Crate Amplifiers BLUE VOODOO BV-60 user manual

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Owner’s Manual for the
BV-60/BV-6212
All Tube Professional Series
Guitar Amplifiers
BV-60
BV-6212
®
by

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers Congratulations! Your love of performing and driving ambition to be the best have brought you to a turning point in your musical career: the incredible BV-60 or BV-6212 Professional Series guitar amplifier. An all-tube powerhouse of an ampli- fier designed to take you to the top and keep you there. We know something about you: we know you were never impressed with those "toys" that some of your friends called amplifiers. We know you wer

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers Introduction: The BV-60/6212 are all-tube, feature-packed professional stage performers' amplifiers. Rugged con- struction, reliable American craftsmanship and two powerful channels of pure tube power are some of the trademarks of these new and impressive pieces of musician's equipment. Both amplifiers feature two dis- tinctly different 12AX7 tube-driven channels: one with classic tube rhythm sounds and one offering you some of the fin

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers Channel 1 Channel 2 Reverb BRIGHT CHANNEL BOOST INPUT VOLUME LOW MID HIGH GAIN LOW MID HIGH MASTER REVERB PRESENCE STANDBY POWER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 The Front Panel: Channel 2: 1. INPUT: Connect your guitar or wireless 8. GAIN: Adjust the overdrive (distortion) level 14. REVERB: Adjust the amount of reverbera- receiver into this standard 1/4" jack using a with this control. With the control towards “0” (to tion wit

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers CAUTION MADE IN THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN U.S.A. RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE. AVIS:NE PAS OUVRIR BY SLM ELECTRONICS – 1400 FERGUSON AVE. – ST. LOUIS, MO. 63133 TW0 16 OHM TWO 8 OHM ENCLOSURES ENCLOSURES WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR U.S. PATENT # 5,012,199 ELECTRICAL SHOCK, SO NOT EXPOSE THIS EQUIP- MENT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE. CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE, REPLACE MODEL BV-60 FUSE WITH SAME TYPE AND AC LINE

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers Some Suggested Settings: SPARKLING CLEAN: Channel 1 Reverb Channel 2 BRIGHT CHANNEL BOOST VOLUME LOW MID HIGH GAIN LOW MID HIGH MASTER REVERB PRESENCE IN OUT BLUESY: Channel 1 Reverb Channel 2 BRIGHT CHANNEL BOOST VOLUME LOW MID HIGH GAIN LOW MID HIGH MASTER REVERB PRESENCE IN OUT METAL: Channel 1 Reverb Channel 2 BRIGHT CHANNEL BOOST VOLUME LOW MID HIGH GAIN LOW MID HIGH MASTER REVERB PRESENCE IN IN SINGING: Channel 1 Reverb Channel 2

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers A Word About Tubes: Vacuum tubes can only last so long. Allowing your amp to cool down before moving it will help prolong the life of the tubes. Even so, after about a year (or sooner if you're on tour or jammin' more frequently than most) you may notice the output of your amp just isn't as "alive" as it used to be. If the sound from your amplifier starts to grow weak, lacks punch, fades up and down, loses highs and lows, gets "funny" (

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® BV-60/6212 All-Tube Professional Series Guitar Amplifiers Technical Specifications: Output Power Rating 60 watts RMS nominal @ 5% THD Input Impedance 1M ohm Ch. 1 Ch. 2 System Gain 74dB 87dB Tone Controls Low 16dB range @ 100Hz Low 8dB range @ 100Hz Mid 23dB range @ 300Hz Mid 7dB range @ 700Hz High 25dB range @ 10kHz High 10dB range @ 10kHz Bright 5dB boost @ 5kHz Boost 13dB boost @ 1kHz Presence Control 5dB boost @ 10kHz Effects Send/Return Level 0.7V RMS nominal Balanced Out Level 0.4V RMS