#Hughes and kettner 36 full
#Hughes and kettner 36 series

It spans from indie crunch to modded Marshall/JCM 800 territory, albeit with the aforementioned hi-fi note separation for a good frame of reference for the kind of sound I found most pleasing, listen to anything off of Leatherface's 2012 record 'The Stormy Petrel'. The crunch channel picks up from the smudged growl that the cleans can be goosed into themselves with the gain knob and jumps ahead into snarling, tight, Marshall-esque territory, but with a pin sharp clarity in chords that encourage suspensions and big open chord riffs, even with the gain in its higher reaches. But then I inserted earplugs and went up to 5w, and this trepidation evaporated. The sounds, while usable, were a little muffled and buzzy. Moving on to the Crunch channel, still at 1w, at first I must admit that I found myself underwhelmed, setting the knobs for my preferred boost in treble and cut in the bass and the gain at half, with the volume at halfway too. I might add that all of these sounds can be experimented with at variable levels of headroom due to the extremely useful attenuator.

Finally I allowed my Zvex Fuzz Factory to bludgeon the cleans into submission, the sweet cleans returning at the tap of a footswitch. So far, so delightful.ДЇor a little fun, I then lowered the reverb and fed the TM my DOD 250 Preamp RI in varying shades of clean boost and light drive, aiming to channel some Marquee Moon-era Television sounds, and soon struck gold. With the coils split, and the reverb up to about half, I was touching on some early Smiths/R.E.M-esque sounds, moving on to U2 when I edged up the gain knob to about 2 o'clock and kicked on a Boss DM-2W, which was in front of the amp rather than in the FX Loop, for some delayed sounds. Immediately I was greeted with a sparkly, high fidelity sound which encouraged dynamism snapping at the strings harder with the pick started to bring out some furry edges, and editing the EQ with a bump in the treble and a cut in the bass only heightened the chime.

#Hughes and kettner 36 series

The majority of the testing was done with my current main guitar, which is a Schecter Diamond Series PT with its bridge pickup swapped for a low-medium output Oil City Scrapyard Dog, based off of a snappy T-Top, and the cabinets used were an Orange PPC112 while at home and a Peavey Valveking 4 x 12 at my practice space.ДЄt first power-up, I began on the 1w setting, and went straight for the clean channel, with the knobs set at noon all the way. It also has the options of all these features being programmable via a fancy MIDI switch, but being a simple man I conducted all of the channel switching by hand and then left it during the test of each channel, changing wattages as necessary.

In addition, the Tubemeister does have a rather nice digital reverb included.

#Hughes and kettner 36 full

It's an extremely well-featured amp, which has been documented in no small detail, so I'll keep it brief the most frequently used function which I employed on the amp was the multi-step switchable attenuator, which goes from 'Speaker Off', 1w, 5w, 18w and finally the full blast of 36w.