Owner`s manual

WELCOME TO HENNING AMPLIFICATION
Congratulations and thank you for choosing the Henning Cherry Bomb Guitar Amplifier!
At Henning Amplification, our mission is to design and build the finest tube guitar amplifiers for discerning
tone freaks. Hand built in the USA using the highest quality components and materials, our amplifiers sound
killer, look cool and are as durable and road ready as anything currently on the market.
The Cherry Bomb is a veritable “kitchen sink” of tone tools for gigging and recording musicians. It is a 100
watt tube amp that features two completely independent, footswitchable channels, each of which has
switchable gain modes and master volumes.
The PLEX channel is just what you might expect from the name and a lot more. With the channel’s
saturation switch in the center “off” position, you can get everything from sweet cleans to 60s/70s classic
rock tones. Set the gain up full in this channel and roll down your guitar’s volume and you’ll be blown away
by how the amp cleans up, even with higher output humbucking pickups. Another feature of the amp is the
channel jump switch, which simulates the external channel jumping commonly done with a certain late 60s
English guitar amp. Now play with the saturation switch. Moving it to the right adds a bit more gain and
compression putting you squarely in “Brown Sound” territory. Move the switch to the left and add even
more gain and compression. Now you’re in 80s hard rock/hair metal territory.
The ROD channel picks up where the PLEX channel leaves off adding another tube gain stage to get mean!
Eighties metal tones to more modern high gain metal tones are on tap here. Of course, you also get the
same 3-way saturation mode switch found on the PLEX channel, allowing tremendous flexibility in sculpting
YOUR ultimate tone. Singing lead tones and massive power chords can be dialed in when using the ROD
channel. The Cherry Bomb also features a footswitchable solo master volume in the ROD channel. You can
set it to provide a volume boost for live soloing and switch to that mode from either channel master.
The Cherry bomb also features global presence and density controls. Most guitarists are familiar with what a
presence control does (provides high frequency variable feedback in power amp section), but the density
control may be something they haven’t seen on an amp before. In simplest terms, it adds back low end
when the amp is played at low volumes. Turn up the Density control and you can still get the low end “feel”
of the amp at even “bedroom” volumes. Pretty cool, huh?
Of course, we didn’t stop there. The Cherry Bomb also features a footswitchable, tube-buffered effects loop
so you can add your time-based effects after the gain stages of the amp where they belong. You can
choose either series or parallel mode for the effects loop, affording you the ultimate flexibility in how you
want to use pedal or rack mount effects. For folks who run their effects in stereo or wet/dry/wet with
additional power amps and cabs, the Cherry Bomb also has adjustable line out. Yup… we thought of
everything!
Finally, the amp also features another, overall master volume. We’re going to get a little techy on you here,
but bear with us, because this is one of the coolest features of the Cherry Bomb. This master volume is
actually a post-phase inverter master volume design (PPIMV). We feel that this design provides the best
tones you can get for lower volume playing. You’ll get great sounding tones with this master all the way
down to “bedroom volumes’. Crank the channel masters up and turn the overall master down to the volume
level you’d like to play at and you’ll see that the overall master also adds some perceived gain and
compression to the tone. Experiment with balancing different settings of the channel masters and overall
master to get the tone you’d like at the right volume for the room you’re playing in. Of course, cranking the
overall master up full takes it completely out of the circuit and you can just adjust the channel masters to
the appropriate volume.
While the amp has a lot of options and controls, getting familiar with the Cherry Bomb amplifier is easy, so
don’t be terribly surprised when you find yourself up and running in no time. It’s really easy to dial in great
tones in both channels and find your voice with it.