The HiWatt tone stack is an unusual and complex one. The mid dip can't be eliminated as on a Marshall, but it is more versatile. Leave the Bass at ~5.5. Try turning the Treble down to 1, and listen to the upper-mid peak shift from 5~2kHz by adjusting the Middle from 4-10. Then leave the Middle between there somewhere and hear the upper-mid to high balance completely change while adjusting the Treble from 0-2. It's very scooped otherwise. I'd try using it with those kinds of settings and balance the channels levels, increase the Presence and maybe reduce the Bass just a bit as needed.
Adding that Colorsound overdrive to the pedal is a masterstroke imo. Hiwatt drive sounds are pretty hard to duplicate, and aren't as smooth and sustaining as in other amps. I don't understand the engineering aspect of it, but the amps have such high headroom that you have to really fckn crank them to get a really good sounding drive, but that makes the amp super loud and hard to tame in a live situation for playing clubs etc. I used a Hiwatt 50 in my old band (late 70's- mid 80's) and sound guys ALWAYS told me to turn down to the point to where the amp was rarely in its sweet spot. So I was forced to use pedals for drive, which worked well. Incorporating the Colorsound pedal into this pedal makes total sense to me, and it sounds great too!
@@Maxy-K Only in the sense of imitating the real thing. The combination of the Overdriver into the amp was popularized by Gilmour, so that's a selling point too. But since it's a pedal and not an actual fire breathing super loud amp, you can push the master volume to emulate cranking the power section of the amp in a way that would be impossible for many applications in the real world because it would be way too loud. But you can also push the front end with the Overdriver section for a completely different type of gain. Or you can make it fuzzy with the Overdriver's own gain. Flexibilty.
Not bad! I love Hiwatts, use em all the time, have five of em…. And many times these amp in a box pedals sound almost exactly unlike the real thing ha ha…. This thing does sound pretty good!
I like how this pedal can be set up in such a way it sounds like it'll blow if you crank it up even more. Hendrix and friends would have loved that back in the day. Would have saved them a lot of amps. 😅
I just got my first ever HIWATT amp - T20/10 MKIII Head & 2 X12 cab, it's sooo good & takes pedals like it was built for it. 🤘😎 not quite a DR103 but it's good for what I need 😀
14:27 I just had mine delivered yesterday. It's sounds pretty close to the Hiwatt sound. The Orange Crunch side is very good as well. You're basically getting two high-quality pedals for the price of one. I'm very pleased. I like your videos, too. I have watched a few vids about this pedal. I needed to learn how to drive it properly. Another thing I love about it is the ability to patch in another effects pedal by splitting the two circuits from amp and overdrive. Cheers.
Great demo as always Pete! This pedal encapsulates one of my favourite hard rock pedal combos. I love to use a 4 knob Colorsound Overdriver circuit into a really nice preamp pedal. Is it a FET based preamp? My own setup which would be similar would be running the Overdriver into a Catalinbread RAH but I really love it into just about all of the FET preamp pedals I have. The two band EQ on the Overdriver means you can take it from a treble boost kind of thing to really fat and fuzzy. Then with the gain/level you can go from a mild bit of overdrive to that wonderful, saggy, blooming fuzz like thing that's so awesome. You can get something almost like the type of distortion you get in early tweed or brownface or like 'budget' amps like Supro and Magnatone where you crank them up and they collapse into a nearly square wave distortion. You run the Overdriver then into something high headroom like a Hi-Watt and you've instantly got 70-80s hard rock metal tone for days. Love it!
In order to keep the nature of the Hiwatt, instead of pluging the output to the front end of a clean Fender type amp...would be better I think to plug the output of the pedal to a power amp or effect loop return or...the Fryette Power Station line in lying in the back (with less or no tweaking)...to the cab of your choice!
Thanks for such a detailed, thoughtful overview - inspiring . . . you take these demos to a whole new level! Great pedal, will look out for it here in HK!
Finally something different. The pedal world is full of Plexi, Vox AC30 and Fender Deluxe Reverb '65 simulation pedals. Now this combination of 2 Hiwatt Amps and the Colorsound Power Boost is awesome! How I wish someone would create a pedal that emulates the Orange sound. Is there anything like that out there? Does somebody have any recommendations? Thanks a lot in advance!
