Yep had one of these awhile back (wouldn't be surprised if this was my old one actually). Really great sounding amp; Kyle did a great job demoing and explaining it. The comparison to a Quickrod is on point. Tight and punchy, but open. The need for the footswitch to change channels and for the extra gain stage is annoying (no switch on the amp itself). The Dover DA-50 seems very (very) similar, fixes the footswitch issue) and is significantly less expensive.
Hm, I wonder why notorious circuit thief mike Fortin's circuit sounds exactly like a deliverance 🤣 I kid, I kid, good video Kyle - and I like your balaguer
Imagine rolling up to a show where everyone is playing a 6505 or a dual rec and everyone is laughing because you brought a Hiwatt. Then you plug it up and it sounds like this…..you’d instantly standout from everyone tone wise.
Hiwatt amps have been some of the best sounding amps I’ve heard live. Basement toured with them and they were the best sounding band in the bill that night, they didn’t even headline
I can totally relate to this. In the early 2000's when I played out frequently, it seems like every band had a Dual Rec or 5150. I mean they do work but after a while......it all sounded the same and almost everyone played EMG's in those days.
I use a few Hiwatt and Reeves and before I found this I had always just put a good Disto and EQ in front to get a similar tone, but when I saw the Maxwatt demo I pulled the trigger so fast that my grandma felt it. Yeah Kyle did a really accurate demo on this amp, It sounds exactly like this, but in person, I feel its got a little more thump between notes. All in all though, yes this is awesome review. My band records some of the heavier stuff with this girl, we are called Large Hadron, from NYC. TY Kyle. ☆☆☆☆☆
This sounds similar (although more compressed) to the DR505 (Canadian version of the Custom 50) which has the input wiring jumped internally. It's almost like a DR505 with a mellowed out HM2 tone stack in front of it.
That is incorrect that Steven Fryette based his Deliverance on anything Hiwatt. Steven does run the Sound City brand though. Which is related somewhat. Only posting this to be helpful. Keep up the great work Kyle!
Gawl dang buddy this thing sounds incredible. Makes me wonder what could have been if hiwatt made the jump to high gain in the early days and how different amps would sound today as a result
A/B this with the FIFTY/CL, please. I've been wanting a comparison for so long and you have the ability! The 50cl has been my all time amp for 12 years regardless of what I've owned or play.
This is the best sounding amp you have had on the channel. Great demo. And whatever this amp is. It seems tuned to your style of playing. Do you think it work as well in a band / live situation? You always joke you are an "amatuer". But I don't think you dial in bedroom tones on this channel.
Haha, I just took an insult from someone when I started my channel and ran with it. I'd think this would do fine in a mix based on it's voicing, but sometimes amps do better or worse than you're expecting. This amp wasn't mine so I won't get the chance to check it out any time soon :(
When I think of Hi watt I think of Pink Floyd, for some reason this amp seemed to lack bottom end and I noticed that most of the time you had the bass cranked up all the way so maybe I'm right.
@@belligerentamateur AND brother i gotta say we ALL go through are stuff and weed out what we don't need but regret when it's gone make sure you keep the original stuff cause the market sucks RN everything is smaller is in 🎸 s are ☝ but nothing is better than the half stacks! I 💘 that about yur channel! Keep the originals and let me try a real tube head 😆 im poor mofo
@@belligerentamateur I have a Keith Merrow MK2. I love it. Every schecter I've tried always plays and sounds great. They just have such a design issue. Maybe the Affliction Banned T Shirt company also works for schecter.. LOL
Also worth mentioning that Hiwatts (at least the older ones) are wired like absolute works of art on the inside. Military spec, and everything is neat. Made to be repaired easily.
No, not really. I had this amp. It's built... ok. Not "military spec". That's a complete myth in the guitar amp world. No guitar amps are built "mil spec." Also this is a modern, British-built amp. And "mil-spec" are outdated requirements specified by the US military for how electronics need to be constructed, dating back to like... the '70s and '80s lol. I don't think an amp built in modern-day England is going to follow antiquated guidelines outlined by a foreign military from 30+ years ago... It's marketing hype.
@@FourT6and22 .....mmm no. Mil-spec is still used, still relevant, and has evolved over time. Many commercial items are still made to mil-spec including a number of commercial and ham radios etc. A mil-spec amp? I agree with you and very much doubt any amp is built to mil spec. It costs more to build to mil-spec.
