Egnater Armageddon Owner's Manual

Egnater Armageddon Owner's Manual

120-watt tube amplifier

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Owner's Manual
120-watt
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Summary of Contents for Egnater Armageddon

  • Page 1 ® Owner’s Manual 120-watt Tube Amplifier...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ® Greetings……….. I would like to personally thank you for choosing Egnater as your “Tone Partner”. Our goal is to provide you with the best tools we can to help you express yourself to the fullest. Your amplifier is an integral piece in your never ending “Tone Quest”. Our commitment to helping you achieve that goal is our passion.
  • Page 3: Armageddon Is Here

    ® The Armageddon is a 120 watt, 3 channel, fully MIDI capable, metal amp with the ISP Decimator built-in. Four premium 6L6 power tubes and six hand-selected 12AX7 pre- amp tubes fuel this goliath. The 3 distinct channels take you from pristine open clean to extreme high-gain metal crunch.
  • Page 4: Important Information

    ® IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please keep this instruction manual for future reference and for the duration of owning this Egnater Tweaker. Please carefully read and understand the instructions inside this user’s manual before attempting to operate your new amp. This instruction manual includes essential safety information regarding the use and maintenance of the Tweaker.
  • Page 5: Safety Precautions

    FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 1. READ INSTRUCTIONS – All the safety and operating instructions should be read CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove any cover. No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer before this product is operated. servicing to qualified service personnel only.
  • Page 6: Front Panel Explained

    ® 1) GUITAR INPUT: Plug your guitar in 8) CHANNEL 2 GAIN: This controls knob to push the channel into overdrive to here using a high quality, shielded instru- get some really raucous rock & roll crunch the preamp “drive”. Lower settings of the ment cable.
  • Page 7: Quick Start Guide

    Noise Reduction technology, The DEPTH sets the amount of CUT or play, switch to 60 watts (outside pair and it’s built into the Armageddon. Not BOOST while the LEVEL knob adjusts of power tubes only) or 120 watts (all four...
  • Page 8: Finding The Sound You Want

    ® TONE SETTINGS: CHANNEL 1 TONE SETTINGS: CHANNEL 1 ALMOST ACOUSTIC CLEAN (TRY CUTTING THE MIDRANGE IN THE MASTER SECTION FOR THIS TONE) CALIFORNIA CLEAN BRITISH CLEAN AMERICAN BLUES BRIT ROCK RHYTHM...
  • Page 9 TONE SETTINGS: CHANNEL 2 & 3 TONE SETTINGS: CHANNEL 2 & 3 CLASSIC BRITISH ROCK AMERICAN HEAVY ROCK METAL RHYTHM TRY USING THE MASTER MIDRANGE WITH DEPTH SET AT 1:00 DEATH METAL TRY USING THE MASTER MIDRANGE WITH DEPTH SET AT 10:00 SCREAMIN’...
  • Page 10: The Rear Panel Explained / Midi

    6) IMPEDANCE SWITCH: Set this speaker (the worst location) or even forgot- return cable. You can check this by switch- switch to match the Armageddon to the ten. By supplying a predictable, consistent ing the LOOP in and out and verifying there IMPEDANCE of your speakers.
  • Page 11: Rear Panel

    DIP SWITCH SETTINGS: you notice distortion and/or a loss of On the rear panel of the Armageddon, you will find a dip switch for setting up the tone. Most modern effects (including MIDI/channel switching parameters.
  • Page 12: Power Tube Bias Explained

    1) Turn the amp on, standby switch in have unique sonic and electrical charac- the PLAY position. All controls all the teristics. The Armageddon amplifier is way down. Turn the meter on and set for shipped with a quad matched set of 6L6...
  • Page 13 In a pinch you may continue of the bias adjustments are such that you figured out how to raise enough money to to use your Armageddon with somewhat should have not problem adjusting for just pay them to fix it. No more. The amp will reduced performance, even with shorted about any type of compatible tubes.
  • Page 14: Tech Talk: Sound Dispersion

    ® Tech talk tips: SOUND DISPERSION Ever wonder why your 4x12 cabinet sounds better when the drummer or bass player anyway, right? The best thing you stand off to the side? Did you consider why the pros you can do is to tilt your cabinets so that they are pointed mic a speaker from the edge instead of in the center? at your head.
  • Page 15: Tech Talk: Identifying Problems

    tech talk: identifying speaker or tube problems So you’re band is going on in an hour. different approaches to troubleshooting de- produce any sound which is why we are You’re setting up your gear and something pending on which symptom you encounter. talking about this here.
  • Page 16: Connecting Your Speakers

    ® Vengeance Head CONNECTING YOUR SPEAKERS Speaker Hookup To 8 ohm Set impedance mono input switch to 8 ohms 2x12 Always set the impedance switch to match the cabinet impedance. Here is some handy information. To determine the proper setting using mul- tiple cabinets of the same impedance, simply take the impedance of one cab divided by the number of cabinets.
  • Page 17: Armageddon Footswitch

    To preset the loop to come on with the channels, simply set The last cool thing about the Armageddon pedal is the appropriate mini toggles to the up position (as that it connects to the amp using a standard 3 pin shown above) and the loop will automatically come XLR type microphone cable.
  • Page 18: Armageddon Specifications / Tube Chart

    PTV1 - PTV4 = 6L6 Egnater Amplification is dedicated to product excellence and therefore continuously attempts to improve each and every model we manufacture. This ongoing process includes refinements in design, materials and workmanship which may result in products which...
  • Page 19: Personalize Your Settings

    PERSONALIZE YOUR SETTINGS TONE SETTINGS: YOUR OWN USE THESE TEMPLATES TO DOCUMENT SOME OF THE COOL SOUNDS YOU COME UP WITH. WE SHOULD ALSO MENTION SOME TIPS TO HELP GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE MYRIAD OF SOUNDS AND FEATURES. 1) USE THE MASTER MIDRANGE TO CUT OR BOOST. THINK ABOUT HAVING THE MASTER MIDRANGE IN A BOOSTED SETTING AND SWITCH IT OFF FOR YOUR RHYTHM TONES.
  • Page 20: Warranty & Contact

    Egnater or the return of the product to the customer. TUBES: Egnater warrants the original purchaser that the...

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