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control. Higher settings of the GAIN control will give you more distortion and sustain. It
will have enough gain for most lead work with a nice balance of punchy percussiveness.
This setting also cleans up nicely when you roll back your guitar’s volume.
VOICING H: This switch sets up the BONES with 4-12AX7 preamp gain stages. This
setting gets you into the soaring modern high gain tones. Placing the BOOST switch on
adds even more gain and thickness. The BRIGHT switch adds the cut and teeth to the
tone and as stated above, is dependent on the GAIN control setting. Higher settings of the
GAIN control with the BOOST and BRIGHT switch ON, will bring in a singing lead
tone with the perfect balance of compression without losing note definition. Setting the
GAIN control to 12 o’clock with all the switches on, tone stack as you wish, DEPTH at
11 o’clock, PRESENCE at 2 o’clock, and MASTER volume at 3 o’clock gives you a
seriously vicious rhythm and lead tone in one that really hits you in the chest.
DEPTH, PRESENCE & MASTER: These are controls for the power amp section of the
BONES. The DEPTH control should be used sparingly to keep the amp’s bass response
tight. Higher settings will give you a looser low end tone. The PRESENCE control from
the off position to 1 o’clock will give you an imaging effect. Higher settings will give
you a sharper focus for extra cut. As the MASTER is turned up, it will affect the DEPTH
and PRESENCE. It is best to think of them all together when making adjustments as they
are interactive.
As you can see, by experimenting with combinations of the control settings plus all the
different output tubes that the BONES can accept, you can cover an astonishing array of
tones. To embellish this entirely new found tonal palette, let’s move on to the optional
FX Loop.
FX LOOP
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This all-tube, full audio bandwidth effects loop is designed to be completely transparent.
You can use stomp box pedals or rack effects in this loop. Set the FX LOOP switch to the
OFF position for remote switching. Even though the loop is completely transparent, the
purists can have peace of mind knowing that when the FX LOOP switch is OFF, it is
completely taken out of the signal path via relay. This loop allows you to operate it as a
series or parallel effects loop via the SERIES/PARALLEL switch.
SERIES FX LOOP:
This basically works as an insert patch point. The SEND jack plugs into the effects unit’s
input jack. The RETURN jack plugs into the effects unit’s output jack. The audio path of
the amplifier is interrupted and 100% of the signal is being sent to the SEND jack. It must
be noted that when nothing is plugged into the SERIES selected FX LOOP and the FX
LOOP switch is in the ON position, no sound will be heard out of the speakers. You must
complete the audio path with an effects unit or patched instrument cable. The S.LEVEL
control is used to adjust the amount of signal being sent to an effects unit. With stomp
box pedals there are usually no input level indicators. In this case you will have to use
your ears to set the S.LEVEL. Set the S.LEVEL up to the maximum setting just before
you start to hear the undesirable front end clipping of your effects pedal. This setting of
the S.LEVEL will usually be quite low for pedals. Setting the S.LEVEL for rack units is
