If you're after the amp tones from The Who, Led Zepplin, Noel Gallagher's Oasis tones or even Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", THIS is your holy grail. This is a phenomenal example of a "Hylight-Era" Hiwatt DR103, the 100W KING of british cleans in prog rock during the 70s and 80s. This particular model has the added rarity of featuring a 1974 SE320 4x12 cabinet loaded with all original Fane ‘purpleback’ 122229 speakers with whizzer cones for added treble AND a factory-installed port for added bass. These feature are insanely rare and well sought after and so we've only found one other cabinet that matches these high specifications from factory! This results in a particularly hi-fi sounding cabinet and likely very close to the premium versions that would have been used by the likes of the bands named earlier. Let alone the fact they're captured at a UK studio using vintage 1073s and an SSL console.
This amplifier is a very interesting beast, whilst jumpering the channels makes a huge difference, switching between the brilliant and normal channels seems to have very minimal tonal difference - same with the treble control. I asked our amp tech if it was faulty to begin with but this is genuinely how they react - no wonder everybody calls them glassy and pristine! I've tried to keep half of these clean and the other half pushing the amp, after all it's known for its cleans but my god can this thing push air when it needs to. I can't wait to hear how people get on with this amp. Super unique. Super articulate. Arena-filling tone at your fingertips.
These are my favourite set ups, using my favourite mics, through the Studio B at Blue Bell Hill Studios which is one of the best sounding tracking rooms I've ever heard. The result is thick like my 1073s but with the clarity of the SSL console at Blue Bell Hill Studios. The perfect medium. I've engineered and dialled in each capture to present the exact tone we hear in the room.
15 Captures Total - Calibrated at 18dBu.
If you're after the amp tones from The Who, Led Zepplin, Noel Gallagher's Oasis tones or even Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", THIS is your holy grail. This is a phenomenal example of a "Hylight-Era" Hiwatt DR103, the 100W KING of british cleans in prog rock during the 70s and 80s. This particular model has the added rarity of featuring a 1974 SE320 4x12 cabinet loaded with all original Fane ‘purpleback’ 122229 speakers with whizzer cones for added treble AND a factory-installed port for added bass. These feature are insanely rare and well sought after and so we've only found one other cabinet that matches these high specifications from factory! This results in a particularly hi-fi sounding cabinet and likely very close to the premium versions that would have been used by the likes of the bands named earlier. Let alone the fact they're captured at a UK studio using vintage 1073s and an SSL console.
This amplifier is a very interesting beast, whilst jumpering the channels makes a huge difference, switching between the brilliant and normal channels seems to have very minimal tonal difference - same with the treble control. I asked our amp tech if it was faulty to begin with but this is genuinely how they react - no wonder everybody calls them glassy and pristine! I've tried to keep half of these clean and the other half pushing the amp, after all it's known for its cleans but my god can this thing push air when it needs to. I can't wait to hear how people get on with this amp. Super unique. Super articulate. Arena-filling tone at your fingertips.
These are my favourite set ups, using my favourite mics, through the Studio B at Blue Bell Hill Studios which is one of the best sounding tracking rooms I've ever heard. The result is thick like my 1073s but with the clarity of the SSL console at Blue Bell Hill Studios. The perfect medium. I've engineered and dialled in each capture to present the exact tone we hear in the room.
15 Captures Total - Calibrated at 18dBu.
