History Technology of Tone. Is what we've been about from day one. And since that day, we've been living up to our performance promise of making great tone accessible to discerning players. Designed with sophisticated simplicity in mind, our tone-sculpting tools are conduits for inspiration.

Plug in, put on unforgettable performances, and relish those magic moments in a guitarist's life. But great tone is not alchemy or weird science.

It's a capability built on passion and know-how. Even after all the years marked by so many milestone achievements, that passion burns as brightly as ever. HUGHES & HERR KETTNER When Mr.

Hughes and Herr Kettner first met, Mr. Hughes was on a tone quest, looking to enrich players' sonic palette with more soulful means of expression.

Eurotubes has got some outstanding Customer Service, Bob Pletka has been. Anybody with a Hughes and Kettner Tubemeister or Grandmeister, before you. As a 40 year player and working with a lot of artists here in the Metro Detroit area. Mesa notes in their manual (2ch Triple Recto) that the gain's sweet spot is.

A glockenspiel's chime, the snap and snarl of a junkyard dog, the seductive wail of Siren's song, the thunderous rush of a passing freight train, the howling of a keening jackal, the malevolent grind of a chainsaw biting into metal - could an amp really be made to do all this? Engineering whiz Herr Kettner had his eyes on a very different prize. Envisaging a compact amp that would deliver fully-formed sounds including effects at the touch of a button, he sought to do what has never been done before. And he wasn't averse to doing better what has already been done.

So began an impassioned collaboration that continues to this day. SWITCHBLADE MK I This was the world's first fully programmable analog tube amp.In 2006, the evolutionary advance set into motion by the AS64 22 years earlier culminated in the Switchblade. Its recipe for success was to replace the potentiometers found on conventional amps with Programmable Resistor Networks.

Each of these rotary controls consists of 256 individual resistors and 256 switches, and a memory with the ability to recall every switch’s position. The amp saves every knob’s setting and can recall it at the touch of a button. Only Hughes & Kettner has mastered the science of conjuring 128 sounds out of a tube amp without having to turn a knob! COREBLADE The Coreblade is widely hailed as the world’s most advanced professional tube amplifier for the touring artist. It's as programmable as the Switchblade; what's more, it saves sounds straight from the amp to USB stick so artists can travel with no more than an axe and a stick. Coreblade owners can even swap sounds in a flash.