The Hughes and Kettner Tubeman MkII Tube Recording Footswitch is a three-channel tube-driven guitar recording footswitch featuring three channels (Clean, Crunch, Lead) and a 3-band EQ. The Hughes & Kettner Tubeman MkII tube preamp is an ideal tool for all electric guitarists who want to record their sound professionally or need a compact, versatile tone generator for the stage.
Based on an analogue high-voltage circuit that uses a classic 12AX7 tube for unparalleled dynamics and harmony, this three-channel preamp delivers versatile sounds for virtually any musical genre. Channel 1 has a volume control and provides crisp, clean sounds, whilst Channel 2 delivers juicy crunch and overdrive for blues players thanks to gain and volume controls. Channel 3 can be tuned with gain, voicing and volume controls and produces a strong lead guitar tone for any application. A 3-band EQ is available for all three channels.
The main features of the Hughes and Kettner Tubeman MkII Tube Recording Footswitch include:
Its really sounds amazing! clean is benign bright and warm tube sound, little bit overdriven on max level, crunch is nice and has good sustain when max - i use it on rhythm oftenly, lead channel is sharp and stoke, really hard-core, and its very customisable - can make sound for rock-n-roll or hard rock, punk or heavy. Also depends what type of guitar you use. I have really good sustain with my fender am hss with duncan pickup on humb (fender generally used for non-heavy styles cause warm sound, but my can sounds pretty heavy).
Tubeman really cool when i play thru lamp combo, its best sound i ever played. But its not very friendly with my home processor combo VOX ad30vt -kinda excessively overdriven, like gurgling sound, maybe cause even clean channel on this vox is not really clean, but prosessor-modulating.