Your Amp Had An Accident; Designer Overdrive; A Place For Everything; Four Channels Up Front And A Stereo Back End - CARVIN QUADX User Manual

Quad X-Amp Quad X-Amp
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1.1 Your Amp had an Accident

Most tube amps have a decent overdrive sound only by accident. That's right, by accident.
Those vintage Fender and Marshall amps were never designed to be used for overdrive. Players
in the '60's turned there amps up too far and found a new sound. Most amps have changed very
little since then. Check the history books. It's true.

1.2 Designer Overdrive

Here's a crazy idea . . . .What if somebody actually tried to design a tube amp for the wildest
overdrive sound ever imagined? Well now they have, it's called the Quad X-Amp and it's only
available from Carvin.
Designed to be the ultimate guitar tone generator the Quad X-Amp provides powerful new tone
generation circuits. Ever heard of the Tube Cascade™? Not yet maybe, but you will . . .
Carvin's newly designed Tube Cascade™ circuit milks all the tone possible out of those little
glass goodies called tubes. Imagine a zillion lightning bolts shredding the night sky and
powering you through your next gig. You have to hear this amp.
1.3 A Place for Everything — 6 Effects Loops!
Let's face it, the guitar effects that were hip yesterday probably won't be so cool tomorrow.
(time to dust off your wah-wah pedal again) Trendy effects just don't belong in your amp, they
belong outboard where you can swap them out as the trend or your own style changes. The
Quad X-Amp gives you access to all the effects in the world without committing you to any of
them. That's as it should be for an amp designed to take charge.
To make this happen the Quad X-Amp has six effects loops: One loop for each channel, one
stereo reverb side chain loop and one stereo master in-line loop. The reverb and master loops
are controlled via footswitch or front panel and their settings are remembered by the channels.

1.4 Four Channels up Front and a Stereo Back End

Four independently selectable channels (two clean and two overdrive) feed a stereo master
section to give you full access to stereo reverbs, stereo chorus effects etc. The stereo reverb loop
can be used to replace the internal mono reverb. The switchable master stereo loop lets you
connect in-line stereo effects like a stereo chorus for example. Each channel remembers whether
the reverb and master loops are on or off for that channel. Each channel has it's own dedicated
effects loop so that you can customize the sound of each channel as much as you like.
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