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Topic: Hughes and Kettner Amps |
Greg Lambert
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Illinois, USA
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Allan Revich
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Victoria, BC
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Posted 30 May 2021 9:50 am |
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I owned their Tubemeister 36 for a while, before I started playing lap steel. It was well made, and sounded very good. I sold it only because I couldn’t mentally get past the blue lights. The built in attenuator and “Red Box†DI are big pluses. There are not many tube amps that be safely run with zero speaker load.
I opted for the 36 (now 40) because the 18/20 heads don’t include reverb. For some reason H&K does include reverb on their equivalent combos.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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Greg Lambert
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 4:13 pm
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| Allan Revich wrote: |
I owned their Tubemeister 36 for a while, before I started playing lap steel. It was well made, and sounded very good. I sold it only because I couldn’t mentally get past the blue lights. The built in attenuator and “Red Box†DI are big pluses. There are not many tube amps that be safely run with zero speaker load.
I opted for the 36 (now 40) because the 18/20 heads don’t include reverb. For some reason H&K does include reverb on their equivalent combos. |
Do these have plenty of clean headroom ? |
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Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 3 Jun 2021 8:53 pm
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| Greg Lambert wrote: |
| Allan Revich wrote: |
I owned their Tubemeister 36 for a while, before I started playing lap steel. It was well made, and sounded very good. I sold it only because I couldn’t mentally get past the blue lights. The built in attenuator and “Red Box†DI are big pluses. There are not many tube amps that be safely run with zero speaker load.
I opted for the 36 (now 40) because the 18/20 heads don’t include reverb. For some reason H&K does include reverb on their equivalent combos. |
Do these have plenty of clean headroom ? |
Clean headroom was less important to me in those days, so I don’t have a clear recollection anymore. I do remember that the clean was really nice on the clean channel, and the dirt channels got dirty immediately. I can’t remember how much volume I could get from the clean channel before it got some grittiness. |
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