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#Hughes and kettner tubemeister 36 Patch#
Another slight disappointment is the lack of a MIDI out/thru socket, which means the TM36 can only accept incoming MIDI patch change commands.Īll in, the TubeMeister is every bit as good on the inside as it is on the outside. There's no ground-lift switch, which would have been the hundreds and thousands on top of an already well-iced cake, but it's not a major inconvenience. The Red Box speaker emulator offers a balanced output for easy connection to PA or recording equipment. The significance of that is immense because you can seamlessly go from a fat clean sound using all 36 watts for maximum headroom, through a slightly compressed crunch tone on 18 watts, to a fully saturated lead sound with the master cranked up on five watts, or any combination.
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All of the TubeMeister 36's switched functions can be operated via MIDI, including the power soak.
#Hughes and kettner tubemeister 36 upgrade#
However, the most significant upgrade over the TM18 is the MIDI-in socket. The quality is typical of Hughes & Kettner's high standard all the boards are through-plated and they're stuffed with high temperature electrolytic capacitors and close tolerance metal film resistors for durability, consistency and low noise. There are a couple of smaller PCBs that appear to hold the MIDI and digital effects stuff. Inside there are two main circuit boards: one holds all the valve bases and most of the amp circuitry, the second accommodates most of the rear panel equipment. The TubeMeister 36 shares the same design format as its two smaller siblings with a robust steel chassis supporting two oversized transformers, four EL84 output valves and three 12AX7 preamp valves. All of the TubeMeister 36's switched functions can be operated via MIDI, including the power soak The most significant upgrade over the TM18 is the MIDI-in socket. We've already looked at the five-watt and 18-watt versions, now it's time to ogle the amp that threatens to fire a howitzer into the mid-priced head market - the TubeMeister 36.
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Hughes & Kettner may have come late to the game, but its German-designed and Chinese-built TubeMeister range has been one of the success stories of the last year, generating significant positive publicity across the real and virtual worlds.