We NEED To Talk About The Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe 40! 

Agreed, does anyone know where I can find this guy's music?

That would be a great comparation ! With pleasure from @ Sonic Drive Studio !

@@gjorgjimiladinoski6769 Still waiting 7 months later 🥺😭

Was coming here to say the same thing

Thank you! What's your favorite channel on the amp?

@@SonicDriveStudio Clean, Crunch and lead channel are all great and I use them all the time. The ultra channel, on my HK anyway, is a bit bass heavy and can be boomy....even with the boost engaged. I'll usually use a tube screamer pedal (Fortin 33 works great) to handle the low end issues I have. All the bells and whistles are just icing on this delicious cake. :)

​@My account triamp easy if you ask me but not like... 3000 better.

Thanks man! It's a killer amp indeed!

Thanks! Yes it's very versatile

@@SonicDriveStudio yes looks like!!! I'll try some Kemper rig of this head 💪😉

I bet it does! It's thick and gooey so a good boost will tighten that up well, just as with a Recto

Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe 40. But this amp is also killer!

Sorry, was on the wrong channel…I thought we‘re talking about a Engl Ironball SE….😬

Awesome!

Take you favorite guitar for metal, go to your local music store and give the amp a try. It uses a zener diode circuit to boost the amp, and it is involved in many of the overdrive sounds. I like pure tube/valve 12AX7 circuits to produce my overdriven/saturated gain tones, but I do own the Grandmeister Deluxe 40, I've tried overdrive/distortion pedals through the front end of the amp, and the Grandmeister doesn't play well with those kind of pedals. It just doesn't give me that liquidy/drenched saturation that I love. If you listen to the demo of the amp you don't hear any pinch harmonics, or tricks on the edge of feedback, and thats because it doesn't really do that well. The noise gate is one of the best I've ever tried, the reverb and delay are very good, the majority of the features are exactly as advertised, its 95% of everything you want. Unfortunately, you can only use chorus/flange/phazer/tremolo one at a time (i don't have an iPad or the foot switch (perhaps you can switch them on all at the same time with those). The best overdrive sound i can get is with the power soak OFF, and controlling the volume by the MASTER VOLUME and NOISE GATE. The power soak at 1watt or OFF works counter intuitively to the purpose of a power soak, and I'm not sure why. But my ears hear more saturation and tone with the power soak OFF,setting your gain and boost where you like it, engaging the noise gate, and slowly bringing up the Master Volume. The attenuation is sensitive enough too get you a quiet bedroom/small recording studio level no problem. I think the amp in its current form is 95% of everything you could want, but I'd take that Peavy Invictive (which also has a great noise gate) anyway for my all out overdrive sound. Try one out, before you find a cheap online seller....

I'm actually about to pull the trigger on this amp, but was curious how it compares to the Mesa Mark V:35 which I haven't had a chance to use yet. Its obviously way more versatile and has onboard effects already, but is the Mesa's high gain channels for rock/metal really that different? How does its clean compare to the H&Ks as well? One other thing I noticed is that the Mesa may be too loud in a bedroom setting for practice since it doesn't have the 1W option. Boosted to max volume, how do they compare as well?

@@JJDon5150 The gain channels are very different, The H/K sounds a lot like other quality name-brand amps; the Mesa has a unique sound of its own. The big drawback of the Mesa is if you play different styles of music the two channel design limits your ability to create too many variants. Although it has 3 different voices per channel, they are not foot switchable, and at a gig are not something you will relish monkeying with in-between songs. The H/K has a 100+ preloads you can create, and easily switch between them via the optional footpedal. If all I played was hard rock/metal I'd use the Mesa exclusively, but my band does 60s, 70's & 80s rock, with a very eclectic mix, so I have about 6-8 unique presets in the H/K to accommodate all the styles. HTH

@@robertaugustine5350 thanks for the response! And that's what I figured in terms of versatility. I'm more like you and play an eclectic variety of songs/genres, so the H&K will probably serve me better. Since it already has a pretty clean channel, I plan to either get a Diezel VH4 OD or BE OD pedal in case I need more modern high gain sounds, despite the stock high gain sounds on the GM40 already being really good.

@@JJDon5150 The ULTRA channel is pretty solid. I own a BE-OD that I play through a Marshall head at home. Amazing pedal, but I doubt you’ll need any into the H/K. It has so many options built in. I just use a tuner in front and let the amp do its thing. Perfect gig amp if you don’t have a road crew!

@@robertaugustine5350 good to know. I was leaning slightly toward the BE OD pedal for its versatility with high gain, but I play a lot of TOOL and those style of riffs, so if the GM40 can handle most things, I might just go with the Diezel VH40 OD pedal then. Not sure though, still trying to decide since I haven't had the opportunity to compare any of them with the actual Ultra channel of the GM40 yet.

