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CONTENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 2 IMPORT ANT INFORMA TION..................................................................................................................3 ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS.................................................................................................[...]

NOTE: This unit may cause interference to radio and television reception. CAUTION: USE OF CONTROLS OR ADJUSTMENTS OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED HEREIN MA Y RESUL T IN HAZARDOUS RADIA TION EXPOSURE THE MEDIA PLA YER SHOULD NOT BE ADJUSTED OR REP AIRED BY ANYONE EXCEPT PROPERL Y QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. CAUTION TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT USE T[...]

ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 4 ELECTRICAL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in t he [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 5 I. Read Instructions - All the safety and oper - ating instructions should be read befor e you operate the system. The safety and operating instructions should be saved for future r eference. 2. Heed W ar nings - All warnings on the system and in the operating instru[...]

Introduction: Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the American Audio ® VERSADECK. This VERSADECK is a repr esentation of American Audio’ s continuing commitment to produce the best and highest qual - ity audio pr oducts possible at an aordable price. Please read and understand this manual completely before attempting to operate your [...]

MAIN FEA TURES © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 7 (a) F ADER “Q” ST ART CONTROL: Set up your VERSADECK as described in the set-up section of this manual. After set up is completed load your players. By moving the mixer’ s crossfader from left to right you can start and pause each players playbac[...]

1. Checking the Contents Be sure your VERSADECK was shipped with the following: 1) VERSADECK Professional media player/mixer 2) Software CD 3) W arranty card 4) Power Cord CAUTION: • T o avoid sever e damage to the unit, be sure the power is off when making connections to the unit. SET -UP CAUTION: • The VFD is designed to be clearly visible wi[...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS PLA YER A. T OP UNIT PLA YER CONTROL S (FIGURE 2) 1. FOLDER SEARCH KNOB - T ur ning this knob will let you search for your desir ed folder . T ur n the knob to scroll backwar d and forward thr ough folders. The folder number your are curr ently in will be shown in the VFD. 2. SOURCE SELECT BUTTON - This button lets yo[...]

you to use the PITCH SLIDER to speed up or slow down playback speed without altering the tonal pitch of the track. When this function is not engaged the original tonal pitch of the track will be altered giving you the "chipmunk" effect when a track is played at a high rate of speed, or the "James Earl Jones" effect when a track [...]

12. T AP BUTT ON - Press this button to switch between manual BPM and Auto BPM. When in manual BPM mode, tap this button to the beat of the current track. Pr ess and hold this button for at least 3 secs. to switch to Auto BPM. The BPM mode your are curr ently in is displayed in the VFD. 13. PLA Y/P AUSE BUTT ON - Each press of the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTT[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 12 the PHASE effect. SKID BUTTON - This button is used to activate and deactivate the Skid ef fect. The Skid ef fect simulates the sudden platter stop of a turntable, like pressing the stop button on a turntable. P ARAMETER RA TIO BUTTON - When this button is activated[...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (C ont .) MIXER B. T OP UNIT MIXER CONTROL S (FIGURE 3) 24. SOURCE SELECTOR SWITCH - These switches are used to select the input source assigned to each channel. Each channel may only be assigned one input source at a time. • CH1 selected to PC + CH2 selected to PC – the entire unite works as a MIDI controller. ?[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 14 treble gain of +10dB or maximum decrease of -35dB. Turning the knob in a counter- clockwise direction will decrease the amount of treble applied to a channel signal, turning the knob in a clockwise direction will increase the amount of treble applied to a channel si[...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (C ont .) FRONT & REAR P ANEL Figure 5 Figure 4 43 37 42 C. FRONT P ANEL (FIGURE 4) 37 . MICROPHONE 1 J ACK - This jack accepts a standard 1/4 plug. The volume output level for this micro- phone will be controlled by its own respective MIC KNOB (38). Note: We rec ommend tha t you use a 5 0 0 - 6 0 0 ohm micr ophon[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 16 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (C ont .) FRONT & REAR P ANEL 46. GND (GROUND TERMINAL) - Be sure to connect turntable ground leads to either or both of the two available ground terminals. This will reduce the humming and popping noises associated with magnetic p[...]

