Genz Benz GBE 400 Technical Manual

1, - 1 - DESIGN PHILOSOPHY With many years of experience designing and manufacturing both bass guitar speaker cabinets and am- plifiers, it became obvious that there is a large market for a bass amplifier line that reproduces the natu- ral tone of the instrument itself, while allowing…

2, - 2 - TECHNICAL INFORMATION The first stage of the GBE 400 preamp uses a low noise bi-fet linear scaling amplifier with a 2 pole low cut point at 23 Hz to prevent excessive speaker cone excursion and intermodulation distortion. Addi- tional bandwidth roll-off is provided at 20 kHz for RFI s…

3, - 3 - With the switch in the active position, the preamp presents a lower gain and input impedance which is tailored to active pickups. An active pickup is, for all practical discussions, any pickup that uses pre- amplification between the pickup element and the amplifier input. The purpos…

4, - 4 - On the processing unit, you will use the mixed signal output to return the signals (both wet and dry) to the return jack on the amplifier. The ratio between the wet signal and the dry signal is heard as the amount of effects added back to the original signal, which is controlled by the mix…

5, Genz Benz GBE 400 - 5 - The output level is nominal line level (adjustable between -50 and -10 dB), pin 2 hot. This output is fully protected from the effects of phantom power provided by the mixing console and does not require phan- tom power to operate. Output Jacks — The GBE 400 features …

6, - 6 - THREE YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY TRANSFERABLE Genz Benz warrants the GBE 400 speaker enclosures and electronics to be free from defects in materi- als and workmanship, for a period of 3 years from the date of purchase, when purchased from an au- thorized Genz Benz dealer. This war…