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Audio Tech: Hughes & Kettner GrandMeister 36 iOS Head Unboxing & First Look

2014-03-27
rockers rollers and tech fans welcome back to another edition of tech in tomorrow no sphere we're going to go up man dear hope you're like going alright cool gear it just depends I guess what side of the fence you're on and by the way we like to especially thank techo tomorrow for making this video possible today today's video is brought to you by tech of tomorrow so what is this video alright check it out for those people out there who really give a damn this is a really cool product by Hughes & Kettner this is the grand Meister now this thing's badass man 36:15 five-10 any watts that you want to have all kinds of analog effects are built in it's totally controllable 128 different presets that are built in and there's four channels and what's really cool about this amp is that you can set all the presets to whatever channel you want so if you don't like the rockin channel you don't like the super ultra channel you only like the mellow Channel that's the only challenge you have to use and you can program everything around it now I have to also get the FSM 432 mark 3 foot switch this thing is 199 bucks on top the 1199 for this amp and now some beer going to go dude why are you going to bring us an unboxing much hey guys why I look on the internet and there are a lot of people out there who have this and it done demos over in Europe Europe here in the States nobody's seen this I think I honestly believe that I'm actually the first person to get my hands on this I don't even know if the tone King guy out there got his hands on this yet I got an order list I've been waiting since October for this bad boy so I basically want to show you guys this app it's one of my personal favorites I use it back in my back in my room and stuff where I'm a little personal studio most the other stuff and I really dig this amp one thing awesomely cool you can put this thing on like low wattage and just crank up the volume and it still comes out at a moderate volume inside your house you also have red box out you also have speaker simulation out so if you want to up like a 4 by 12 speaker simulation you can do all that out of the amp now this thing is awesome so let's jump in let's take a closer look at this amp and see really why I'm all so let's go alright folks so let's first off let's take a look at the FSM 432 mark 3 the MIDI board also includes the 9 millimeter cable so let's pop this bad boy open we don't need a knife or anything for that now this thing is going to be the foot pedal that's going to be totally controlling this amplifier controls a channel controls all the presets controls everything about my amp so first off let's check this up right here so you guys can see can switch through the ABC and D channels or 1 2 3 4 however you want to do it numbers and numerals it's up to you here you have your modulation your tap your boost you can also change the different banks and programmable so if you have all your programs in here you can change them up and down via these switches and if you guys know what tap is but sometimes with delay and stuff you can do a go you really toes are going labelled a die and a match along with your tap it's pretty cool all the cable and everything in there as the box goes tumbling over there is all included in there so foot pedal this here's the back of the foot pedal you guys can see the various connections you have stomp box mode preset mode your MIDI in and out over here you have controls 1 & 2 and also for power right here says 15 volt AC I do not think I saw a power controller in there 15 volt AC I don't believe I saw a power connector in there so I'll have to hook that up and what to see if it requires power hopefully it will just work with the amp through the MIDI cable so stuff to fill out let's see here and I guess there was nothing in there and let me just a bounce over here and take a look though real quick ah yep there is some stuff to fill out and I'm going to fly across a table here so you guys can get that in the video and then have fun with that as I fly across the table so it actually did come with its a little programming board here so for all the program everything it's all going to be inside of here how to hook it up how to use it that was actually pretty fun folks almost took a tumble across the table and that would have been very fun for the video I think anyways you guys could have had fun laughing at my fat ass that would have been funny alright so check it out so here we have it in front of us the grin Meister 36 head on digital Total Recall fully programmable tube amp like I said before three 12ax7 tubes for el84 the power tubes four channels 36 watch digital effects like I said B 428 presets you also have this thing called power so consoles time but before we can lower the wattage on it crank that up and still get that really beefed up sound that you can get it really loud volumes built-in breadbox and the soft bag is included let's take a knife to the box and let's see what the heck this thing is so a quick slice there hey quick slice over here and then a quick sliced it out setter now whoa that was kind of interesting cameraman can you hand me that stuff that went flying out as I made a little incision there interesting stuff there yeah as I was 9 oh it's pretty funny huh okay so you get this little four month like vidi gigabyte cobbler account you can focus on your music story music and all that stuff you want to get this account from Sweetwater we did get this from Sweetwater thank you very much guys Matt Adams is our sales person he'll always hook you up he's a cool guy so here we go there's more Sweetwater sound stuff like that oh it's really funny they have an I loud loud and clear little thing in here from Ike a multimedia I actually had that product I'll be bringing that to you guys very soon as well now usually there's always candy inside of a Sweetwater