Crate GX-65 Owner's Manual

OWNER’S MANUAL

Congratulations!

Y ou are now the proud owner of the Crate GX-65 guitar amplifier . This rugged ampli­fier delivers serious clean and distorted sounds through its premium 12” Crate Custom
speaker. Channel selection, Crate’s exclusive Shape circuit, and reverb on/off are con­trollable by the supplied three-button footswitch. An insert jack allows virtually noise-free
connection of your favorite effects.

Like all Crate products, your GX-65 is designed by musicians, and built using only
the best components. Extensive testing ensures you that this amplifier is the absolute
best it can be.

In order to get the most out of your new amplifier, we strongly urge you to go over
the information contained in this manual before you begin playing.

And thank you

for choosing

GX-65

GUITAR AMPLIFIER

1: INPUT: Connect your guitar here by means of
a shielded instrument cable.

OVERDRIVE CHANNEL: A high gain channel
giving you sounds from a slight edge to serious
overdrive.

2: GAIN 1: Gain 1 is active only when the Gain
Select switch (#5) is out. When active, this con­trol adjusts the amount of compression and dis­tortion from the amplifier. At far left, the sound
will have a thick compressed quality . As you turn
the control to the right the amount of distortion
increases. Gain 1 produces less intense distor­tion than Gain 2.

3: GAIN 2: Gain 2 is active only when the Gain
Select switch (#5) is depressed. When active,
this control adjusts the amount of compression
and distortion from the amplifier. At far left, the
sound will have a thick compressed quality. As
you turn the control to the right the amount of
distortion increases. Gain 2 produces more
intense distortion than Gain 1 .

4: SHAPE: Working in conjunction with the Gain
2 control, rotate the Shape control until you find
the sound you’re looking for. Rotating the control
counter-clockwise enhances the mid frequen­cies; rotating it clockwise enhances the low and
high frequencies. (This control is only effective
when Gain 2 is selected.)

5: GAIN SELECT: Use this switch to select Gain
1 (switch out) or Gain 2 (switch depressed). A
footswitch (#21) overrides this switch.

6: LOW: Use this control to adjust the low fre­quency output level of the Overdrive channel.
This control provides a range of 11dB at 80Hz.

7: HIGH: Use this control to adjust the high fre­quency output level of the Overdrive channel.
This control provides a range of 10dB at 10kHz.

8: LEVEL: Use this control to adjust the output
level of the Overdrive Channel. Use this control
along with the Gain and Shape controls (#2, 3 &

4) to create a wide variety of sounds.
9: CHANNEL SELECT: Use this switch to select

the Clean channel (switch out) or the Overdrive
channel (switch depressed). One of the triangu­lar LEDs beside the switch will illuminate to indi­cated which channel is selected. A footswitch
(#21) overrides this switch.

CLEAN CHANNEL: A normal gain channel
designed to give you crystal clear sounds.

10: LEVEL: Use this control to adjust the output
level of the Clean Channel.

11: LOW: Use this control to adjust the low fre­quency output level of the Clean channel. This
control provides a range of 22dB at 80Hz.

12: MID: Use this control to adjust the mid fre­quency output level of the Clean channel. This
control provides a range of 14dB at 600Hz.

13: HIGH: Use this control to adjust the high fre­quency output level of the Clean channel. This
control provides a range of 28dB at 10kHz.

14: REVERB LEVEL: Use this control to adjust
the amount of reverberation. In the full counter­clockwise position the output signal is “dry” (no
reverb); rotating the control clockwise increases
the amount of reverb. The reverb can be turned
on and off by means of a footswitch (see #22).

15: INSERT: Use this jack to connect an exter­nal effects device to the amplifier. Use a stereo
1/4” male Y -cord: ring = send, tip = return, sleeve
= ground. See the illustration on the panel to the
right for more information.

16: EXT. SPEAKER: Use this jack to connect an
extension speaker cabinet to the amplifier. This
jack is wired in series with the internal speaker(s)

GX-65 Amplifier