TOURMASTER INSIDE THIS OWNER’S MANUAL Greetings from Bruce Egnater ......... 3 Important Information ............. 4 Safety Precautions ............. 5 4100 & 4212 Specifications ..........6 Quick Start Guide ............. 7 Finding the Sound You Want ........... 8-9 The Rear Panel Explained ..........10-11 Connecting Your Speakers ..........
Greetings……….. I would like to personally thank you for choosing Egnater as your “Tone Partner”. Our goal is to provide you with the best tools we can to help you express yourself to the fullest. Your amplifier is an integral piece in your never ending “Tone Quest”. Our commitment to helping you achieve that goal is our passion.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please keep this instruction manual for future reference and for the duration of owning this Egnater Tourmaster 4100 / 4212. Please carefully read and understand the instructions inside this user’s manual before attempting to operate your new amp.
FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 1. READ INSTRUCTIONS – All the safety and operating instructions should be read CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove any cover. No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer before this product is operated. servicing to qualified service personnel only.
TOURMASTER QUICK START GUIDE Not a manual reader? …..please use this “Quick Start” guide. You can always refer to the manual later. The Tourmaster 4100 (Head) and 4212 (Combo) represent the latest in tube guitar amp technology. Our aim in creating the Tourmaster models is to offer an extensive array of useable tones and features while keeping things easy to understand and operate.
TOURMASTER FINDING THE SOUND YOU WANT! Below are some suggested knob settings to get you started. Keep in mind these are merely suggestions. You are encouraged to experiment to find “your tone”.
FINDING THE SOUND YOU WANT! con’t A FEW TIPS FOR FINDING YOUR SOUND 1) As a rule, the less gain you use the tighter and more defined your low end will sound and feel. 2) There should be a reasonably balance between the channel volume controls and the main mas- ter volume knob.
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TOURMASTER Looks like a lot of stuff doesn’t it? button on the footpedal to turn the will only find on the egnater Tour- Don’t worry. It’s really easy. loop on and off. Easy so far right? master amps. Using this group of...
THE REAR PANEL do you have a wide array of tones available from the preamp chan- nels, but you can introduce any amount of power tube distortion you wish, all preset and automatic. One special note: The lower the power setting for any channel, the less preamp gain you will want to use.
TOURMASTER CONNECTING YOUR SPEAKERS The two speaker outputs on the Tourmaster 4100 are wired in parallel. This means if you plug two cabi- nets into the amp (one per speaker output jack), the cabinets are effectively wired together (in parallel). See below for the proper impedance switch settings for different combinations of cabinets.
Power Cord / Main Fuse / Voltage Selector Ac inlet Modules: Your Tourmaster head or combo have detachable IEC type grounded power cord that plugs into the AC inlet connector. Always use the appropriate type of power cord in your country or region.
TOURMASTER THE CHANNELS Earlier in this manual you found a the channel to have a bit more volume knob can be quite effective brief description of the four indi- drive, more midrange and tighter for cleaning up the tone. Classic vidual channels.
THE EFFECTS LOOP OPERATION The Tourmaster effects interface c) Now connect another high of effects using the RETURN allows you to connect and control quality shielded cable from the ef- LEVEL/MIX knob, much like the your effects in a number of differ- fect output to the return jack.
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TOURMASTER THE EFFECTS LOOP OPERATION con’t uses, advantages, disadvantages and This means, using the parallel loop, compressor, or other effect, that limitations of each loop. you must be aware of which effects typically sounds cool on clean a) The series loop, by nature of can and can’t be used.
POWER TUBE BIAS WHAT IS BIAS? ing the amp chassis from the box, electrical characteristics. Because Simply put, it is a circuit inside the exposing you to very dangerous they are all different, each requires power amplifier section that con- high voltage.
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TOURMASTER trols all the way down. 50mADC, which will not make for POWER gRID slide switches to a long lasting, happy tube. In 100 watts and the FULL/HALF addition, your tone will suffer power switch to FULL power. Turn because your amp can only per- the meter on and set for reading form as well as the weakest link.
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