Alesis DEQ830 User Manual

the original signal so you can decide if  you like the edit you made. 

Press the button again to get out of  Bypass mode and hear the 

effect. 

 

 

This button is located just above the [BYPASS] button. It will 

toggle the Bypass status of  all eight channels at once. The first 

press of  the [ALL] button will cause any unbypassed channels to 

enter Bypass mode.  Subsequent presses will toggle the Bypass 

status of  all eight chanels together.  The red LEDs below each 

channel meter will light to indicate that the channels are bypassed. 

 

 

This button is used to link channels together so that their EQ 

settings are locked together. Any edits you make to a band on one 

channel will also be applied to that same band on all linked 

channels. This is useful for quickly setting up a program without 

having to make independent adjustments for each channel.

 

 

 

 

Once you have created a program you would like to keep, press 

this button to enter Store mode. From there you can use the 

[VALUE] encoder to select one of  the 100 memory locations to 

become the new home for the edited program. For more 

information on this function, see page 41. 

 

 

This button will help you if  you are editing a program and would 

like to hear how the program sounded before you edited it. 

Pressing this button will temporarily recall the original program, 

and pressing it a second time will restore the edited program. The 

green LED above this button will light to indicate that the Band 

Gain LEDs are now showing the EQ curve as it appeared before 

your edits. 

 

 

If  you press [UTILITY] while you are in Program mode, you will 

enter Utility mode, which lets you edit the Master Level, MIDI 

Settings, the internal clock rate and other global parameters. If  you 

hold down this button at startup as the DEQ830’s splash screen is 

displayed, you will enter Lock mode. This mode allows you to lock 

the front panel buttons. For more information on Utility mode, see 

page 50. 

 

 

Press [SAVE CURVE] to save a channel’s EQ curve to the 

DEQ830’s curve bank so that it can be retrieved at a later time. 

We’ve provided 100 locations (00-99) in which to save curves. 

Curves 00-49 contain factory presets, and curves 50-99 are blank. 

Any of  the 100 curves may be modified and saved.  For more 

information on saving curves, see page 40.