@@0f0t0graph I was speaking specifically about guitar amps. The modern US military doesn't use vacuum tubes as far as I'm aware? I could be wrong there. So any "military specifications" a guitar amp might meet, are going to be outdated by definition since the technology is obsolete. Sure, ham radios I believe. There are certainly a few niche markets with products built to mil-spec guidelines from many years ago because it's still relevant within a that subculture. Guitar amps are not one of them lol. At least I've never seen one. And I've been inside a lot of amps, including a Super-Hi 50. The Super-Hi 50 is wired up ok, not great. Just ok. It's definitely no "work of art". I have photos if anybody wants to see 'em. It would be especially strange if a British company built a guitar amp to adhere to guidelines the U.S. military established. Anyway... I laugh every time I see/hear "mil-spec construction" thrown around to hype a product.
@@FourT6and22I think some common sense needs to be used here. If you were to go back in time to when tubes were the norm, the mil spec then would be what they are referring to right? To me this is obvious but I guess not
@@Pupperino7773 No. "Mil-Spec" is an actual specific thing. The US Military published many documents over the years detailing how various types of electronic equipment must be built/assembled in order to pass whatever specifications they came up with. Guitar amp builders tended to use this term as marketing BS. But no guitar amp company has every, nor will ever, build their tube amps to any military specification. It just doesn't make sense to do it. So any time you see this phrase thrown around, it's just marketing nonsense.
Dude are you kidding me? I came across this amp all by myself yesterday and your channel now demoing it? You channel is awesome! Thank you for all you content, 🤘🏼 from 🇬🇧
Great sounding amp. They are historically bullet proof in their builds. I can imagine this can be very versatile in a setup from classic to fire breathing in its tone.
To me this tone spanks the last couple amps you brought out. I never saw this amp so I appreciate you showing us. Definitely has that Fryette DNA to it. This would tomahawk through a band mix.
I just found out they made a little 5 watt brother for this amp and I am GASing for one hard. That’s seriously some of the best tone I’ve heard from this channel but that price is waaaay out of budget at the moment
There used to be this band from Pittsburgh called IO in the early 2000s and one of their guitar players used a Hiwatt. Some of the best heavy guitar tones I've ever heard. I've wanted one ever since.
Man that's some chunky tone. Lots of dry and sharp character to the distortion and harmonics throughout. Can't afford one, but it's pretty awesome for sure. Great demo as always
Kylr, I watch your channel and have seen a lot of your demos. I think you tend to underestimate your skills as a guitarist.. I'm a guy who is sixty but I can rock it up pretty good, I was playing clubs doing material that went over well for us in those days some stuff was pretty great guitar stuff to learn, like Symphony of Destruction. We did that, and stuff by Scorpions, Queensryche, Rush, Judas Priest Ozzy, Metallica, etc. I guess you could say I was a good lead guitarist. Not a monster, but overall pretty good. And I can tell you that while you don't solo much, your rhythm guitr playing is spectacular. Nails yight and aggressive and executed way more precisely and faster than I was ever capable of. I would rate you as a top tier rhythm guitarist. Not low level, not mediocre, not even really good. You are a top notch riff ripping machine. You Do know how to play.
Hiwatt’s are such unique amp circuits. They are probably among the punchiest amps I’ve ever played. And built like tanks with the cleanest wiring under the chassis - really amplifier “art” in my book.
Those gain knobs are a simplified version of Mesas Mark series EQ knobs, shaped how much of each frequency goes into the gain, allowing you to sculpt your gain structure. Great video, amp sounds sick and it's not a 5150 variation (I'm super burnt out on hearing those)
@@themodernguitarist Aw, you're no fun, I haven't heard about it so I'd be interested if you changed your mind. I hear a lot of shit talking about Fortin but I love my Diavlo head and he's not the first to put out a Tubescreamer clone, so I don't have much negative to say about him that isn't secondhand.
R/T did a demo with a Hiwatt on his channel. It was modded by r/t , he plays an Ibanez . It sounds huge . Very different from this Hiwatt . R/T 's Hiwatt demo sounded like a marshall with that roar I believe he plays thru greenback 4x12 .
