This guitar amp sucks (and I love it)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 17 лис 2022
- More affiliate links:
Stuff I use at Sweetwater: imp.i114863.net/P1KkY
Stuff I use at Thomann: bit.ly/mythomannstore
Supro at Thomann: bit.ly/Suprokeeleycustom12
Mics used on amp in this video:
AEA KU5A Ribbon Mic: imp.i114863.net/XxJEYg
Lewitt MTP440 at Thomann: bit.ly/MTP440DM
Audio interface at Thomann: bit.ly/fluidsri2
Power supply at Thomann: bit.ly/cioksdc7
Headphones I use at Thomann: bit.ly/austrianaudioHIX65
In-ears at Thomann: bit.ly/shure215tho
Strings I use at Thomann: bit.ly/EBpara
Wireless in-ear system at Thomann: bit.ly/u4thomann
Cab: barefacedaudio.com/
Cables: Sinasoid Pro Audio Couture: bit.ly/sinasoidreverb
Video gear (affiliate links)
Video camera: amzn.to/2OWclp1
Video monitor: amzn.to/2WZS4TT
Mac I use for music and editing: imp.i114863.net/e6omr
Best lens for video: amzn.to/3eZf639
Stills camera: amzn.to/2ElVo5e
Main lens for stills camera: amzn.to/30QF5Vo
Amazon affiliate links:
🎥EVERYTHING I USE FOR FILMING and RECORDING:
www.amazon.co.uk/shop/livingr...
Folks using unconventional solid state amps have given us some pretty cool tones over the years, at least in more underground and alternative circles. Look at Melvins, Gang of Four, or Black Flag for examples.
Melt Banana and Deerhoof too
The Beths
Cobain used to play a Randall something/ solid state of course
Red Fang!!
@@matimoksa I was gonna say that, sunn beta lead rules
Dreading the day when people realize solid state amps don't suck and they jack up the prices.
Buy them up now my man...I have lol.
These things were legendary on the UKHC scene. Perfect for noisy AF guitar and bass crust. Even better was when the front plate would become earthed and things would get a bit hairy. Their PA heads were killer for off the scale loudness too. Most people of my age played through one at rehearsal space, and often through a Selmer cab.
Sounds ace man. 🤟🤟
I was about to say, you still see these kicking in more leftfield genres like Noise Rock or Shoegaze around my area. Everyone either owns a HH amp or knows someone who does.
duude napalm death having one early on makes sm sense now
@@purpled4864 you mean Justin Broaddrick?
Peavey when they packed up and went to Europe and finally got the cred they deserve.
so weird, when I had one (the top with a 4x12 Marshal cab) it wasnt cool or legendary at all. Must have been me..
You are the absolute proof that there are no bad tones. It’s up to you to find a good use for them.
Dude! This was my first big boy amp in the 90s. I have the combo version and I haven't plugged it in over 20 years... Maybe i should
Fire it up, Andy!
Wilko Johnson's Telecaster tone was incredible, yet he used a HH solid state amp too!
Wonderful HH solid state amps. Many British punk/alternative 70s and 80s bands used them. I'm not sure but I think Laney bought them out.
Got a Laney Cab and it's got speakers with the HH logo, seems likely!
Marc Bolan and Wilko Johnson used the HH amps. I have a ic 100 and it is a great pedal platform and really loud in stage mode! Built with top quality components
Yay or nay?
Absolutely yay!
Duper yay! Love the way it sounds!
Fucking yay!!!
yay!!!!
Fri-Yay!!!
The lead guitarist in my first band in 1978, played a Les Paul Standard thru a Fender Bassman preamping a Kustom head going into a Sound City 4x10 cabinet. To this day it is still one of the best sounding setups I have ever heard!
That's a killer combo.
Does þe Bassman a combo? Or a head? Did he need a load box?
This is a score. There’s so many amazing songs made with solid states and even budget amps. At the end of the day, if you love the tone, then, it’s a rad amp.
I’m pretty sure Daniel Ash from Bauhaus exclusively used this amp.
That sounds phenomenal, it sounds like my combo that I've been trying to replace with something louder for years
Said this before here, and I'll say it again.
I am a true believer in all tube amps, would even go far as to attribute not giving up playing to buying my first decent amp, BUT,- you can get great alternative sounds out of inexpensive solid state amps.I first discovered this when I was broke, and ended up trying some small practice amps.To this day, I still own a Pignose and a Peavy. The cheap Vox modeling amps have some very singular tones in them.If you're recording, in particular, it's a no brainer,- like a Danelectro with lipsticks,- for the sounds that you can't get any other way.Drop the pre conceptions, and try to get the sound to work for you.
Literally the perfect sound for a doom/stoner band. Love it with that angry sounding bass track behind it. Super gnarly and mud-tastic
I used one some years back in a stoner/doom project. Had it running with a marshall 1982 with G12H100 wired in 4 ohm.
