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Hughes & Kettner Trilogy Head
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Four world-class tube channels for one stellar performance -
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Steel-string slingers seeking jaw-dropping tube-tone will hit the jackpot with Trilogy™. Four channels, plus Boost and Sparkle modes, provide a staggering array of six markedly diverse sounds at the touch of a button. Providing plenty of flexibility to keep any pro player happy, this prized amp covers all the bases for all styles of music. And if that brings to mind our very own TriAmp® Custom Class amp, you're right: Trilogy boasts many of its big brother's remarkable qualities! Whatever it is you want ' crisp and clean, punchy crunch, sumo-sized overdrive or hi-gain shred ' salvation's just a step away, courtesy of the included footswitch. What's more, our ingenious SmartLoop™ effects routing and the built-in MIDI-features afford you even more sonic possibilities: Configurable in serial or parallel modes, the SmartLoop™ FX circuit automatically recalls its settings for every channel (including on/off). And if six directly accessible presets are not enough, simply plug in a MIDI Stageboard and an outboard signal processor to take that number up to a mind-boggling 128 patches! -
So who says you can't have it all? Trilogy ' the smart amp for real players! -
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Trilogy or 4?
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Now the clean channel is absolutely suberb. With a flip of a switch you can make it even more crips and it sounds wonderfull and very vintage fenderish. It has a lot of headroom, so even with my JEM fully cranked up it can stay clean, with the right dial in.
Crunch is also very nice and very bluesy. Although this channel sound VERY different over different cabs. I tested 2 4x12 cabs (one from H&K which is recommended for the amp and one from Mesa) and through the H&K it sounded very nice, through the (very good with other amps) Mesa it sounded very crappy. So I hooked it up to my custom 2x12 with Jensens and it sounded again different and much more vintage bluesy. Also you can dial in lots of sounds, but it reacts to every minimal touch on the tone knobs, so beware to handle it.
High Gain. Again with the H&K cab it sounded extremely good and can go all the way to high gain heaven. With the Mesa cab it sounded very muddy and really crappy. With the 2x12 it was pushing like it was a 4x12... It also adds noise to the mix. Not so much, but just enough to notice, but ok for the price range.
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| Reliability |
Like all H&K it is very nicely built and looks like you can hit the road with it. I had it only one day though.
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| Customer Support |
Excellent and very nice.
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| Liked about it |
- Wonderful cleans
- Looks really good
- bluesy crunches
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| Didn't like |
- hard to dial in
- very picky on cabs
- little noise in high gain
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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3.0 |
 By Tank
Oct 27, 2009
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