Crate Amplifiers GX-65 manual

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    OWNER’S MANUAL Congratulations! Y ou are now the proud owner of the Crate GX-65 guitar amplifier . This rugged ampli- fier delivers serious clean and distorted sounds through its premium 12” Crate Custom speaker . Channel selection, Crate’s exclusive Shape circuit, and reverb on/of f are con- trollable by the supplied three-button footswitch.[...]

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    1: INPUT: Connect your guitar here by means of a shielded instrument cable. OVERDRIVE CHANNEL: A high gain channel designed to give you sounds from a slight edge to serious overdrive. 2: GAIN 1: Use this control to adjust the amount of moderate compression and distortion for the Overdrive channel. With the control rotated fully counter clockwise th[...]

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    15: INSERT : Use this jack to connect an exter- nal effects device to the amplifier . Use a stereo 1/4” male Y -cord: ring = send, tip = return, sleeve = ground. See the illustration to the right for more information. 16: EXT . SPEAKER: Use this jack to connect an extension speaker cabinet to the amplifier . This jack is wired in series with the [...]

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    © 1998 SLM ELECTRONICS, A DIVISION OF ST . LOUIS MUSIC, 1400 FERGUSON, ST . LOUIS, MO. 63133 P/N 47-475-04 • 030603 GX-65 Amplifier Crate continually develops new products, as well as improves existing ones. For this reason, the specifications and information in this Crate manual are subject to change without notice. Output Power Rating 65 watts[...]