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I have this old Peavey PAG that I've been using for band practice and have slowly become less and less happy with it. So I thought I'd check out craigslist for some combos. Any way, by luck, when I checked the ads, the first thing to appear was a H&K TriAmp. It had seen it's days but the seller only wanted $450 for it so I jumped. He delivered it to me at my last show so I really purchased the thing without a test run, very uncommon for me. Over the last two days, I've been giving it a really run through and I must admit, I kind like the beast (because it weight a ton w/2 transformers). It a 3 channel amp with 2 gain stages per channel. So far, there is really only 1 out the 6 that I don't like. The Clean channel stage 1 is very clean, Fender clean. Stage 2 get's some really nice break-up if you turn the gain up a little. Both stages, very usable. Channel 2 sort-a take the next step where channel 1 left off. Stage 2 on this channel is a little weak, very muddy where as stage 1 is bright and clean. I got some amazing AC/DC tones from this channel. Channel 3 is gain to the max. Both stages on this channel are usable. The stage 2 on this channel is close to the tone I get from my 3rd channel of my JSX.
The effects loops when in serial mode, sounds pretty damn good. I really didn't get the tone suckage that I get from my TSL100. I very pleased with the loop on this amp.
My only gripe if any, is that the amount of gain given to any stage effects it db output. I find that when I turn the gain down on a stage for a channel, it's output is way less than the other stage for that same channel. So when switching between stages on a channel can produce some undesireable output. Because of this, I'm force to set the amount of gain for each stage (of a channel) to be very close to each other. This is basically because the two stages of a channel share a common eq and channel volume.
In closing, I think I got a great deal for the $450 I spent. I might have to keep my eyes open for a TriAmp 2.
joe...
The effects loops when in serial mode, sounds pretty damn good. I really didn't get the tone suckage that I get from my TSL100. I very pleased with the loop on this amp.
My only gripe if any, is that the amount of gain given to any stage effects it db output. I find that when I turn the gain down on a stage for a channel, it's output is way less than the other stage for that same channel. So when switching between stages on a channel can produce some undesireable output. Because of this, I'm force to set the amount of gain for each stage (of a channel) to be very close to each other. This is basically because the two stages of a channel share a common eq and channel volume.
In closing, I think I got a great deal for the $450 I spent. I might have to keep my eyes open for a TriAmp 2.
joe...
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