the authorization to remove TH3 keeps a connection with our online servers to update the amount of authorizations in use Authorization Limits You can authorize TH3 on up to 3 three separate computers plus 1 one USB stick You can de authorize the same license of TH3 no more than 10 ten times in the last 365 days USER MANUAL Run TH3 Once the authorization is completed TH3 will be ready to use Presets O
19. ding a prompt will appear asking you to confirm that you really want to continue discarding those unsaved changes Unsaved changes Loading a new preset will discard unsaved changes Continue In a live performance this could be annoying because you d need to move the controls via MIDI for example and still be free to load a new preset without being stuck on that prompt When the Live Mode is on this prompt is skipped pay attention not to keep the Live Mode on for normal usage of TH3 because you ll risk to lose your modifications Also when Live Mode is on if you change preset some parameter values will be m USER MANUAL preserved across the preset change the list of the preserved parameter is the one of the GLOBAL MIDI BINDINGS grid in the MIDI settings So if you move from one preset to another where both of them have the Volume pedal and you set the pedal position via MIDI with a foot controller halfway then at the loading of the new preset the Volume pedal position will be kept the same across the preset change Tuner In the central region of the Top Panel of TH3 there is the TUNER You can activate the Tuner anytime It will process the clean sound coming from the TH3 input This is a Chromatic Tuner able to automatically recognize the tuned note which is closer to the one you play The Tuner shows you how much the note is detuned respect to the tuned one When you see
20. en you choose e control which is not included in the GLOBAL MIDI BINDINGS list The preset related command will add a new item top the list MIDI BINDINGS FOR CURRENT PRESET GLOBAL VS PRESET MIDI BINDINGS If you create a global binding and a preset binding together pointing the same control the preset one will prevail the global You can take the global bindings as a standard behavior and possible preset bindings as exceptions management MANUAL The MANUAL button shows this User Manual INFO Shows a panel with some information about TH3 There you can find the TH3 version number please provide it to the gt USER MANUAL technical support if you will have a chance to contact us for assistance UNDO REDO TH3 keeps track of your changes while you are working You can walk your changes history backwards with the UNDO command and forward with the REDO command The UNDO REDO history is reset each time you load a preset OVERLOUD How to work with TH3 Now that the user interface around the Sound Chain View has been described let s get into the topic to see how you work with TH3 TH3 virtualizes a real guitar rig with all components e Stomp boxes Expression pedals Amplifiers e Cabinets amp Microphones e Rack effects Any combination of these component is allowed even those that you won t be able to obtain in reality This makes TH3 a creative tool other than a very accura
21. eristic aggressive kind of response Bass cabinets have red speakers The 45 inclined microphone for bass cabinets corresponds to the tweeter microphone level All bass cabinets in TH3 have red speakers The real difference as said is the DSP model which of course is a bass cabinet USER MANUAL But the way you operate with it is totally the same A special cabinet however is the Cabinet IR which is a sort of open cabinet able to play up to two impulse responses at same time The cabinet has a different graphic appearance and don t have microphones in front of it because its tone exclusively comes from the provided IR files y 2 AESALLAAI th LORS ARR COTS TBM POSEY Ny Basic actions like turning the cabinet on off are pretty much the same as for other cabinets Differences are in the properties Double click the Cabinet IR to access its properties panel You will find it very different if compared to the cabinet panel Cabinet IR Invert phase lt No IR loaded gt Delete Invert phase lt No IR loaded gt Delete Filters Import new IR Accuracy Medium Balance A B Delay A B OVERLOUD Import IRs IR are organized in groups You are allowed to create groups and to add IRs to those groups so that it will be easier to find the IRs next To import an IR click Import new IR You will be prompted to choose the destination group or to create a new group TH3
22. evel as high as possible without reaching the saturation You can get assisted to set the correct IN level by clicking the LEVEL button as described above The OUT meter shows the level of the output channels of TH3 The output level LOOPER too like the input should not reach the saturation You can adjust the level of TH3 on the single effects by moving the LEVEL knob where present Or either you can adjust the overall output level by turning the Output level knob close to the OUT meter OVERLOUD Looper TH3 includes a multilayer Loop Station with which you can record and overdub multiple tracks The interface of the Looper has two regions the play record section and the layer management section Transport PLAY amp STOP buttons control the looper player The START button will turn into 0 DUB overdub when at last one layer is present Stopped Rec volume Rec pan Metronome Reverse OFF OFF Rec volume Rec pan amp Play volume adjust the record and play volumes and panorama stereo position The Metronome option plays quarter beats basing on the current TH3 BPM shown on the Top Panel The Reverse function reverts the playing direction All recorded layers will be played backwards The Autostart function lets you automatically turn the recording on This is useful when you are about to record the first layer Set the Autostart on then take care not to play any note on your
