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Published on 10/31/10 at 10:51100W tube amp (+ 4xEL34 2x12AX7)
4 channels: clean, crunch, lead, ultra
Trimmings equalizer: bass, middle, trebble, presence
master volume (valid for the setting (preset) and to create / adjust the relative volume of a preset to another
Knob gain with extreme position using extra boost
Effects:
Reverb
Controls delay time / feedback / v
Modulation: a single volume pot used for chorus, flanger, tremolo (change from one effect to another and increase the effect in the intermediate range.
128 presets accessible by 4 thanks to a MIDI pedal donnat also access the Tap Delay.
External effects loop: series or parallel with the possibility of +10 dB boost
Output 4 or 2x8 or 16ohm
A single guitar input (preamp) with possibility to use the loop as the second entry entry but only amplification.
HP: 2x12 "Eminence rockdriver
UTILIZATION
What is best:
Hughes & Kettner sound very rock lamps with its already very thick outer channel Ultra without distortion. in all cases it is deep, wide and clean.
The clean channel is a bit cold but I was wrong with my regular deluxe reverb amp 67 on the subject.
The crunch channel is good but crunch may be a little faster.
The lead channel is really the most expressive.
Programming is very simple. and change can be coupled to the preset potential of an external footswitch (tested positive with a POD XT). For over a year I used no other effect.
The preset switching is very fast and without any delay switch so no problems to use.
This is a super comfortable use (see also below).
The combo gives a good range with very low round and very present.
At power is simply enormous. I've never used more than 4. It grows strong from the outset (see also the cheapest)
What prevails for this amp is simplicity and versatility. It almost happened a while a nickel. Almost .... not quite.
Look at it very well finished, attractive, well balanced.
What is less so:
The weight and size: it is very heavy and has a volume so that my problem for me. It is limited to transportation. Attention to the back (and hands).
The reverb and delay effects are very good and fully usable, but the modulation as proposed and practically unusable (settings are nonexistent and the race one pottard splitters into three effects)
It blows with a gain donf and chorus, it blows a lot. Noise gate to predict.
The power coming very quickly, too quickly. It seems that the knobs are actually a set of positions distributed on the race. CA is not a concern for all settings except for the volume. The potato is right there which makes it difficult to use at low volume. The killer is right there.
Modulation effects + no noise gate that we are past ready at all without hitting one. Given the developments of his successor, I am not alone in sharing these limits. The new baby H & K features these and other developments that I have not tested.
Then there is that other effects may be necessary but right here there is really no limits. Mr. H & K is still a good compressor and it is there.
problems: cable, switches, etc. ...).
Reliability problem of the pedals (many sources of errors.) I also had this trouble but he was replaced very quickly and since it runs at full blast.
I remain very satisfied until I use it mainly
SOUNDS
with my Musicman Luke guitar at its very wide and very precise with my Fender or U.S.. It fully respects the color of the two guitars and the food good value.
It has a very good sustain and is very very accurate. All the nuances of the game are evident (the bread for that matter). We are on a really good lights. Opinion
OVERALL OPINION
very favorable because of all the listed anymore. It's a big baby with a potato and a real hell of a lamp. Too bad few small defects persist and do not really consider it as an all in one.
If it has a very good pedal noon (like TC Electronics G System) I think it should do really.
4 channels: clean, crunch, lead, ultra
Trimmings equalizer: bass, middle, trebble, presence
master volume (valid for the setting (preset) and to create / adjust the relative volume of a preset to another
Knob gain with extreme position using extra boost
Effects:
Reverb
Controls delay time / feedback / v
Modulation: a single volume pot used for chorus, flanger, tremolo (change from one effect to another and increase the effect in the intermediate range.
128 presets accessible by 4 thanks to a MIDI pedal donnat also access the Tap Delay.
External effects loop: series or parallel with the possibility of +10 dB boost
Output 4 or 2x8 or 16ohm
A single guitar input (preamp) with possibility to use the loop as the second entry entry but only amplification.
HP: 2x12 "Eminence rockdriver
UTILIZATION
What is best:
Hughes & Kettner sound very rock lamps with its already very thick outer channel Ultra without distortion. in all cases it is deep, wide and clean.
The clean channel is a bit cold but I was wrong with my regular deluxe reverb amp 67 on the subject.
The crunch channel is good but crunch may be a little faster.
The lead channel is really the most expressive.
Programming is very simple. and change can be coupled to the preset potential of an external footswitch (tested positive with a POD XT). For over a year I used no other effect.
The preset switching is very fast and without any delay switch so no problems to use.
This is a super comfortable use (see also below).
The combo gives a good range with very low round and very present.
At power is simply enormous. I've never used more than 4. It grows strong from the outset (see also the cheapest)
What prevails for this amp is simplicity and versatility. It almost happened a while a nickel. Almost .... not quite.
Look at it very well finished, attractive, well balanced.
What is less so:
The weight and size: it is very heavy and has a volume so that my problem for me. It is limited to transportation. Attention to the back (and hands).
The reverb and delay effects are very good and fully usable, but the modulation as proposed and practically unusable (settings are nonexistent and the race one pottard splitters into three effects)
It blows with a gain donf and chorus, it blows a lot. Noise gate to predict.
The power coming very quickly, too quickly. It seems that the knobs are actually a set of positions distributed on the race. CA is not a concern for all settings except for the volume. The potato is right there which makes it difficult to use at low volume. The killer is right there.
Modulation effects + no noise gate that we are past ready at all without hitting one. Given the developments of his successor, I am not alone in sharing these limits. The new baby H & K features these and other developments that I have not tested.
Then there is that other effects may be necessary but right here there is really no limits. Mr. H & K is still a good compressor and it is there.
problems: cable, switches, etc. ...).
Reliability problem of the pedals (many sources of errors.) I also had this trouble but he was replaced very quickly and since it runs at full blast.
I remain very satisfied until I use it mainly
SOUNDS
with my Musicman Luke guitar at its very wide and very precise with my Fender or U.S.. It fully respects the color of the two guitars and the food good value.
It has a very good sustain and is very very accurate. All the nuances of the game are evident (the bread for that matter). We are on a really good lights. Opinion
OVERALL OPINION
very favorable because of all the listed anymore. It's a big baby with a potato and a real hell of a lamp. Too bad few small defects persist and do not really consider it as an all in one.
If it has a very good pedal noon (like TC Electronics G System) I think it should do really.