I wanna hear how it sounds played with a 60s sg special with p90s. Also, how well does it clean up when you roll off the volume? This pedal seems to try and emulate pete townhends set during the late 60s and early 70s. In the late 60s he played p90 sgs and, if im not mistaken, could go from clean to diety by adjusting the volume/pickup selection on his guitar. This can be heard on the live at leeds album. Can you do the same with thia pedal?
He did use a fuzz pedal too though eh ,watch isle of wight etc or Woodstock too. A bit of a feedback thing though I noticed ,maybe cause of p90s? I dunno
Hi. Great demo as usual. Wanted to ask what to do with a delay pedal and the hi power. Would you put the delay in the Hi power's loop or after the Hi power? Thanks.
I wish this pedal was out several years ago. I’m one of those Gilmour tone nerds, and this thing seems to be almost a “Wish You Were Here” in a box pedal. I have two part for part clones, one of the Catlinbread WIIO and one of the ColorSound PowerBoost, which do a great job of getting the tones of Gilmour’s rig. But this thing has the cool options (such as the linked Hiwatt, which I think is how Gilmour had his amp wired internally), and the 9 and 18 volt options on the PowerBoost. What really sells me though is the effects loop, something that is missing from other “Gilmour in a Box” pedals, like the Keeley Darkside (a great pedal on its own as well). Having the option of throwing a phaser/univibe/flanger/chorus in the loop is great, but you can also throw a Fuzz Face or Big Muff in there as well (Gilmour went back and forth with his placement of the PowerBoost and the Fuzz Face, and later the Muff, but he like to stack gain pedals and compressors). Again, I wish this was around about 5 years ago, before I built my board to get those tones.
Question, just watched your reviews on the boss 200's. I am looking for something that will give me more versatility so that I don't have to go and buy 2 more guitars or another amp. I want to get one of these pedals so that I can play more songs (I cover a lot of different worship songs) without compromising too much tone/high end or sounding digital like the line 6 effects. I have a vox ac handwired blue celestion with tele and 3 od's- the jhs 808/moonshine, jhs angry charlie, and a clean 3 knob booster/cleanup MY QUESTION- with this in context ^ , should I get the boss 200eq, the boss 200od, or the boss 200 ir? I was thinking eq because i already have 3 overdrives, but then i saw the ir 200... im also not sure if eq is enough to manipulate the drive on the OD's or if I need a 200 od or ir for that.
They're saying this is the pedal to dial in David Gilmours guitar sound n tone? Always a pleasure watching you do these demos Pete. Being of Greek descent how did you come across this pedal developed in Greece. Curious minds would like to know.
Pete love your demos. All the guitars ,amps and pedals but I gotta ask about the chair you have. It looks like the perfect guitar chair. What is the brand.
You are an amazing artist really Pete i love your performance with classic rock show in the song comfortably numb pink floyd amazing i hope one day my dreams it comes true to play guitar with you in the classic rock show 😊😊😊😊its my dream i love pink floyd i play with my guitar every day comfortably numb 🌟🌟🎸🤟⭐⭐🤟🎸🎸🎸Cheers my name is mahdi
Ive always thought that Hiwatts have no timbre signature... meaning there is no harmonic foldover in a particular area of the spectrum. The drive harmonics are evenly spread and not loaded up in say the low mids like an Orange. Or, the high mids on a Marshall. This is different than eq. That being said, it highlights the timbre of the guitar. Hiwatts sound like a PA or HiFI tube stereo .
Great demo Pete. I got an email from Sinvertek. Wu has a new MGAT-1 Golden Era pedal. Do you think you’ll be demo-ing it? He’s claiming to 99% authenticity on the sound now. I have the N5 MGAT-1 and love it but just bought a Lion 68 two days before I got the email about the pre-order for the MGAT-1 Golden Era so I can’t pre-order. Lion 68 is a new favorite though. They’ve done it with that pedal. It’s just like my plexi. Running mine into SS power pushing my cabs and can’t really tell the difference to real Plexi.