23. green region Master When you click the MASTER button the Master Controls panel appears Master controls apply globally MASTER LIVE independently from the TH3 preset settings This allows you to adjust the overall sound of TH3 Master controls The In Source area is where you select the input channels for TH3 You can take a stereo couple as input or only one of the stereo channels Left or Right Sensitivity changes input sensitivity as much as it would be on a real amp LOW is best suited for single coils HIGH for usually works better with humbuckers Noise Gate Noise Gate threshold level Works as a combined Expander Gate for maximum efficiency Adjust to reduce possible noise when present for example if the pickups are particularly noisy of if you are working at higher gain levels Low amp High master EQ Adjust the overall low and high frequencies of TH3 This EQ is global and independent from the preset settings OVERLOUD Reverb amp Delay Adjusts the overall amount of these effects Adjust them to increase or decrease the effects globally independently from the preset settings Live Mode The LIVE button sets the Live Mode of TH3 The preset MASTER LIVE management keeps track of the modifications done to a preset you see that a preset has been changed with the orange circle next to the preset name on the top of the preset column And when you load a new preset with some changes pen
24. guitar and click PLAY to arm the looper and put it in cue As soon as you ll start playing the guitar the looper will start recording the first layer a Play volume Autostart OFF 10 USER MANUAL Once you have the first layer you can still use the Autostart feature to automatically start the recording of a new layer Click PLAY and prepare to play the guitar while listening to the current layer s playing enable the Autostart to put the looper in cue As soon as you ll start playing the guitar the looper will turn into overdubbing to record a new layer Layers Next is the Layers area where you can find the list of current layers SAVE LAYERS SAVE MIX CLEAR ALL Layers have tree buttons each M Mute Layer S Solo Layer X Delete Layer With these three button you can listen to the layers singularly partially and or delete them Right under the Layers list there are three buttons to manage the content of all layers together SAVE SAVE MIX CLEAR ALL LAYERS SAVE LAYERS lets you save all layers as separate audio files save files with wav name extension SAVE MIX lets you save all layers mixed in a single audio file CLEAR ALL deletes all current layers OVERLOUD TH3 Top Bar On the top of the graphic interface of TH3 there is a bar with some command buttons for some accessory functions SETTINGS Here is where you set your preference
25. ith a Mixer This configuration of the Sound Chain lets you to process the Same sound in two different ways and to USER MANUAL mix the two processed sounds together again You can switch the type of sound chain by clicking the oval button on the bottom left corner of the Sound Chain View The actual behavior of the button changes depending on the current configuration of the sound chain You might be asked for a confirmation before possibly removing some modules when you switch to the linear chain from a parallel one for example About TH3 Components Right after using TH3 for a minute you will be tempted to touch switches turn knobs and so on Well just do it The Sound Chain View is totally interactive and lets you improve the processed sound at any time Knobs have some features drag up down to adjust shift drag to fine set ecmd click to reset to default Knobs have their value shown while you move OVERLOUD E gt Components On the right side of the user interface there is the Components column The column contains a list of all modules allowable amps cabs pedals and rack effects You can add one of them to the current sound chain at any time drag the item from the list and drop it to the insertion point over the sound chain On the top of the list you can see a drop down list with the selected category of components When Allis selected components are visibile all
26. k that icon to turn the cabinet on or off TH3 cabinets are of four types 1 speaker 2 speaker 4 speaker and IR Cabinets which will be described later The way you set microphones in front of the different kind of cabinet is pretty LOOPER 2x12 Alnico 58 US 1x12 Bluelux US 2x12 British State UK 1x12 Brunetti 2x12 Brunetti 4x12 Brunetti Custom 1x12 Brunetti Singleman 1x12 Clst UK 2x12 OB Darkface 65 US much the same TH3 modeling of the harmonic content takes in account position distance and of course the model of microphones o Right after adding the Brunetti Metropolitan cabinet you will see that it has two microphones OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL in front of it x Cabinet 1x8 Brunetti Metropolitan Choose a good zoom ratio so that you Mic A Ambience have a good view of the whole cabinet AustriaGold414 C None Now play your guitar and drag the microphones around to hear how the Mic B harmonic content varies accordingly The X Y positioning is done by left dragging the microphone You also can adjust the OE ll distance of the microphone from the cabinet Right drag the microphone drag it with the mouse right button Settings AustriaGold414 C V ReSPiRe HPF LPF 4 Rear Mic 45deg Mic Mic A amp Mic B are where you choose the model of your microphones Invert phase inverts the phase of Mic B Use it to achieve creative sounds 3D positioni
