Laney Lionheart L20H Manual page 5

L20H FEATURES
5 - DRIVE: Sets the level of tube preamplifier drive or how dirty your sound is. This control
should be used in conjunction with the Drive Volume (6) Setting low levels of gain with high
levels of volume will give a clean preamplifier sound with tube output stage overdrive.
Setting a medium drive level and medium Drive Volume will give a nice crisp bluesy lead
tone, again with the ability to drive the output stage at higher Drive Volume settings.
Setting a high level on the Drive control and a low setting on the Drive Volume will give you
a punchy hard rock lead tone, with the ability to again drive the output tubes at higher Drive
volume settings. Having set the Drive and Drive Volume controls to your desired sound try
backing off your guitar volume and tone controls for lots of other cool sounds. Good tube
amplifiers have the unique ability to produce a wide range of sounds by using only your
guitar controls, playing weight and style.
DRIVE VOLUME: Sets how loud the 'Drive' channel is. It is useful to experiment with drive
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levels and drive volumes. If you want a very open, warm and semi overdriven sound try
reducing the amount of drive and increasing the drive volume. This reduces pre-amp gain
but pushes the power amp section and makes it work harder giving you a very desirable
level of power amp distortion which is a very pleasing "retro" style sound.
DRIVE SWITCH: Switch up to enable the 'Drive' channel. (This switch must be in the down
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(OFF) position in order for the drive to be switched remotely via a foot switch).
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DRIVE LED: This led will illuminate when the Drive channel is activated with the Drive
switch (8) or the included Laney FS2-MINI remote footswitch.
BASS, MIDDLE, TREBLE: These are a traditional set of passive tone controls. Passive
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controls have the advantage of always sounding musical at any of their settings mainly due
to their unique interactive nature. This gives players a more natural set of tools to create
their ideal sound. (Try them all set at midway (5) as a good starting point).
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