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Absolutely! The story , the price hike full of musicologist learned a probation not and that it has been defaced by removal of the 15 Amp round pin connector. Never mind but what I was interested in was a 60s HiWatt lead with a valve rectifier then that would get back on track with the Marshall similarities... PS IF you liked this you will also like the one I watched before this where one has ended up in ownership of a young woman 👧 guitarist , similar.
I've just aquired a 200 watt Hiwatt custom PA (DR203). A very rare model made in the USA. It failed in the mid 80's and has never been touched since. It had 1 valve in it so I had to buy 4 new ones. It's in totally original condition. All components, transformers, pots all original. I'm waiting on delivery of an old bulgin power lead to power it up. I can't wait to hear it sing.
Update... I have it working. I had to clean every potentiometer (it's a 6 channel PA) and each channel came to life as I cleaned them in turn. Bass guitar sounds amazing straight in without any signal processing or any mid control. Each channel just has vol treble and bass. Quite weird because I'm normally messing with the mids on an amp more than anything else. Oh well, nothing added, nothing taken away so there can never be too little or too much. I would love to mod a channel to include mid and drive but that would be a sin. It's in original condition (except for the new valves) So, I'll just leave it as it is. The vinyl covering was a bit like yours, all flapping about at the edges so i superglued it flat to the wood to make it look a bit more tidy. I'm not really a content creator but I'll give it a go making a video. I will send you a link if I manage to do it reasonably well :)
Folks, don't forget to add your Hiwatts to the Mark Huss global registry at hiwatt.org/RegAmps01.php. Not a lot of DR 203s on there -- 13 at current count, and need to add my #3708 (recapped, 4x KT88s).
I genuinely remember my band played Amplified 2018 the same day as you guys, and I remember running up and yelling that your Hiwatt and your guitar tone was awesome hahah!! Glad to see you've still got it! :D
David Gilmore was in the audience of a gig I played once. We played an avant-garde piece called "Jacknoise" where all 6 guitarists unplugged and tapped on the Jack plug in varying timings for 3 minutes. He loved it.
GREAT video gal. Very cool backstory and even cooler heads. I have a DR103 (custom 100) I always go for 100 watts if possible just because I like playing loud so I can get a lot of head room with the 100 but I definitely use OD, distortion, and fuzz pedals, oh and a range master. But they are very basic and few pedals DS-1, Russian Big Muff (military green and huge casing version) and an original Big Muff, and a Maxxon 808 for my boost control. That’s about it I do always keep a wah and volume pedal on my board, and a couple MXR modulation pedals, but they are used extremely sparingly. Mostly just the distortion, wah, volume. I play really simple loud sludgy heavy blues e.g. Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, The Sword, Graveyard, Ruby the Hatchet, SLEEP, Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Weedeater, Acid King, Muddy Waters, Alvin Lee, Dixie Witch, Black Sabbath, Leaf Hound, Blue Cheer, Earthless, eyehategod, bongzilla, Backwoods Payback, just to give you a cross section from traditional heavy blues to blues southern metal! So I digressed a bit far there but I just get super stoked when I find a fellow musician who likes and gets it when it comes to old British Stacks!!! Keep on rockin’ hope to hear your band.
Sooo glad you grabbed this amp from under David's hands----it would have been stolen or lost by a roadie and sold to who knows who! Great story, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for all the info! I'm in the US and have a UK-made Sound City combo from 1974, but haven't plugged it in or turned it on knowing it needs to be serviced. The rear panel is identical thanks to its Dan Reeves/Hiwatt origins.
I had a two input 1977 DR103 for years, then one of my friends sold me his Audio Brother DR504 with four inputs, it was heavily used and had been repaired many times, I immediately fell in love with the amp and still use it to this day. Being the idiot that I am I sold the DR103 in 2017 for $1800 U.S. it was totally mint! :(
'77 was the year Alex Lifeson started using them; A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures were all recorded with the HiWatt DR103.
I use an identical one from my days in the 70s. Not quite as battered as that though. I don't know how we survived the volume in those days. I also ran a Sound City 200w Stack and a Hiwatt 100 but the 50 is the real gem. Great video Laurie!...and enjoy...
I love these vintage British amps. Not a tone of controls/settings like a modern Mesa-Boogie. I'm really thankful for that. To me there is nothing better than a single channel amp with gain volume treble bass mids and presence ( Hey I'll take a master volume control as well). Simplicity is the genius of these amps. For tonal purity and sheer volume nothing works better. I want to congratulate her on an excellent amp score.
Lovely amp. I also have one, a '77 2 input jack canadian 50w model, which are model DR505. Also worn on the edges, but not as bad as this one, missing back panel, missing the logo, but I had a local sign shop engrave me a new one.
OG Mullards??? Woah... a matched pair of Vintage mullard EL34s will generally run you 500$+. You generally have to switch out the power tubes every few years, or at least re bias them... the fact that those tubes and the parts that kept them working lasted 48 years without blowing up or going microphonic is just a testament to the quality of those old components!
Been looking for one of these for years, what did you pay for it? I'm considering building one now as doubt I'll ever own one. Or buying a reeves. I was working for Ronnie wood in 2005 and we stayed at his place in Kingston upon Thames and there was a dr103 head sitting in the guest cottage, the next week I took my guitar but just couldn't bring myself to crank it up and play some Gilmour licks 🤣 Great video and small world as I'm going to Witham and Cressing tomorrow
220 miles???! In America, I just drove 770 miles round trip, in one day, for a drum set. 7 drums. No cymbals, no cases, no hardware. 12 hours, left at 6am, home at 6 pm. We crossed 4 state lines, twice. You UK folk are seriously near sided! We drive 220 miles just for colder beer.
Will try my best to do a demo. It would be nice to get an accurate sound of it though so will have to have a think on how I can do that whilst in lockdown and not annoying the neighbours 😆 - Reverb is definitely fun! I tend to use it on cleans but not so much on distortion unless I'm looking for a specific sound.
@@LaurieBuchanan I have an accutronics double length reverb that has been going rusty in the garage for some time I checked out the resistances on it and concluded it is a valve variant so if it needs a good home?
Nah mate, they do sound better with those original exact fanes they originally installed in the original original original 1970s cabs, but they sound very very good with Celestion as well. I happen to be a proud DR504 owner:)
Good find on the amp by the way, that's definitely a keeper. These old Hiwatts are going up in price, I'd love to own one if they weren't so expensive.
