Hi All,
My name is Arv, I work for the new owners of Hiwatt.
I'm posting to introduce myself, answer questions and generally talk all things Hiwatt!
The trademark was bought by a Canadian team of Hiwatt enthusiasts 2 years ago, since then they have assembled a team of highly skilled, dedicated people to bring the brand back to it's former glory.
We've used the last 2 years designing and really focussing on making the amps perfect.
The official relaunch of Hiwatt is this spring at Musikmesse in Frankfurt.
Hope you're all well and look forward to talking Hiwatt.
Comments
Big Gilmourish 100w please with power scaling and all sorts of other mod cons to bring it up to date with modern times! :-)
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Where will the new range be built?
Hi Arv. Brave people! I don't know much about the old Hiwatts, just looked at a couple of schematics, bit different from the VMF clones?
Be interested to see if the new amps are 'all valve'.
Dave (Blackstar bottle washer Rtrd.)
Great to have you on board.
Are you here in an official, semi-official or personal capacity?
There are a reasonable number of british makers and retailers on here. The more the merrier. Welcome to the family. Especially as Hiwatt have some decent history behind them.
I just hope it lasts.
Please actually listen to what people want.
Please don't be like Marshall!
Good luck.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
I don't want to detract you from your development and setting up but are you able to offer info on old/vintage 70s DR-103 heads? My friend has one and I've done some research but I just wondered if you can do that. Also, will you have a UK operation or just distributors?
All the best with it
Definitely not. We're an entirely different company, putting quality builds and our customers first.
The Custom Shop facility is located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
I'll post a picture of the innards of one of the amps at some point - Everything we build here at the Custom Shop is certainly all valve.
Thanks Fandango, somewhere around the semi-official spot. There's myself and Dave (he's floating around here somewhere) visiting a lot of forums introducing ourselves and spreading the word of Hiwatt.
Couldn't agree more. As I mentioned above, aside from building the best products we physically can, the customers are our number 1 priority.
Thanks Kebabkid,
Pop an email over to our techs at tech@hiwatt.co.uk provided they've had their morning coffee they're relatively friendly!
We're based near Bawtry on the outskirts of Doncaster and are currently operating direct from the unit, though we have a growing distribution network.
Cheers for all the responses and positivity so far!
I've also moved the thread to our Made in the UK section.
Thats really good to hear. The whole MG situation left a very sour taste.
Can you give any details about what you guys are planning? Are you going to try to rebuild bridges with the Reeves family/HiTone etc?
Yeah! kudasaid! Been looking for the guy!
Dave.
As mentioned above, the official relaunch is at Musikmesse, Frankfurt in April - Hall 9 Booth C20 for those that are going
There's a lot of exciting things happening here, but here's one teaser:
Based on the classic DR504, Hiwatt presents the Mike Fortin Modded "Custom Super-HI 50".
We sent a DR504 to Mike in Canada and he worked some magic on it to create super high gain with immense clarity. This is still in development but we're aiming the launch to coincide with Musikmesse. Some of you may have seen that we (Maxwatt) took the prototype to Winter NAMM which caused a nice buzz.
We'll have more details and updates about that, other new amp lines and the classics soon which will be released first on our social medias:
Facebook
Instagram
Best,
Arv
There'll also be official announcements and press releases in the coming weeks regarding some of the goings-on.
Cheers @fandango
@Arv_Hiwatt - that is amazing news! I saw clips of the Fortin one at NAMM - amazing!
I hope you guys are very successful!