27. ming their parameters like you do in reality Or either you can reproduce a certain sound by using the reproductions of specific Amps Cabinets and Effects The User Interface The user interface of TH3 is organized into three main sections Presets Sound Chain and Components The Presets section lists all the allowable presets Presets are organized in Banks The number of banks is unlimited while each bank contains 128 presets The Sound Chain is a view over the current guitar rig which actually looks like a chain of modules so that it s easy to follow how the sound is processed between the TH3 input and output The Components section lists all TH3 modules Adding components to TH3 is easy just drag and drop them from the list to the insertion point over the sound chain Tools Tuner TH3 includes an useful Tuner with optional Auto Mute function not to play m USER MANUAL through the outputs for example while you are tuning your guitar in a live performance Looper Also TH3 includes a complete multi layer Loop Station with which you can record and overdub your loops OVERLOUD GETTING STARTED Let s soend a few minutes to get acquainted with TH3 In order to make you feel confident in using TH3 this chapter will guide you through the fundamental aspects of the application in as few steps as possible We know you d rather play than read Create your User Account The first thing t
28. n the left side of the interface you can see the Preset column In the upper side of the column you see the BANKS list Each BANKS bank contains 128 presets Click a bank of the list to select it T Experience TH3 TH3 what s new Classic Sounds Meet The Randalls LynchBox Meet The Randalls T2 Brunetti Love on Right below aes a you see the PRESETS list Note not all the 128 presets of the selected bank have to contain a preset The empty ones are marked with lt empty gt Clean Verb Full Metal 70s Amp Pure Black Guitar Hero TremWorld OVERLOUD To load a preset select it and click LOAD or just double click it The Sound Chain View The central area of the user interface is the Sound Chain View which shows the current setup of TH3 The view is zZoomable You can choose a suitable zoom factor with the buttons on the bottom side The sound chain start the input of the TH3 sound processing is on the left end then the sound direction goes towards right until the right end of the chain where is the output Two types of sound chain are available linear and parallel The linear one is a straight sequence of modules between the input and output of TH3 The parallel one is a little more complex in a certain point with a Splitter it splits the sound into two parts upper and lower where you can place your modules and then it mixes the two parts together again w
29. ng won t never lead to phase artifacts since all Mic processing do happen in phase Ambience selects the kind of ambience supported Ambience plays a role when you have microphones at a certain distance from the cabinet In these When you right drag the microphone a conditions indeed microphones capture white line shows you the Z axis and the a bigger part of the ambience sound microphone shadow projected over the cabinet helps you to make a clearer idea about the distance Settings lets you set some additional features ReSPiRe stands for Real Sound Pressure Response and is an Overloud custom technology that reproduces the same Let s now take a look to the cabinet Properties panel You can access the cabinet properties kind of sound pressure feeling you get panel double clicking it or right clicking when playing in front of a real cabinet and selecting Properties You might want to set this off when your mix tends to be muddy 19 OVERLOUD HPF amp LPF are high pass and low pass filters with respective characteristic frequencies of 65 Hz HPF and 12 kHz LPF You can use these preset filters when the cabinet sound exceeds in low or high frequency harmonics Mic A Mic B Rear Mic 45 Mic knobs adjust the level of the four microphones Rear microphone is good to capture some lower frequencies from the cabinet While the 45 inclined one is usually used for hard rock and metal genres for its charact
30. o do if you haven t done it yet is to create your own Overloud User Account Browse the Internet to the Overloud web page www overloud com On the page click Client Login and create your account by providing your personal information paying attention not to mistype your email address which will be the way to communicate between us and the identifier that our servers will use to deposit your licenses Authorize TH3 After the purchase of TH3 you will receive an email with the serial number which represents your license of TH3 The serial number has the following format T3WF LPG9 KVQ4 G9D5 THC USER MANUAL To authorize your license just run TH3 then you will see a dialog box warning you that the application is not currently authorized You can choose one of three options e run a short test demo of 10 minutes e start an evaluation period of two weeks e authorize your license Both demo options let you test TH3 full working for a limited time so that you can make an idea of the product before possible deciding to purchase it You can authorize your license of TH3 by providing a couple of information and choosing where to store your authorization Click the Authorize button on the TH3 Authorization dialog box and you will be prompted to type in your account the email address of your User Account and the serial number Next choose where to store the authorization information e this computer e
