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GTX65
Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier
with Advanced Digital Signal
Processing
User’s Guide
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 The Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,5 The Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The DSP Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Storing Your Own Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Restoring the Factory Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of the Crate GTX65 three-channel guitar amplifier with Advanced Digital Signal Processing. This rugged amplifier combines outstanding features with serious clean and distorted sounds. Dual DSP controls provide 15 “Multi” effects and 15 Delay effects which can be combined for a wide variety of sounds. The Save/Tap button allows you to manually set the tempo of many of the effects and to save new DS
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP The Front Panel: 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1: INPUT: Use this jack to connect your guitar to the amplifier by means of a shielded instrument cable. SOLO/RHYTHM CHANNELS: High gain channels giving you sounds with serious over- drive. 2: SOLO LED: This LED illuminates when the Solo channel is selected. 3: GAIN: Use this control to adjust the amount of distortion produced by the Solo channel. 4: SHAPE: Use this control to “dial in” the tone fo
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP 21 22 23 24 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25 16: LOW: Use this control to adjust the low frequency level of the Clean channel. 17: MID: Use this control to adjust the midrange frequency level of the Clean channel. 18: HIGH: Use this control to adjust the high frequency level of the Clean channel. 19: CD INPUT: Use these RCA jacks to connect the output from a CD player or tape deck to the amplifier. The signal at these jacks is combined into a mono
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RING TIP RING TIP GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP The Rear Panel: 100VAC: T2.5A 250V EXTENSION DSP CHANNEL INSERT 120VAC: T2A 250V 230/240VAC: T1.25A 250V SPEAKER BANK A CLEAN CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE, BANK B SOLO/RTHM REPLACE FUSE WITH SAME TYPE AND RATING. ATTENTION: UTILISER UN FUSIBLE DE FOOTSWITCH RECHANGE DE MEME TYPE. 26 27 28 29 30 26: FUSE: The fuse protects the amplifier from damages caused by a faulty AC power source and/o
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP The DSP Section: The GTX65 features DSP controls for Multi, Delay and Reverb. Complete information about the Multi and Delay effects is given below. The Multi control selects the “pitch modified” and wah effects. Many of these effects have their speed controlled by the Save/Tap button. The Delay control selects the delay or echo effects. All of these effects have their speed controlled by the Save/Tap button. Additional information is provid
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP Storing Your Own Presets: Each channel of the GTX65 has two factory assigned DSP presets, as shown on pages 10 and 11. No matter what the settings of the DSP controls, the preset is recalled when a channel is selected. You may change the DSP settings by rotating the DSP con- trols - these changes will remain active until a different channel is selected, but will not be there for later use unless they are saved. To save a new DSP preset to a
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP Using the Footswitch for More Presets: The Crate three-button footswitch supplied with the GTX65 allows access to an addi- tional DSP preset for each channel of the amplifier. When the footswitch is connected to the amplifier as shown below, the “original” DSP presets are active for each channel when the #3 footswitch LED is illuminated. These are referred to as “DSP Bank ‘A’.” When the #3 button is switched and the LED is out, a second DSP
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP DSP Factory Presets: The GTX65 Factory Presets for the DSP section are as follows: Factory Preset 1: Clean w/Chorus, Delay,Reverb CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo MEDIUM CLEAN TAP Tempo MEDIUM BANK: "A" "B" Factory Preset 2: Rhythm w/Slapback Delay CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo FAST CLEAN TAP Tempo N/A BANK: "A" "B" Factory Preset 3: Solo w/Flange,Delay,Reverb CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo MEDIUM CLEAN TAP Tempo MEDIUM BANK: "A" "B" 1
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP DSP Factory Presets: The GTX65 Factory Presets for the DSP section are as follows: Factory Preset 4: Clean w/Reverb CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo N/A CLEAN TAP Tempo N/A BANK: "A" "B" Factory Preset 5: Rhythm w/Reverb CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo N/A CLEAN TAP Tempo N/A BANK: "A" "B" Factory Preset 6: Solo w/Reverb CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo N/A CLEAN TAP Tempo N/A BANK: "A" "B" 11
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP Suggested Settings: TAP Tempo MEDIUM TAP Tempo N/A "Haze Faze" Rhythm with Phase & Reverb OUT IN TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A "Solo Wah" Solo with Wah, Delay & Reverb IN IN TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A "Octanator" Solo with Octave & Reverb IN IN 12
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP Suggested Settings: TAP Tempo MEDIUM TAP Tempo N/A "Haze Faze" Rhythm with Phase & Reverb OUT IN TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A "Solo Wah" Solo with Wah, Delay & Reverb IN IN TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A "Octanator" Solo with Octave & Reverb IN IN 13
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP DSP “Fill in the Blanks” (User Settings): Copy this page to fill in your own DSP Presets! User Preset: _________________________________ CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo __________ CLEAN TAP Tempo __________ BANK: "A" "B" User Preset: _________________________________ CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo __________ CLEAN TAP Tempo __________ BANK: "A" "B" User Preset: _________________________________ CHANNEL: SOLO RHYTHM TAP Tempo __________ C
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP System Block Diagram: BUFFER INPUT CLEAN CHNL VOL LOW MID HIGH SOLO-RTHM/ CLEAN SELECT SOLO RTHM SOLO SOLO SWITCHING LEVEL CIRCUIT RTHM SOLO RTHM SOLO/ RTHM SELECT RTHM SOLO RTHM SHAPE LOW MID HIGH LEVEL GAIN GAIN MIX AMP INSERT REVERB POWER AMP TAP SPEAKER MULTI DELAY CD INPUT EXT. SPEAKER DAMPING CIRCUIT 15
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GTX65 Three-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Advanced DSP GTX65 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Output Power Rating 65W RMS @5% THD, 8Ω , 120 VAC Speaker Size and Rating (1) Custom Design 12”, 8Ω Input Impedance 470kΩ Total System Gain Solo Ch 110dB, all controls @10 Rhythm Ch 88dB, all controls @10 Clean Ch 58dB, all controls @10 CD Input 29dB Maximum Input Signal Accepted 7 volts peak-to-peak Solo Channel Shape Control Proprietary Circuit Rhythm Channel Low Control 20dB range @ 80Hz Mid Control 15dB ra
