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ThePrettyDamned · December 2014

meltedbuzzbox said:

Gassage said:

I can't understand why no-one really builds an amp that sounds as good in the modern age (Reeves clones aside)

Hiwatt style make the custom range of amplifier, it is properly pricey though £2.4k for black and +10% for custom colour vinyl (white, blue or red).

ThePrettyDamned said:
I don't know. One day, Hiwatt will be in fashion because of some American builder who chooses to release one with a YouTube artist sponsorship and product demo, TGP will collectively wet themselves at how it is the missing link in their chain, and you'll be able to get the transformers from several companies because they're in demand again.

they have quite a lot of modern day endorsements.

artic monkeys, coldplay, kasabian, Noel Gallagher, the killers...

http://www.hiwatt.co.uk/artists

And Kurt Cobain.

Err...

I know, but scour any guitar forum and not many people are saying 'I want Hiwatt tone', they're asking for black face, tweed, Marshall or Vox usually.

Shame.

meltedbuzzbox · December 2014

its because we all think Fender when clean amps are discussed.

I wouldn't believe @impmann when he said to me a Hiwatt will out fender a fender.

It does and then some.

My evil twin is still a damn nice amp but the hiwatt has magic fairy dust sprinkled on it.

richardhomer · December 2014

It seems we've missed acoustics:

Ice cool - Pre-war Martin
Cool - Lowden
Uncool - Taylor
Seriously uncool - Dreadnoughts with cutaways....

Loobs · December 2014

Ok, uncool, quite a short list.

Telemasters (sorry)

Acoustics painted black (or any other colour)

Amps with more than ten knobs.

Suhr/Anderson headstocks

Putting a Bigsby on every fucking guitar that can accept one.

Floyd Roses

8/9 string guitars

Overneat everything-boutique pedalboards!

Modelling amps

Jackson guitars

Blackstar amps

PRS

What's cool:

Teles, Jazzmasters, jazz guitars, vintage Japanese guitars, SGs, LPs, Travis Bean, Hiwatt, vintage Marshall, fuzzes, analog choruses, tape echos, EGC, G&L, Supro amps, Fender amps, modular synths, vintage synths, anything made by Moog, music man basses

ThePrettyDamned · December 2014

@loobs I agree with a lot of that, especially super neat, tidy all boutique boards! It's the least cool, least rock and roll thing ever.

Particularly great call on "anything made by Moog". It's like owning a piece of universal coolness.

marantz1300 · December 2014

Loobs · December 2014

Marantz, I remember your stuff from the old forum. Fucking awesome.

marantz1300 · December 2014

72 Deluxe
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/marantz1300/Gibson/SDC10873.jpg
VOS 57 RI
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/marantz1300/Gibson/SDC10855.jpg
71 Deluxe .The one I want back.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/marantz1300/Gibson/SAM_0207.jpg

ICBM · December 2014

ThePrettyDamned said:
I know, but scour any guitar forum and not many people are saying 'I want Hiwatt tone', they're asking for black face, tweed, Marshall or Vox usually.

I think it's because there is a widespread fallacy that "no-one needs more than 15W" or whatever the current fashionable low-power Nazism is, and Hiwatts start at 50W (and are conservative even at that) and go up to 400W. (And are still conservative even at that

.)

The fact that a Hiwatt 200 sounds better at whisper volume than just about any amp I've ever heard seems to fall on deaf ears. (Irony intentional

.)

Loobs · December 2014

Speaking of Hiwatt: Old rig of mine (circa 2008/9)

THAT was a nice amp. I paid £400 for it in 2008.

Loobs · December 2014

Only piece of gear I regret selling. I sold it for double what I paid, but I was still a total idiot to let it go.

The workmanship on those amps is just on another level. The clean tone is outrageously good. Makes delay and reverb pedals sound incredible.

marantz1300 · December 2014

I paid £65 for my DR103 in 2004, £140 for my 73 DR112 about five years later.
I'd happily pay £400 now.

ThePrettyDamned · December 2014

Loobs said:

Only piece of gear I regret selling. I sold it for double what I paid, but I was still a total idiot to let it go.

The workmanship on those amps is just on another level. The clean tone is outrageously good. Makes delay and reverb pedals sound incredible.

Holy cow, that's mind bogglingly neat and tidy inside, absolutey awesome!!

Loobs · December 2014

marantz1300 said:

I paid £65 for my DR103 in 2004, £140 for my 73 DR112 about five years later.
I'd happily pay £400 now.

Ya bastid.

@ThePrettyDamned they really are something else. You played one?

ThePrettyDamned · December 2014

Loobs said:

marantz1300 said:

I paid £65 for my DR103 in 2004, £140 for my 73 DR112 about five years later.
I'd happily pay £400 now.

Ya bastid.

@ThePrettyDamned they really are something else. You played one?

Sadly, I've never even seen one in the flesh. I'm desperate to try one though, any of them really - 50 watts of Hiwatt would be loud enough for anything, quiet enough for home and take pedals like a champ.

I'm making it my goal to hear one. I'm hopefully getting a proper nice amp this year - I've made do with a peavey bandit (which is actually pretty sweet all things considered!) for a while, and plan to not upgrade until I can do it properly - either a custom MJW or a a vintage amp overhauled by him.

Loobs · December 2014

You owe it to yourself to hear one. There's nothing quite like that huge warm clean tone, headroom for ever. They don't really even break up, full pelt. They have a sound all of their own.

This is the only guitar I miss selling:

meltedbuzzbox · December 2014

ThePrettyDamned said:

Loobs said:

marantz1300 said:

I paid £65 for my DR103 in 2004, £140 for my 73 DR112 about five years later.
I'd happily pay £400 now.

Ya bastid.

@ThePrettyDamned they really are something else. You played one?

Sadly, I've never even seen one in the flesh. I'm desperate to try one though, any of them really - 50 watts of Hiwatt would be loud enough for anything, quiet enough for home and take pedals like a champ.

I'm making it my goal to hear one. I'm hopefully getting a proper nice amp this year - I've made do with a peavey bandit (which is actually pretty sweet all things considered!) for a while, and plan to not upgrade until I can do it properly - either a custom MJW or a a vintage amp overhauled by him.

Get a hiwatt.

Loobs · December 2014

Seriously, seriously cool.

Haters gonna hate.

Loobs · December 2014

Kill it.

Loobs · December 2014

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