Hughes WARP7 manual Channels of the Warp, Clean

WARP 7 - MANUAL

1.0 THE CHANNELS OF THE WARP 7™

What’s so special about the design of the WARP 7™ circuitry?

Well, there are two new wrinkles particularly worth noting:

1)The preamp is optimized for the signal and frequency response of detuned guitars. The WARP 7™ just starts to unleash the brunt of its sonic fury at frequencies other amps can’t even begin to render. This big bad beast likes the taste of detuned riffs best, so be sure to feed it regularly!

2)WARP 7™ sports two channels that are, sonically speaking, polar opposites: ultra clean vs. roaring high gain tone. And that calls for closer examination:

CLEAN:

The CLEAN channel delivers razor-sharp tone piercing enough to stop a charging rhino in its tracks at a hundred paces. The signal remains distortion-free even at a very high volume. Not until the Volume knob is cranked to the hilt will the amp begin to bare its teeth with a hint of snarl. Nice but nasty are the adjectives that come to mind.

Now what’s so remarkable about that? In a nutshell, you can lather the wildest and weirdest effects on your guitar signal and it will still cut through loud and clear, with enough punch to put the rest of the band’s instruments in their place. Say goodbye and good riddance to those wimpy, washed-out sounds. Now you can play with the big boys’ toys - hip vibe, roto and tremolo effects of the variety used by the headlining acts - and still be heard at denture-rattling volume levels.

WARP:

CAUTION! This is the WARP 7™’s sonic heart of darkness. This channel offers the kind of earsplitting high gain sound that you have come to know and love from your fave CDs. Its distortion can be best be described as a throaty rumble - picture a genetically engineered, steroid-addled lion with an attitude problem. Depending on the setting, it delivers a nasty nu metal thump, post-grunge growl, alternative snarl or the doomsday thunder so cherished by devotees of death and Goth metal. The Presence knob tweaks the upper mids to suit each genre. Case in point: Gain all the way up, Bass cranked, Mid and High to 12 o'clock positions, Presence to 11 o'clock – presto, there’s that trademark "Bizkit" sound. Now you have some idea of what the WARP 7™ is able to deliver in terms of tone. But there’s more to it than that - you’ll find truckloads of our trademark Technology of Tone in the various connectors, buttons and knobs as well. And that’s our cue to look at these in detail:

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