Arton ME-01

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Description

A guitar processor ARTON ME-01 (produced by Formanta factory in 1981) is a floor-mounted synthesizer of effects, such as compression, reverberation, chorus etc. It has five rubber footswitches, knobs and sliders to control parameters of effects. ME-01 consists of four main serial effect sections: RHYTHM/SOLO, COMPRESSION, REVERBERATOR, CHORUS. Every section has its own dedicated parameters.

Control functions are the following:

• RHYTHM/SOLO: guitar, rocktone, spectrum, turbo;
• COMPRESSOR: level, attack, restoring, output;
• REVERB: level, echo;
• CHORUS: balance, brightness, amplitude, rate;
• OUTPUT - amplifier on, output (effect, scale - min\max), turbo on.

Indicators - control, overload, effect.
Connections: line input, output (line, phone, amplifier).
Dimensions - 420 x 360 x 115
Weight - about 5 kg