Long story short, I moved from a Peavy Delta blues to a Laney cub10 as I couldn't be doing with lugging a heavy amp about every week. So being a Lazy git when I saw a 100watt Head and Cab going for £50 I though I Could get it and leave it behind the stage where we rehearse and I would only need to have 1 trip from the car with guitar and pedalboard. And save my amp for gigs.
Thinking if anything happened to it, it was only £50 you get what you pay for right?
Anyway when I picked up the amp i've been blown away! Its a HH VS Musician with Session 12" Cab. Clean channel is rich and warm not at all harsh as I was expecting and the dirty channel again is full and rich and cleans up nicely when backing off the guitar volume.
Takes pedals well and the best bit is it glows green behind the dials like your dads old stereo in the 70's.
Does anyone know anything about these amps or Cabs or have any experience with them?? I am genuinely impressed!
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Bargain.
What you now need is one of these...
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When I first started playing in a band some 37 bloody years ago, we used to goggled at the HH stuff in guitars shops and dream
Simple days.
I was recently given a pair of HH 100W slave amps, both with faults, which I managed to make one working one out of without buying any new parts, but even with that minimal amount of work it probably wasn't worth it economically since I doubt I would get even £50 for it.
Interestingly, when I plugged a guitar into it to test it - no preamp at all, the input jack connects straight to the volume pot and then the power amp board - I immediately heard that characteristic slightly gritty HH tone, so that's clearly a function of the power amp and not (as I assumed it would be) the preamp.
A VS Musician is more likely to be reliable than an IC100 as they're slightly later and the caps seem to have been slightly better quality to begin with, and the Session cab probably has a G12K-85 in it, so you did pretty well for £50.
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Only wish I’d have known or appreciated what amazing stuff it was at the time.
The irony is that none of them get used for the reasons that the OP ditched the Peavey delta Blues - I'm now using a ZT lunchbox!
'A lot of guitar sounds on the album came from an old HH Musician transistor amplifier, which all the British new wavebands used in the late 1970s and sounds crazy good.'
Currently you can easily pick up a 100W HH combo in reasonable condition for about £100. (Although pick up might be the wrong expression... )
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I have memories of my dad making a channel footswitch for it too, but it was narrow and kept tipping over if I didn't stick it down
(this was around 1989)
My first guitar amp was a VS Musician, followed by a Studio 100 which for a while I ran in tandem with a Marshall 50w Combo using the stereo out of my Ibanez Chorus
An older Laney with the HH-badged speakers - they later bought the old HH brand, and used it for the speakers, although they're not identical to the old HH custom-made ones - or any other Celestions, would be perfect though.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein