Any one playing a H&K triamp mk2?

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 820

guys has one local with foot switch for 1400 . From what i here they are brootal as a mofo! eight pre amp tubes or some thing crazy like that.. Im a big fan of the red box out also!! switchable to 100 watts to 50 also. Any one own one here ?

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I know Josh Rand from Stonesour uses those in his rig. Maybe do some YouTube or Google searches.

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I don't own one, but I played through one a while back. Brootalz galore. Been after one ever since. Just seems like whenever one comes up, I have to put the money elsewhere. Stoopid responsibilities.

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tommytoolz wrote:

I don't own one, but I played through one a while back. Brootalz galore. Been after one ever since. Just seems like whenever one comes up, I have to put the money elsewhere. Stoopid responsibilities.

Im really thinking of returning my triple and buying a used one with foot switch local Laughing

guy wants 1400

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my friend has 2 of them. they are pretty brutal

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:44 am

Cmon? 8 preamp tubes? Isn't that just too overkill? My Piranha has 2 and sounds great. My Boogies have 5 and sound great. If it doesn't sound like the rest of the rectified crap, I'm interested in hearing what it can do. H&K makes some killer cabinets. I actually liked the sound of them through a JCM2000, better than the 1960B Marshall cabinet.

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:50 am

tommytoolz wrote:

I don't own one, but I played through one a while back. Brootalz galore. Been after one ever since. Just seems like whenever one comes up, I have to put the money elsewhere. Stoopid responsibilities.

Bud, now you know why I stayed single. It's a good thing my ex and split at the time we did. I got that 2nd MK2C+ about 2 months after our split.

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ML Tib wrote:

Cmon? 8 preamp tubes? Isn't that just too overkill? My Piranha has 2 and sounds great. My Boogies have 5 and sound great. If it doesn't sound like the rest of the rectified crap, I'm interested in hearing what it can do. H&K makes some killer cabinets. I actually liked the sound of them through a JCM2000, better than the 1960B Marshall cabinet.

It's got 9 preamp tubes but they aren't all for distortion lol...

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:59 am

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

ML Tib wrote:

Cmon? 8 preamp tubes? Isn't that just too overkill? My Piranha has 2 and sounds great. My Boogies have 5 and sound great. If it doesn't sound like the rest of the rectified crap, I'm interested in hearing what it can do. H&K makes some killer cabinets. I actually liked the sound of them through a JCM2000, better than the 1960B Marshall cabinet.

It's got 9 preamp tubes but they aren't all for distortion lol...

So what do the extra preamp tubes do, besides distortion? Laughing

I saw the video, and it hisses like a snake pit. Laughing

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ML Tib wrote:

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

ML Tib wrote:

Cmon? 8 preamp tubes? Isn't that just too overkill? My Piranha has 2 and sounds great. My Boogies have 5 and sound great. If it doesn't sound like the rest of the rectified crap, I'm interested in hearing what it can do. H&K makes some killer cabinets. I actually liked the sound of them through a JCM2000, better than the 1960B Marshall cabinet.

It's got 9 preamp tubes but they aren't all for distortion lol...

So what do the extra preamp tubes do, besides distortion? Laughing

I saw the video, and it hisses like a snake pit. Laughing

Buffers, tone stack, reverb, effects loop... AX7s are not just about distortion.

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:09 am

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

ML Tib wrote:

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

ML Tib wrote:

Cmon? 8 preamp tubes? Isn't that just too overkill? My Piranha has 2 and sounds great. My Boogies have 5 and sound great. If it doesn't sound like the rest of the rectified crap, I'm interested in hearing what it can do. H&K makes some killer cabinets. I actually liked the sound of them through a JCM2000, better than the 1960B Marshall cabinet.

It's got 9 preamp tubes but they aren't all for distortion lol...

So what do the extra preamp tubes do, besides distortion? Laughing

I saw the video, and it hisses like a snake pit. Laughing

Buffers, tone stack, reverb, effects loop... AX7s are not just about distortion.

I would think you would want AU7's instead for those areas, less distortion/noise

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I just looked at the Tri-amp instruction manual. It's not a 3 channel amp like most. It's 3 separate amps. So if each has 3 AX7s in the preamp then that makes more sense. Hence 9 in total which are NOT shared by the other "Channels".

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Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

I just looked at the Tri-amp instruction manual. It's not a 3 channel amp like most. It's 3 separate amps. So if each has 3 AX7s in the preamp then that makes more sense. Hence 9 in total which are NOT shared by the other "Channels".

took the words out of my mouth dude Cool

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sounds GODLY to me Twisted Evil

watch the play threw at the end
use headphones or monitors not your lab top speakers lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Px1ypfGVI