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- Page 1 P a g e VICTORY VC35 ‘The Copper Deluxe’ All Valve 35 Watt Guitar Combo User Guide...
- Page 2 A canvas dust cover This User Guide, (please check the website periodically as these owner’s manuals are constantly being updated to give you more information about your Victory product). The issue number can be found on the back page of this manual.
- Page 3 P a g e FRONT PANEL (from right to left). INPUT Plug your guitar in here! GAIN This adjusts the input sensitivity. Use low settings for maximum clean headroom and higher settings when you want to introduce more natural valve overdrive to your tone.
- Page 4 P a g e MIDDLE Controls the midrange frequencies in your sound. Run the middle control higher to help cut through a band mix, or generally fatten and ‘widen’ your sound. Run it lower for a lighter, less ‘in-your-face’ kind of sound. TREBLE Controls the high frequency content of your sound and is also a powerful tone shaper when it comes to overdrive character.
- Page 5 P a g e the amplifier ON or OFF please ensure the Volumes are turned down and you leave at least 30 seconds before switching from PREHEAT to OFF. This will ensure extended valve life and avoid any power-down noise. This is especially relevant if you’re running through a large PA system as any small pop may become amplified to audience-damaging levels, which may limit your music career.
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Page 6: Bias Adjustment
1A fuse in the UK @ 230V, it will need to be a 2A fuse for the USA @ 115V). Always use the correct rating and type of fuse. Victory amplifiers exclusively use UL- approved 20x5mm glass ‘T’ or ‘Timed’ fuses. If you have difficulty acquiring the correct fuses, please contact Victory using service@victoryamps.co.uk. - Page 7 P a g e (known as dweezling) to ease them from their sockets. This will free them with the least amount of effort and stress. Ensure that the pins on the replacement valves line up with the socket holes in the valve base before pushing them firmly home. Take care when removing any valve as the pins can easily be bent.
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Page 8: Speaker Outputs
P a g e HT FUSE The HT or ‘High Tension’ fuse protects the high voltage for the valve supply. If this fuse blows, the first step is to replace it with an identical T500mA 20x5mm fuse. The HT fuse may sometimes blow due to ‘flash-over’ inside an output valve. This is where during the manufacturing process, not all of the gas is removed from the glass envelope and the ‘getter’... - Page 9 P a g e connected to a speaker cabinet of the designated load rating using an un-shielded two conductor cable for speaker use at all times during operation. Never use a guitar cable to connect the amplifier to a speaker as this presents the amplifier with a ‘capacitive load’.
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Page 10: Effects Loop
The Posidrive uses an 8-Blade screwdriver which allows for more precision and higher torque. Please try to use Posidrive Screwdrivers when working on a Victory amplifier to avoid damaging any fixings. These are readily available from all good tool suppliers. We recommend having a No.1 and a No.2-point Posidrive screwdriver. - Page 11 This allows you to really crank the amplifier up into output valve distortion to get big-stage overdrive without disturbing anyone. Victory takes no responsibility for any physical or verbal abuse that may result from your playing!
- Page 12 Victory service for advice and options. Notes on what to do if your amplifier experiences any strange behavior: From 7 years answering Victory service queries, by far the main issues that come up are valve-related. These are either premature valve failure, (minimal), valves that have worn out through extended use or have become microphonic or noisy over time.
- Page 13 Victory ‘burn-in’ all amplifiers for a period of 2 hours at full power into dummy loads to wheedle out any valves that are not up to the job. This is in addition to around 90 minutes of electronic and audio test &...
- Page 14 14 | P a g e Pre-amp valves: Poweramp Valves: Please make sure you don’t close these pins up fully or it will be difficult to replace the Valves.
- Page 15 A note from Team Victory We’ve built your Victory Amplifier as a professional, no-compromise musical instrument, with a great deal of pride and an absolute commitment to tone. We encourage you to learn to get to know it by experimenting with all the controls, in order to discover its vast array of tonal combinations.
- Page 16 16 | P a g e Hand Made in England Issue 1 14.01.2020...
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