HH score

[idiotbear]

OK, we need to form a supergroup composed of about 9 guys playing Jazzmasters through HH amps!

Imagine the noise! We could rent a space, set up a bunch of mics and just fucking MELT SOME FACES! Then, obviously, post the results on here and blow everyone away. 

[zhivago]

I'm pretty confident we could demolish buildings like that!

[eggwheat]

A picture for you of the £5 HC100L..filthy dirty with scratchy pots but otherwise all original and sounds great

[mezcalhead]

Cool .. I really like the utilitarian look the HHs have going on.

[idiotbear]

I should say at this point that our old bass player has been using an HH since about '98. So my band was there before they were cool. 

[stevejamsecono]

You could put Glen Branca to shame.

The OSG Orchestra

Symphony #1. "Ode To Black Jazzmasters"

[JazzBlaster]

all I seem to be able to find on ebay are power amps 

[zhivago]

keep trying, something will turn up


and continuing on the H|H talk, two of the three heads owned by the band I'm in, ddd, have multiple voltage as standard....I just got my #1 from the studio back last night,  so I can send it for repairs and had a look.

another interesting thing is...only two of the three PA heads have reverb...one doesn't and I hadn't noticed...there are also slight differences in the graphics of one of the heads...one has more colour in the squares naming the channels.

[mezcalhead]

It appears to be HH week on ebay this week .. I can see 4 5-channel PAs, a 2-channel PA, a couple of guitar heads, a bass head and a slave amp. What is a slave amp anyway?

Heh, one of the PA heads in entertainingly called "Amp For 5 Guitars".

[mjet]

A slave is essentially a power amp - all volume, no EQ control (take a look at the front).

[mezcalhead]

There's already a power stage in the guitar head, right? .. so I guess the slave takes the output from the guitar head after the preamp stage .. what's the benefit of having a separate slave power amp, just more volume?

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I've been stalking them too.

One just finished with a BIN of £120. No one bit by the looks of it. Hopefully he'll drop the price if & when he re-lists it.

[mjet]

There's already a power stage in the guitar head, right? .. so I guess the slave takes the output from the guitar head after the preamp stage .. what's the benefit of having a separate slave power amp, just more volume?

I asked about this a few months back on another forum and one response seemed to explain it pretty well. I'll post it here:

Usually the rackmount case,instead of the headbox, as well as the fact that current power amps are quite often stereo units, while slave amps are usually monoblocks. A lot of power amps are used for stereo setups, whilst Slave units were designed to power a separate cab/stack in a mono setup. Slave units were basically designed as a guitar amp extension so you could have a scalable guitar rig for playing large venues in the days before PA system technology was designed to amplify vocals as well as drums. A slave amp is really noting more than a regular guitar amp minus the preamp. --That being said, you should have no problem at all using a rack preamp and effects chain with the slave unit, though I might be concerned about possible disparities between the standardised line level inputs of modern gear with that of older gear that may have proprietary or unstandardised input attenuation. I'd hook a rackmount Preamp, and maybe a cheap rackmount FX unit to test it out. --If you have any noise issues, this could indicate a possible line level mismatch, and would be solved by a simple mod to the Slave unit's input jack.

[mezcalhead]

Hmm, there's an H|H Electronic combo in my local store for £150 .. is that a deal that anyone would or should be interested in?

[benecol]

Sounds a bit on the pricey side to me - they tend to go on the 'Bay for about £100. If anyone's interested, I drastically underestimated the size mine was going to be, and had to flog it almost immediately: sold it to a fella on SS.org who was a wealth of knowledge on H/H kit for exactly what I paid for it.

Lesson learnt: a 2x12 combo is too big for my little house.