Owner’s Manual
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of the Crate GTX65 amplifier. This rugged amplifier combines outstanding features with serious clean and distorted sounds. An easy to operate DSP section lets you dial in a variety of digital effects including reverbs, delays, octave and wah-wahs – with a separate level control.
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking The Digital Signal Processor: Crate’s Digital Signal Processing offers 16 exciting digital effects, accessible through the DSP Mode control. The effects are described below.
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking The Front Panel: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1: INPUT: Use this 1/4” jack to connect your guitar to the amplifier by means of a shielded instrument cable. RHYTHM/SOLO CHANNEL: A high gain channel giving you sounds from a slight edge to serious overdrive. 2: RHYTHM GAIN 1: Use this control to adjust the amount of light distortion for the Rhythm/Solo channel.
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking The Front Panel: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 16: INSERT: Use this jack to connect an external effects device to the amplifier. Use a stereo 1/4” male Y connector: ring = send, tip = return, sleeve = ground. (Refer to the illustration at the bottom of page 5.) 17: EXTERNAL SPEAKER: Use this jack to connect the amplifier to an external speaker. This jack is wired in series with the internal speaker.
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking Suggested Settings: "Sweet 'n Clean" "Just a 'Lil Nasty" O "Pol "Octave Down 'n Dirty" "Wah Full H "Mean & Obscene" IN 6
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking System Block Diagram: INPUT CLEAN CHANNEL BUFFER CHANNEL SELECT LEVEL LOW MID HIGH FLEX WAVE STAGE RHYTHM/SOLO CHANNEL EQ SHAPE ACTIVE GAIN 2 LOW HIGH LEVEL GAIN 1 SHAPE MIX AMP DSP INSERT LEVEL POWER AMP SPEAKER MODE DAMPING CIRCUIT EXT.
GTX65 Guitar Amplifier with DSP & C hannel T racking GTX65 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Output Power Rating Speaker Size and Rating Input Impedance Total System Gain Overdrive Ch Clean Ch Maximum Input Signal Accepted Rhythm/Solo Channel Low Control Shape Control High Control Clean Channel Low Control Mid Control High Control Power Requirements Size and Weight 65W RMS @ 5% THD, 4Ω, 120 VAC (1) Custom Design 12”, 4Ω 470kΩ Gain 1: 88dB, all controls @10; Gain 2: 110dB 58dB, all controls @10 7 volts peak-to-pe
