Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister 18 Tube Head

For the TubeMeister 18W Tube Guitar Amp Head, Mr. Hughes and Herr Kettner packed all their know-how and over a quarter of a century‘s passion for tube amps into a remarkably compact chassis. Thanks to German engineering, it can go from a roar to a whisper, shaking the boards on stage, tingling spines in the studio, and raising goose-bumps in the still of night – even during silent recording.

Serving up three different sounds at the touch of a footswitch, the soulful Tube-Meister 18 is the go-to guitar amp for gigging. Its four-step power soak brings the sound of the big stage into small clubs and your own four walls. And courtesy of the built-in Red Box and silent recording capability, you can lay down pro-quality tracks at any time day or night.

• Warm tube tone with phenomenal dynamic range that sweeps from sparkling clean to throaty crunch
• Harmonically rich tube distortion and the gain reserves to go from edgy overdrive to soaring lead sounds
• Re-voices LEAD to summon modern high-gain sound that pairs plenty of punch with endless sustain
• Passive voicing section tweaked to evoke the best frequency response out of each channel
• Preamp section sporting two 12AX7 tubes
• Push-pull power amp that pumps out stage-approved 8 watts
• Oversized transformers with tons of headroom
• TSC-protected power amp featuring auto-bias and status LED
• Footswitch connection enabling remote channel switching and BOOST actuation
• Serial FX loop for adding effects-flavored spice to the sonic stew
• Quad-stage power soak with silent recording capability
• Balanced RED BOX OUT with authentic speaker emulation