E. VFD DISPLA Y P ANEL (FIGURE 6) 57. PLA Y/P AUSE INDICA TOR - Either the play or pause indicator will glow depending which mode you are in. 58. CUE INDICA TOR - This indicator will glow when the unit is in CUE or mode and will flash every time a new CUE POINT is set. 59. TOUCH INDICA T OR - This appears when anything touches the jog wheel. 60. CH[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 18 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (C ont .) VFD SCREEN 71 . FO LD ER INDICATOR - This indicator details the current folder y ou are in. 72. SINGLE INDICA T OR - This indicates that the player is in single play mode, the track will play once and return to CUE mode. If t[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 19 INTERNAL MENU Press the FOLDER KNOB (1) for at least 3 secs. to enter the Internal Menu. T urn the FOLDER KNOB (1) to scroll thr ough the differ ent submenus. T urn either the TRACK KNOB (21) or JOG WHEEL (16) to change the submenu settings. T o save and exit the in[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 20 BASIC OPERA TIONS Figure 9: T ur ning the track button counter -clockwise will jump back to the previ- ous track. Figure 8: T urning the track button clockwise will skip forward to the next track. 2. SELECTING TRACKS Select a desired track by using the TRACK KNOB (2[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 21 3. ST ARTING PLA YBACK - Figure 10 Load an audio source as described on page 20 ( LOADING/EJECTING USB DEVICE ). Pressing the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (13) with an audio device loaded will immediately start playback. The PLA Y (57) indicator will glow as soon as play- ba[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 22 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 1) Y ou may press the IN BUTTON (22) on the fly (while the disc is playing). This will set a CUE Point without music interruption. Pressing the CUE BUTTON (14) will now return you to the same point that you pressed the IN BUTTON (22) . 2) [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 23 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 2) Pr ess the IN BUTTON (22) . This will set the starting point of the SEAMLESS LOOP . The IN BUTTON (22) LED will light. 1) Press PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (13) to activate playback mode. Figure 17 Figure 16 3) Pr ess the OUT BUTTON (22) to set[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 24 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) REPLA Y LOOP - The RELOOP (22) function allows you to return to your stored loop at any time. The IN BUTTON (22) and OUT BUTTON (22) LEDs will indicate a loop is stored in memory , and may be played at any time. T o replay the loop, press [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Figure 23 Figure 22 Figure 24 2) Press the SA VE BUTTON (20) . The SA VE BUTTON (20) LED will glow indicating memory is ready to be stored. 3) Select one of the four BANK BUTTONS (19) you wish to store your loop in and pr ess that button. 10. Bank Buttons (19): These buttons are used to stor e your cue points and loops. O[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 26 PITCH ADJUSTMENTS 1. PITCH SLIDER (10): This function will increase or decrease the tracks playback speed or "PITCH." The maximum pitch percentage manipulation in this function is +/-16%. The PITCH SLIDER (10) is used to decrease or incr ease the playback [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 27 PITCH ADJUSTMENTS 2. PITCH BENDING: Unlike the PITCH SLIDER (10) adjustment t his function will momentarily increase or decr ease a tracks speed during playback. There ar e two ways to operate this function with the (-) & (+) PITCH BEND BUTTONS (11) or with the [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 28 PITCH ADJUSTMENTS Figure 31 3. JOG WHEEL (16): The JOG WHEEL will temporarily bend the pitch if a track is in playback mode Rotating the wheel in a clockwise direction will incr ease your track pitch and rotating the wheel in a counter -clockwise direction will slow[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 29 Figure 32 JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITIVITY : The platter of the jog wheel is touch sensitive allowing certain play and cue commands, as well the scratch effect, to be contr olled by touching or tapping on the touch sensitive jog wheel. ADJUSTING JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITVIT[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 30 JOG WHEEL FUCNTIONS Figure 35 VINYL MODE & CDJ MODE: The Vinyl Mode simulates r eal time tur ntable scratching. Once the Vinyl Mode has been activated the JOG WHEEL (16) may be used in the same fashion a turntable platter is used. Use the JOG WHEEL (16) to simul[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 31 The VERSADECK comes with four built in effects. These ef fects can be used one at a time or you may choose to overlap the ef fects and use up to four at a time. The Built-in effects include Echo, Filter , Skid, and Flanger . Y ou can choose to use the effects with t[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 32 Figure 42 FLANGER EFFECT : The Flanger effect distorts the output signal and creates an ef fect similar to frequencies phasing in and out of each other . The FLANGER Ef fect has two adjustable