Crate Amplifiers owner manual About the GT-80D, Features Overview

GT-80DQuadraDrivetm

ABOUT THE GT-80D:

The Crate GT-80D QuadraDrivetm with Digital Sound Processing is truly unique and versatile, offer- ing you more performance and flexibility than any other compact amplifier.

Start with two completely separate preamp stages: Solid State and Tube. Then add the two channels: Clean and Overdrive. Put them together and you have your choice of some of the hottest contemporary sounds and the coolest vintage sounds available. For example, Solid State Clean gives you “today’s sound:” crisp highs and an ultra-tight bass response, while Tube Clean offers you that vintage tube sound, from ultra-clean to a bluesy crunch. Solid State Overdrive gives you all of the traditional Crate Mega-Gain hard rock sizzle and fire, with lots of definition and compression, and Tube Overdrive starts with a bluesy crunch and can deliver everything up to screaming, tube-driven lead distortion with plenty of sustain and total tone control.

But that’s not all. Now add Crate’s easy to operate Digital Sound Processing, with 31 preset effects including a variety of delays, backwards sampling, gated outputs and reverbs. Select an effect for each of the four preamp and channel combinations and the amplifier will “remember” each setting and recall it as you switch between preamps and channels. Add a footswitch and you can preset TWO settings per pre- amp/channel choice, for up to 8 instantly accessible effects. And the GT-80D’s memory is “non-volatile” which means that once you enter your settings, they’re in the memory until you change them!

FEATURES OVERVIEW:

Given below is a quick overview of the GT-80DSP’s features and controls:

•Two Completely Separate Channels: Independent Gains, 3-band EQs, and Levels.

•Four Gain Controls: Tube Overdrive, Solid State Overdrive, Tube Clean, Solid State Clean.

•Digital Sound Processing: A wide variety of digital reverbs and effects. The ability to store settings for each of the four channel/preamp combinations. Footswitchable, with 2 settings per combinations.

•Tube Driven Mosfet Power Amplifier: Crate exclusive. No traditional solid state output devices means no chance of harsh “square wave” distortion.

•Total Footswitch Control: Channel and Preamp selection. Digital effects control.

•External Speaker Jack: Series connection means no chance of overloading the amplifier. Standard 1/4” mono phone jack.

•Effects Loop: 1/4” Line Out/Line In jacks. Allows external signal processor connection. Allows direct connection to external amplifier, mixer, recording console or whatever.

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