Killer sound, i think i paid approx 60 euro for that head.
The real tone lies in the imperfections. This amp seems great at capturing something pure!
Indeed!
Pure?
We used to use HH amps in the seventies, gave a nice variation when the other guitarist used a tube amp. They were cheaper too.
Used to get a nice sound blend with a sax that couldn’t be had with a valve amp. Also much lighter to carry than a Marshall and frequently worked when the said legend you just lugged up to the 4th floor produced silence yet again.
Back in the early 90s I had an IC100 212 Combo. It was cheap, big (heavy) and loud, had green backlit controls and you could crash the spring reverb by rocking it.
I converted mine into a head and still have it to this day. The front panel still lights up too. It is still heavy as a head!!
It has kind of a Sunn mood, muddy and grainy sound, great hairy growling, and snarling beast !!
HH was based in at Barr Hill just outside Cambridge,UK. I think the founder invented the MOSFET circuit. They made loads of high end solid state stuff for the BBC. The live stuff came after. TREX used it, and others of that era as solid state represented the future. Some of the heads had cool blue lights that illuminated the front panel. They made excellent speakers.
Man, I've been interested in those HH amps for a while now, I've heard Marc Bolan, Pink Floyd and Alex Lifeson used an IC 100 at some point in their careers. Anyway, this sounds awesome! I really dig your approach to music
Pink Floyd who? David Gilmour? What tracks?
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 never, they used HH pa speakers at some point.
I was thinking it sounded a lot like Marc Bolan!
There's a video of Marc Bolan playing his HHIC100S on youtube and it's honestly one of the best live tones I've ever heard. Not sure if the IC is different/better, or could be a different speaker cab.
Nice, will check it out! Thanks
@@LivingroomGearDemos allegedly it's the amp user on sliders
Really into how the amp is separating the high and the low. Almost like they’re running in tandem with each other, but there’s still a gap that separates them.
I like the to tones too.
It’s a bit too thicc for my liking, it could use some thinning in certain frequencies, but lives in a unique tone space for sure!
I think the thiccness might be from the ribbon mic, but def cool tones for sure!
@@katielowen True, it is kind of a darker sounding amp, but the eq is pretty effective (unlike on a Marshall for example). I have one and I use it with my Danelectro DC 59 and it shrieks!
Love this amp! Please feature more cool weird amps and unusual tones!
You really managed to not only get great tones but the riffs fit them perfectly as well! Great job. Thanks for sharing.
It sounds like you put your guitar through an old television that had the antenna about half-right, a lot of grain and haze in there. Great find.
HH’s selling for $1000+ on Reverb in t minus 3,2,1 😂
Haha, then I'm actually selling mine. Need the money and it's not THAT good 😃
Lol that’s already happening long before this video I can tell you that. I paid over a grand for a IC100S head that had been serviced that’s mint. Nobody has brought a pedal to market that has those HH circuits in it yet and that’s the main reason 🤷♂️
This reminds me of the Ahed GBX cab i bought a couple years back.
Thanks! Cool amp, with its own character. I think that it really works in the context of a band (personal experience with the combo version), and probably even better in a recording, where the nuances or differences between amps become less prominent in favour of recording gear/technique, mixing choices, ... and your demo really shows this!
Stick a treble booster in front of it, soon sings! I used to use one with a Flynn Amps Hawk Booster and a strat, had to put a couple of resistors on the input to save the front end (40db boost off the Hawk at the low end) but besides that they’re great. Worth bearing in mind with these too that the EQ section is ‘active’, so 12 o clock is ‘zero’ kicking the mids up a fair bit and cutting the bass used to work a treat, they especially like old Fane speakers too, definitely best in 2/12 format. The IC100s are great too but more of a one trick pony, a very good trick, mind, again treble booster through the front end with those (seem to prefer rangemasters on those). Great vid!
I've just found out the Peavey Vypyr Tube series and thought immediately about what you could do with one of them. Would love seeing a video of yours on it and also one on trying to get a QOTSA/TCV tone with it, I'm really considering buying it and if it´s able to recreate Josh's tone in some sort of way, that may just be the final reason for me to get one of them. Thanks and much love for you and your stupendous videos.
Listening to Wilko Johnson's tones on songs like "Another Man" and "I can tell", as well as Eric Bell on "The Rocker " by Thin Lizzy made me wanna get an HH amp. So I bought two IC100 heads for "pedal money", and got 'em serviced. I love the sound they make, especially when cranked up a bit. They have got a lovely character.
Sounds very interesting indeed but I can hear a lot of cool potential stuff too. I love these character amps like this. I would actually love a Tonex of this one too if you end up having the time. I’ll download it 🙏
Daniel Ash from Bauhaus used HH amps.