And the moral of this story is: buy a DR103. 🤠 The CTC pedal sounds pretty damn good but there's no substitute for the real thing (unless you have to carry it and a couple of 4x12s around). And if you wouldn't mind, tell me more about that explorer.....
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Pete’s demos are better than most major label artists releases .
Pete Thorn, the King of demo guitarists. 🎸
The HiWatt tone stack is an unusual and complex one. The mid dip can't be eliminated as on a Marshall, but it is more versatile. Leave the Bass at ~5.5. Try turning the Treble down to 1, and listen to the upper-mid peak shift from 5~2kHz by adjusting the Middle from 4-10. Then leave the Middle between there somewhere and hear the upper-mid to high balance completely change while adjusting the Treble from 0-2. It's very scooped otherwise. I'd try using it with those kinds of settings and balance the channels levels, increase the Presence and maybe reduce the Bass just a bit as needed.
Pete, the sound you're getting there with the Tele... wowzers!!!
Sounds great, Pete! Saw the Who around 1974, and P.T. had two HiWatt stacks + SG! Best rock tone I heard in those days! 🎸
Awesome demo! Thank you Pete!! Your intros also kill me every time! So gooood!
Great Townsend like rhythm tones!
The dueling guitar leads were an awesome way to show off how the pedal translates with different pickups. This pedal sounds great.
Adding that Colorsound overdrive to the pedal is a masterstroke imo. Hiwatt drive sounds are pretty hard to duplicate, and aren't as smooth and sustaining as in other amps. I don't understand the engineering aspect of it, but the amps have such high headroom that you have to really fckn crank them to get a really good sounding drive, but that makes the amp super loud and hard to tame in a live situation for playing clubs etc. I used a Hiwatt 50 in my old band (late 70's- mid 80's) and sound guys ALWAYS told me to turn down to the point to where the amp was rarely in its sweet spot. So I was forced to use pedals for drive, which worked well. Incorporating the Colorsound pedal into this pedal makes total sense to me, and it sounds great too!
Good perspective!
yeah, to make the pedal sound "good", you need at least one more pedal...?!
@@Maxy-K Only in the sense of imitating the real thing. The combination of the Overdriver into the amp was popularized by Gilmour, so that's a selling point too. But since it's a pedal and not an actual fire breathing super loud amp, you can push the master volume to emulate cranking the power section of the amp in a way that would be impossible for many applications in the real world because it would be way too loud. But you can also push the front end with the Overdriver section for a completely different type of gain. Or you can make it fuzzy with the Overdriver's own gain. Flexibilty.
This stompbox certainly captures the HiWatt Vibe! Sounds great!
That is a full featured pedal, sounds great! Awesome demo as always Pete
Not bad! I love Hiwatts, use em all the time, have five of em…. And many times these amp in a box pedals sound almost exactly unlike the real thing ha ha…. This thing does sound pretty good!
I like how this pedal can be set up in such a way it sounds like it'll blow if you crank it up even more. Hendrix and friends would have loved that back in the day. Would have saved them a lot of amps. 😅
It would've been too complicated for them! LOLZ
Help Steve Fryette is on my back . . Aghgghghhhhh , Sounds great Pete, had to Spoof it !
I just got my first ever HIWATT amp - T20/10 MKIII Head & 2 X12 cab, it's sooo good & takes pedals like it was built for it. 🤘😎 not quite a DR103 but it's good for what I need 😀
I reckon one of these and a Carlsbro 50 would be about perfect! Great demo again.
14:27 I just had mine delivered yesterday. It's sounds pretty close to the Hiwatt sound. The Orange Crunch side is very good as well. You're basically getting two high-quality pedals for the price of one. I'm very pleased. I like your videos, too. I have watched a few vids about this pedal. I needed to learn how to drive it properly. Another thing I love about it is the ability to patch in another effects pedal by splitting the two circuits from amp and overdrive. Cheers.
Enjoyed the chord progression on the explorer.
Pete...you must have the most amazing vault, brotha. Like Prince size vault. Just millions of songs packed away...
