Hughes and Kettner Grandmeister 40 Deluxe Amp Head

The Smartest All Tube Amp Ever!The Hughes & Kettner GrandMeister Deluxe 40 is a combination of all-tube tones and smart control features in an easily playable package! Along with its huge selection of amazing sounds, every control and switch setting on GrandMeister Deluxe 40 can be easily saved, stored and recalled at the touch of a button, the studio-quality on-board effects settings are all saved right along with the gain and EQ knob settings. Nice and simple tonal magic.

Amazing Features • Deluxe Tone Technology with 128 unique tones at your fingertips
• Optional power soak from 40 watts, down to 20 watts, 5 watts, 1 watt & 0 watts
• MIDI in for further footswitchable control with multifx pedals or channel switchers
• Red Box AE (Ambience Emulation) offers further tone shaping

Rapid RecallSaving and recalling your favorite GrandMeister Deluxe 40 sounds is incredibly convenient with the optional FSM-432 MK III MIDI board, allowing you to store up to 128 presets and recall them with a signle switch. All of the amp’s settings are saved, including gain, EQ, and all effects settings, giving you a practically endless library of different sounds. Pot settings are saved using the ingenious Smart Rotary Control technology, which also lets us keep the GM40’s panel clean and easy to use, with only 9 pots instead of 14 per channel.

Endless ToneWith GrandMeister Deluxe 40, there’s both a channel and an effect to suit every six-string style. The Clean, Crunch, Lead and Ultra channels can be shaped to your liking with the powerful EQ and gain controls and even Boost, which adds specific frequencies up to 11 to give you tighter, creamier or heavier tones, depending on your selected settings. Along with this, you can layer on flavours of studio-quality reverb, delay and modulation effects, select from chorus, flanger, phaser and tremolo) to take your tone to new heights.

Does it all!GrandMeister Deluxe 40’s impressive appointments and smart features like the built-in power soak give you everything you need to take the world’s biggest stages, enjoy Deluxe tone at an agreeable room volume at home, and silently capture hair raising tones at night without a cab or microphone. This really is the definitive do-it-all all-tube amp!

Wireless ControlIf you wish to remotely control your all-tube tones in real time, the free GM40 REMOTE App for iPad lets you do exactly that with the GrandMeister Deluxe 40. If you’re on stage, in the studio or at the rehearsal room, you can now watch, touch and control all your amp’s features on one handy screen, and you can back up, store and share all your favourite sounds too, you can even make the whole process cable-free by using the handy WMI-1 wireless MIDI interface.