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All of our Heritage line of amps are built to the exact standards as they were in the late 60's and 70's and still give that classic clean, hi-fi-esque sound. This demo is just showcasing our Filter Fuzz MK II - no clean tone to be found on this video!

I had the “ice pick” issue. It’s the 1 meg pot and also the strings being too close to the pickups or the action being too low. I lowered my pickups further in to the body of the guitar and it sounds much better and now I can play full volume and tone on a Jazzmaster and not kill peoples ears.

Lmfao dude do you know what shoegaze is? 90% of the genre uses jazzmasters, the rest either use teles or a short scale, noise is a part of the sound and if you aren't wearing ear protection at a shoegaze gig I have no hope for you lol

@@kamek7246 most of the shoegazers pickups were actually lower in to the body because the foam in the pickups deteriorated over time since most of the musicians were using second hand 60s JM’s So the guitars were not Fender PU height . So most Millenial Gen Z musicians with reissue Jazzmasters do not know about this so when they play in to clean amplifiers full volume and tone it is too much treble and yes it cuts but comes off harsh. Hence why guys like the guy above makes ice pick comments I have experimented with this and the ice pick problem went away and I still cut like butter in a band mix and the gliding technique sounds much cooler now.

I'm talking about the 150 series not the 300

Also, what cab is this going into?

@@underground_man I would also like to know this.

Super Leeds 150 owner here (just posted a demo also). from Arv Hiwatt's reply on the Gear Page: There'll be a proper press release coming soon, but essentially we took all the good bits of the old Crunch Series and made a few adjustments; improved clean section to take pedals even better, actually removed a little gain from the overdrive section which helped keep clarity on both gain channels, improved fx loop, installed an fx loop in the 50 which for some reason didn't have one(!?) and upgraded a few components to increase stability.

looks like their HG212 cab with Octapulse 12"s

@@alilhouston About a week ago I went ahead and ordered the Leeds 150 head along with one of their SE212F cabs since Hiwatt's custom shop in Toronto didn't have any HG212s. I received the head already and I love this thing! The clean channel actually *will* break up but you have to run the amp hard - I have used an attenuator to do that - a Rivera Rockcrusher - but this attenuator can only take 120 watts RMS, so I don't run the amp master past 12 o'clock. The second channel is like a JCM800 but ballsier, and it can do pretty convincing "classic" gain if you roll the gain on the amp down a bit and roll your guitar's volume down appropriately. By the way, did I mention this amp is LOUD?? I have been running it at moderate volume into the octapulse speaker in my old Hiwatt T20 combo and it absolutely rips. My cab is supposed to arrive today and I am SO excited! AHGHHHHHH

Are you playing in a band? How loud can and clean channel get before it starts to break up?

Not in a band yet but even at 20 watts its insanely loud

from Arv Hiwatt's reply on the Gear Page: "There'll be a proper press release coming soon, but essentially we took all the good bits of the old Crunch Series and made a few adjustments; improved clean section to take pedals even better, actually removed a little gain from the overdrive section which helped keep clarity on both gain channels, improved fx loop, installed an fx loop in the 50 which for some reason didn't have one(!?) and upgraded a few components to increase stability." I just got the 50r. It's great.

@@alilhouston - so did your Leeds 50 have the fx loop like ARV mentioned? I’m seeing these listed with pictures and specs showing no fx loop. I’ve had my 150r about 5 weeks and it’s awesome amp. I wanted to pick up the 50 watt head too, but no fx loop is a no go for me. I’ve A/B’ed my twin tube JCM800 preamp with the HiWatt Vintage Super Leeds 150r channel and I can match sounds. I have several 80’s era Marshall SS amps too - 3210 Lead 100 Mosfet, Lead 12 Mini stack, 3310 Lead 100 Mosfet, and the HiWatt can get all those Marshall sounds easy plus a lot more. Really great amps, but I run some external preamps as extra channels so I need the fx loop.

@@vondragonnoggin SO awesome to hear your experience with it and the Marshall along the way:) I had a 3210 years back and wanted to rebuy but this is more my style and then some. Mine does not have the FX loop. From what I read, they seemed to have had these boxed up and ready for release before they caught on that they should have FX loops. so they started integrating them. Hiwatt also did say they'd be willing to add an FX loop to Crunch/Leeds models without them. Currently I'm awaiting a response from them; customer service seems to be lagging but nonetheless great amp.

@@alilhoustonthanks for the info. I have a crunch 150 which is fantastic. will wait for some comparison demos before deciding 🤘

@@Chiaseedorangeboba traded the Leeds 50 for the Super Leeds 150. someone has posted a Super Leeds 150 demo on UA-cam with various pedals. I'm hoping to getting around to doing a demo myself in the next weeks even if just short & sweet & shows off all possible sounds. it's an absolute beast. from what I've heard of the Crunch 150 they cover very similar ground:)

You can daisy chain cabs or use a cab merger box like a Palmer Cab M

Ok issue resolved. It looks like the connections are reversed. The Return goes to the pedals Input and pedal Output goes to Send. My head is spinning now but it works 😂