Must Check! Hughes&Kettner Switchblade!

[Jimi75]

They designed a tube amp on modeling basis, fully programmable.
Go to their site, it has a virtual amp where you can turn all the knobs! What a great feature and the amp sounds way cool, too! The Flash Demo takes a few seconds so be patient.

www.hughes-and-kettner.com

Let me know what you think! I could imagine having some severe fun with the amp, especially the clean sounds seem to be very impressing.

 

[Tone2TheBone]

Uhoh....wait until TS808 gets a load of this. I'm still waiting for the demo page to load....

 

[tiefnig]

I played the amp. It is amazing, believe me, go out and try it, they're pretty popular in germany, they have other modelling amps to, also tube.

 

[Tone2TheBone]

What model does Alex Lifeson play? They look cool onstage with the blue lights behind the head grill and all. Where can I get cool blue thingies that like up like that in my amp?! Seriously it looks cool! Sounds good too....I know he runs that set up in stereo. H&K amps seem like they're good.

 

[SuperSwede]

Very nice! The 50w combo seems interesting. I havent seen a price on those yet...

 

[Jimi75]

Very nice! The 50w combo seems interesting. I havent seen a price on those yet...

Pricing for the 50W is about 1.350€, but the street price will be lower, I guess.

 

[Moshe]

What model does Alex Lifeson play? They look cool onstage with the blue lights behind the head grill and all. Where can I get cool blue thingies that like up like that in my amp?! Seriously it looks cool! Sounds good too....I know he runs that set up in stereo. H&K amps seem like they're good.

Ummmm..

The TriAmp Alex Lifeson Signature Amp


http://www.hughes-and-kettner.com/products.php?id=97&mode=prod&hus=aaf45163f8711f84f0a438295c0e5750

big lifeson fan here...:)

 

[Spudman]

I saw Brad Gillis from Night Ranger a couple of years ago and he was playing an HK amp too. He still had his signature sound so they must be versatile enough to accomodate him and Alex as well.

I dig the blue lights too.

 

[t_ross33]

Ummmm..

The TriAmp Alex Lifeson Signature Amp


http://www.hughes-and-kettner.com/products.php?id=97&mode=prod&hus=aaf45163f8711f84f0a438295c0e5750

big lifeson fan here...:)

Here's the complete gear list from the Vapor Trails tour:

PRS Singlecut CE22 and CE24 guitars (5 total, 2 with piezo pickups)
Gibson SG doubleneck
Gibson Les Paul Standards (2)
Gibson Les Paul Custom
Gibson ES-355
Gibson J-150 acoustic with Fishman transducer
Fender Telecaster (customized)
Hughes and Kettner Zentera heads (2)
Hughes and Kettner Triamp heads (2) (blue lights - the sig model has purple)
4×12 Hughes and Kettner cabinets (5)
Digital Music Corp. GCX Guitar Audio Switchers (2)
Digital Music Corp. Ground Control pedal
Dunlop DCR-ISR Crybaby Rack wah
TC Electronic TC 1210 Spatial Expander
TC Electronic G-Force multi-effects processors (3)
Hughes and Kettner Rotosphere
Behringer Multigate Pro XR4400
Behringer Virtualizer Pro DSP 2024P
Behringer MX602 line mixers (2)
Behringer 662 line splitter/mixer
Custom Audio Japan GVCA-2 Rev 3 guitar volume controllers (2)
Dunlop volume pedal
Boss TU-12H tuner
Korg MPK-130 MIDI Pedal Keyboard
Shure U4D wireless receivers (2)
Shure U-1 wireless belt-pack transmitters
Shure Antenna Distribution System
Samson UR-5D wireless receiver (for acoustic and piezo guitars)
Samson UT-5 belt-pack transmitter
Palmer PDI-03 speaker simulators (4)

according to here

Cool site BTW :cool: And yes, I'm a total Rush geek :D

But getting back to the Switchblade, this rig looks freakin' awesome! It certainly has me thinkin'... But I think GAS has given me CRAP (Can't Really Afford Product) :p