| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
I have the ability to pickup a Hiwatt 30 "Sterling Silver Import"
head for a fairly low price (under 300$). The head's in perfect
shape and it sounds infinitely better than the Marshall JCM800 50w
combo I now own.
I would like some information on Hiwatts "Sterling Silver Import"
series of amplifiers. I am primarily concerned with the 30w heads.
If anyone has ever owned one or if you know someone who has please
let me know what you think of them. any and all opinions will be
appreciated.
Common you equipment gurus.....show me some of that knowledge
that has made this file so good
Thanks in advance
Brian
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| 1035.1 | ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI | Take it away...Take it away! | Thu Dec 22 1988 11:53 | 1 | |
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| 1035.2 | Good amp | INK::BUCKLEY | Yo Dudes, dig the Solstice! | Thu Dec 22 1988 13:17 | 21 |
Hi Bri,
I owned one of these heads for over a year. It was really nice and as
you said worlds above a Marshall JCM800 head sound wise! I only sold
it cuz I didn't want that chainsaw sound anymore.
The head is actually something like 43 watts RMS if you scope it out.
It has 3 7025 preamp tubes plus the phase splitter tube, and 4 el34
output tubes. A friend of mine replaced his el34's with el84's (from
Groove Tubes) to get more of an english sound from it.
The eq is kinda nice...a LOT more active than a Marshall eq, so watch
out. I believe the freq. centers were 120hz (bass), 700hz (mid), 5K
(treb). Presc. was listed as (above 5K...whatever that meant?).
I found that running the preamp volume at `8 1/2' sounded better than
pushing it to 10 like on a Marshall.
For under $300 I'd say but it!
Buck
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