A music magazine for musicians

A music magazine for musicians
Hughes & Kettner Statesman - all-tube guitar amp vintage style in the days when as many companies try to feed the red hot market css3 scale news, is for us staromilce and admirers of classical instruments and apparatus similar achievements, which in this case made this German brand such as saffron . Although the modern "black" magic blue illuminated amps and combos reaping the full award shows, it is seen that they are extremely aware of the roots, where everything comes from. The first impression Approximately six months ago we had with us to test the smaller brother of the "dark horse", so I was looking forward to what awaits me. The box arrived as expected, two head and speakers. Our apparatus have my head + box, so I was not too surprised weight (not to věchejtky). Nu So cheers to them. I started of course from the speakers. Under instructions - keep the bottom, roll over the wheels, upside down, pull ... and take a shower. Indeed, from now on we can place speakers in good conscience call what fell out, deeply rooted css3 scale labeled "cabinet". In filing B model čtyřistadvanáctky is a truly massive affair. Side panels are definitely a bold rectangular shape with no bevel gives a sense of stability and the future strength of sound. The fact that not every color suits everyone, it is a known thing, as well as a large black car looks luxurious but not every small car that color bears. As with combos Statesman we could get the impression thanks to the subtle dimensions, appearance of cheaper, at this larger brother, it is certainly not. Dark brown leatherette he definitely fits ecru and beige mesh with cream company sign foreshadows what will happen when everything starts. The result looks vintage 60th-80th years is perfect. After all, no one had also a small produce, because it was not just technically, a stark difference from other blacks are sure to please. Quick I then just checked the version, it is a classic. Behind two 6.3 mm TRS inputs, choice of mono / stereo and common impedance. css3 scale From the papers I have read that the crate is equipped with four 12 "speakers Celestion Vintage 30th So was about. Well, now quickly to the other box, whether it is on the little guy what to build. I pull out the head and waits for another surprise. Compared with practices on each side by a few inches shorter than the aforementioned cabinet. It's css3 scale not because he was perhaps css3 scale the case that much wider, but it just made deliberately. css3 scale A result is actually perfect. The same method of coating is enhanced by gloss black strip below the buttons, a cream made from the same plastic as signs indicating affiliation to the brand, which only really crowns the whole goal to sit in classic vintage appliances. There is no doubt about how this will play. Installation of vacuum tubes and a pair of "chrome" positional switches Power and Standby make it clear what se Statesman says: "I css3 scale am a classic all-tube amplifier." Intimate css3 scale acquaintance Nowadays it but still was about a little sole aim of the company was not only preserves the classical sound, but also add a wider range of sounds without having to involve a lot of additional floor or rack boxes, as we are used to from modern appliances .. On the front side, therefore, in addition to the basic equipment css3 scale - Reverb (of course stringed acoustic and electronic) and Presence - appeared potentiometers for two channels. Clean and distorted. Both have classic control on what we are used to - Bass, Mid, Trouble, with a clean channel distorted and then Volume Gain and Master css3 scale - so that all the work does not require any unnecessary browsing the manual, which I greatly appreciated. Just come, egg, and play. All this is complemented by practical option switches css3 scale the audio Channel Select - Drive a Clean, in case you forgot at home and needed a footswitch is changed manually. U Clean channel is a switch labeled css3 scale Twang. It's a very nice recovery for pure sound that gives the impression of the game slightly funky napleskávajícího or American country. U distorted channel then was added with the word Boost switch that sends the sound from the classic of dense cream on the floor above to the crunch crunch to solo. The basic equipment css3 scale apparatus is footswitch FS-3N, which has three classic css3 scale metal switches, smart red LEDs indicate we just used mode. Number one changes between css3 scale the clean and distorted channels, number two, then add the Boost Troika and assign a "second" volume. A very welcome thing. The rear panel is "screw", which as a potentiometer you can adjust the strength css3 scale of the second volume, which then rises in our solo efforts above. As if the volume pedal, but easier. Past all the sound engineer :-). Next in line is the correction then Reverb Balance with similar switching between css3 scale clean and distorted css3 scale tones. This will also come to the rear side of the amplifier. For what after all are not able to imagine a life without effect, there is ingeniously crafted effects loop. It is possible to choose one push switch between serial or parallel connection, css3 scale or it all