Hughes WARP7 - Manual (Page 6)

What’s so special about the design of the
WARP 7™ circuitry?
Well, there are two new wrinkles particularly worth
noting:
1) The preamp is optimized for the signal and
frequency response of detuned guitars. The
WARP 7™ just starts to unleash the brunt of its
sonic fury at frequencies other amps can’t even
begin to render. This big bad beast likes the
taste of detuned riffs best, so be sure to feed it
regularly!
2) WARP 7™ sports two channels that are, sonically
speaking, polar opposites: ultra clean vs.
roaring high gain tone. And that calls for closer
examination:
CLEAN:
The CLEAN channel delivers razor-sharp tone
piercing enough to stop a charging rhino in its
tracks at a hundred paces. The signal remains
distortion-free even at a very high volume. Not
until the Volume knob is cranked to the hilt will the
amp begin to bare its teeth with a hint of snarl.
Nice but nasty are the adjectives that come to
mind.
Now what’s so remarkable about that? In a
nutshell, you can lather the wildest and weirdest
effects on your guitar signal and it will still cut
through loud and clear, with enough punch to put
the rest of the band’s instruments in their place.
Say goodbye and good riddance to those wimpy,
washed-out sounds. Now you can play with the
big boys’ toys - hip vibe, roto and tremolo effects
of the variety used by the headlining acts - and
still be heard at denture-rattling volume levels.
WARP:
CAUTION! This is the WARP 7™’s sonic heart of
darkness. This channel offers the kind of earsplitting
high gain sound that you have come to know and
love from your fave CDs. Its distortion can be best
be described as a throaty rumble - picture a
genetically engineered, steroid-addled lion with
an attitude problem. Depending on the setting, it
delivers a nasty nu metal thump, post-grunge
growl, alternative snarl or the doomsday thunder
so cherished by devotees of death and Goth
metal. The Presence knob tweaks the upper mids
to suit each genre. Case in point: Gain all the way
up, Bass cranked, Mid and High to 12 o'clock
positions, Presence to 11 o'clock – presto, there’s
that trademark "Bizkit" sound. Now you have some
idea of what the WARP 7™ is able to deliver in
terms of tone. But there’s more to it than that -
you’ll find truckloads of our trademark Technology
of Tone in the various connectors, buttons and
knobs as well. And that’s our cue to look at these
in detail:
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1.0 THE CHANNELS OF THE WARP 7™
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