I love this amp.. The tonal characteristics and dynamics are are really a cut above from what I can hear. Those low-mids are just great. I feel that the structure of those frequencies are what really sculpt the tones of really great amps. Anyone and everyone has bass-mid-treble. So adding and allowing for those frequencies to shine through are what in my ears' opinions' set this amp and what Mike does as a builder of high gain amps, apart from the rest. I thought when you changed guitars/pups, to the passive voicing with the fishman's that the tone just really opened everything up for that amp even more. The transparency of tones was real subtle yet still apparent. Especially noticable at the, 17:53 onward mark. Great demo/review..
Video finished - I think this is the best amp I can imagine. I need one in my life. But 3 Grand will be too much under all circumstances. Just can hope that NeuralDSP or STL Tones model one at some point in time!
I think this amp sounds pretty damn good, considering I’m typically not a fan of Fortin designs. I think this is the same amp that the main guitarist from Cattle Decap uses iirc. You should try to get your hands on a Maxon ST9 Pro+, the Devin Townsend set from Fishman and the EMG Het Set. I think you would like those a lot.
This Fortin dude, So what about the Randall Thrasher, also a amp of him. Do u have a video in the pipeline of that amp? By the way. i enjoyd your 5150 iconic video more then Burb Solar's one
I'm confused by this video. I had this amp. Not this exact one, but a Super Hi 50. To my knowledge, I am one of only a handful of people in the USA to have bought one of these direct from Hiwatt. The way you describe this amp functioning doesn't make sense to me. The gains shouldn't be interactive. One is not high freq. and the other is not low freq. And to be honest, I don't hear any sound change when you start sweeping Gain 2 in the video. They are tied to the exact same spot in the circuit and switchable via a relay using the footswitch. They shouldn't both active at the same time. You need the footswitch to make them function. And you never demo the 4th gain stage in your video, which makes me wonder if you have the footswitch? The dual gains and dual masters are there so you can set the amp up with two different volume/gain levels. Like a faux second channel. Hit the button on the switch and Gain 1 is active. Hit the button again and Gain 2 is active. Either this amp was modified by someone or there's a malfunction or there's something else going on. Can you confirm? And man... if you haven't been able to activate the 4th gain stage, then you're missing out on 50% of what this amp can do. I've got two videos of mine on my channel for reference. You can also download the user manual from Hiwatt, which will explain the functionality.
It was developped entirely by Mike Fortin and went to the UK to built the first 50 with Kee Mayer, the founder of Dover when he was still at Hiwatt, or something along those lines. There's a 2019 NAMM demo where he says it himself and walk through the amp. No wonders this thing rip! Your demo sounds VERY good!
One of the guitarists from cattle decapitation used this amp on their last record Death Atlas. Brutal sounding amp
Yep had one of these awhile back (wouldn't be surprised if this was my old one actually). Really great sounding amp; Kyle did a great job demoing and explaining it. The comparison to a Quickrod is on point. Tight and punchy, but open. The need for the footswitch to change channels and for the extra gain stage is annoying (no switch on the amp itself). The Dover DA-50 seems very (very) similar, fixes the footswitch issue) and is significantly less expensive.
I hear similarities in the Dover but haven't compared them back to back
Hm, I wonder why notorious circuit thief mike Fortin's circuit sounds exactly like a deliverance 🤣
I kid, I kid, good video Kyle - and I like your balaguer
Dude, you must be from the exact same spot on the globe as Matt Damon. You sound just like him. Nice demo, btw.
Imagine rolling up to a show where everyone is playing a 6505 or a dual rec and everyone is laughing because you brought a Hiwatt. Then you plug it up and it sounds like this…..you’d instantly standout from everyone tone wise.
The Splawn definitely turns heads in a similar way, but most won't expect brutal sounds from a Hi Watt, period. Haha
Hiwatt amps have been some of the best sounding amps I’ve heard live. Basement toured with them and they were the best sounding band in the bill that night, they didn’t even headline
The mark IV will destroy that hi watt
I can totally relate to this. In the early 2000's when I played out frequently, it seems like every band had a Dual Rec or 5150. I mean they do work but after a while......it all sounded the same and almost everyone played EMG's in those days.
@@belligerentamateur Exactly why I use a Splawn. Best $900 I ever spent on used gear.
In my opinion, one of the best amps. Is a beast. Top 5 in my list.🔝🤘🏻
totally agree about the fishman moderns in the active vs passive setting for e standard riffage. I ALWAYS put them on the passive setting lol.
