Rock

on Stage

Play
at Home

Record
at Night
Rock on Stage
Playat Home
Record at Night

In an inspired moment, Mr. Hughes and Herr TubeMeister. A dream of a tone-generating

Kettner decided to pack all their knowledge and machine, it goes from clean to mean and from
over a quarter of a centurys passion for tube tone a roar to a whisper, shaking the planks on stage,
into a remarkably compact amp. This beautifully tingling spines in the studio, and raising goose
engineered instrument came to be called the bumps in the still of night.
 The Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister 36 blew my
mind when I first heard it. It gives me all the
tones I need to play with Alan Parsons. From
pristine clean to fat overdriven crunch, I can
get any sound at any volume. Its truly amazing!

Alastair Greene, Alan Parsons Live Project
TUBEMEISTER 18
TUBEMEISTER 18

TUBEMEISTER 18

Serving up three different sounds at the touch of a footswitch, the The Lead channel offers harmonically rich tube distortion and gain
soulful TubeMeister 18 is the must have guitar amp for gigging. reserves to go from edgy overdrive to soaring lead sounds, while the
Oversized transformers deliver tons of headroom with a phenomenal integrated Boost re-voices the Lead channel to a modern high-gain
dynamic range that sweeps from sparkling clean to throaty crunch. sound that pairs plenty of punch with endless sustain.
 TUBEMEISTER 18 HEAD
Channels Clean, Lead + Boost
Power 18 Watts
Power amp 2x EL84
Preamp 2x 12AX7
FX loop serial
TUBEMEISTER 18 COMBO Footswitch FS-2 (optional)
Switching functions
Channels, Boost
The TubeMeister 18 Combo offers all the tasty Special features Integrated Power Soak and
Red Box, TSC System
features of the Head plus the shimmer and shine
Speaker outputs 1x 8-16
of a digital spring reverb. The 10" Celestion Ten
Recommended cab TM112, TM212
30 speaker is housed in a vented dovetailed birch Dimensions/Weight 356x156x150 mm/5 kg
ply enclosure and conjures a far bigger sound than Protective cover Softbag included
anything one might expect from a combo that size.

TUBEMEISTER 18 COMBO
All Features of TubeMeister 18 Head
Reverb Digital Spring Reverb
Speaker 1x 10" Celestion Ten 30,
16
Dimensions/Weight 395x360x260 mm/9.4 kg
TUBEMEISTER 18 TWELVE COMBO Protective cover Soft Cover included

The TubeMeister 18 Twelve offers all the features

of the 10" Combo. The 12" Rockdriver Classic 60 TUBEMEISTER 18 TWELVE COMBO
All Features of TubeMeister 18 Head
speaker was custom-designed specifically for the
Reverb Digital Spring Reverb
compact TubeMeister 18 Twelve housing. It is a Speaker 1 x 12" Rockdriver
steel fist in a velvet glove, delivering all the tonal Classic 60, 16
subtleties of a TubeMeister with a punch that will Dimensions/Weight 480x415x285 mm/15.4 kg
rock your world. Protective cover Soft Cover included
TUBEMEISTER 36
TUBEMEISTER 36

TUBEMEISTER 36 HEAD

Independent gain and master knobs and a switchable FX Loop are FX Loop and onboard reverb. MIDI can even select the power stages
standard appointments on modern triple channel amps. But thats of the integrated power soak36, 18, and 5 watts, 1 watt and Speaker
not nearly enough for a real TubeMeister flagship. So Mr. Hughes Off! A touch of a button is all it takes to conjure up up to 128 such
and Herr Kettner built in a MIDI system to access the channels, combinations. Imagine what this could do for your stage performance.
 TUBEMEISTER 36 HEAD
Channels Clean, Crunch, Lead
Power 36 watts
Power amp 4 x EL84
Preamp 3 x 12AX7
FX loop serial
Footswitch FS-2 or FSM-432, optional
Switching functions
Channels, Reverb, FX
Loop, Power Soak mode
Special features MIDI, MIDI Power Soak,
Red Box, TSC System
Speaker outputs 1x 8-16
Recommended cab TM112, TM212,
VC412A30
Dimensions/Weight 171 x 446 x 152 mm, 7.7kg
Protective cover Softbag included
TUBEMEISTER 36 COMBO
TUBEMEISTER 36 COMBO
The TubeMeister 36 Combo offers all the features
All Features of TubeMeister 36 Head
of the Head, plus the advantage of a 12" Celestion Speaker 1x 12" Celestion Vintage
Vintage 30 speaker housed in a vented dovetailed 30, 16
birch ply enclosure that transforms tube power Dimensions/Weight 555x475x270 mm, 19.3kg
and tone into a big and bold sound. Protective cover Soft Cover included
TUBEMEISTER CABINETS
TM 110
The TubeMeister 110 cab sports the same 10"
Celestion Ten 30 speaker that has proven its
merits in the TubeMeister 18 Combo. Housed
in its specially designed vented enclosure, this
cabinet punches way above its weight.
30 watts 400 x 350 x 255 mm 6.6 kg

TM 112
The TubeMeister 112 cab features a 12" Celestion
Vintage 30 in a compact vented housing. It
delivers all the tonal subtleties of the TubeMeister
Heads with a punch that will rock your world.
60 watts 480 x 450 x 285 mm 13.5 kg

FSM-432
TM 212 The FSM-432 MK III MIDI board doesnt just
The TubeMeister 212 cab packs two 12" serve to select presets. The stomp box mode
Celestion Vintage 30s into its vented housing. allows you to switch channels directly, and to
Its dimensions are tailored to a TubeMeiser 36 activate modulation effects, delay and boost
in vertical use, or to our standard size heads in independently.
horizontal use. Its a steel fist in a velvet glove! It also offers two 1/4" jack inputs to connect
120 watts 750 x 450 x 285 mm 19.5 kg expression pedals or single footswitches.
TUBEMEISTER FEATURES