31. ouUnit RTAS AAX and standalone for Mac OS and VST RTAS AAX and standalone for Windows e Provides an interactive virtual guitar rig where you can add modules like pedals amplifiers cabinets and rack effect units and trim their controls e Can be loaded as a plug in effect in a DAW application like Logic Pro Garage Band Sonar Live Cubase Pro Tools and the like e Supports MIDI communication with foot controllers or other MIDI devices to load presets and to adjust effect parameters e Includes a built in licensing manager letting you to authorize and de THOS USER MANUAL authorize TH2 your computer s autonomously e includes a huge collection of factory presets letting you to start immediately after the installation with great sounding setups covering a large range of musical genres e Works with the lightest DSP engine on the market to obtain the best tones with minimal CPU load and shortest latency e Supports retina display graphics natively with gorgeous high resolution interactive modules Disclaimer Overloud is an independent software development company Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD ABOUT TH3 With TH3 you can replicate your own real guitar rig by adding effects and modules and trim
32. pup menu The Brunetti Metropolitan command l l Add matching cabinet Replace with Replace with lets you replace the Remove com ponent with another one of the same category Indeed selecting it you will see a secondary popup menu with the COMPONENTS S com plete ist of a m p mE models from which you can select a replacement runetti Metropolitan A faster way to change model is using the arrows that you see on runetti R Evo XLead runetti Singleman ea the top left corner urnsphere Lead when the mouse cursor hovers the amp graphic shape OVERLOUD Inserting a Cabinet Look at the Component panel and from the dropdown list select Cabinet to only see the cabinets Now point the 1x8 Brunetti Metropolitan and drag n drop it close to the right side of the Metropolitan amplifier SETTINGS MIDI LEVEL iN seg MASTER Live TUNER MANUAL INFO THO PRESETS 100 150 Cabinet components look simple graphically but are through the most complex models of TH3 Cabinets support 2 frontal 3D positioned microphones a rear microphone a 45 inclined microphone phase inversion ambience emulation ReSPiRe technology and high and low pass filters Like every other component the cabinet can be turner off bypassed When the mouse cursor hovers the cabinet you will see a small speaker icon on the bottom right corner of the cabinet 18 a 200 USER MANUAL Clic
33. rloud custom garasa ee all Overloud custom T 39 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Overloud custom gt SSSS5RSo EE a RSS Compressor Ross compressor Overloud custom Mesa Boogie mark IIC graphic EQ _ B e o o Some Parametric EQ Overloud custom eee ANALOG FLANGER ADA Flanger a 40 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL PICTURE NAME MODELED ON Comb Flanger Overloud custom Filter Flanger Overloud custom a Mild Flanger Overloud custom oe Rich Flanger Overloud custom mer a Wave Flanger Overloud custom l o506533 i 9 O PHASER MXR Phase 90 Chorus Phaser Overloud custom Digital Phaser Overloud custom ttis OBH Phaser Oberheim phaser 41 IMPORTANT NOTE Any use of third party trademarks logos mentioned brand names products and services is only referential and Overloud hereby disclaims any Sponsorship Affiliation or Endorsement of or by any such third party OVERLOUD E gt USER
34. s about some options of TH3 Tuner mode Auto mute when tuner is on Show tooltips Prompt for insertion of matching cabinet with amp Show controls for quick replace of models Change audio settings Audio settings TH3 is authorized Manage your Authorizations Preferences Auto mute when tuner is on sets if the MUTE function should automatically follow the power of the Tuner Show tooltips if on a short description appears when the mouse cursor stands for a short time over a control of the user interface Prompts for insertion of matching cabinet with amp when on each time you add the first m 11 USER MANUAL amp to the sound chain TH3 will ask if you also want to insert the matching cabinet Show controls for quick replace of models if enabled when the cursor hovers a component two arrows will appear allowing you to quickly replace the component with another model of the same category Audio Settings This is where you adjust the audio settings of TH3 This section only appears when you run TH3 as a standalone application Audio Settings Output Built in Output lt Test Output 1 Active output channels Output 2 input 1 Active input channels input 2 Input Built in Microphone Sample rate 44100 Hz Audio buffer size 512 samples 11 6 ms a SS S Output select the output audio interface Input select the input audio interface Active output channels