Without question this is the BEST sounding (metal) tone I’ve ever heard come from your channel!! Jesus this amp absolutely rips!!
She nasty
Wooooo....this is cool. HiWatt not known for high gain but this absolutely kills it
A bit late commenting.. glad to see, I've been wanting a Hiwatt
I need this that amp in my life. Cattle Decap guy uses it for the latest album..
That album tone is fantastic 👌
Didn't know that, I'll have to check it out
@@belligerentamateur he replied to your insta post.
But the producer blends it with a 6505 for the album.
@@belligerentamateur ua-cam.com/video/-B_SFdd0rbs/v-deo.html
I use a few Hiwatt and Reeves and before I found this I had always just put a good Disto and EQ in front to get a similar tone, but when I saw the Maxwatt demo I pulled the trigger so fast that my grandma felt it. Yeah Kyle did a really accurate demo on this amp, It sounds exactly like this, but in person, I feel its got a little more thump between notes. All in all though, yes this is awesome review. My band records some of the heavier stuff with this girl, we are called Large Hadron, from NYC. TY Kyle. ☆☆☆☆☆
Hiwatt maybe the best brand name ever for guitar amps. I've never played a Hiwatt of any era but this model really interest me.
Yep, HIWATT is sick! But you’re going to pay for it! Lol. David Gilmour (my personal guitar idol) loves HIWATT.
Not cheap but damn good regardless!
How are the cleans on this amp and how does it perform as a channel switcher from clean to mean?
Probably the best sounding amp for me that you've demoed
This sounds similar (although more compressed) to the DR505 (Canadian version of the Custom 50) which has the input wiring jumped internally. It's almost like a DR505 with a mellowed out HM2 tone stack in front of it.
Great sounding. Hiwatt are cool always loved their older solid state maxwatt series. Had the 100 combo for years.
Never even seen one, sounds cool though!
@@belligerentamateur could have been a UK or Europe thing.
That thing sounds great even without boost. But it kills with the mud killer on. But it’s to expensive for me to own.
Same, haha!
That is incorrect that Steven Fryette based his Deliverance on anything Hiwatt. Steven does run the Sound City brand though. Which is related somewhat. Only posting this to be helpful. Keep up the great work Kyle!
That is a lovely sounding amplifier. WOW.
Great demo and review. Killer tones.
This is one of the best sounding amps I’ve heard on your channel. Or any channel for that matter. The price tag suggests I’ll never own one tho.
Definitely a "lifestyle" amp! Lol
So...
„Super Hi-50“ vs „D60“ it is what we demand 🙈🤣👍🏻
Awesome amp + cool thrash riffing = great video. Thanks Kyle 👍
Appreciate ya, glad you dig it!
Gawl dang buddy this thing sounds incredible. Makes me wonder what could have been if hiwatt made the jump to high gain in the early days and how different amps would sound today as a result
A/B this with the FIFTY/CL, please. I've been wanting a comparison for so long and you have the ability! The 50cl has been my all time amp for 12 years regardless of what I've owned or play.
I'd love to but no longer have it with me. I think the Deliverance would be closer, IMO
John Haggerty of Pegboy uses Hiwatt
Fresh with ample amounts of clarity.
Try the Ashdown FA series should you come across one 🤙
This is the best sounding amp you have had on the channel.
Great demo. And whatever this amp is. It seems tuned to your style of playing.
Do you think it work as well in a band / live situation? You always joke you are an "amatuer". But I don't think you dial in bedroom tones on this channel.
Haha, I just took an insult from someone when I started my channel and ran with it. I'd think this would do fine in a mix based on it's voicing, but sometimes amps do better or worse than you're expecting. This amp wasn't mine so I won't get the chance to check it out any time soon :(
that dynamic part is what i want an amp to do
Your a damm good rhythm player kyle
When I think of Hi watt I think of Pink Floyd, for some reason this amp seemed to lack bottom end and I noticed that most of the time you had the bass cranked up all the way so maybe I'm right.
Low end is for the BASS GUITAR you fuckin rookie.
But yeah, it could use a little more low push, depending on the guitar. Haha
@@belligerentamateur do you find the hiwatt lacked low end or no?
Kyle, I know you are straight edge but you look "Super Hi" in that thumbnail. LOL.
Really enjoy your content, BTW.
