Crate Amplifiers GLX65 manual

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  • Page 1

    User ’ s Guide GLX65 GLX1 20 GLX2 1 2 Three-channel Guitar Amplifiers with DSP & Channel T racking[...]

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    Congratulations! Y ou are now the proud owner of one of the Crate GLX top-of-the-line three-channel guitar amplifiers. These rugged amplifiers combine outstanding features with serious clean and distorted sounds. An easy to operate DSP section lets you dial in a variety of digital effects including reverbs, delays, octave and wah-wahs – with a se[...]

  • Page 3

    The Digital Signal Processor: Crate’s Digital Signal Processing of fers 16 exciting digital effects, accessible through the DSP Mode control. The ef fects are described below . 3 Channel T racking: Y our Crate GLX amplifier gives you the power of Channel T racking! Once you select a DSP set- ting for each channel, Channel T racking recalls those [...]

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    The Front Panel: 4 2 3 4 5 6 12 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 1: MUTE: This switch, when depressed, silences the input signal. The T uner (#21) remains active when this switch is depressed. 2. INPUT : Use this 1/4” jack to connect your guitar to the amplifier by means of a shielded instrument cable. SOLO CHANNEL: A high gain channel givin[...]

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    The Electronic T uner: 5 21. ELECTRONIC TUNER (top panel): The electronic tuner is active whenever the amplifier is turned on, pro- viding constant, “real-time” tuning. The bottom row of LEDs indicate which note (string) is being tuned. The top row of LEDs provides directional queues to facilitate quick and precise tuning of your instrument. Th[...]

  • Page 6

    Suggested Settings: 6 OUT IN OUT IN OUT IN OUT IN IN IN Sweet 'n Clean: Just a 'Lil Nasty: Politely Gritty: Octave Down 'n Dirty: Wah Full House: Mean & Obscene: GLX65/120/212 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & Channel Tracking[...]

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    System Block Diagram: 7 INPUT SOLO-RHYTHM/ CLEAN SELECT LOW VOL MID HIGH MID LOW HIGH LEVEL LEVEL MODE GAIN BUFFER MIX AMP CLEAN CHNL DSP MUTE DAMPING CIRCUIT POWER AMP EFFECTS SEND EFFECTS RETURN EXT. SPEAKER SPEAKE R SOLO/ RHYTHM SELECT SHAPE LEVEL GAIN TUNER A BC D EF G RHYTHM CHNL SOLO CHNL GLX65/120/212 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & Channel [...]

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    GLX65/120/212 TECHNICAL SPECIFICA TIONS: Output Power Rating GLX65 65W RMS @ 5% THD, 8 Ω , 120 V AC GLX120/212 120W RMS @5% THD, 4 Ω , 120 V AC Speaker Size and Rating GLX65/120 (1) Custom Design 12”, 8 Ω GLX212 (2) Custom Design 12”, 8 Ω Input Impedance 470k Ω T otal System Gain Solo Ch 1 10dB, all controls @10 Rhythm Ch 88dB, all co[...]