Statesman DUAL EL34 50W Guitar Amp Head description:
The Hughes & Kettner Statesman DUAL EL84 features 12AX7 preamp tubes, EL 84, power amp tubes and two sweet-sounding discrete channels.
The Clean channel of the Hughes & Kettner Statesman DUAL EL84 delivers the soulful shimmering tone of an open tube combo. Its Twang switch lives up to its name by adding a healthy helping of punchy high-mids that put the spank in funk and do the country twang thang so well; even contemporary ballads benefit from the upper mids boost. Dial in a dab more gain, and dive into a world of dynamic crunch tones and hair-trigger response to every subtlety of your touch.
The Drive channel offers more than merely more gain. It delivers the secret ingredient that is so critical to a classic rock sound - the powerful punch of a half-stack. The Gain knob takes you on a magical mystery tour from a throaty mid-‘60s bark to a typical ‘70s rock bite. The Boost button is a time machine, taking you and the amp’s overdrive tone a few years down the road!
The Hughes & Kettner Statesman DUAL EL84 also features a genuine Accutronics spring reverb; the Reverb Balance knob controls each channel’s amount. A modern effects loop lets you add external effect devices to the sonic equation. And the included footswitch lets you tap your toes to conveniently activate the two channels, Boost, the FX loop, and Reverb.
An Eminence speaker developed especially for these amps brings together the grooviest tried-and-true design features of US and UK speakers. They are the key to the jaw-dropping tonal versatility of the Statesman DUAL EL84.
Hughes & Kettner Statesman DUAL EL84 main features include:
- Channels: Clean, Overdrive, 4 Sound-Modes
- Power: 20 Watts
- Poweramp: 2x EL84
- Preamp: 2x 12AX7
- Effects: Accutronics Spring Reverb
- Effects Loop: Serial
- Footswitch/Stageboard: 1x FS-2 included, 2nd FS-2 as an option
- Switching Functions: Channels, Boost; with 2nd FS-2: Reverb, FX-Loop
- Special Features: Twang and Boost Mode, adjustable Reverb Balance
- Equalizer: Shared 3-band EQ
- Speaker Outputs: 1x 8-16 Ohms, parallel
Hughes and Kettner Statesman DUAL EL34 50W Guitar Amp Head (code 45128)
Guitar All Valve Amplifier Head, 50 Watts, Reverb
£699.99 (inc vat)