parameters, Parameter Time (PT) and Parameter Ratio (PR). The PT will adj[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 33 RELA Y MODE This feature is a kind of “auto pilot”. When you ar e using the VERSADECK system, you can have one player begin playback when the other ends. Y ou can RELA Y single tracks, the entire folder , or a combination of the two. To RELA Y single tracks: 1) [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 34 DA T ABASE BUILDER Minimum Hardwar e Requirements: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1GHz processor or above, Intel Centrino Mobile T echnology 1.6GHz RAM: 512MB RAM DISC SP ACE: 100MB of free disc space needed OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, V ista SP2 or Mac OS X 10.4 The device[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 35 DA T ABASE BUILDER (FOR WINDOWS XP) NOTE: Please r e-create the database builder whenever you change the contents of your USB device. Select your desired USB har d drive and click "Build". Processing Complete Scan and Cr eate: Refer to the following figure[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 36 DA T ABASE BUILDER Errors: 1. Failed to Open Device: Y our drive is a non supported format. 2. File Error: This is due to MP3 le not have a identied ID3 tag. Windows 7/Vista may warn you accord- ing to your security settings. Select Allow if you wish to instal[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 37 MIDI MAP FUNCTION T ype FUNCTION CODE (DECK A) NOTE SHIFT (Hold T AP) FUNCTION CODE (DECK B) NOTE SHIFT (Hold T AP) FUNCTIO N CODE (CENTER DECK) NOTE SHIFT (Hold T AP) ACTION SW/ENC 05/17 44/56 05/27 44/66 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF SW/ENC 01/16 40/55 01/26 40/65 7FH _ ON 0[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 38 %/ 16 SW/LED 15/15 A0 54 15/15 A0 54 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF SW 16 55 16 55 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF SW 17 56 17 56 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF A.Cue scratch SW/LED 18/18 C1 57 18/18 C1 57 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF VINYL SW/LED 19 /19 C#1 58 19/19 C#1 58 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF CDJ SW/LED 1A/1A D1[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 39 CUE P AN SLIDER VR 34 73 VR:00~7F CUE P AN LEVEL VR 33 72 VR:00~7F Fader Start ON(L) SW 1 40 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF Fader Start OFF(L) SW 2 41 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF Fader Start ON(R) SW 3 42 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF Fader Start OFF(R) SW 4 43 7FH _ ON 00H _ OFF C.F CURVE (L) SW [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 40 MIXER SET -UP This image details a DJ Set Up consisting of a microphone, CD player , tur ntable, computer , amps, USB storage device, and speakers. When connecting and using a turntable be sure the CHANNEL LINE LEVEL SELECTOR SWITCH (47) that corresponds with turnta[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 41 MIXER SET -UP American Audio V4001™ Speaker Cables T ypical Balanced Output Set-up This image details a typical stereo output layout. Note the use of the Balanced XLR Jacks on both the mixer and the amplier . Always use the balanced output jacks whenever possib[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 42 CROSSF ADER REPLACEMENT The crossfader is “Hot Swapable” which means it may be r eplaced at any time, even when power is applied. Only replace with American Audio Part Feather Fader Plus. Replacing with any other model fader may seriously damage your mixer . Ple[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 43 TROUBLSHOOTING USB device not reading When using Hard Drives it is recommended that you use a hard drive with an external power supply or one that does not exceed 5 volt power consumption. If your hard drive resets itself when plugged into the USB ports on the Versa[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 44 W ARRANTY INFORMA TION: The VERSADECK carries a ONE year (365 days) limited war- ranty. This warranty covers parts and labor . Please fill out the enclosed warranty card to validate your purchase and warranty . All returned service items whether under warranty or no[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 45 SPECIFICA TIONS GENERAL Model: American Audio VERSADECK - Professional DUAL USB Player/ Mixer T ype: Dual USB MP3 Player + Digital Mixer Disc type: Applicable File Extenstions for Mp3s: mp3, MP3, mP3, and Mp3 Pitch Range: Within +/- 6%, +/- 10%, and +/- 16% Pitch Ac[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - VERSADECK Instruction Manual Page 46 SPECIFICA TIONS Cross T alk (Maximum Gain, EQ Flat, W/20KHz LPF , A-W eighted, Master=0dBV Output) LINE, PHONO: Mor e than 63dB @1Khz Between L and R Channel More than 70dB @1KHz Between Channels Equalizer: MIC: -14 +/-3 dB at 100Hz -12 +/-3dB at 10KHz CHANNEL: 10 +[...]

MP3 FORMAT File System FAT 12/16/32 Applicable file extensions mp3. MP3. mP3. Mp3 Max. number of Folders 999 USB Format Max. number of files Max. 999 files MPEG 1 Layer 3 standard (IS O/I EC 11172-3 ), which provides for single channel (‘mono’) and two-channel (‘stereo’) c o ding at sampling rates of 32, 44.1 an d 48kHz. 32/40/48/56/80/96/1[...]

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