I’m over buying and selling dirt pedals, but this one is tempting. Sounds fantastic and is loaded with useful features. CTC makes great stuff.
That suhr strat neck pickup is awesome
Great demo as always Pete! This pedal encapsulates one of my favourite hard rock pedal combos. I love to use a 4 knob Colorsound Overdriver circuit into a really nice preamp pedal. Is it a FET based preamp? My own setup which would be similar would be running the Overdriver into a Catalinbread RAH but I really love it into just about all of the FET preamp pedals I have. The two band EQ on the Overdriver means you can take it from a treble boost kind of thing to really fat and fuzzy. Then with the gain/level you can go from a mild bit of overdrive to that wonderful, saggy, blooming fuzz like thing that's so awesome.
You can get something almost like the type of distortion you get in early tweed or brownface or like 'budget' amps like Supro and Magnatone where you crank them up and they collapse into a nearly square wave distortion. You run the Overdriver then into something high headroom like a Hi-Watt and you've instantly got 70-80s hard rock metal tone for days. Love it!
Everyone's favorite touring guitarist 😊
In order to keep the nature of the Hiwatt, instead of pluging the output to the front end of a clean Fender type amp...would be better I think to plug the output of the pedal to a power amp or effect loop return or...the Fryette Power Station line in lying in the back (with less or no tweaking)...to the cab of your choice!
Excellent video Pete. Really love how you did side by side with the Hiwatt!! Wonder if it would play well with my Kemper for recording.
Thanks for such a detailed, thoughtful overview - inspiring . . . you take these demos to a whole new level! Great pedal, will look out for it here in HK!
BeatMMM have it in stock on Carnavon Rd.
Thanks for the heads up! @@rtroupe7580
Thank you kindly!
Sounds a lot like 1970s Pete Townshend / The Who. Great video as ever Pete.
Pete, my boy, you’re killin me with anticipation on your Tone Master Pro video
Coming next week!
Sounds great 👍👍👍
You can also tune the bass in your sound system with Pete’s voice 😂
Finally something different. The pedal world is full of Plexi, Vox AC30 and Fender Deluxe Reverb '65 simulation pedals. Now this combination of 2 Hiwatt Amps and the Colorsound Power Boost is awesome! How I wish someone would create a pedal that emulates the Orange sound. Is there anything like that out there? Does somebody have any recommendations? Thanks a lot in advance!
I wanna hear how it sounds played with a 60s sg special with p90s. Also, how well does it clean up when you roll off the volume? This pedal seems to try and emulate pete townhends set during the late 60s and early 70s. In the late 60s he played p90 sgs and, if im not mistaken, could go from clean to diety by adjusting the volume/pickup selection on his guitar. This can be heard on the live at leeds album. Can you do the same with thia pedal?
He did use a fuzz pedal too though eh ,watch isle of wight etc or Woodstock too. A bit of a feedback thing though I noticed ,maybe cause of p90s? I dunno
Hi. Great demo as usual. Wanted to ask what to do with a delay pedal and the hi power. Would you put the delay in the Hi power's loop or after the Hi power? Thanks.
I wish this pedal was out several years ago. I’m one of those Gilmour tone nerds, and this thing seems to be almost a “Wish You Were Here” in a box pedal. I have two part for part clones, one of the Catlinbread WIIO and one of the ColorSound PowerBoost, which do a great job of getting the tones of Gilmour’s rig. But this thing has the cool options (such as the linked Hiwatt, which I think is how Gilmour had his amp wired internally), and the 9 and 18 volt options on the PowerBoost. What really sells me though is the effects loop, something that is missing from other “Gilmour in a Box” pedals, like the Keeley Darkside (a great pedal on its own as well). Having the option of throwing a phaser/univibe/flanger/chorus in the loop is great, but you can also throw a Fuzz Face or Big Muff in there as well (Gilmour went back and forth with his placement of the PowerBoost and the Fuzz Face, and later the Muff, but he like to stack gain pedals and compressors). Again, I wish this was around about 5 years ago, before I built my board to get those tones.
Pete,have you heard the new Hiwatt dr103 heads,2022-2023? I’m interested in buying but don’t know the new heads compare to the vintage 1970 heads
Killer opening track…sublime playing!
