Hiwatt Hi-5 with pedals? How does it sound?

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7 ай бұрын

The Hiwatt Hi-5 is a seriously cool little 5 watt tube combo amp that boasts some impressive clean tones and mean distortion thanks to its two channel design. After showing a quick play-through of both channels some of you asked how it takes pedals.
So instead of getting on my soapbox and telling you, I thought I'd just plug in my pedalboard, share an extended playthrough with a number of effects and let YOU decide for yourself!
We'll be using my newly revamped live pedalboard with some of my favorite overdrive pedals, delays and reverbs. I'll note their appearances throughout the video, but here's a full list of what you can hear at various points along the way :
Bondi Squish As
Bondi Sick As
JAM Pedals Rattler
Line6 HX ONE
Strymon Brigadier
Strymon Volante
Meris Mercury7
I'm micing the amp with the Ohma Stripes ribbon mic, which does a great job smoothing the high end while maintaining the warmth and life of this amp.
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@itsanthonybest 7 ай бұрын

Sounds absolutely lovely. I would curious to hear an A/B test vs the Morgan Five. Both should lovely, but this may seem to have a bit more top end.

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

I’ll have to put them side by side sometime! Yeah the Hiwatt has more high end presence/brilliance for sure. This was with treble just shy of noon too!

@paulsto6516 7 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable!

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@mark_fox_music 7 ай бұрын

BEST setup i ever had was a custom 100 head and orange 4x12. Wish id never sold it. They take pedals so well and clean always loads of headroom.

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

I believe it! Those "big boy" Hiwatts seem magical. I liked this one so much and envisioned running my live rig through a Hiwatt so I'm jumping on one of the new 20W models that should be coming in Jan - very excited! Was tempted by the DR504 but man I don't think my ears can handle that much power ha.

@mark_fox_music 7 ай бұрын

@AmbientEndeavors It was a really warm but chimed too, kind of clean Vox sound but on steroids with volume to spare. Sadly sold it when I started doing more studio and less live. Regret it 😅 Seems like these new models have captured that perfectly though! You might be interested to know my friend used a custom 50 PA head as an amp too. They're so rare these days but it was pretty much the same as the 100 but with loads of channels. Those days were cool!

@stillpist 7 ай бұрын

Only $350 for the head version? That's a steal these days. I have a CDR and an or15 but both of those are a bit loud some times. I might have to pick this up someday if I can find one to try out.

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

yeah really reasonable! It has some nice tones at manageable volumes. This clip was recorded at around 8-9 on the volume and still palatable in the basement here.

@RyanKorea 7 ай бұрын

Amazing! Btw what mic is that? Looks so cool!

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for watching! That's the OHMA Ribbon mic , with their Stripes screen. Really cool handmade mics out of LA in some fantastic colors/designs :)

@wheresallthezombies 7 ай бұрын

I really want the head version of this. Hiwatts might be the best pedal platform amps. Fenders are kind of overrated to me. I do like them though ha

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

fun fact: I was expecting them to send the head and was surprised when this arrived! but it's quite a fun little super-portable combo. This was with volume at like 8 and it was still manageable in the basement here.

@deanvandyke6445 6 ай бұрын

I use the red Hi-5 head with a 2x12 Celestion G12H and an Alnico blue cab. Great sound and it does amazingly well with a full band live.

@Redhotchilipprs 2 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@deanvandyke6445the Hi -5 is still loud enough in a live band setting?

@deanvandyke6445 2 ай бұрын

@@Redhotchilipprs just played a gig last weekend. No mics, just cranked. It can hang.

@andsoistopped 7 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with that. At all. 😊

@AmbientEndeavors 7 ай бұрын

Agreed, it was sounding jussstt fine to me as well.

@theprogrammerrolandmc3039 6 ай бұрын

Don't buy equipment from a company that does not provide service manual or schematic for their products and do not reply to emails Hiwatt is a example of one such company Dave Reeves would not be happy with that and owners of a licensed product are not either.

@AmbientEndeavors 6 ай бұрын

man. sounds like you've had some issues. with this particular amp or others?

@theprogrammerrolandmc3039 6 ай бұрын

@@AmbientEndeavors Yeah i have a T10 head that blew the contacts of the board off and burnt components. The T10 was the model before the Hi 5 it can go 5w or 19w or bang and never work again 🤣 I trusted the company when i bought it the thing blew up and i just put it away as i can repair it but when i opened it a year later and realized the company don't give service manuals or reply to emails. They don't even make the amps they get a designer in china to make one then mass produce them. So any information they don't even know