Hughes & Kettner ATS 120 Head

-Amp with tube preamp (2 lamps)
-100 Watt
Inputs and hi-lo
-2 Output into 4 ohms speakers
-Output and line out in Poweramp
-Effects loop
-D-sub input for footswitch

-3 Channels (clean / crunch / lead)
-2 3-band EQ, in a clean and 2nd for two other channels
-Function in bright clean and fat lead in lead
knob of-presence on the channel crunch / lead
knob fx-mix to address the presence of the effects loop
knob-master volume for the general
-1 Reverb with its knob (!)
Footswitch-clean-crunch-lead-reverb-fx

In short, a classic amp (I mean by not modeling ... etc) but complete.
In any case nothing ever failed me on this cattle!

UTILIZATION

At the config, c of the classic, although I do not see really the difference in clean with or without the "bright".
In addition, having a single EQ for the crunch and lead forces to edit the settings to switch from one to another.
Otherwise, the sound is easy to have.
For the manual, I bought OCCAZ not, but I was not missed.

SOUNDS

I play mostly metal, my influences ranging from Pantera and Metallica and Led Zeppelin Incubus, and for the distortion, I am filled by H & K: The lead channel is great!
I play it with a Yam 820 aes (NOT drop 6, a real skyscraper!) and disto a hit:
micro acute, sharp rhythmic thrash is a desire and micro severe, take a small solo bluesy side that I like (or DOWN to the COC).
What I love about this amp is the fact that the distortion is not metal but basically somewhere between hard rock and metal.
ah ... and artificial harmonic sound of thunder, friends ZAKK WYLDE, hello!

The clean sound is also very nice, I could fault only a slight crunch on the agreements, but it is perhaps Di Marzio pickups of yam ..
In addition, this small, clean sound a little fat is also its charm.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a couple of years I have this amp and it m has never disappointed.
I love the clean and lead, but uses very little crunch. may be it will come as I listen more and more blues ... Briefly, I digress
After the Peavey Bandit 112 (very good entry level amp, by the way), I am delighted to be dropped this OCCAZ sweats and certainly not regret my purchase.
ke on it has been better for more expensive, but this amp allowed me to enter the world of amps lamp without bleed me and giving me the sound I was looking for.
Increasingly, it is quite rare, which makes it even better.
For all these reasons, I would do in c that choice!

it is a hybrid transistor + 100w lamps for the rest everything has already been said ...

UTILIZATION

Do not worry about not need manual!

SOUNDS

Today it was perfect substitute "his cousin" a little later!
the clean sound is unbeatable! The crunch is good the distortion a bit less but I use it with a multi-effects no importance ....

OVERALL OPINION

20 years of loyal service after a multitude of combo lighter but without character
and the power supply broke down because of an error on my part arfff!
Unfortunately this beauty is not uncommon to replace the power supply damage the best amp I've ever had! but the series Attax (after generation) is not bad either!
I think the 200w stereo notement 2 bodies I just bought! hey hey!