Hughes and Kettner TubeMeister 18 Guitar Amplifier Head, 18 Watts

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Get 18 blistering watts of tube tone from the two 12AXs and two EL84s inside this lunchbox amp. A quad stage power soak gives you high gain at low volume.

For the TubeMeister 18 guitar amp head, Mr. Hughes and Herr Kettner packed all their know-how and over a quarter of a century's passion for tube amps into a remarkably compact chassis. Thanks to German engineering, it can go from a roar to a whisper, shaking the boards on stage, tingling spines in the studio, and raising goose-bumps in the still of night - even during silent recording.

Serving up three different sounds at the touch of a footswitch, the soulful Tube-Meister 18 is the go-to guitar amp for gigging. Its four-step power soak brings the sound of the big stage into small clubs and your own four walls. And courtesy of the built-in Red Box and silent recording capability, you can lay down pro-quality tracks at any time day or night.

Features:

- Warm tube tone with phenomenal dynamic range that sweeps from sparkling clean to throaty crunch
- Harmonically rich tube distortion and the gain reserves to go from edgy overdrive to soaring lead sounds
- Re-voices LEAD to summon modern high-gain sound that pairs plenty of punch with endless sustain
- Passive voicing section tweaked to evoke the best frequency response out of each channel
- Preamp section sporting two 12AX7 tubes
- Push-pull power amp that pumps out stage-approved 18 watts
- Oversized transformers with tons of headroom
- TSC-protected power amp featuring auto-bias and status LED
- Footswitch connection enabling remote channel switching and BOOST actuation
- Serial FX loop for adding eff ects-fl avored spice read more to the sonic stew
- Quad-stage power soak with silent recording capability
- Balanced RED BOX OUT with authentic speaker emulation
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- Channels: Clean, Lead + Boost
- Power: 18 Watts
- Power Amp: 2 x EL84
- Preamp: 2 x 12AX7
- Effects Loop: Serial
- Footswitch: FS-2 (optional)
- Switching Functions: Channels, Boost
- Speaker Output: 1 x 8-16 Ohms
- Dimensions: 355 x 155 x 150 mm
- Weight: 5 kg
- Protective Cover: Softbag included

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 716-297-2920

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (7 ratings)
Submitted February 24, 2016 by Timothy Nitz in Mechanicsville, VA

"Super little amp"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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Really researched out this purchase and was surprised at actually how small this unit is!! Love it....no more back aches. But in my research I read about the poor quality of the chinese tubes. Well, the unit did not sound bad when i test drove it, but I could not get it sounding like I wanted....really greasey, fat, dripping tube sound. Even some pedals i tried could not really get it there. Was considering a return, but then decided to follow some reviewers advice and changed the preamp tubes to JJs. WOW, what a freaking difference!!! I have some Mesa tubes on order and will try those too, but let me tell you, I am now totally hooked on this little amp. I am playing through two 10" open back cab and it really grooves out. Give this puppy a try with better tubes and you will love what you hear!!!

Musical Background:

40 years, mostly by myself, but have played in band and currently in a rockin' praise band

Musical Style:

rock, blues, Christian
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