Hughes & Kettner present the Spirit Nano series, the first family of new Mini Amplifier models from St. Wendel. The series includes three guitar amplifiers based on the award-winning Spirit Tone Generator technology and, they should deliver the rich and natural sound, direct feel of traditional tube amplifiers, according to the manufacturer.
With up to 50 watts at 4 ohms, a built-in RedBox, and the Sagging Control typical of Hughes and Kettner, the new Spirit Nano Mini Amp Heads should be universally applicable and offer a convincing sound and amazing expressiveness – in every rehearsal, during recording, and also live.
Rüdiger Forse, Senior Product Manager at Hughes & Kettner: “With the new Spirit Nano Series, we condensed the spirit of legendary tones into three small-sized but huge sounding amps.”
Three different acoustic guitar amps each represent a chapter in the history of legendary guitar sounds:
The Spirit of Vintage serves up the full spectrum of shimmering clean sounds and rockin’ rebel crunch tones typical of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
The Spirit of Rock head takes players on a journey through time to the era of iconic power riffs to pump out signature brown sound.
The Spirit of Metal delivers everything from beefy ‘80s metal sounds to the bombast of modern metal tones.
The heart of the Spirit Nano series is the Spirit Tone Generator developed by Hughes Kettner, which is able to completely analogue the interaction of traditional tube amplifier circuits. This ensures an authentic, latency-free, and direct playing feeling. The second secret ingredient of the Spirit Nano sound recipe is the sagging control. Thanks to this exclusive feature, the saturation behavior of the power amplifier, which is only known from old overdriven tube amps, can be turned up seamlessly and independently of the volume level.
In addition to the variety of functions and the considerable power, the Spirit Nano Mini Amplifier models are surprisingly small and light and easily fit in any bag or backpack.
Price and availability
The Spirit Nano series can be pre-ordered through the Bhphotovideo.com website for $299 and will be available in October 2020.
Mooer recently also announced the SD50A Acoustic Guitar amps, which is specially designed for the needs of acoustic guitarists and singers.
