Amptweaker Tight Drive Manual

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Thanks for purchasing your new Bass TightDrive™

Welcome! Thanks for purchasing your

pedal, another Amptweaker™

pedal, the ﬁrst Amptweaker™ handmade product

designed with

designed with consumersʼ advice. Iʼve received many

product ideas and feature suggestions, and the result

is a specially tweaked overdrive that solves many of

the problems bassists with many production pedals. I

hope you enjoy jamming through it and ﬁnding

different ways it can help enhance your tone. Keep

those ideas coming!

Cool Ideas:

• True Bypass switching–buffered when pedal is ON

• Tight Attack control lets YOU dial in the chunk

• Gain, Tone, Volume controls, OK–these arenʼt special

• 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

• Magnetic sliding battery access–no tools required

• 14 Ga. steel chassis–––so you can stomp it

good tone comes from tweaking ...

James Brown,

Amp Engineer

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Page 1 ... Thanks for purchasing your new Bass TightDrive™ Welcome! Thanks for purchasing your pedal, another Amptweaker™ pedal, the ﬁrst Amptweaker™ handmade product designed with designed with consumersʼ advice. Iʼve received many product ideas and feature suggestions, and the result is a specially tweaked overdrive that solves many of the problems bassists with many production pedals.
Page 2 How does the work? Tone–high EQ, set low for Volume–a Master a smoother tone when Volume, you set it overdriving a tube high for clean boost or use to balance to bypassed levels Gain–adjusts the pedalʼs distortion. For a cleaner boost turn this down and Output Jack–...
Page 3 EFX Loop Switch–selects Pre(before) or Post(after) distortion position for the Loop. Compressors sound best on Pre, while Delays & Reverbs sound better on Post LEDs–light up the knobs if an adapter is used Battery Door– The battery door is held Battery Switch–...
Page 4 • To add some dry full range bass, use an auxiliary mixer with one input connected to the Send..which turns off with the TightDriveʼs footswitch. good tone comes from tweaking . . . Amptweaker, LLC, P.O. Box 387, Batavia, OH 45103 handmade in USA www.amptweaker.com ©2010 Amptweaker, LLC...