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INTRODUCTION

Thank you!

We’d first like to thank you for purchasing. Our goal when developing TH-U was to create a flagship application even more powerful than the previous version: TH3.

TH-U incorporates modules with the best emulations of real guitar rig elements achieved with top quality software DSP.

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Garage Band, Sonar, Live, Cubase, Pro Tools and the like;

•Supports MIDI communication with foot controllers or other MIDI devices to load presets and to adjust effect parameters;

•Includes a built-in licensing manager letting you to authorize and deauthorize TH-U on your computer(s) autonomously;

•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;

Cool Features

TH-U has the following main features:

•Comes in the following formats: VST, AudioUnit, RTAS, AAX and standalone for macOS, and VST, RTAS, AAX and standalone for Windows;

•Provides an interactive virtual guitar rig where you can add modules like pedals, amplifiers, cabinets and rack effect units and trim their controls;

•Adds control to amp head sound permitting access to amp tweaks;

•Also lets you use a special component, the rig-model player, which allows to play rig model files that Overloud will provide collected in libraries;

•Can be loaded as a plug-in effect in a DAW application like Logic Pro,

•Works with the lightest DSP engine on the market to obtain the best tones with minimal CPU load and shortest latency;

•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.

ABOUT TH-U

With TH-U you can replicate your own real guitar rig by adding effects and modules and trimming 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.

Moreover you can play a rig model with the dedicated Rig Player component.

The User Interface

The user interface of TH-U is organized into three main sections: Presets, Sound Chain and Components.

The Presets section lists all the allowable presets. Presets are grouped 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 TH-U input and output.

The Components section lists all TH-U components. Adding components to TH-U is easy: just drag and drop them from the list to the insertion point over the sound chain.

Tools

Tuner

TH-U includes a useful Tuner with optional Auto Mute function (not to play through the outputs for example while you are tuning your guitar in a live performance).

Looper

Also, TH-U includes a complete multi track Loop Station with which you can record and overdub your loops.

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GETTING STARTED

Let’s spend a few minutes to get acquainted with TH-U. In order to make you feel confident in using TH-U, 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 to 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. 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 TH-U

After the purchase of TH-U you will receive an email with the serial number which represents your license of TH-U.

The serial number has the following format:

TUBN-KH5K-00F5-RMWP

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To authorize your license, just run TH-U then you will see a dialog box warning you that the application is not currently authorized. You can choose one of three options:

•run a short test demo of 10 minutes;

•start an evaluation period of two weeks;

•authorize your license.

Both demo options let you test TH-U full working, for a limited time, so that you can make an idea of the product before possibly deciding to purchase it.

You can authorize your license of TH-U by providing a couple of information and choosing where to store your authorization.

Click the Authorize button on the TH-U 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:

•this computer;

•USB removable device.

Choosing this computer, you will enable your computer to run TH-U. This is usually the easiest and fastest option to authorize TH-U 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.

Choosing USB removable device you will store the authorization on a USB device and you’ll be able to move it by 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 TH-U

You can de-authorize TH-U in two ways: from inside TH-U itself or from your User Account online page.

To de-authorize from TH-U, 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.

TH-U keeps a connection with our online servers to update the amount of authorizations in use.

Authorization Limits

You can authorize TH-U on up to 3 (three) separate computers plus 1 (one) USB stick.

You can de-authorize the same license of TH-U no more than 10 (ten) times in the last 365 days.

Run TH-U

Once the authorization is completed, TH-U will be ready to use.

Presets

On 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 bank contains 128 presets. Click a bank of the list to select it.

Right below 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:

<empty>.

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 TH-U.

The view is zoomable. You can choose a suitable zoom factor with the zoom buttons.

The sound chain beginning (the input of the TH-U 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 THU.

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 with a Mixer.

This configuration of the Sound Chain lets you to process the same sound in two different ways and to mix the two processed sounds together.

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 behaviour of the button changes depending on the current configuration of the sound chain. For example, you might be asked for a confirmation before possibly removing some components when you switch from parallel to linear chain.

About TH-U Components

Right after using TH-U 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 fne set;

•cmd-click to reset to default.

Knobs have their value shown while you move them.

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Components

On the right side of the user interface there is the Components column.

The column contains a list of all modules available: amps, cabs, stomp pedals and rack effects.

You can add one of them to the current sound chain at any time: just 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 All categories is selected, components are visibile all 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.

Non licensed components appear shaded, and if you drag one of them to the sound chain TH-U will prompt you about using an unlicensed component allowing to either evaluate it (Demo) or to authorize (you’ll get an authorization code by purchasing it from our website).

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TH-U Top Panel

On the top side of the user interface there is a header 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.

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…

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Adjust the input level of your audio interface to keep the level shown in the three colored bar in the green region.

Master

When you click the MASTER button, the Master Controls panel appears. Master

controls apply globally, independently from the TH-U preset settings. This allows you to adjust the overall sound of TH-U.

The In Source area is where you select the input channels for TH-U. 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 & High: master EQ. Adjust the overall low and high frequencies of TH-U. This

EQ is global and independent from the preset settings.

Reverb & 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 TH-U.

The preset 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 pending, a prompt will appear asking you to confirm that you really want to continue discarding those unsaved changes.

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 TH-

U, because you’ll risk to lose your modifications).

Also, when Live Mode is on, if you change preset, some parameter values will be 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 TH-U there is the TUNER.

You can activate the Tuner anytime. It will process the clean sound coming from the TH-U 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.