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WhoWatt 100 (Hiwatt® DR-103 Brill)

Recorded with a Les Paul Standard, Burstbucker pickup in bridge position. Default amp and cab settings used for tone sample, with a touch of reverb.
The most famous Hiwatt within the line was the Custom 100 DR103 amplifier. Its 100 watts of output compared to a Marshall Super Lead is quite different to say the least. The Hiwatt DR103 is notably louder and can also run much cleaner than100 watt Marshalls when needed and they also have tremendous headroom available. Playing a Hiwatt at a loud volume is well… an experience. When I played through one for the first time (a DR103 made in 1972), all of a sudden, my Marshalls felt very "thin" in tone in comparison. Hiwatts are loud, punchy, and rich with even-ordered harmonics and I should add the politically incorrect term, "ballsy as all hell!". I can think of no better example of the epitome of clean and lush tube tone. Overdrive is certainly available when the Hiwatt is pushed, but it must be acquired by use of the higher-gain "brilliant" channel (more on this momentarily) and certainly a high-output pickup helps further. The "normal" channel is voiced to stay clean and powerful at all levels. An additional benefit to the Hiwatt DR103’s tone and design was its inclusion of tone controls that actually seemed to respond with a much wider range than other amplifiers of the time. Bass response could be bassy, mids added strong punch and a wide range of the treble and presence controls would deliver all the upper frequencies and sibilants desired.
Description source: legendarytones.com
Image source: vintageguitar.com
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
This is a slightly altered version of josepqr's patch on Custom Tone.To get the Gilmour tone, you need a single coil pickup, preferably a Strat.The patch has 3 snapshots, so make sure you cycle through them to get the range of tones in the preset.
Youtube- 👇 Downloads: 3156
- 🤘 Upvotes: 27
- Member: Jorge
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Solo
Killer patch by Chad Garber. Beautiful Hendrix tones using the Hiwatt amp model.
Youtube- 👇 Downloads: 1163
- 🤘 Upvotes: 5
- Member: Jorge
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Legacy Llama
Legendary Drive and The Alpaca Rouge into a HiWatt in stereo. Fat, loose OD sounds without getting flubby. Works well with humbuckers. You may have to boost the drive settings if using single coils.
- 👇 Downloads: 186
- 🤘 Upvotes: 2
- Member: Rocco Crocco
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Satisfaction Fuzz
The iconic fuzz tone from Keith Richards is here. Great Rolling Stones tone.
Youtube- 👇 Downloads: 216
- 🤘 Upvotes: 1
- Member: Jorge
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Ballistic Fuzz
Hold the notes and hear this fuzz give a cool vocal quality to your guitar.
- 👇 Downloads: 99
- 🤘 Upvotes: 0
- Member: Jorge
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Badowatt
Patch all purpose clean-overdrive with snapshot
- 👇 Downloads: 35
- 🤘 Upvotes: 0
- Member: P.Power
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Hendrix - Wind cries
Classic Hendrix Clean to Edge of breakup sound
- 👇 Downloads: 38
- 🤘 Upvotes: 0
- Member: Helixman
- Performance Type:
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA)
Patch | Performance Type |
Description | Member | 👇 Downloads | 🤘 Upvotes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Youtube |
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | This is a slightly altered version of josepqr's patch on Custom Tone.To get the Gilmour tone, you need a single coil pickup, preferably a Strat.The patch has 3 snapshots, so make sure you cycle through them to get the range of tones in the preset. | Jorge | 3156 | 27 |
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Solo
Youtube |
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | Killer patch by Chad Garber. Beautiful Hendrix tones using the Hiwatt amp model. | Jorge | 1163 | 5 |
Legacy Llama | Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | Legendary Drive and The Alpaca Rouge into a HiWatt in stereo. Fat, loose OD sounds without getting flubby. Works well with humbuckers. You may have to boost the drive settings if using single coils. | Rocco Crocco | 186 | 2 |
Satisfaction Fuzz
Youtube |
Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | The iconic fuzz tone from Keith Richards is here. Great Rolling Stones tone. | Jorge | 216 | 1 |
Ballistic Fuzz | Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | Hold the notes and hear this fuzz give a cool vocal quality to your guitar. | Jorge | 99 | 0 |
Badowatt | Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | Patch all purpose clean-overdrive with snapshot | P.Power | 35 | 0 |
Hendrix - Wind cries | Direct (Recording, Headphone, PA) | Classic Hendrix Clean to Edge of breakup sound | Helixman | 38 | 0 |
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