Amptweaker Bass tight fuzz Manual

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Thanks for purchasing your new Bass TightFuzz™

Welcome! Thanks for purchasing your

pedal, another Amptweaker™

pedal, the ﬁrst Amptweaker™ handmade product

designed with

desigded with your advice. The Bass TightFuzz is

based on consumersʼ requests for a more tweakable

fuzz box, with both Germanium and Silicon transistors.

Automatic biasing extends the range from very clean

tones to killer fuzz using a single Fuzz control. Keep

those ideas coming!

Cool Ideas:

• True Bypass switching–with special input circuitry,

works great with active pickups or other pedals in front!

• Dry Low control blends in dry lowend for big bottom

• Tight Attack control lets YOU dial in the chunk

• Fuzz, Volume, & Tone with 60ʼs-70ʼs Tone switch

• Germanium/Silicon output transistor switch

• Edge switch smoothes out the buzz

• Pre/Post selectable Effects Loop-tracks Bypass Switch

• Battery On/Off switch with red ʻDonʼt Forgetʼ indicator

• LED lit knobs when using a DC adapter

good tone comes from tweaking ...

James Brown, Amp Engineer

Tightfuzz™

Page 1 Thanks for purchasing your new Bass TightFuzz™ Welcome! Thanks for purchasing your Tightfuzz™ pedal, another Amptweaker™ pedal, the ﬁrst Amptweaker™ handmade product designed with desigded with your advice. The Bass TightFuzz is based on consumersʼ requests for a more tweakable fuzz box, with both Germanium and Silicon transistors.
Page 2 How does the work? Transistor SW–selects Germanium(warmer) or Tight– set Silicon(brighter/higher gain) output stage transistor higher for aggressive, Volume– Fuzz– adjusts Tone–EQ, chunky distortion distortion, while it adjusts highs attack or Volume, automatically up and down lower for a set for adjusts bias for to balance thicker, fatter...
Page 3 EFX Loop Switch–selects Pre(before) or Post(after) position of the Loop. Usually Compressors sound best on Pre, while Delays or Chorusʼ sound better on Post LEDs–light up the knobs if an adapter is used Battery Door– The battery Battery Switch– door is held This switch turns closed by a Effects Send &...
Page 4 • When using extremely high settings on the Tight control, you will likely need to increase your the Dry Low control. good tone comes from tweaking . . . Amptweaker, LLC handmade in USA 5885 Cumming Hwy, Suite 108-98 www.amptweaker.com Sugar Hill, GA 30518 ©2013 Amptweaker, LLC...