POWER SOAK TSC RED BOX XXL TRANSFORMER

Use the power soak to bring the Your built-in amp doctor, Perfect for hassle-free recording Oversized transformers give you
huge Meister stage sound down Tube Safety Control keeps or onstage action, the Red Box all the headroom you need, from
to the level you need for home your Meister fighting fit by DI output lets you run your sparkling clean to snarling mean
or practice room playing, or constantly monitoring and guitar straight to the mixing desk
even silent recording biasing your tubes

TUBEMEISTER 18 TUBEMEISTER 36

Clean to Crunch Drive to High Gain Punch & Sustain Tone Shaping Clean to Drive Crunch to Punch Lead to High Gain Tone Shaping Footswitchable

Tube Tone Tube Power Headroom Tube Protection Tube Tone Tube Power Headroom Tube Protection MIDI Power Soak

Stage Control Integration Power Soak Recording Out Integration Programmability FullControl Recording Out Reverb
A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE BLOG OF TONE
SMALL AMP, BIG SOUND? If you want a big sound, use a small amp, Joe
What do Eric Claptons creamy Layla solo sounds, Walsh is supposed to have replied when asked
Joe Walshs epic guitar parts on Hotel California for details on Hotel Californias tonal wizardry.
and Jimmy Pages rough-and-ready tones on So, forget that old Big is Beautiful adage. When
Heartbreaker from Led Zeppelin II have in it comes to delivering the perfect guitar solo, it
common? seems like Small is Supreme!

Annihilators Jeff Waters rocks HELLFEST with his monstrous Meister rig
Well, besides the fact that theyre widely cited For too long, the 100-watt amp head was
as being some of the best six-string sounds of all the undisputed go-to machine when it came So, its no wonder the likes of Annihilators Jeff
time, the one diminutive detail that links this amplifying the electric guitar. Decades ago, it Waters and Stone Sours Josh Rand are often to be
trio of colossal guitar moments is this: they were might have made sense back when PA systems seen bringing huge venues to their knees with these
all recorded using what most guitarists would were nothing more than primitive speakers used little problem solvers. Theres so many reasons
consider ridiculously poky little amplifiers. to amplify vocals but these days, its quite to go small: pure clarity of tone, great, useful
astonishing to think that guitarists struggled with feature sets, easy handling, less weight, simple
these oversized beasts for so long. Plenty of them transportation Its never been easier to Rock on
still do. Stage, Play at Home and Record at Night!

But the advantages of smaller power ratings are

abundantly clear: unlike larger power amps, which BLOG OF TONE doesnt just give you all
only start to become melodious and pleasing to the insiders knowledge you need to
the ear when you crank the volume somewhat past Meister your guitar sound. Its also
their idling level and the by-product of which is the place for you to give feedback and
a huge, mostly unusable amount of sheer volume swap tonal tips and tricks with us and
smaller power amps deliver musician-pleasing other guitar players...
performance at a smidgen of the volume.
Jump right in at
blog.hughes-and-kettner.com

Josh Rand of Stone Sour never hits the big stage without his small amp
THE POWER SOAK There was, however, still one key catch: most amp Nowadays, 100 watts are no longer needed to
heads of the day featured a 100-watt output. They blow our heads off. Sure, the power offerings of
A LOAD OF HOT AIR? also often had no master volume knob, meaning today might be laughable when compared to times
that you could only truly enjoy that downright of yore but theyre certainly more manageable.
It took a long time for the power soak to gain addictive distortion when you turned the gain And, thanks to technological leaps, these days
acceptance among guitarists. Why? Because controlin true Spinal Tap styleup to 11, its possible to sacrifice a portion of an amps
the systems undoubted advantageslike giving resulting in crushing levels of compression, random powerthanks to a combination of tube shutdown
the player the chance to enjoy fully saturated bursts of unwanted noise and show-spoiling and a resistor networkfor the sake of impossibly
power amp distortion at bearable volumes, for microphonic pickups. delicious and saturated power amp sounds. And
examplewere always accompanied by massive without any of the power soaks earlier foibles, too.
shortcomings that couldnt just be explained away. And so it continued for years, the power soak idea
living on only as an oddball footnote in the minds The first genuinely successful relaunch of the
of diehard old-school believers. In fact, it nearly power soak came with the TubeMeister 18. Still
died off completely when the tube amp master quasi-analog, it allows you to select various power
volume came out and revolutionized things. More levels. Its bigger brother, the TubeMeister 36,
takes things to another level, allowing power soak
settings to be saved by MIDIand then allocated
to the amps various channelsin what was a world
first. Suffice to say, the power soaks now become
an indispensable part of many a modern-day
An experimental power soak mock-up: this one never made it into production
guitarists setup. And best of all? On all Meister
Every guitarist has been privy to that well-used series amps, its included as standard
soundmans chestnut: Turn the guitars down
on stage! To go some way towards solving this
problem, the idea was hatched in the 70s to
transform a portion of the power amps output into
Part of the power soaks magic is how it shuts down tubes to tame your volume
hot air. Or, more (or less) simply: to install a power
resistor between the end stage of the amp and the recently, though, interest in the power soak has
guitar cab that would absorb a certain amount surged once again, thanks to the enormous success
of the energy, turn it into heat, and only send a of the so-called lunchbox amp, which has created a
fraction of it on to the loudspeaker. new performance category all its own. The power soak lets you crank your amp at living room volumes

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