order now I don't see any in this one whatsoever I didn't put a nice little cut though down the old thing with the knife there which means that knife is however nice and sharp so how are you guys doing at it but you guys can see right there it was a wriggly supposed to be $14.99 we got it for 1199 pretty good deal I think so check it out we look inside you see the amp it's inside of its case it's very well packed down below it looks like Sweetwater included another catalog like saying hey buy more buy more all right so now let me go ahead and pull this out of here nice and simply now down inside of here we have all the warranty guide now the manual and everything on this is much much bigger than my tubemeister this is the grand meister so there's gonna be a lot of reading here to do as have to learn how to program this bad boy all right so I'm a little bit disappointed I got to say because Sweetwater this time did not give me any dang candy and I know I'm not supposed to eat it but man sometimes the candy sent from Sweetwater is really nice and I didn't get any this time I'm going to cry it's all right check it out usually the cable is included in the front here like usual cable is in the front so there's the cable yada yada then we get this nice carrying case you guys can see this thing is pretty reasonably sized I mean this thing is not a giant sights like a little bit suitcase size it's a little bit heavy it is heavier than the tubemeister that is for damn sure I'll go ahead and open up these little side pieces and we shall slide the amp out and it's Virgin state so it dun dun dun Ton Ton Ton Ton Ton Ton all right who has a weird smell in there man you're all smells right all right so here we go a little bit of last plastic wrapping here we're almost there folks almost there Wilber almost there Wilber our dough's pick it up and try to pull this thing off and man I think has a weird smell - it smells like glue in a way but all right then PAH boom let's start off and let's get the camera to refocus and then let's take a look at the back of the unit alright folks so now let's check out the back of the hughes & kettner you guys can see we start over here we have your MIDI in and out then we have the FX loop line out and included noise gate here is the red box out and your speaker simulator over here all these little red dots right here when the amp is going all these light up and they say that your tubes are working perfectly for your power soak you can set it to 18 Watts 5 watts 1 watt no speaker at all and if your regular standard speakers they automatically go from 8 to 16 ohms and automatically sets it up when you plug it in and last but not least you have your plug for obviously your power spin around this one side you guys see there's a carrying handle on this side using Kettner logo plain and clearly there all right folks I'm going to go ahead I'm going to flip it around the front right here but you guys can see looks really beautiful right now four channels master presence residents all your effects everything right here reverb treble mid bass volume gain boost you have your clean chatter your crunch channel your lead channel and your ultra channel and like I said all of those can be programmed now let's check some that even cooler look at how that bad boy lights up in blue I love the way this amp looks you guys can see I'll even link to it there are a couple cool videos out there already at some demos I actually want to play around with mine I've been listening to what you guys have been saying the videos hey you guys let me do the clean a little stuff different so I'm listening to you so instead of just bringing you that right now I want to take my time and bring you guys a lot better video doing that than just doing it on the rush nobody else though out there had an unboxing of this product whatsoever and that's why I thought I'd bring it to you guys so you guys can see right here you easily switch between all your channels and another thing what I mentioned that you know what a lot of amps when you go and you do the adjusting of these things it doesn't do much but on this amp it really does make a big difference when you go up here and you addressed the treble knob adjust the treble knob excuse me there when you adjust the treble knob you can really cleanly hear a difference same thing with the mid the bass it's an amazing clarity on this and reverb right here in the front you can have it with almost zero or nothing and I really want to mention this folks you guys can't see this but these things on here spend so amazingly clean and perfect you can just tell that the German engineering is just built behind this damn thing it's so badass so that's pretty much it folks I got the keyboard right here which you guys saw earlier I'll go ahead and set that just down here in front of the thing and you guys solving that comes inside with the amp it's case and everything so that's pretty much it folks man the grand Meister 36 coming to market about 1199 most the ones that came into stock pretty much sold that if you go anywhere they're going to say coming back in the stock real soon they should have something about two or three weeks I was lucky to get my hands on one rock and roll I'm very very stoked so for me this amp is everything man four channels total programmability all the effects everything inside the amp it's got a noise gate I mean seriously these guys leave any bunkin thing out of this thing I mean they really did not and from all the stuff that I've already seen on the net and looked the videos this amp has amazing tones I can't wait tonight to dig into this thing start playing it and then be able to bring you guys new videos showing you all the crap that I have learned about this app for now though this is the unboxing of both the products the footswitch and the amp we thank you very much for watching Pekka tomorrow we'll see you guys back here from the more rockin soon with me
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