Them tones had me faded AF
EDGE WATCH
It seems like Fortin took his high gain design for this amp and folded into the Cali
I believe the Cali came first, and that's actually a tweaked Jose Modded Marshall. This one is a tweaked Hi Watt circuit so they're quite different!
Never heard of this amp. Sounds awesome
one of these with a 5150 in stereo would be massive
Sounds like a marshall lol
best sounding amp you have had on the channel.
You have also played the Fortin Cali..... they seem similar but are they comparable?
Whoa, this thing rips
Agreed!
can i turn my hiwatt crunch 50 into this super hi 50 or a 150? My favorite fryette is the SIG X.
Killer demo 🤘
Thanks my man
foo fighter !!!!
that lack of a depth control was VERY apparent. what a strange oversight in 2022.
True
Sick as hell!!
Nioce as always radical my guy! I 💘 ⚙
Thank you!
@@belligerentamateur AND brother i gotta say we ALL go through are stuff and weed out what we don't need but regret when it's gone make sure you keep the original stuff cause the market sucks RN everything is smaller is in 🎸 s are ☝ but nothing is better than the half stacks! I 💘 that about yur channel! Keep the originals and let me try a real tube head 😆 im poor mofo
That Revv pedal was literally on the entire video.
It's a noise gate....so....yeah.....
Your point? It's a noise gate.
How does this Hiwatt compared to a chupa ? What's your take ?
2 very different amps, IMO. Hiwatt is dry, stiff, and open whereas the Chupa is basically a tweaked Jose modded Marshall. Very different sounds.
@@belligerentamateur 👍 thanks😊
Sounds good but hard to play
Did Kyle Fucking Bull just play some Coheed at 5:36? Fuck yes.
Love Coheed
Same bro. Got a dragonfly tattoo, all the comics. Big fan man. Knew that riff right away. Bravo man.
Great amp but that price tag.... OOF
Hurts my heart a little
Nice trasy intro
Extra trashy
Yooo first
Schecter just can't get Inlays right lol. Cool guitar otherwise.
Lol. Couldn't agree more man.
@@belligerentamateur I have a Keith Merrow MK2. I love it. Every schecter I've tried always plays and sounds great.
They just have such a design issue. Maybe the Affliction Banned T Shirt company also works for schecter.. LOL
@@kylegrossi8175 hahaha. Totally agree man. Love their stuff but a lot of tacky design choices.
Also worth mentioning that Hiwatts (at least the older ones) are wired like absolute works of art on the inside. Military spec, and everything is neat. Made to be repaired easily.
No, not really. I had this amp. It's built... ok. Not "military spec". That's a complete myth in the guitar amp world. No guitar amps are built "mil spec." Also this is a modern, British-built amp. And "mil-spec" are outdated requirements specified by the US military for how electronics need to be constructed, dating back to like... the '70s and '80s lol. I don't think an amp built in modern-day England is going to follow antiquated guidelines outlined by a foreign military from 30+ years ago... It's marketing hype.
@@FourT6and22 .....mmm no. Mil-spec is still used, still relevant, and has evolved over time. Many commercial items are still made to mil-spec including a number of commercial and ham radios etc. A mil-spec amp? I agree with you and very much doubt any amp is built to mil spec. It costs more to build to mil-spec.
@@0f0t0graph I was speaking specifically about guitar amps. The modern US military doesn't use vacuum tubes as far as I'm aware? I could be wrong there. So any "military specifications" a guitar amp might meet, are going to be outdated by definition since the technology is obsolete. Sure, ham radios I believe. There are certainly a few niche markets with products built to mil-spec guidelines from many years ago because it's still relevant within a that subculture. Guitar amps are not one of them lol. At least I've never seen one. And I've been inside a lot of amps, including a Super-Hi 50. The Super-Hi 50 is wired up ok, not great. Just ok. It's definitely no "work of art". I have photos if anybody wants to see 'em. It would be especially strange if a British company built a guitar amp to adhere to guidelines the U.S. military established. Anyway... I laugh every time I see/hear "mil-spec construction" thrown around to hype a product.
@@FourT6and22I think some common sense needs to be used here. If you were to go back in time to when tubes were the norm, the mil spec then would be what they are referring to right? To me this is obvious but I guess not
@@Pupperino7773 No. "Mil-Spec" is an actual specific thing. The US Military published many documents over the years detailing how various types of electronic equipment must be built/assembled in order to pass whatever specifications they came up with. Guitar amp builders tended to use this term as marketing BS. But no guitar amp company has every, nor will ever, build their tube amps to any military specification. It just doesn't make sense to do it. So any time you see this phrase thrown around, it's just marketing nonsense.
