Mr. Foxen Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 bought this as a restoration job after I sold my 150, because more is more. I've just been having a little chat with Matamp and there's a possibility I can have the ultimate old and new combined amp made, so starting a pot for that. Not massively keen or rushed to sell this, fairly hard to get hold of, but putting it out there. It has just been valved, recapped and thoroughly gone over, although the power light doesn't work, and I didn't notice till I put it all back together (the standby one does work). I can put more sensible knobs on it, I just put those on after having a smarty top vs. black chicken heads internet debate. [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/colouredknobs-1.jpg[/IMG] £750. Can probably ship, rather not though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Bass 65 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Matamp is a great place to visit and see some great amps being built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adulmus Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Have you checked its serial N° ? You may well have a 1966-68 original, made under contract by Dave HIWATT Reeves for Ivor Arbiter (Sound City Amps) - in his garage (Hylight Electronics) ! Sound City Mk3s - lead or bass - all had coloured dials. That is the way Dave Reeves built them and amps in this series were handwired by DR, Daphne Reeves and Doug Fentiman. I have the L100 version of the Mk3, that was one short step from the classic CP103 used by Townshend and Gilmour and the custom circuit built for Page. Pete used the L100 in 1968-69 and simply relabelled the grill when Dave named his new business Hiwatt, set up out of the £800 contract to build Sound City amps for Dallas Arbiter. Check out your amp's ancestry before taking it anywhere near a company with a different design ethos and asking them to breed a mutant out of a classic rig. They may say No anyway. B100s are every bit as sought after as L100s. The 200W versions are stadium rock loud, often toting six EL34s in the power stage. Mk3s are killer amps, unlike the Mk4s which followed, and have the same parts and circuits as the holy grail Hiwatts. They were not built for 2012 expectations or styles, but stand alone and beg to be heard for themselves. Other prime users were Manfred Mann and Jethro Tull, who had Reeves' lead, bass and PA systems, which all gave stand-out performances compared to the arbitrary stacks of ill-mixed and often painfully overloud amps taken on the road in the late 60s and well into the 70s. The artists above, like 'em or loathe 'em, give clear indications of the output tones the Reeves Sound City bass amps were designed to achieve. Please don't euthanase one just because it's old ! Yours, Paul the Fireman, Blue Plaque Road Allerton L19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) This is a thread trying to sell this amp to fund the work. What are you talking about euthanising? Edited March 30, 2012 by Mr. Foxen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Bump to maybe save me having to ship this to Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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