Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe 40 clip

[Gsxrbusa]

I love this little amp. It weighs nothing and sounds like a big iron amp. I have had it for a while and have been using it at rehearsal. It keeps up and has no volume or cutting issues. It has one of the best built in noise gates ever, great on board FX, has a killer DI out (Redbox, if you are familiar), and again is so tiny/light weight. I have disliked all the EL84 amps I have tried before this one.

Anyway, this clip is on the Ultra channel (highest, meanest gain). Their are a ton more usable tones in this amp other than extreme metal. Amazing piece of technology. I will be using this amp live soon. Have been running it at rehearsal and it shine with not volume or cutting issues. The other guitarist in my band liked it so much (after hearing mine) he went out and got one.

on a side note, member and brother BishOp34 is a gigging professional ( killer player!) uses one live. He has turned quite a few dudes onto them.



Anyway, a little metal.

 

[D-Rock]

Fantastically impressive my friend, as always...

 

[japetus]

Dude, that fucking RIPS. Awesome tone!

 

[Robotechnology]

Yeah great tone and even more impressive right hand!

 

[slyym]

I had a grandmeister 36 and hated the ultra channel. Way to fizzy and grainy and just bad sounding but I never had it cracked like this. Guess they fixed that on the 40.

 

[Gsxrbusa]

Fantastically impressive my friend, as always...

Thank you brother!

Dude, that fucking RIPS. Awesome tone!

These amps are impressive, Thans for checking it out!

Yeah great tone and even more impressive right hand!

Thanks for the compliment bro! I really appreicate it!

I had a grandmeister 36 and hated the ultra channel. Way to fizzy and grainy and just bad sounding but I never had it cracked like this. Guess they fixed that on the 40.

I had a buddy that had the 36 and I was not nearly as impressed as I am with this GM40. I think they stepped up the game a bit. This amp is much louder as well.

 

[racerevlon]

Gonna weigh in here. Have a GM36 and GM40. IMHO the GM40 is a "nicer" more refined amp. The OD lost a little bit of aggression and bite which was to be expected being based on TriAmp MK III. Running a GM36 and GM40 in stereo gets you the best of both worlds.

That said, got my Black Spirit 200 yesterday. So far, quite impressed. Noise gate is programmable per patch instead of global, new "Sag" control works extremely well, and it seems to capture all the best of the GM series at under 10 lbs. Fits in my roller bag. New fly rig.

 

[Speeddemon]

Our 'favourite' German youtuber did a comparison a while back, which shows it quite nicely.

I do prefer the clean tone on the GM36; it's cleaner and more jangly. But for the Crunch and Lead it's no comparison; GM36 sounds both too woofy and slightly fizzy, whereas the Deluxe40 sounds more balanced.

 

[JerEvil]

I light order one of these just to demo the damn thing! Sounded great Tom.

 

[Riggins1966]

Our 'favourite' German youtuber did a comparison a while back, which shows it quite nicely.

I do prefer the clean tone on the GM36; it's cleaner and more jangly. But for the Crunch and Lead it's no comparison; GM36 sounds both too woofy and slightly fizzy, whereas the Deluxe40 sounds more balanced.

I have the TM 40 deluxe. Same amp I believe, just less bells and whistles.

I agree, especially about the crunch channel. a close friend of mine has the 36, and we've compared through the same cab (212 w/V30s) and the 40's crunch is far more usable than the 36.

 

[Pat6969]

Is that straight into the amp or are you running an OD in front? That is impressively tight if its just the amp!