When HIWATT Made A High Gain Amp!
In today’s video, Paul Drew and James Ivey are checking out HIWATT amp, specifically the HIGH GAIN 100.
This 100 watt beast of an amp is not your typical clean hiwatt tone.
Link to TONEX Captures
https://www.thestudiorats.net/product-category/tonex/
The first channel of the Hiwatt Hi Gain HGS100H amp head is based on the famous clean sound of the Custom DR103 100W tube amp head. The well-known British brand added a second channel to this amp head that offers a tight, distorted rock sound. With the included foot pedal, you can turn the Accutronics reverb on or off and switch between channels. Want to add external effects to your sound? You can do so with the mono effects loop.
Hi Gain HGS100H: practical rock guitar amp head
Connect a suitable speaker cabinet to the HGS100H, and you won’t have to worry about impedance, as Hiwatt has made it possible for you to switch between 16, 8 and 4 ohms. You can even adjust the voltage by choosing 220-240 or 100-120 volts with the Voltage Selector. Both channels of this 100-watt tube amp are adjustable by means of a 3-band EQ and Presence potentiometer. All this adds up to a practical amp head that is great for rock music in particular. It’s got one 12AT7 and three 12AX7 tubes in the preamp and four EL34 tubes in the power amp.The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and NOT Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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Originally posted by UCW-S0JAM1Rtte4lU0HsD8BA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ftaoxdG0Q
I’d buy an old DR103 before anything they have now.
I have the English design and built HG50 with reverb and speaker emulation, into the desk sounds great and recordable. Into the Hiwatt 412 a thing of wonder.
Hiwatt DR is The real one
Great sounding amp guys. Predominantly Hiwatt was top notch during the 70s. I remember seeing Slade live so many times with the largest back line of Hiwatt stacks. It would be good to see if you could get your hands on an old Sound City head great amps with a very distinctive tone of their own.
Stick a P90 SG in there and maybe Mr Townshend will emerge?
Sounding great guys! We'll have to get you some of our current build gear ????
I bought a tonex preset from your site but I haven’t received it? I also emailed x2 with no reply.
See how close you can get to it with the Katana.
Homage or butchery ???? You're a right pair ????
I own and use a 1975 DR-504 head. Signed on chassis by technician E Walton, and Dave Reeves. serial 10452. It will be buried with me.
Wow…with single coil pickups.
The sound of early Brian Adam's records. Keith Scott was using them because they had master volumes before Marshall did.
There are too many amps today, but only a few of them are still relevant for nice gainy tones: Friedman, Ceriatone, Suhr, Toneking.
Awesome video have a great weekend Paul ❤????
How great is this, I have an UK made HiWatt Hi Gain 100 head with reverb that was on stage at the Montreal Jazz fest , been in the shop a few times but completely rocks, thanks for posting!
Gorgeous
Rippin Amp ! Love it
Includes the pack amp and cabs?
My ears are bleeding ????
Having seen this I have immediately bought your capture. Very impressive amp, can’t wait to use the capture in anger – possibly with a big grin on my face ????
Everything you touch sounds like magic.
'It's really sustainy". Cue the cut scene to Spinal Tap & the still sustaining Les Paul which you weren't really allowed to look at????.
Just wanted to say Thank You to the channel for the models you've uploaded on Tonex. I was lucky enough to get a Tonex One for my birthday, and I feel like your models stand apart from many of the others I've sampled. It's made loading up the pedal incredibly easy, even with how obtuse the software can be at times. Really, really cool of you guys to do and would recommend searching "TSR" to anyone else with Tonex. Thank you!
That can definitely do modern high gain.
Does anyone know how good the new Hiwatt solid state heads are? They've also just released solid state combo amps.
Something different , but what frets do you have on the black Strat with maple neck.
How much is a bargain for one of those?
Love it. What a great platform amp.
Hiwatt fanboy here. I have a handwired Custom 7 and Custom 20 from around the same period I believe. Phenomenal amps. The Custom 7 needed a bit of tweaking and my amp tech contacted Hiwatt for technical information. What he got back was a hand drawn schematic. Apparently at the time these were developed Hiwatt ownership was in a bit of flux and product development was a little shall we say haphazard? However, that period produced some incredibly interesting amps which I believe incudes the one you’re demoing. The rock tones that thing is producing are utterly stunning and sound like my dream amp. Thanks for putting this one up!
When you First went to High Gain From Clean It made me think of Early Pete Townshend
Hiwat and Vox amps have never been a favorite of mine. However, they are responsible for more hits than you could imagine.