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Hughes & Kettner - COREBLADEH

Description

Coreblade delivers tough tone, untamed dynamic response, and an explosive punch. Two of the four channels are voiced to offer completely different high-gain alternatives. The amp's phenomenally versatile Drive channel supplies the classic sounds of the early metal era, and the Clean channel offering tons of headroom, rendering even the most aggressive attack with sparkle and chime. Boost is separately switchable and three effect modules may be used simultaneously for each per channel. The ultra precise, remarkably musical IDB noise gate is available for all channels. Programmable potentiometers enable settings to be stored in 128 memory slots, and the included MIDI board affords easy access to these presets. Coreblade is the first tube amp worldwide that downloads presets directly to USB sticks and uploads new presets at the touch of a button. Best of all, every sound is all tube and no modeling.

TSC provides for maintenance free operation, it's the built-in vacuum tube technology. It provides dependable operation of the automatic bias adjustment for long life, the emergency shutdown of defective tubes for uninterrupted gigs, as well as displaying the characteristics of the tubes for easy selection. TSC even allows the simultaneous operation of EL34 and 6L6GCs!

Core Blade is the most advanced tube amp that you can buy today - at least on planet Earth.

Technical data:
* Channels: Clean, Drive, Ultra I Ultra II
* Performance: 100 Watt
* Output Tubes: 4x EL34 factory, also 6L6GC (mixed) used
* Preamp Tubes: 3x 12AX7
* Effects: 3 independent Digital-FX processors: Reverb, Delay, Modulation (Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo)
* Effects Loop: serial / parallel
* MIDI: Installed
* Footswitch / Stage Board: MIDI board FSM-432 MKII, including Switching functions4xPreset, bank up, bank down, tap delay
* Special Features: All amp and effect settings can be saved; Adjustable Noise Gate, USB backup; Tube Safety Control (TSC)
* Presets: 32 banks with 4 presets
* Speaker Outputs: 1x 4 Ohm or 2 x 8 Ohm, 1 x 8 ohms or 2 x 16 Ohms, 1x 16 Ohms
* Recommended Box: MC CL 412
* Dimensions: 742 x 270 x 254 mm/29 x 10.5 x 10 in.
* Weight: 18.2 kg/40, 12 lbs