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conjunction with bass manufacturer ESH and German
bassist Peter Sonntag. It has been fine-tuned to meet
the requirements of demanding bass players. The
BATT

is a compact“Bass Sound Machine” which
enables you to obtain great tube tone with the utmost
of ease. The tone controls are very effective and
precise, and the boost functions offer instanteanous
access

to several fundamentally different kinds of
sound. A full complement of connecting jacks make
the

BATT

ideal in a broad range of applications from

rehearsal to studio to stage.

CONTROLS AND CONNECTION JACKS

INPUT: The
input sensitivity of both are equal, and either can accommodate active or passive
basses. The front panel input has priority, i.e. Instrument Input 2 on the back is
automatically disconnected when the front panel jack is in use.

GAIN:
characteristics of the preamp tubes. At low gain settings the
with warmth and fullness, and at medium levels delivers a fairly raw rock punch.
From center settings onward, depending on the output level of the instrument
itself, the preamp tubes add more and more harmonic distortion, thus intensifying
the sound of the bass with characteristic tube overdrive.

MASTER: The MASTER control affects the overall output level of the signal at
the LINE OUT and INSTRUMENT OUT jacks (assuming the TUBE/BYPASS
switch in the back of the unit is in TUBE
OUT, which remains a constant line-level signal,

volume of which is controlled soley by the GAIN.

TONE: The control

entire frequency range

Left of center (range from 30 Hz to 150 Hz), the low end will be boosted by a

preset amount between + 4 dB to + 18

and the treble receive a slight boost. Roight of center (range from 3 KHz to 15
KHz) the high end receives an ever- increasing amount of boost ranging from + 4
dB

The gain potentiometer controls the input level and thereby the sound

to + 22

BATT

has two input jacks, on the front and one at the back The

position),

labeled

TONE is a “one-knob tweaker” which can

from

powerful “cellar-bass” to the most transparent highs.

dB. In

the center position both the bass

dB,

with a simultaneous reduction in bass.

BATT

imbues the bass

but does not affect the PA

nor

the SPEAKER

OUT, the

sweep the