Guitar Amplifier with Digital Effects User’s Guide
Guitar Amplifier TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 The Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,5 The Bottom Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The DSP Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Storing Your Own Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Guitar Amplifier Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of the Crate RFX65 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 DSP presets in the amplifier’s non-volatile memory.
Guitar Amplifier The Top Panel: 19 MULTI PHASER EC VIB FLANGE CHORUS SOLO INPUT R O T SIN RHYTHM SOLO RHYTHM 1 2 GAIN SHAPE LEVEL 3 4 5 6 7 GAIN LOW MID HIGH 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 overdrive. 2: SOLO LED: This LED illuminates when the Solo channel is selected.
Guitar Amplifier 20 21 22 REVERB DELAY TAPE ECHO VIB 23 DSP POWER SAVE / TAP O SINGLE EFX CLEAN RHYTHM / SOLO CLEAN LEVEL 12 13 14 VOLUME LOW MID HIGH CD INPUT 15 16 17 18 24 25 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: MULTI: Use this control to select one of the fifteen “Multi” digital effects.
Guitar Amplifier The Bottom Panel: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. 27 28 29 30 31 27: FUSE: The fuse protects the amplifier from damages caused by a faulty AC power source and/or other problems. If the fuse opens, replace it ONLY with the same size and type.
Guitar Amplifier The DSP Section: MULTI REVERB DELAY PHASER TAPE ECHO The RFX65 features DSP DSP FLANGE VIB controls for Multi, Delay and O SAVE / TAP EFX T SINGLE Reverb. Complete information CHORUS R 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.
Guitar Amplifier Storing Your Own Presets: Each channel of the RFX65 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 controls - 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 channel, first make the desired DSP changes.
Guitar Amplifier Using the Footswitch for More Presets: The Crate three-button footswitch supplied with the RFX65 allows access to an additional 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’.
Guitar Amplifier DSP Factory Presets: The RFX65 Factory Presets for the DSP section are as follows: Factory Preset 1: Clean w/Chorus, Delay,Reverb MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER FLANGE CHORUS R REVERB DELAY ECHO VIB O T SINGLE TAPE DSP SAVE / TAP EFX TAP Tempo MEDIUM TAP Tempo MEDIUM Factory Preset 2: Rhythm w/Slapback Delay MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER FLANGE CHORUS R REVERB DELAY ECHO VIB O T SINGLE TAPE DSP SAVE / TAP EFX TAP Tempo
Guitar Amplifier DSP Factory Presets: The RFX65 Factory Presets for the DSP section are as follows: Factory Preset 4: Clean w/Reverb MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER FLANGE CHORUS R REVERB DELAY ECHO VIB O T SINGLE TAPE DSP SAVE / TAP EFX TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A Factory Preset 5: Rhythm w/Reverb MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER DELAY ECHO VIB FLANGE CHORUS R O T SINGLE TAPE REVERB DSP SAVE / TAP EFX TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo N/A Factory
Guitar Amplifier Suggested Settings: TAP Tempo MEDIUM TAP Tempo MEDIUM MULTI PHASER ECHO VIB FLANGE "Oceanic" CHORUS Clean with Vibrato, Delay, & Reverb SOLO R O T SINGLE TAPE SAVE / TAP RHYTHM CLEAN RHYTHM / SOLO CLEAN RHYTHM SHAPE DSP EFX SOLO GAIN REVERB DELAY LEVEL GAIN LOW MID HIGH LEVEL VOLUME LOW MID HIGH OUT TAP Tempo N/A TAP Tempo FAST MULTI PHASER "Super Funk" Clean with Wah, Delay, & Reverb CHORUS SOLO GAIN SHAPE DELAY ECHO VIB FLANGE R O T SINGLE T
Guitar Amplifier Suggested Settings: TAP Tempo MEDIUM TAP Tempo N/A MULTI PHASER Rhythm with Phase & Reverb CHORUS SOLO GAIN SHAPE R TAPE EFX RHYTHM CLEAN SOLO RHYTHM / SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN LEVEL GAIN LOW MID HIGH LEVEL MULTI PHASER "Solo Wah" SOLO DELAY ECHO VIB CHORUS R TAPE EFX CLEAN RHYTHM / SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN GAIN LOW MID HIGH LEVEL VOLUME MULTI "Octanator" SOLO DELAY ECHO VIB CHORUS R TAPE O T SINGLE HIGH REVERB DSP SAVE / TAP EFX RHYTHM CLEAN RHYTHM /
Guitar Amplifier DSP “Fill in the Blanks” (User Settings): Copy this page to fill in your own DSP Presets! User Preset: _________________________________ MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER FLANGE CHORUS R REVERB DELAY ECHO VIB TAPE DSP SAVE / TAP O T SINGLE EFX TAP Tempo __________ TAP Tempo __________ User Preset: _________________________________ MULTI CHANNEL: BANK: SOLO RHYTHM CLEAN "A" "B" PHASER FLANGE CHORUS R REVERB DELAY ECHO VIB TAPE DSP SAVE / TAP O T SI
Guitar Amplifier System Block Diagram: TUNER A BC D EF G BUFFER INPUT CLEAN VOLUME LOW MID SOLO RHYTHM RHYTHM SOLO SOLO HIGH SOLO/ RHYTHM/ CLEAN SOLO LEVEL SWITCHING CIRCUIT RHYTHM SOLO/ RHYTHM SOLO GAIN RHYTHM GAIN SHAPE LOW MID HIGH RHYTHM LEVEL MIX AMP INSERT REVERB POWER AMP MULTI DELAY TAP SPEAKER CD INPUT EXT.
Guitar Amplifier RFX65 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 Rhythm Ch Clean Ch 110dB, all controls @10 88dB, all controls @10 58dB, all controls @10 CD Input 29dB Maximum Input Signal Accepted 7 volts peak-to-peak Solo Channel Proprietary Circuit Shape Control Rhythm Channel Low Control Mid Control High Control 20dB range @ 80Hz 15dB range @ 1kHz 20dB rang
