Product Overview
The Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic is a 50-watt floorboard-style amplifier pedal with an analog Spirit Tone Generator. It provides vintage-inspired clean and classic crunch sounds with two independent channels and comprehensive controls. It includes footswitchable boost and solo functions, an effects loop, noise gate, Red Box cabinet emulator, headphone output, and auxiliary input. With onboard knobs and switches, it offers easy control without menu diving, delivering top-notch tone and performance for recording, live, or direct applications.
Hughes & Kettner AMPMAN-CLASSIC Features:
- 50 W, 2-channel floorboard-style guitar amplifier
- Spirit Tone Generator offers tube-like tone at any volume with zero digitizing of your signal
- Channel 1 unleashes vintage-inspired cleans, plus sizzling blues textures
- Channel 2 produces '70s- and '80s-era rock crunch
- Per-channel sound-shaping controls: Gain, Tone, Presence, Resonance, Sagging, and Volume
- Sagging control fine-tunes power amp saturation and compression independent of volume
- Footswitchable Boost adds extra hair to your signal when the situation calls for it
- Footswitchable Solo function gives you a 0 to +6dB boost over your Master knob's setting
- Footswitchable serial effects loop makes integrating your stompboxes and processors a breeze
- Black Spirit 200-derived IDB gate provides a whisper-quiet noise floor between notes
- Red Box AE+ cabinet emulator achieves miked-cab sounds without a mic or a cab
- Separately adjustable headphones output and auxiliary input
- Everything is accessible via onboard knobs and switches — no menu diving required
Hughes & Kettner AMPMAN-CLASSIC Specifications:
- Type: Solid State
- Number of Channels: 2
- Total Power: 50 W @ 4 ohms
- EQ: Tone, Presence, Resonance
- Amp Modeling: Red Box AE+ Cabinet Emulator
- Number of Models: 8
- Inputs: 1/4", 1/8" (aux)
- Outputs: XLR (cab emulation DI), 1/4" (4-16 ohms)
- Headphones: 1/8"
- Effects Loop: Yes
- Footswitch I/O: Built-in (channel, boost, loop, solo)
- Features: 3rd Party IR support
- Power Source: 24 V DC power supply
- Height: 2.04"
- Width: 9.84"
- Depth: 6.02"
- Weight: 2.53 lbs