Blumentritt Amplification
Texas Tone Ranger Owner's Manual
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The Texas Tone Ranger
While the Texas Tone Ranger is inspired by the dynamic performance of the Marshall 18 Watt, the
Ranger has actually very little in common with that great amp besides the chassis and cabinet. We have
added some unique touches and modern safety and construction methods.
Vintage tube guitar amplifiers suffer from outdated electrical grounding methods. Texas Tone
™
guitar
amps feature modern grounding techniques and three-prong electrical plugs for safe, low-noise
operation. Many amps from the 1950s also have very little clean headroom. Special features allow the
Texas Tone Ranger extra headroom when needed, or total tube amp distortion. This allows the guitarist
to get that sweet and creamy tube crunch, or to tame those vintage sounds, depending upon the control
panel settings.
The Texas Tone Ranger features two independent channels and controls. Both channels are augmented
by shielded inputs and a shock-mounted first-stage preamp tube. The left-side vintage channel features
the unique Texas Tone
™
Hi-pass/Low-pass Tone control that provides tone enhancements without
affecting the volume control. This channel provides a single gain stage with a traditional mid 1960
’
s
tube amp
“
clean
”
sound that can be cranked for tube amp crunch without being too loud for smaller
venues, studio use, or practicing at home, and is very pedal friendly.
This right-side channel
’
s gain stage is followed by a Gain control for the unique tone stack that is
responsive and low loss, with Treble and Bass controls, with by a Volume control before the phase
splitter. By adjusting the Gain and Volume controls, the guitarist can get anything from clean and loud
to smooth overdrive.
From clean to dirty, this amp allows you to remain in control of your sound; you will be surprised at the
variety of tones you can achieve with this amp.