Wounded Paw BASS701 Owner's Manual

Wounded Paw

BASS701 Amplifier

Owner's Guide

The BASS701 is a compact but powerful bass amp with a TON of overdrive on tap and massive
flexibility to shape your tone. The pre-amp features a 6 band overdrive section that allows you to
carefully tailor the gain. The power amp has 700 watts of power to deliver that tone.

Features

• 6 Band Overdrive: In the overdrive section the instrument signal is split into 6 frequency
bands and each band goes through it's own overdrive channel, with separate Drive and Level
controls. Then all the overdrive channels are summed back together to form a harmonically
rich tone that still maintains the integrity of all the notes you're playing. There is a wide range
of drive that can be applied to each frequency band as well as adjusting the individual channel
volume.

• Effects Loop: The effects loop can be set to come before or after the entire overdrive
section or off completely, or on the clean channel independently.

• Select Footswitch: Select between Overdrive and Clean with either the included footswitch
or the Select toggle switch on the front panel.

• 700 Watt Power Amp: The class D power amp section can deliver 700 watts of power into
a 4 ohm speaker load.

• Balanced Line Outputs: A separate level control sets the output volume to the balanced
XLR and balanced/unbalanced 1/4” jacks to connect to mixing consoles or other amplifiers.

• Headphone Output: Connect headphones to use the amp for practice with a line in option
for playing along to recorded tracks.

• Universal Power: Can accept 100 to 240 Volts AC, 50 to 60 Hz.

• Compact Size: 12” wide x 3” tall x 9” deep.

Front Panel

In: 1/4” jack to connect to an instrument.

Standby: In the down position the amp is in standby mode and there is no output. In the up

position the red LED turns green and all the outputs are active. The tuner output is active in either
position.

-15dB Pad: In the down position this toggle switch attenuates the input signal by 15dB, for use
with active basses or instruments with very high output levels.

Overdrive Section

In the overdrive section the instrument signal input level is set by the Pre Gain control and then split
into 6 frequency bands covering the entire audio spectrum. Each band goes through a separate
overdrive channel with individual Drive and Level controls. Then all the overdrive channels are
summed back together into one signal. It's important to note that the overdrive channels are divided
by frequency on the input signal and the overdrive on each channel will be applied mostly to that
particular frequency band. The harmonics generated on each overdrive channel will go beyond that
frequency band and are retained as an integral part of the output tone.

Pre Gain: This sets how much of the clean instrument signal is sent in parallel to all the individual
drive channels which offers a quick way to alter the overall amount of overdrive. Turning the Pre
Gain down also slightly raises the output level of the entire Overdrive section to allow for full volume
at lower gain settings.

Drive Channels: Each drive channel has a Drive control which sets how much overdrive is applied
to that frequency range and a Level control which sets the volume of that channel in the overall
output of the Overdrive section.
The Low channel covers the bass end of the audio spectrum.
The four mid range channels are centered on 190Hz, 250Hz, 400Hz and 620Hz.
The High channel covers the treble end of the audio spectrum.

Treble: The treble controls works on the output mix of all those channels to tame the possibly huge
amounts of harmonics generated by summing all the overdrives together.

Effects Loop

The effects loop can be set to come before or after the overdrive section or turned off entirely using
the rotary switch labeled POST, OFF, PRE. The toggle switch next to it enables the effects loop on
the clean channel. The red LED indicates when the Effects Loop is in use either. The Send and
Return jacks are on the back panel.
In the Pre position the instrument signal is sent to the effects loop send and then the effects loop
return is sent directly to the overdrive section and finally to the Ovedrive Level control.
In the Post position the output of the overdrive section is sent directly to the effects loop send. The
effects loop return is then sent to the Overdrive Level control.
In the Off position the effects loop is not in the signal path. The overdrive section output is sent
directly to the Overdrive Level control.
On the Clean Channel, if the Effects toggle is on, the instrument signal is sent to the send of the
effects loop and the return is sent to the Clean Level control.