Monsters of High Gain is back for 2023! Join us as guitarist Prashant Aswani puts some of the hottest high-gain amps through their paces. Today's video features the Hughes and Kettner TriAmp Mark 3.
Hughes & Kettner TriAmp Mark 3 150-watt Dual 3-channel Programmable Tube Head
No limits. No compromises. This is what you get when 30 years of tube amp expertise combine with an absolute freedom of engineering. The result is an amp boasting a range of professional sounds not offered by any other amp anywhere on the planet. And best of all, TriAmp Mark 3’s breathtaking versatility and inspirational tonality is matched only by its ease and joy of use.
But there’s more. You can also combine two or even all three of the power amps, merge different power amp characters, and play TriAmp Mark 3 with up to 150 watts of sheer tube power. This effectively lets you custom tailor your amp in the amp, recalling up to 128 sound constellations with the touch of a button via MIDI.
And if that’s not enough, TriAmp Mark 3 leaves our factory in St. Wendel, Germany equipped with two pairs of 6L6 power tubes and one pair of EL34s — but it works equally well with other tube types too. The revised TSC System — Tube Safety Control, which automatically and constantly biases tubes and keeps your amp in good health — allows you to combine KT66s, KT77s, KT88s, 6550s, 5881s, 7581s and/or 6CA7s. Imagine what this could do for your trademark sounds. TriAmp Mark 3 genuinely lets you usher in a new era of tone!
New features include two programmable true bypass pre-loops, adjustable monitor in control, and Direct 7 mode.
St. Wendel, Germany (September 24, 2019) -- Hughes & Kettner has unveiled the third amplifier to feature its revolutionary analog Spirit tone generating technology – the Black Spirit 200 Floor.
The Black Spirit 200 Floor combines the exhilarating range of sounds and the immense power of the award-winning Black Spirit 200 head, and adds in the practical switching and controlling functions of the Hughes & Kettner FSM- 432 MK III MID Board, as well as a range of useful new features. The result is the ultimate floor-based guitar amplifier, offering the analog tone, feel and power of a real amp alongside all the benefits and convenience of a fully programmable processor.
Designed to be set onstage at the foot of the player, the Black Spirit 200 Floor – which weighs in at a mere 4.1 kg/8.9 lbs.– is housed in a rugged, roadworthy metal enclosure, making it perfect for a life on tour. With 200 watts of power on tap, though, the amp can easily keep up with any live band, and connecting to traditional guitar cabinets, the PA and/or in-ear monitors is a breeze thanks to its wealth of output options, including the Red Box AE+ DI.
New features include two programmable true bypass pre-loops, allowing players to fully integrate their favorite pedals into their setup without compromising on the amp’s true tone, while an adjustable Monitor In lets them blend their personal FOH monitor mix to their amp signal and send it to the integrated headphones out or even to the speaker out. The footswitch section of the amp also features a new mode – Direct 7 – which lets players assign one preset to each of the board’s seven buttons to access seven presets directly, without having to change banks or anything else.
The rest of the Black Spirit 200 Floor follows the award-winning Black Spirit 200 formula, with the incredible sounds courtesy of Hughes & Kettner’s groundbreaking ‘bionic’ Spirit tone generating technology. This strictly analog circuitry faithfully recreates the complex, dynamic processes known from classic tube amp designs, thereby delivering world class tone and responsiveness. In the sounds departments the Black Spirit 200 Floor has every base covered thanks to four all-analog channels – Clean, Crunch, Lead and Ultra – plus a comprehensive range of built-in reverb, delay and modulation effects, and a unique Sagging control that lets players adjust the amount of power amp sag regardless of the volume level.
Rüdiger Forse, Hughes & Kettner’s Senior Product Manager, said: “Guitar players these days want great-sounding, lightweight, all-in-one solutions they can carry to the gig in one trip from the car, so they’re ready to rock in 30 seconds – for all that the Black Spirit 200 Floor is perfect! It’s small and easy to handle, but heavy-duty and incredibly powerful, and the built-in MIDI control board means everything every guitar player could ever need is right there at their feet, every show.”
The Black Spirit 200 Floor is available now. For more information, visit the Hughes & Kettner website.
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The combo features the company's Spirit technology and a ported 1x12" cabinet.
St. Wendell, Germany (June 18, 2019) -- Yorkville Sound distributed brand, Hughes & Kettner, has unveiled the second amplifier to feature its revolutionary Spirit tone generating technology – the Black Spirit 200 Combo – as well as a premium quality high-powered cabinet, the 1x12 TS 112 Pro, based on the combo´s sophisticated enclosure.
A true all-in-one solution for guitarists, the Black Spirit 200 Combo contains all the features of 2018’s award-winning Black Spirit 200 head, built into a compact 1x12” Thiele/Small enclosure which houses a UK-made Celestion G12H-75 Creamback speaker.
Designed to be the largest sounding 1x12” combo ever produced and delivering a true 4x12” wall of sound that players can carry in one hand, the amp’s secret is in its enclosure: a closed-back front-ported birch plywood construction, it features perfectly tuned Thiele/Small ports for enhanced low-end response. Meanwhile, well-balanced dimensions dampen the speaker’s movement and at the same time allow it to breathe, letting it unleash its full sonic potential and delivering more output than any other comparable housing. The result is the punchiest yet most balanced frequency response ever in a combo of this size.
In the sounds and features departments, the Black Spirit 200 Combo has every base covered: four all-analog channels – Clean, Crunch, Lead, and Ultra – a comprehensive range of built-in reverb, delay and modulation effects, and a unique Sagging control that lets players adjust the amount of power amp sag regardless of the volume level.
The Red Box DI output allows direct connections to mixers and computers/DAWs, and every pot setting (including EQs and gain, and sagging) on the amp can be saved and recalled in up to 128 presets using any compatible MIDI footswitch, while unlimited tonal presets are possible when using the free App via Bluetooth.
The TS 112 Pro is the new cabinet of choice for those wishing to unleash the full 200 watts of power from the Black Spirit 200 combo, or simply players looking for an incredibly full sounding 1x12 solution. Again featuring a UK-made Celestion G12H-75 Creamback speaker, the TS 112 Pro also fits perfectly with the Black Spirit 200 head – two of them creating a compact, yet enormous-sounding stack – and its incredibly punchy yet supremely balanced frequency response also makes it the ideal choice for players of amps of all types.
Rüdiger Forse, Hughes & Kettner’s Senior Product Manager, said: “Black Spirit 200 Combo is not just a combo version of the Black Spirit 200 head. Designing this sonic masterpiece was a completely new approach! Hughes & Kettner fans have been demanding new combos for years, and now they have it: an all-in-one tone solution, blessed with an exhilarating range of sounds and features, immense power, and a speaker that translates any sonic detail into the most intense physical playing experience! Black Spirit 200 Combo improves what we love about combos in every respect.”
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