35. s Wah at min position Tip right click on a control to add bindings for the current preset Previous bank Next bank Previous preset Next preset Output level Tap to set BPM Tap to set delay time Amp on off Overdrive on off Distortion on off Fuzz on off Chorus on off Delay on off Compressor on off Equalizer on off Flanger on off Phaser on off Pitch on off Octaver on off Reverb on off Tremolo on off Vibrato on off Wah on off Noise reduction on off Acoustic simulator on off Volume expression pedal Wah expression pedal 13 be preserved across preset changes Each item of the GLOBAL MIDI BINDINGS list represents a connection between a MIDI Trigger Point for example a stomp switch on a foot controller and a parameter of TH3 You can set a new binding by clicking LEARN on the row of the wanted ACTION and then touch the MIDI trigger on the external MIDI device An existing binding can be removed by clicking CLEAR on the wanted ACTION row You also can set a new binding by right clicking a control on the sound chain for example a power switch OVERLOUD You will see a popup menu with two commands related to MIDI bindings Learn Global MIDI and Learn MIDI for current preset Fee e Learn global MIDI Learn MIDI for current preset Reset to default value The global option will set a new global MIDI binding in the GLOBAL MIDI BINDINGS list This command won t be enabled wh
36. s described in the first part of this document see Authorize TH3 12 OVERLOUD MIDI TH3 has a straightforward MIDI implementation allowing to easily connect almost any kind of remote MIDI controller be it a keyboard a table top controller or a foot controller All MIDI activity is managed in the MIDI preferences panel accessed by clicking MIDI on the TH3 top bar Program Changes recall presets in current bank USER MANUAL MIDI BINDINGS FOR CURRENT PRESET This is a dynamic list of MIDI bindings You can bind a parameter of a TH3 component by just right clicking it on the Sound Chain View and then selecting LEARN MIDI FOR CURRENT PRESET The bindings are local to a preset so you will be allowed to have different binding configurations for separate presets GLOBAL MIDI BINDINGS Global MIDI bindings are those that will sets the way that Program Change events are to interpreted If the option is enabled then each PC Program Change event is taken as an immediate recall of the corresponding preset of the current bank Otherwise if the option is disabled and you ll still need a way to change presets then you ll bind MIDI events to the Previous Next preset loading operations as described below Bypass Wah at min position when on turns off the Wah automatically when the Wah expression pedal reaches the minimum position all the way up Program Changes recall presets in current bank Bypas
37. te guitar rig modeling application In the initial condition TH3 starts with an empty setup No effects at all We already have seen how to select a bank and load a preset So let s see now hot to create a new setup from scratch Insert a component The basic principle of TH3 is that the list of components is that on the right side and that you always can scroll the list point a component and drag amp drop it over the sound chain to insert it in a certain point of the chain os USER MANUAL Move a component To move a component across the sound chain click it on an empty area a region with no knobs switches or other controls and drag it to a new position Remove a component There are two ways to remove a component You can drag it over the trash can icon which appears on the bottom right corner of the Sound Chain View when you drag the component Or either you can right click the component on an empty area and select the command Remove Brunetti Taxi Drive Replace with Remove OVERLOUD E gt USER MANUAL select Distortion for example And then Create a new setup from scratch let s point to Brunetti Vanilla which is a good distortion effect pedal Let s now create a brand new TH3 setup Now drag the item of the list and drop it First we ll empty the current setup scroll to the middle of the Sound Chain View the preset list on the left side until you find an lt empty
38. together Otherwise you can select a category This will make it easy to focus on a certain kind of effect and see all the possible allowable alternatives USER MANUAL TUBE NINE SDriveOne BeeDeeToo Diode250 V Treble Booster ct pre Brunetti Taxi Drive distort DistOne FatMuff MetalTone Diode69 Burning Box Vanilla Brunetti Mercury Box FUSSRACE TOON FOX Fuzz Blend Comb Chorus Wave Chorus Digital Chorus OVERLOUD THO USER MANUAL TH3 Top Panel On the top side of the user interface there is aheader band containing some useful tools Starting from the left side the first one is the Input Level Adjustment Input Level Adjustment Click the LEVEL button to open the Input Level Adjustment dialog window This dialog window supports you to correctly set the volume knob on your guitar and the input level of your audio interface Set the volume pot on the guitar to the max Play the guitar as hard as you can Adjust the input level on the audio interface NOT the volume pot on your guitar so that this indicator lies in the green region Play the guitar Mute output First set the volume on the guitar to the maximum Then play your guitar very hard to simulate the highest level you will ever reach while playing normally and while you do that Adjust the input level of your audio interface to keep the level shown in the three colored bar in the
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