Dude are you kidding me? I came across this amp all by myself yesterday and your channel now demoing it? You channel is awesome! Thank you for all you content, 🤘🏼 from 🇬🇧
ZUCK'D
Great sounding amp. They are historically bullet proof in their builds. I can imagine this can be very versatile in a setup from classic to fire breathing in its tone.
To me this tone spanks the last couple amps you brought out. I never saw this amp so I appreciate you showing us. Definitely has that Fryette DNA to it. This would tomahawk through a band mix.
I just found out they made a little 5 watt brother for this amp and I am GASing for one hard. That’s seriously some of the best tone I’ve heard from this channel but that price is waaaay out of budget at the moment
I own the HI-5 420 version and love it. Very nice little amp.
There used to be this band from Pittsburgh called IO in the early 2000s and one of their guitar players used a Hiwatt. Some of the best heavy guitar tones I've ever heard. I've wanted one ever since.
Man that's some chunky tone. Lots of dry and sharp character to the distortion and harmonics throughout. Can't afford one, but it's pretty awesome for sure. Great demo as always
Monstrous yet articulate tone! I haven't had this much GAS for an amp since I first heard the Diezel VH4 way back when.
This amp was the main sound on Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas with a 5150 for added resonance
Kylr, I watch your channel and have seen a lot of your demos. I think you tend to underestimate your skills as a guitarist.. I'm a guy who is sixty but I can rock it up pretty good, I was playing clubs doing material that went over well for us in those days some stuff was pretty great guitar stuff to learn, like Symphony of Destruction. We did that, and stuff by Scorpions, Queensryche, Rush, Judas Priest Ozzy, Metallica, etc. I guess you could say I was a good lead guitarist. Not a monster, but overall pretty good. And I can tell you that while you don't solo much, your rhythm guitr playing is spectacular. Nails yight and aggressive and executed way more precisely and faster than I was ever capable of. I would rate you as a top tier rhythm guitarist. Not low level, not mediocre, not even really good. You are a top notch riff ripping machine. You Do know how to play.
Dude, you should check out the Hiwatt crunch series ss amps. Can’t believe no one seems to have one. There awesome!
Jaysis, I remember these. That sounds fucking sick.
Hiwatt’s are such unique amp circuits. They are probably among the punchiest amps I’ve ever played. And built like tanks with the cleanest wiring under the chassis - really amplifier “art” in my book.
@@LegendaryTones Totally, I can feel that punch alongside that chimey, yet biting high end. Gorgeous sounding thing.
These are hard too find. And when you do they are not cheap. Fortin really brought a lot to the equation on this model.
Those gain knobs are a simplified version of Mesas Mark series EQ knobs, shaped how much of each frequency goes into the gain, allowing you to sculpt your gain structure. Great video, amp sounds sick and it's not a 5150 variation (I'm super burnt out on hearing those)
There's a whole heap of drama about where Fortin got the 2 gain controls from and I don't feel like spilliing that drama here lol
@@themodernguitarist Aw, you're no fun, I haven't heard about it so I'd be interested if you changed your mind. I hear a lot of shit talking about Fortin but I love my Diavlo head and he's not the first to put out a Tubescreamer clone, so I don't have much negative to say about him that isn't secondhand.
@@themodernguitarist Larry? 🤭
Yep, him. Lol
Ever thought about reviewing an EHX Mig 50?
Absolutely, If I can find one
HiWhat!! Thanks for the in-depth I would have never looked at this amps as a high gain good amp. Learned something new! Thanks Thrash!
You got it, my man
Nissssssssssssssssssce 🍻
Oh my god Ive been waiting so long for a cool review of this. Even though I am only 30 seconds in I know you will deliver.
R/T did a demo with a Hiwatt on his channel. It was modded by r/t , he plays an Ibanez . It sounds huge . Very different from this Hiwatt . R/T 's Hiwatt demo sounded like a marshall with that roar I believe he plays thru greenback 4x12 .
