Crate Amplifiers BV-50H user manual

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Owner’s Manual
for the
BV-50H
All Tube Professional Series
Guitar Amplifier
®
by

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier 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-50H guitar amplifier. A powerhouse of an amplifier 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 were holding out until someone offered you an American-made, affordable piece o

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier Introduction: The BV-50H is a feature-packed professional stage performers' amplifier. Rugged construction, reliable American craftsmanship and two powerful channels of pure tube power are some of the trademarks of this new and impressive piece of musician's equipment. This amplifier features two distinctly different 12AX7 tube-driven channels: one with classic tube rhythm sounds and one offering you some of the finest lead and overdrive sounds of any stock amplifier.

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier The Front Panel: Channel 2: 1. INPUT: Connect your guitar or wireless 7. GAIN: Adjust the overdrive (distortion) level 12. REVERB: Adjust the amount of reverbera- receiver into this standard 1/4" jack using a with this control. In addition to gain changes, tion with this control: at the "0" position the sig- shielded instrument cable. this control also modifies the tone. At low and nal is "dry" (no reverb). As you bring the control mid gain settings the overdrive is ver

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier 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 FUSE WITH SAME TYPE AND MODEL BV-50 AC LINE IN RATING. CH. SEL./ SEND RETURN ON

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier Some Suggested Settings: SPARKLING CLEAN: BLUESY: METAL: SINGING: 6

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier 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" (clanking sounds, etc.), it's very

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® BV-50H Guitar Amplifier Technical Specifications: Output Power Rating 50 watts RMS nominal @ 5% THD Input Impedance 1M ohm Ch. 1 Ch. 2 System Gain 66dB 95dB Tone Controls Low 16dB range @ 100Hz Low 6dB range @ 100Hz Mid 23dB range @ 300Hz Mid 13dB range @ 700Hz High 25dB range @ 10kHz High 12dB range @ 10kHz Presence Control 5dB boost @ 10kHz Effects Send/Return Level 0.7V RMS nominal Line Out Level 0.4V RMS nominal, unloaded Tube Complement 12AX7 (3), 6L6 GT/5881 (2) Power Requirements 115V 6