H H became laney that amp was used by Mark Bolan t rex because of reverb built into the v 5 musician and cab with h h echo unit quite hard to find good for vocals
Nice is the green light in front pannel... Square wave is very special on distortion guitar, ask Larry Fast, but you always can put a clean setup, with other distortion devices, I played it in a Roland JC for years.
My experience with solid state amps has always been that they are the absolute best sounding amps right up until you plug in next to a guy using a tube amp then they don't sound so great.
I have had a few H&H valve sounds. Loved them I had them for Bass with a 15” black widow and 2 10’s.
Also had a couple of the 2x12 guitar combo’s. Popular in the UK once of a day.
I've had one of these things for years, it takes a lot of time to learn them and what pedals work with them. EQ pedals are massively needed. Try running your main pedal in the effects loop, too. I found that works with certain pedals really well.
I've got the combo version and I originally had 2 celestion goldbacks which gave a really crisp sound but one got killed at a gig and I fitted a Vox blueback I had laying around and that gives quite an interesting spread of frequencies.
Cracking old things and very unique, really nice for clean sounds too
Awesome riffs man!
Hey, thanks!
John McGeoch, Magazine, Siouxie and the Banshees, Stuart Adamson, the Skids, Wilko Johnson on Doctor Feelgood. When i startted playing guitar in 1978 HH was THE post punk amp, and they sound even better after 45 years. I predict these amps are gonna be very popular again soon..
I once played in a wind band with someone who had the combo version of this amp and he made it sound fantastic
It takes time to get to know them. I've had the combo for years and I've managed to get it to do many things but it takes patience and a lot of trial and error to get it right, plus the effects loop is really your friend on these old things. External EQ pedals are a massive help, too.
That sounds absolutely wild! I wanna sound like that!
Sounds great. Good song. Well done mate. 👍
Been a long fan of the channel and love your videos! I’ve been getting into filming and I’d like to ask you how do you take these b-rolls of the amp with the camera zooming in stabilized? I mean, I know the Arri has a stabilization system and all, but how do you get this with dslrs like your Sony a7iii for example? Hope that’s not much of a noob question 😂 thanks in advance! Love your content bro (:
Hi, and thanks! The Arri does not have any stabilization, actually. The b-roll is filmed on a Syrp slider :)
The builders of this amp knew what they were doing.
I think the humbuckers sound pleasently soft and wooly with it, but that Strat.... there the really cruel hard attack, like when you slap with a wooden stick on a plywood plank, comes through - typical for solid state amps distortion. In the end, it's "whatever floats your boat", as always.
what the fuck is this color correction/lut/editing man, i fucking love it. ears eyes pleasure :)
Sounds like a early to mid 70's National Gap-2 Amp(5" speaker) combo I found for $6 thrifting years ago. Just has a volume knob but actually breaks up nice.
I find it really enjoyable and would love to do some tracks with it
one of the napalm death boys had an hh combo on their first record never thought I'd find out what make it was from the photo lol
I recently got a very similar tone running my guitar directly into my portastudio and cranking the input
These were used back in the 1970's by Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, Wilko Johnson, Marc Bolan and many others very successfully too. They can sound good with clean signals too. Doesn't have to be 70's "Fuzz" effects used in them. I'm a bit biased, I have a few different heads, cabs & a 2x12 combo too, all stashed away in my cupboard here.
this would sound awesome in a mix with a cranked marshall or cranked vox on the side for a little highs an clarity
Playing a Fernandez Zo3 with a dead 9 volt will give u that tone but only for 5-10 min before it completely cuts out. I love that tone, so bad it's so so good 👍
HIIH Amps are great.A friend had a Combo in the Eighties and I played a lot on it with my Stratocaster Copy.It was ideal for Sounds like Dead Kennedys,Gang of Four,Sonic Youth.It had also a good reverb Channel.Are they still available nowadays?
Love the sound, it dooms for sure. So thick and layered sounding
The more I watch your videos the more I understand that is not about the amp (or gear), but the context you put them on.
Thanx mate, you inspired me to build a new kind of fuzz
Or the sound of the amp did that is.
Immediately draw out a quick schematic for a fuzz/distortion inspired by this sound based on what I imagined the wave did.
Love this sound.
Immediately brought me back to my black keys, arctic monkeys and indeed qotsa days. Makes me wanna build pedals and start a band 👌 love it
I like the really raw sound it's got. Makes me think of a garage band. Also, that riff you wrote for the song is badass.
Yup,interesting!
The way it stays true to it´s tonal character ALL the time is just phenomenal!
I really like the sound.
I think you have to spend a lot of money to emulate/recreate this sound with modern gear.
Thanks for sharing.