Question, just watched your reviews on the boss 200's. I am looking for something that will give me more versatility so that I don't have to go and buy 2 more guitars or another amp. I want to get one of these pedals so that I can play more songs (I cover a lot of different worship songs) without compromising too much tone/high end or sounding digital like the line 6 effects.
I have a vox ac handwired blue celestion with tele and 3 od's- the jhs 808/moonshine, jhs angry charlie, and a clean 3 knob booster/cleanup
MY QUESTION- with this in context ^ , should I get the boss 200eq, the boss 200od, or the boss 200 ir? I was thinking eq because i already have 3 overdrives, but then i saw the ir 200... im also not sure if eq is enough to manipulate the drive on the OD's or if I need a 200 od or ir for that.
Hey, Pete, I really liked that Les Paul style guitar... What make is it?
They're saying this is the pedal to dial in David Gilmours guitar sound n tone? Always a pleasure watching you do these demos Pete. Being of Greek descent how did you come across this pedal developed in Greece. Curious minds would like to know.
We know Crazy Tube Circuits all round the world. Nearly as famous as moussaka and equally as tasty😉😃
Pete love your demos. All the guitars ,amps and pedals but I gotta ask about the chair you have. It looks like the perfect guitar chair. What is the brand.
IKEA! It's great!
HOW DARE YOU FLAUNT YOUR SUHR AURA AT US! 😄
Yeah, yeah, yeah the pedal is cool and all but that intro track. Damn!
This would be great but I already have a Hiwatt but maybe for traveling
This or the english muffy ? Which is better ?
I wonder ho2 this pedal would take other drive pedals in front of it?
Didn’t David Gilmour use Hiwatt amps back in the day?
Dear pite thorn up the level😉🤘🩷
What Hi Watt amplifier are we talking about?
Sounds amazing. Let me go and crush my hopes and dreams by looking at how much it costs…lol
You are an amazing artist really Pete i love your performance with classic rock show in the song comfortably numb pink floyd amazing i hope one day my dreams it comes true to play guitar with you in the classic rock show 😊😊😊😊its my dream i love pink floyd i play with my guitar every day comfortably numb 🌟🌟🎸🤟⭐⭐🤟🎸🎸🎸Cheers my name is mahdi
This is straight to input amp or return
Into the front of amp
Ive always thought that Hiwatts have no timbre signature... meaning there is no harmonic foldover in a particular area of the spectrum. The drive harmonics are evenly spread and not loaded up in say the low mids like an Orange. Or, the high mids on a Marshall. This is different than eq. That being said, it highlights the timbre of the guitar. Hiwatts sound like a PA or HiFI tube stereo .
Boy that Pete can sure play that geetar
Great demo Pete. I got an email from Sinvertek. Wu has a new MGAT-1 Golden Era pedal. Do you think you’ll be demo-ing it? He’s claiming to 99% authenticity on the sound now. I have the N5 MGAT-1 and love it but just bought a Lion 68 two days before I got the email about the pre-order for the MGAT-1 Golden Era so I can’t pre-order. Lion 68 is a new favorite though. They’ve done it with that pedal. It’s just like my plexi. Running mine into SS power pushing my cabs and can’t really tell the difference to real Plexi.
🤘😈🤘🔥🔥🔥
Come clean; where are you hiding Pete Townshend? Is he in that little box?
Until you conjure up some Tommy Bolin or early Martin Barre...I'm not convinced
And the moral of this story is: buy a DR103. 🤠 The CTC pedal sounds pretty damn good but there's no substitute for the real thing (unless you have to carry it and a couple of 4x12s around). And if you wouldn't mind, tell me more about that explorer.....
I have to have this pedal……🤤
I need a second job to pay for all these pedals you demo I also want your studio monitor just because it looks like a sloth face
So no. A Partridge transformer cannot be emulated with a pedal. Nice sounding pedal tho.
if pedals cant recreate marshalls then not in a million years will be able to recreate hiwatts
No
I could care less about Townsend and Gilmour... yawn. Alex Lifeson had the best Hiwatt tone ever.