Product: Hughes & Kettner AC 412 Cab
Price Paid: 700 (DM)
Submitted
06/21/2000
at
04:13am
by
Kenneth Chowdhury
Email: Kenneth dot Chowdhury<at>gmx dot de
Features
:
8
Stereo 4*12 Cab, built in early nineties, uses Celestion Rockdriver Pro. Unlike Marshall and Laney Cabs this one provides a 4 ohms impedance per input when used stereo. This can cause matching problems
with same (older) amps.
Sound Quality
:
9
I use an Ibanez JS 100, Pacifica 402S, Rocktron Vooduvalve with Behringer DSP's and a Mesa 20/20 Power amp.
I have compared this one to the more expensive Laney Cab and found it more satisfying than that one. It has quite a brillant open , but also
punchy and ballsy sound. This is probably caused by the use of not too
strong materials and a very light painting, therefore a quite resonant
feeling is provided. This may be disliked by tone-purists, but as you can see above, I'm quite into processed sounds and in this case the cab suits my sound quite nice. The mentioned Laney Cab makes my tone quite mure dull and liveless and no so loud.
Reliability
:
8
Yes. Opened it, rewired it, opened it again, rewired it again (for changing poweramps with different and inflexibel impedances)and everything still works. Only one handle went loose onetime ane made a snarreling noise when playing very loud, but that's easy to fix.
Customer Support
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No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
8
Good quality and versatile for the money spent, and definitly better then the similar priced Marshall valvestate cab.