Timing on this video is crazy. I literally just saw one of these heads at an auction place, and was like "huh, wonder how this thing sounds". No cab unfortunately. Might go for it if it goes for cheap.
Sounds GREAT!
I love solid state amps.. bandits, jc120… I did just switch to a boss ir200
Did you use that 70’s pedal with bass as well? If so, how did it sound?
If I lived near you I would start a QOTSA influenced band with you, that jam you made was perfect.
Sounds great!!!
Sounds pretty good. Nice score!
Thanks!
My brother used to have one of those years ago. Never sounded as good as that though. Great licks too
Thanks for checking out!
Sounds rad!
This is one of the amps that Alex Lifeson used on Rush’s Farewell to Kings album
Personnaly I'm in total love with the VS Musician (One Head + Cab and one 212 Combo for me)
Build as a tank
Amazing different kind of sounds can be produce, Pedal friendly too
Ok WHAT is that song at 4:12 ?? is it Queens ?? I havent paid attention last 5 years at least ...Sounds like it could be.
Cool track, this amp reminds me of a Sunn Beta Lead Combo 100 I had in high school. It was a 2x12" combo amp, it had a distortion similar to this one. I didn't keep it for long, it was a little too one-dimensional sounding for me, too fizzy and midrange sounding, like a giant, buzzing beehive. I replaced it with a Fender Bassman head and a 2x12" cabinet and was much happier.
Are there any hardcore albums that feature this amp? It seems perfect for that kind of music.
Seriously! You could take an amp, put it through a speaker the size of a can and still make it sound good. HOW TF DO YOU DO THAT! FCKIN LOVE IT!
DUDE I love the sound of that amp,that was a lucky find right there,you better hang on to that TONE BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remembering Alex Lifeson using this on A Farewell To Kings, and I can tell here.
Neat cab 🤘🏽
Steve Diggle and Marc Bolan both used H&H amps. Keeping good company!
That's an absolute doom/sludge/stoner machine! Would go super well for shoegaze and such as well. Love how it sounds. I'm an absolute sucker for all kinds of fat old solid state tones.
I saw Spiritualized play through one of those in the late 90's. Not sure if the tone was anything special, as it was one of the loudest gigs I have ever been to, and I had forgotten my earplugs, again.
I think this could pair well with a Vox-style amp for double tracking. When I listened to the track, my ears where kinda longing for some chime in upper mids and highs to fill out the mix. Also curious how this takes a bass guitar.
Yeah, there's something missing in there. I kind of liked it for this track though 😎
@@LivingroomGearDemos yeah not criticizing at all. Not every track needs to be "full".
Needs cabinet comparison with some Celestions loaded one)
Ha ha ha! Great stuff! I used the same set up in the early 80's in a heavy Metal band in Glasgow Scotland! Sounds good with a Boss SD1. I also had a HH 100W combo and power amp for the PA . Still have the head :-)
i have one of those amps, i run it through a 4 x 12 loaded with eminence red coat speakers. totally awesome sound and loud as f*ck. love it !
Sounds good. Looks very cool.
Sounds awesome
Marc Bolan used one of those. I think it sounds awesome.
I would've loved to hear the clean tones :[
It’s the Dr. Feelgood amp!
Our guitarist uses it a ton. Great recording amp.
Oh was it used on Dr. Feelgood??
@@LivingroomGearDemos Dr. Feelgood she does it right. You’ll see it on stage. It’s the combo though!
Both Daniel Ash from Bauhaus and Jason Pierce from Spiritualized used HHs to very good effect...
Got a 100 watt combo after drooling over Wilco in 76 . Still got it 🫣
I've seen Eric Bell (the original Thin Lizzy guitarist) 3 times live close up playing one of these into a 4*12 cab (actually the cheaper IC100) and you would have never known it wasn't a valve amp if you weren't a guitarist. I had a new 50W combo back then and you could hear the difference to cheap transistor amps.
HH used by The Specials, Dr Feelgood
notable long-term users of H||H IC100 include Wilco Johnson of Dr Feelgood, and Andy Scott of the Sweet. You can just crank the old H||H amps like you would a non-master volume amp, don’t need to use the distortion effects.
i love these radio-style sounds that emanate from power amp distortion
Yeah, solid state can be great - don't forget the Roland Jazz Chorus, sound of the 80s. Nice vid!
I have one, combo. Heavy, back breaker. Solid as a rock. Bought by Laney. Used by Wilco Johnson of Dr Feelgood extensively
I have 50 watt combo version and love it though amp I normally use is a late 70s vox escort lead 50 solid state combo and I use that in preference over tube amps I have had
Would that be the studio 50.?
@@colinstout7184 yuparoony
Sounds awesome! No one HAS to use what everyone else is using. I'm a fan of unique sounds.
It reminds me of the guitar tone in the Self titled Foo Fighters album 🎉