Hughes & Kettner Stateman Quad EL 84

The Hughes & Kettner Statesman Series brings together for the first 
time what classic rock as well as blues & country guitarists have been 
dreaming about for a long time: From early ‘60s open-back clean to 
early ‘80s stack-drive cream – and tons of top-drawer crunch tones 
in between – these tone monsters deliver the dynamics and state-of-art features that make life on stage so sweet and simple.

With the marvelous new Statesman series, Hughes & Kettner has debunked the 
myth that all classic tube amp designs lack versatility.

The Statesman models’ kinship with ‘60s-era forebears is obvious at 
first glance – they share that familiar look & feel. Sporting 12AX7 
preamp tubes and EL 84 power amp tubes, they would also appear 
to share the same DNA. Take a closer look, though, and you will see 
its talents transcend mere mimicry, with two sweet-sounding discrete 
channels!

Clean delivers the soulful shimmering tone of an open tube combo. 
Its Twang switch lives up to its name by adding a healthy helping of 
punchy high-mids that put the spank in funk and do the country twang
thang so well; even contemporary ballads benefit from the upper 
mids boost. Dial in a dab more gain, and dive into a world of dynamic 
crunch tones and hair-trigger response to every subtlety of your touch.

The Drive channel offers more than merely more gain. It delivers 
the secret ingredient that is so critical to a classic rock sound - the 
powerful punch of a half-stack. The Gain knob takes you on a magical 
mystery tour from a throaty mid-‘60s bark to a typical ‘70s rock 
bite. The Boost button is a time machine, taking you and the amp’s 
overdrive tone a few years down the road!

All Statesmen sport a genuine Accutronics® spring reverb; the Reverb 
Balance knob controls each channel’s amount. A modern effects loop 
lets you add external effect devices to the sonic equation. And the 
included footswitch lets you tap your toes to conveniently activate the 
two channels, Boost, the FX loop, and Reverb.

An Eminence® speaker developed especially for these amps brings 
together the grooviest tried-and-true design features of US and UK 
speakers. They are the key to these rigs’ jaw-dropping tonal versatility.