I love this amp.. The tonal characteristics and dynamics are are really a cut above from what I can hear. Those low-mids are just great. I feel that the structure of those frequencies are what really sculpt the tones of really great amps. Anyone and everyone has bass-mid-treble. So adding and allowing for those frequencies to shine through are what in my ears' opinions' set this amp and what Mike does as a builder of high gain amps, apart from the rest. I thought when you changed guitars/pups, to the passive voicing with the fishman's that the tone just really opened everything up for that amp even more. The transparency of tones was real subtle yet still apparent. Especially noticable at the, 17:53 onward mark. Great demo/review..
Video finished - I think this is the best amp I can imagine. I need one in my life. But 3 Grand will be too much under all circumstances. Just can hope that NeuralDSP or STL Tones model one at some point in time!
Yeah man. It's a KILLER sounding amp but the price is hard to swallow. Even so, I'd also like to own one for myself one day!
I think this amp sounds pretty damn good, considering I’m typically not a fan of Fortin designs. I think this is the same amp that the main guitarist from Cattle Decap uses iirc. You should try to get your hands on a Maxon ST9 Pro+, the Devin Townsend set from Fishman and the EMG Het Set. I think you would like those a lot.
Those "fizzy" settings towards the end actually sounded the best to my ears. All the other settings sound great too.
Damn this amp sounds phenomenal! Like no matter how u set it, it sounded f*ck*n awesome!
The Hiwatt sounds great , playing is right on 👉.
Nice demo ....
Jeez…this is the sickest high gain amp I’ve heard.
A Hi Watt with hi gain! WTF I NEED one!!!!
Sick amp, Fortin just makes killer stuff :)
Hell yeah! Wanted to see a demo of this for a while! Some seriously sick sounds
very coooool
This Fortin dude, So what about the Randall Thrasher, also a amp of him. Do u have a video in the pipeline of that amp? By the way. i enjoyd your 5150 iconic video more then Burb Solar's one
I have a video filmed on the Thrasher 50. Not super into the Randall/Fortin collabs
The Thud Killer
Hey Kyle, any chance you’ll get your hands of the controversial Fortin NATAS, would love to hear you from one.
I'm open to any amp that I cross paths with man!
One of the best sounding amps I ever heard! 🙏
Honestly I get close to this with my Randall RG 75 and an EQ in the loop
sort of, not as tight
I'm confused by this video. I had this amp. Not this exact one, but a Super Hi 50. To my knowledge, I am one of only a handful of people in the USA to have bought one of these direct from Hiwatt. The way you describe this amp functioning doesn't make sense to me. The gains shouldn't be interactive. One is not high freq. and the other is not low freq. And to be honest, I don't hear any sound change when you start sweeping Gain 2 in the video. They are tied to the exact same spot in the circuit and switchable via a relay using the footswitch. They shouldn't both active at the same time. You need the footswitch to make them function. And you never demo the 4th gain stage in your video, which makes me wonder if you have the footswitch? The dual gains and dual masters are there so you can set the amp up with two different volume/gain levels. Like a faux second channel. Hit the button on the switch and Gain 1 is active. Hit the button again and Gain 2 is active. Either this amp was modified by someone or there's a malfunction or there's something else going on. Can you confirm? And man... if you haven't been able to activate the 4th gain stage, then you're missing out on 50% of what this amp can do. I've got two videos of mine on my channel for reference. You can also download the user manual from Hiwatt, which will explain the functionality.
That Mezza Cab brings that beast to a new level
MEzza cab elevates everything that runs through it!
Sounds cool but high gain hiwatts make about as much sense as poopy flavored popsicles.
Said differently, Hiwatt is a clean amp.
So are fender amps, but then there's the 5150 III. Not everything has to be black and white!
@@belligerentamateur that would be a valid argument if the 5150 III had a classic a spaghetti Fender logo on the front of the amp but it doesn't.
@@KidNato the early ones do, and they are all built by fender in fender factories. They're fenders. Silly argument.
Hiwatts make great pedal platforms. If you have a distortion/fuzz/overdrive pedal, well then...
Any experience with a crate stealth?
Not yet, but some day !
@@belligerentamateur 450 for a 1x12 combo what do you think?
It was developped entirely by Mike Fortin and went to the UK to built the first 50 with Kee Mayer, the founder of Dover when he was still at Hiwatt, or something along those lines. There's a 2019 NAMM demo where he says it himself and walk through the amp. No wonders this thing rip! Your demo sounds VERY good!
This is a beast Kyle. Much more pleasing to my ears than the Cali. Cali lasted about 2 weeks. You did a good job on this video as always