H&K Tubemeister Deluxe 40

Telejester

Owners how do you find them ?

Techs, how well made are they and what about reliability ?

Telejester

nobody ?

@icbm you ever had one on the bench ?

fastonebaz

 I've owned an HK tubemeister 18 head and cab for about 4 years now and so far no issues. Gigged it and rehearsals loads.

timmysoft

Ive had 4 Tubemeisters and they’ve all been good 

longjaw

I had an 18W Tubemeister head and was thoroughly underwhelmed by it - the cleans weren't 'pristine' clean (even at low volumes) and the overdrive wasn't organic at all.

Looked good though.

Telejester

ive been watching plenty of clippage, only thing bothering me is , is the top end clangy and solid state sounding ? 

Telejester

longjaw said:

I had an 18W Tubemeister head and was thoroughly underwhelmed by it - the cleans weren't 'pristine' clean (even at low volumes) and the overdrive wasn't organic at all.

Looked good though.

a pristine clean isnt what i want, that tele neck pickup into a warm clean with a bit of grit is more my bag. my concern over the lead channel is a boss ds1 buzzsaw top end i keep hearing, i wonder how much of this is because it uses el84 tubes ?

if only fender made a drri head version, then my amp search would be over.

timmysoft

Telejester said:

longjaw said:

I had an 18W Tubemeister head and was thoroughly underwhelmed by it - the cleans weren't 'pristine' clean (even at low volumes) and the overdrive wasn't organic at all.

Looked good though.

a pristine clean isnt what i want, that tele neck pickup into a warm clean with a bit of grit is more my bag. my concern over the lead channel is a boss ds1 buzzsaw top end i keep hearing, i wonder how much of this is because it uses el84 tubes ?

if only fender made a drri head version, then my amp search would be over.

Just buy a DRRI and get a head shell made. 

newi123

if only fender made a drri head version, then my amp search would be over.

Erm - they made one for a while. They come up occasionally!

Other wise how about a Supersonic 22 head?

Rowby1

They did make the DRRI as a head for a while, I have one.