Out of all the three amps i search for on youtube to hear clipsdemos of, the steve morse also consistently sounds the best. A dream of a tonegenerating machine, it goes from clean to mean and from a roar to a whisper. If i have forgotten anyone ill include it in the next video. It also lets you save presets to usb sticks for backup or sharing settings. Grandmeister 36 the unofficial guitar amp and cabinets forum for users of hughes and kettner products. The amps phenomenally versatile drive channel supplies the classic sounds of the early metal era, and the clean channel offering tons of headroom, r. Ive played through one at a shop a long time ago and fell in love with the cleans and huge distorted sounds i could get out of it. This beautifully engineered instrument came to be called the tubemeister. This bestofbothworlds mini monster is a 4channel, 40watt tube amp with three 12ax7 preamp tubes and four el84 power tubes. Discussion in amps and cabs started by rolltide05, aug, 2012. Below the stick button on coreblade s front panel youll.
Also, if youve heard both, how did it compare to the line 6 vetta amp. Two of the four channels are voiced to offer completely different highgain alternatives. Tube rotosphere has all the inspirational power of the legendary leslie cabinets. A premium 250watt acoustic amplifier built at the firms headquarters in sankt wendel, germany. In this video, pgs joe coffey introduces you to the hughes and kettner coreblade, while ty dietzler thousand foot krutch and misha. Rather than automatically switching over to the memory stick, the amp will continue. If you want to compare another product, please remove one of your earlier choices. But is the result frankensteins monster or a work of art.
Analog, 2 channels, onboard digital effects, plugs for effects channel, headphones and external effects loop. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. To access the sounds on the memory stick, all you have to do is press the stick button. Sure, theres the occasional thread, but on the whole it clearly isnt one of the darling brands of this forum.
Hughes kettner diagrams, schematics and service manuals download for free. I play through a boss metal core pedal and when it was hooked up to the grandmeister 40 i felt like the amp wasnt wasnt able to give me enough saturated distortion that was reminiscent in 80s hair metal bands. What ever happened to the hughes and kettner coreblade. Hughes and kettner switchblade kemper profiles reampzone. The stomp box mode allows you to switch channels directly, and to activate modulation effects, delay and boost independently. Seeing this as somewhat of an upgrade of the tubemeister 36 which i am currently using i cant help but think the midi on the tubemeister could have been implemented in a better way. For more guitar news, advice and interviews, and to find out more about the. Both inputs are freely assignable to remote control any.
Jeff waters has been cited by many metal musicians worldwide as an influence on their own music. Monsters of high gain hughes and kettner coreblade youtube. Jeff waters signature presets preset list plus two additional bonus banks with je. Created to deliver massive flexibility and oriented towards players needing worldclass high gain sounds, the coreblade offers huge controllability and a staggering features. Engineered in germany since 1984, their amps are the product of passion and seek to accomplish a singular task. They gained a lot of insight into preamp design though and some of the technology is apparently used on the very successful tubemeister series. The fsm432 mk iii midi board doesnt just serve to select presets. Free hughes kettner diagrams, schematics, service manuals. Coreblade automatically saves all internal presets into this folder when you copy presets from a stick to the amp, see user manual. The most eyecatching alteration from the mk ii is the new ergonomic shape of the diecast case. Packing a whopping 100 watts, the head delivers tough tone, devastating dynamics, and an explosive punch. Some of the parts contained in this kit are subject to availability. I started this series of post talking about how jeff waters with his annihilator changed my life about 20 years ago.
Or call us at 800 2224700 sweetwater s sales engineers are regarded as the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the music industry, with extensive music backgrounds and intense training on the latest products and technologies. It was founded in neunkirchen in 1984 and has been based in st. Monsters of high gain hughes and kettner coreblade duration. We unboxed the coreblade and were very impressedif not a little intimidated by its tough, mean appearance. Grandmeister deluxe 40, tubemeister deluxe 20, tubemeister deluxe 40, triamp mark 3, tubemeister 36 head. Chris laney has won two grammys and been nominated for several others.
Jan 29, 2010 the coreplade can memorize control settings, even though its a tubeanalog amp. Coreblade delivers tough tone, untamed dynamic response, and an explosive punch. If you think that perfection doesnt exist you probably never played through a coreblade. Hughes and herr kettner decided to pack all their knowledge and over a quarter of a centurys passion for tube tone into a remarkably compact amp. Hughes and kettner switchblade kemper profiles often times youll find an amp that slips under the rader for many reasons, in this instance it was due to timing. It just sounds the way i want to sound when compared to v30s, creambacks, celestion cl80s and cv75s, to mention a few. Engineered in germany, these amps are the product of a lifelong passion and pursuit of a vision to make great tone accessible for the discerning player. Coreblade saves sounds straight from the amp to a usb stick so touring artists can. I think specifically the way effects are integrated in the sound patch and the turning pots are part of that. In february 2010 chris laney got endorsed by rockstar energy drink.
The amp has a single channel plus overdrive, and weighs just 3. After much deliberation and comparing sounds with the help of youtube demos i think i am going to order a palmer cabinet with a 1x12 greenback 25 watt speaker. I do not remember exactly when, but several years ago, annihilator was touring italy and of course, i was at their concert. It looks and feels very much like a tank, with bars to protect the tubes inside, 15 beefy knobs, two sturdy switches, a red boost button, and six cool blue illuminated buttons to show the status of the noise gate and effects loop and to store and up or download. A whopping 100w, tough tone, unbridled dynamic response, and an explosive punch. Yes, i would like to receive emails with news and offers from musicians friend. The amps phenomenally versatile drive channel supplies the classic sounds of the early metal era, and the clean channel offering. Hughes and kettner describes its latest amp, the grandmeister deluxe 40, as the smartest alltube amp the world has ever seen and, here at guitar interactive, were inclined to agree. The hughes and kettner switchblade 100 head is a programmable four mode yes, four single channel amplifier head that features a singular eq with bass, middle, treble and presence controls. The head delivers 100 watts and combines brutal tone, untamed dynamics and explosive punch with amazing flexibility according to the company. Hi all, i am new here and a novice guitar player playing a bit of blues, jazz, classic rock. Im thinking about getting something to compliment my vht amp with a do it all kind of amp.
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