IT ALL STARTS HERE
The Input Sensitivity of an amplifier, commonly referred to as GAIN, determines how much overdrive and
sustain your guitar will produce. Tonal balance, which we refer to as VOICING determines how the amp will
respond to your playing style and sound with a particular guitar. Like all amplifiers, the D120 has tone and gain
controls, but unlike any other amplifier the D120 gives you total control over VOICING and GAIN. This GAIN I /
GAIN II / MASTER VOLUME configuration is the key to dialing in the Deliverance sound and volume to your
specific requirements.
GAIN I increases the gain amount as you rotate the knob clockwise. As the gain increases, the tonal balance is
shifted from a treble and upper mid emphasis, which produces an up front sparkling tone, to a lower mid and
bass emphasis, which produces a thick meaty tone.
GAIN II increases the gain amount as you rotate the knob clockwise but with no alteration of the tonal balance.
Different combinations of GAIN I and GAIN II settings, will have a dramatic effect on the response of the
amplifier and the personality of your instrument. It is easy to get familiar with the action of these controls and
you’ll be amazed with your ability to make any guitar sound mellow, fat, soulful or aggressive.
The MORE / LESS switch activates or defeats a tube gain stage. The interesting and often overlooked benefit
of this switch is that you can use it in conjunction with the gain controls to tailor your tone as well as distortion
amount. For example, set GAIN I, GAIN II, MORE/LESS and MASTER VOLUME as shown in the photo above
and play for a few minutes. Now set these controls as shown in the photo below. Notice that the overall amount
of overdrive is approximately the same as it was but the tonal balance has shifted markedly from full and warm
to crisp and spanking.
As you will see, by experimenting with combinations of settings you can cover an awful lot of tonal territory
before you even begin to start thinking about tone control settings.
