Crate Amplifiers MFX1200 manual

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    Guitar Amplifier Owner's Guide f or the CRA TE CRA TE CRA TE[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier Congratulations! Y ou are now the proud owner of the Crate MFX1200H Guitar Amplifier . This rugged amp head combines outstanding features with serious clean and distorted sounds. An easy to operate DSP section lets you dial in a variety of digital effects such as delay , flange, chorus and reverb – with its own level control. Cha[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier Important Safeguards and Precautions: 3 All Crate products are designed for continuous safe operation. Abiding by the following rules can help prevent damage to your amplifier , yourself and others. • The amplifier is equipped with a three-pronged AC power cord. T o reduce the risk of electrical shock, NEVER remove or otherwise a[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier The Front Panel: 4 1: INPUT : Use this 1/4” jack to connect your instrument to the amplifier by means of a shielded instrument cable. OVERDRIVE CHANNEL: A high gain channel giving you sounds from a slight edge to seri- ous overdrive. 2: GAIN 1: Use this control to adjust the input gain for the Overdrive channel. Gain 1 pro- duces[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier 5 the high frequency output. Rotating the control clockwise increases the high frequency out- put. The High control provides a range of 28dB of boost or cut at 10kHz. 14: DSP LEVEL: Use this control to adjust the amount of digital signal processing to be applied to the signal. In the fully counterclock- wise position the output sig[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier Suggested Settings: 6 Clean: Blues: Rhythm: Lead:[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier System Block Diagram: 7 INPUT CHANNEL SELECT FLEX WAVE STAGE LOW LEVEL MID HIGH LOW SHAPE HIGH LEVEL LEVEL MODE GAIN GAIN SHAPE ACTIVE BUFFER MIX AMP INSERT CLEAN CHANNEL DSP OVERDRIVE CHANNEL POWER AMP SPEAKE R EQ[...]

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    Guitar Amplifier CRA TE MFX1200H TECHNICAL SPECIFICA TIONS: Output Power Rating 70 watts RMS @ 5% THD 8 ohms, 120 V AC 100 watts RMS @ 5% THD 4 ohms, 120 V AC Maximum Input Signal Accepted 8 volts peak-to-peak Input Impedance 470k ohms Overdrive Channel: Low Control 1 1dB Range @ 80Hz Shape Control Proprietary Circuit High Control 10dB Range @ 10kH[...]