Hughes & Kettner Thirty

Two channels - clear and gain.
Bass, Treble and Mid volume controls
Footpedal socket (no footpedal supplied with mine)
Headphone jack (sound through this is much much better than through my Roland Magicube 15)
Master Clean and gain volume controls
30W
Electric guitar (G & L Tribute S-500) and electric violin (Yamaha) both sound superb through this amp.

Clean is superb. Coming from an acoustic guitar, I am still getting used to all that gain and distortion, but they sound pretty good to me too (my son is rocking away with Highway to Hell quite happily).
The sound quality breaks up a bit at full volume, but as that is already too loud for my needs at home, it is not an issue for me so far. At 7 or 8, sound is superb, and more than loud enough for practising at home.

No problems so far

Not needed so far (touch wood)

I have been playing acoustic guitar for over 20 years, and recently bought my first electric guitar (G and L Tribute S-500). Bought a Roland Magicube 15 with the guitar, which was fine, but the clean channel was *really* quiet, so was looking around for something else when I saw the H&K Thirty on ebay. Read the good reviews here, and thought I would take a gamble.
I love it. All the volume I need to play (loud) at home. Clean is superb, and the gain is good too. Bass sounds are great (the Roland was not great for bass - in fact I thought the problem was the guitar pickups until I bought this amp). My wife's electric violin also sounds much much better through the H&K than though the Roland.
I suspect I would have to look long and hard to find an amp as good for the same price.

I bought this thing second hanmd from a bloke who hadn't used it for ages. I suppose it is one of the older models of H&K. No info on it on their website. I play jazz and a little rock or blues or something like that just for fun. The Thirty has two channels, footswitchable. Clean channel goes up to a nice crunch, the gainchannel starts clean but goes up quit dramatically. You can dial in clean, a little overdrive, up to metal. Problem is matching the volumes of the two channels, newer H&K amps have a special "mastervolume" for the gain channel.
Nice reverb.
I don't like heavy overdrive however so i hardly ever use the second channel.
It has an effectsloop and a headphone jack.

The clean is simply great. Period.
Overdrive is no creamy tubesound, but usable none the less.
Reverb is pretty good.

I preferred the clean channel to my other amps, which i sold.
I used to own
a JCM 900 5o watts tube combo (sucked, to loud, to heavy, harsh sounds)
a Polytone minibrute III (nice for my Gibson 125 but a bit sterile. No harmonics beefing things up.)
a Fender Champ (nice soft sounds, clean H&K's sound better however, perhaps a little overrated)
a Metroverb (Bloody good, but the thirty's clean was even better)

To make a long story short. Every amp had drawbacks and kept me looking for other amps, with the thirty i just forget everything and keep on playing.

When just acquired it's pots were slightly scratchy and using the effectsloop resulted in weird silences at times. Probably dirt or oxydation from the former owner's attic. With a little use all complaints disappeared. Now it's just fine.

As i sold all my other amps (except for my pignose) I don't have a backup. Doesn't bother me. I don't have a backup for my guitar, for my wive, not even for myself.

I used to own more H&K gear. Never needed a repair though. Changed a tube in a tubeman once, which is quite a story.

Asked a question once over e-mail and they responded fast enough.

Suppose the're ok.

I play several woodwind instruments, have four elecric guitars, a strat, an ES 335 and a les paul (and something nondescript i'm working on)

I wouldn't buy it again i guess, as i'd never find one again. Perhaps another old H&K transistorcombo. The older the better i guess.

30 watt amp, 2 channels, clean and overdrive, a clean volume knob, a gain lead knob, equalizer, reverb and a chanel switch. It has a footswitch input, line in and out and headphones output.

I have a Hohner Rockwood guitar and it sounds great. the clean is nice and shiny (reminds me of the fender tone) and the drive totally rocks.
the clean channel gets a little distorted at max vol but only when I switch to the humbucker. The drive captures that raw guitar sound (which I absolutely love) and on the lead pick-up sounds like a true tube amp......

i didnt get it new but it's in pretty good shape... I like the material in which it is covered (some kind of rug-like material)
but it looks very nice and solid

never dealt with them

A great amp.....good for all kinds of stiles. I used to be a pedal guy but nothing compares to playing on an ss amp like this.....very cool amp

It's a 30watt transistor amp with 2 channels and reverb. It has jacks for line in, line out, headphones and footswitch. First I used both channels with the footswitch, but after a year i bought a zoom707 effect pedal. and works fine with it. for a small amp it's a lot of features.

I bought it together with a yamaha 121 and played over a year with it. now i use a Ibanez 540R and it worked with both guitars very well. You can limit the volume from playing in a bedroom at 2am to playing on small gigs with drums,etc. In my opinion the distorsin channel is after a while a little boring, because if you play many stiles of music is one gain knob not enough. But all in all with some padels it sounds really good.

It' a good amp but it some problems with the soldering on the electronic. As an electricion I repaired it by my self. That was the only probs witch i've had with it. I've used it on an small gig, but it was the limit for the amp.

I've never needed any support from the company, so it's the best support I need

Overall it`s a nce amp with more features if ever needed. It's very good for practicing. For gigs you should buy a bigger amp or you use microphone. I used it allthough with the line in as a Monitor box, witch worked very well. I would buy it again it's really good for beginners and or as a second amp at home for practise.

This amp is solid state with 2 channels and reverb.
It also includes effects loop, footswitch input, and headphone out.
12" Celestion,30 watts.

I use A 1989 Gibson LesPaul costom shop with two stacked humbuckers and this is the only amp that doesent put it to shame.
I play mostly heavy rock but stray to softer stuff sometimes but this amp does it all.
The clean channel goes from glassy highs to tele type tones it sound great with my rythem coil split.
I cant say enough about the distortion. It realy kicks.
It goes from ranchy blues growl all the way up to screaming solos.
To tell you the truth I use it as a pre-amp into my Marshall.

I got this amp used so I dont know exactly what its been thru but I've put it thru hell and back. I've even used it as back up at a few gigs. Lately it has cut out a few times but has come right back.
It could us a few days in a shop.
But this amp has gotten me out of more binds than its gotten me into and it deserves a break.

I've never dealt with Hughes before so I don't know.

If you see one of these pick it up! It is awsome. I have a Marshall 100watt head, Yamaha 100watt 1/12",and a Crate 200watt 2/12" and this is the only one that fully takes care of me. I will have mine looked at and will deffenitly try to find more.

I'm not sure when this amp was made as I got it in a pawn shop for $60. It is covered in that black mother of hair stuff that collects lint. My cats love to sharpen their claws on it. It has line in,out, footswitch, and headphone jacks. One input, two channels. It had a celestion 70 watt 12" speaker which I replaced with an old JBL. Solid state. If anybody has one of these I'd like to hear from them.

The clean channel gets a pretty good crunch at around 7 or so. It sounds pretty decent for a ss amp. Distortion channel does the Santanna thing ok, but not much good for anything else. Not a bad amp for 60 bucks.

No problems since I've had it. About 2 years. Like I said I don't know how old it is.