NikNik Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) £31 starting price. Washing Machine Edited April 24, 2019 by NikNik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troubadour Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Oh that brings back so many memories. That combo and a Tokai Hard Puncher were the sum total of my equipment for much of the 1980s. Hard to believe but that 100W was more than sufficient for everywhere we played. Missing its Stingray and Carlsbro nameplates from the front otherwise I'd be tempted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 There was a time when almost every practise studio in Newcastle had one of these. I'll agree - amazing that it's only 100W, always seemed more than loud enough ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 I remember one back in the mid '80s. It lived in a rehearsal room, covered in dust and beer-mould. When I played through it, it sounded like a fog-horn. The farting the speaker did when you dug in was interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) - Edited March 3, 2022 by Jus Lukin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger2611 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 My mate still has an absolutely mint head / speaker combo in his bedroom, I reckon it went in there nearly 40 years ago and never came out, I doubt it has even been fired up for 20 years or more, he still has an Aria Pro 2 SB600 with the original strings still on it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Definitely punched above their weight, these. I also have used them in many a rehearsal studio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Mine went to a Glasgow rehearsal place couple of year back. That was actually my 2nd one.bought the first from Grants in Edinburgh early 80's. The old Alexander's buses had a storage area for them,often hijacked by women with prams 😄 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 9 hours ago, kodiakblair said: Mine went to a Glasgow rehearsal place couple of year back. That was actually my 2nd one.bought the first from Grants in Edinburgh early 80's. The old Alexander's buses had a storage area for them,often hijacked by women with prams 😄 You took those things on a bus?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 2 hours ago, NikNik said: You took those things on a bus?? Aye. No car back then so bus it was 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 1 hour ago, kodiakblair said: Aye. No car back then so bus it was 🙂 Respect ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 2 hours ago, kodiakblair said: Aye. No car back then so bus it was 🙂 Man, I would have paid good coin to see that! My HH 2 x 15" cab had wheels on the bottom but I moved them to one of the sides. Great for loading up kit to wheel on the load-out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I used to wheel a 4x12 Fender Bassman cabinet over 2 miles across town, with head and bass in a shopping trolley! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 (edited) 13 minutes ago, BreadBin said: I used to wheel a 4x12 Fender Bassman cabinet over 2 miles across town, with head and bass in a shopping trolley! Respect also ! Edited April 24, 2019 by ahpook 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 4 hours ago, BreadBin said: I used to wheel a 4x12 Fender Bassman cabinet over 2 miles across town, with head and bass in a shopping trolley! Seriously?? Did you not get robbed or slagged off?😁😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 33 minutes ago, NikNik said: Seriously?? Did you not get robbed or slagged off?😁😁 I may have got slagged off, but not robbed no 🙂 I was part of a group, and am not exactly tiny! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 5 hours ago, NikNik said: Man, I would have paid good coin to see that! My HH 2 x 15" cab had wheels on the bottom but I moved them to one of the sides. Great for loading up kit to wheel on the load-out. Wasn't a great deal to see though there was a technique to flipping the combo horizontal, so it could slide in the handy amp storage area on the bus. Designed with handles being closer to the top made that easy,same can't be said for my 158lb Peavey cabs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 When I was starting out, if you were gigging it was either one of these or an HH VS 100w combo. I had the HH because the front panel lit up green. No other reason. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 8 hours ago, Bassassin said: When I was starting out, if you were gigging it was either one of these or an HH VS 100w combo. I had the HH because the front panel lit up green. No other reason. I fell in love with HH gear solely for that green backlight! Oh, how shallow is me! My first serious rig was an HH IC100S ('S' standing for 'Sustain', a horrible, fuzzy distortion) and a HH 2 x 15" cab. I pitied those guys lugging about a Peavey MkIV and the 215 BW cab. I once did a gig with the latter and help load it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 On 23 April 2019 at 12:41, NikNik said: Washing Machine Proper nostalgia thread - the head version was my first proper amp, paired with a home-build 4x12 cab. The fun I had pressing those frequency band filter buttons....... 22 hours ago, NikNik said: My HH 2 x 15" cab had wheels on the bottom but I moved them to one of the sides. Great for loading up kit to wheel on the load-out. I had one of those too later on (with a Fender Bassman 135) - it had a protective panel that clipped on over the grille for transit. Bullet-proof cab, but weighed a ton - no practice rig in those days, so I used to have to lug it up and down a steep narrow flight of stairs in the guitarists bed sit every week. 1 hour ago, NikNik said: I fell in love with HH gear solely for that green backlight! Oh, how shallow is me! My first serious rig was an HH IC100S ('S' standing for 'Sustain', a horrible, fuzzy distortion) and a HH 2 x 15" cab. I pitied those guys lugging about a Peavey MkIV and the 215 BW cab. I once did a gig with the latter and help load it out! Guitarist in first school band (same one I had the Carslboro Stingray for) had the HH VS combo - likewise I was really jealous of the green backlight; a desire never really satisfied until getting one of the UV Trace Elliot heads many years later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Shaggy said: Proper nostalgia thread - the head version was my first proper amp, paired with a home-build 4x12 cab. The fun I had pressing those frequency band filter buttons....... I was always thoroughly confused by the buttons...were you meant to press in all of them ? Some of them ? Edited April 25, 2019 by ahpook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, ahpook said: I was always thoroughly confused by the buttons...were you meant to press in all of them ? Some of them ? They were band pass filters but were they ever marked as to what frequency bands were being bypassed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 19 minutes ago, NikNik said: They were band pass filters but were they ever marked as to what frequency bands were being bypassed? I think you got 'Low - Mid - High' and that was it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I hated my Carlsbro Stingray with a vengeance. I always had to turn the bass down on it, or the speaker would fart like a flatulent hippo. Pile of shyte. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 On 25/04/2019 at 10:38, Shaggy said: Proper nostalgia thread - the head version was my first proper amp, paired with a home-build 4x12 cab. The fun I had pressing those frequency band filter buttons....... I had one of those too later on (with a Fender Bassman 135) - it had a protective panel that clipped on over the grille for transit. Bullet-proof cab, but weighed a ton - no practice rig in those days, so I used to have to lug it up and down a steep narrow flight of stairs in the guitarists bed sit every week. Guitarist in first school band (same one I had the Carslboro Stingray for) had the HH VS combo - likewise I was really jealous of the green backlight; a desire never really satisfied until getting one of the UV Trace Elliot heads many years later I had one of those push-button Stingray amps - as I recall it was pretty rubbish! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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