@@HAHb-zc2dp Not with his settings no but this amp does get alot of gain on the ultra channel

What did you change to?

@@sveinunghamre324 I tried a couple of modelers and finally landed on the new Headrush MX5 because it fits my budget and needs.

@@KartikHariharan I just bought the MX 5 myself. How do you like it? I bought it to replace my HX Stomp.

@@sveinunghamre324 I bought it to replace my POD Go. I love the MX5! Slap in a York Audio IR, a room reverb and it's awesome with headphones!

@@KartikHariharan Glad to hear your happy 🙂

nice. I found a NOS H&K CC212 (50W) cab at a local shop i bought about a year before i bought this amp. I got the cab early 2022 i think ? Sent an email to H&K and they said it was from 2009. Now that's NOS (new old stock) hey ?!!! Perfect match for it too.

Dude same idea, I so love this amp, you don’t need an attenuator for it, and like you said it’s a tube version of a modeler and it can be sometimes confusing or generally hard to k ow the settings of each channel without seeing their current values, so the iPad app is necessary.

I owned two Trilogies, a Triamp mk1, and two Switchblades. I lived them all but the Trilogies did have less gain than the others...facts

Cool! I've never tried that one but I already did the name ;)

@@SonicDriveStudio Its awesome! Its a 100w amp that looks very similar except red!

Thanks! I think it's always the same people because they often show up just seconds after a video has been released. Lol

The 36 model which I also had was too modern almost hifi. The upper. Midrange was harsh to my ears and. Didn't like it that much. The 40 on the other hand is more well balanced and the sound is more tubish and organic. Warmer highs and. The mids are not that harsh. Definitely better but there is room for improvements.

I had a GM36 several years ago. The GM40 is a 36 on steroids. Better sounds and some subtle upgrades internally. There are several YT videos where folks compare them head to head. The 40 is less tinny in my ear opinion (fuller)

Thanks! Check out the Valhella album on this channel

As always man a well done job a great video and a great great amp also hahaha boosted it in a next video Big fan from Mexico

I really miss my old H&K Tubemiester 18 and man this has just made me think I need to buy another H&K tube amp again even more!! Thanks man for the constant incredibly informative and entertaining videos with amazing riffage!!

Tubemeister 40 is better

I think yes 👍

Love this amp!!!

Tonehub is slept on. Even just the stock standard without the added preset packs…

Thank you!

The clean tones and rock tones are really good. The noise gate is the best non-fiddley gate I've ever used, verb is nice, delay is very usable, red box recording is simple and sounds great, and having resonance on a small amp is awesome. That said, you can only use chorus/flanger/phazer/tremolo one at a time, and they lack adjustability with only the two nobs. The overdrive sounds are boosted by a zener diode circuit, so if your looking for that drenched high gain tone you'll be disappointed, your EVH is in another class. The zener diode circuit does not play well with overdrive/ distortion pedals through the front end, I've tried a dozen. The one thing I've found is that the power soak feature for bedroom practice and recording hampers the amp from making that last bit of gain, so I recommend turning the power soak off and using the master volume and noise gate to control volume and feedback when going for that liquidy drenched gain tone. I'm sure the amp would be a great A/B amp along with your EVH, but that said... I'd like to trade you the Grandmeister 40 with some cash for your EVH, lol.

@@shovington67 Thanks. That’s a good bit of information. I’m totally a metal player, so high gain tones are of greatest importance to me, and the EVH does that easily. What it lacks in modern programmability and built in effects I made up by connecting a Boss GT-100 with the four cable method, plus a MIDI cable for channel switching. Step on a button on the GT-100 and it loads all the effects for a particular sound, plus switches the amp to the correct channel. It can’t change the knob settings on the amp since they are physical potentiometers, but I rarely find the need to turn them anyway. My tastes are simple and I don’t think I have more than about eight patches saved.

Hmm I'm not sure. I almost never use loops. Have you checked out the manual?

@@SonicDriveStudio thank you for the answer - I have read the manual but about this problem nothing is mentioned - they only say that if you are going to use the FX loop you must connect the pedals ... I wish the FX loop to remain connected all the time when I change the channels !

Yes, EQ, gain, volume etc also

@@SonicDriveStudio that's awesome, so it could feasibly be all one needs, I've got my eye on Bluguitar's amp x for that very reason

Both are fine for that

All the settings are visible during the video

You do need a special midi interface for that with this amp, which I forgot to mention

Nevermind its the York Audio me 412 v2

I think it's pretty masterful tbh. It's a unique sound and flavor but that doesn't mean that it doesn't master those tones. It just does it in its own way...

It’s plexiglass so it’s not so easy to break it

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