Dudes Who Use Hiwatt

[Space-Man]

I decided to start this thread out of curiosity. Entwistle, the dude who's name pops up when the words "Bass" and "Hiwatt" are mentioned together, used them biamped, Waters got a good clean tone out of them, Nick O'Malley uses them for distorted sounds.

I think John Deacon may have used them, anyone know? Anymore guys?

 

[ShavedHippie]

Wetton?

 

[Space-Man]

Wetton?

Oh yeah, how could I forget him? Didn't lake use them in his Crimson days?

 

[MrGotBass]

I think I remember Robert Trujillio saying in Some Kind of Monster how much he liked the sound of the Hiwatt amps they had. I don't know if he uses them live or anything though.

 

[rosstanium]

Pretty sure Guy Berryman from Coldplay uses Hiwatt.

 

[Tim C.]

I decided to start this thread out of curiosity. Entwistle, the dude who's name pops up when the words "Bass" and "Hiwatt" are mentioned together, used them biamped

He split his bass signal to different amplifiers, which each had different EQ and gain settings, he didn't bi-amp. Bi-amping is using crossovers between special-purpose drivers to reproduce particular bandwidths.

That said, The Ox had one hell of a sound Precision into Hiwatt. One of my favorites.

 

[sarcastro83]

JJ Burnel from The Stranglers was a Hiwatt guy for a long time. Pretty sweet punk tone... great bass player, too.

 

[spaz21387]

i think klaus floride from the dead kennedys used hiwatt for a while i remember seeing some live footage of them and a hiwatt amp in the background

 

[Space-Man]

JJ Burnel from The Stranglers was a Hiwatt guy for a long time. Pretty sweet punk tone... great bass player, too.

That's cool, I've been wanting to get into them for awhile.

 

[iamthebassman]

John Lodge of the Moody Blues, during the 60s/70s. Just watched Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight, he had a bunch of Hiwatts!

 

[Big_Stu]

Does one bass into:-
5 Hiwatt 200's, an Acoustic 360, a Marshall 400 and a 2000watt power-amp going into 3 Hiwatt cabs, an Acoustic cab, two 8 x 12"s, and a couple of bins count?

 

[corinpills]

I would perfectly willing to be a dude who uses Hiwatt if someone would trade me for my Trace Elliot V6. I'm just putting that idea out into the bass universe.

I LOVE Hiwatts. I have used them quite a bit and they are tone beasts. We once played a festival in Toronto and were given Hiwatts to use 9thank you very much) and the guitarist's amp had "Lifeson" stenciled on the back. How cool is that?

 

[Cobrahawk]

I know Phil Lynott used a Custom Hiwatt 100 along with another head that I can't recognize, could be an Ampeg, at least once while on tour. Here he is in a Thin Lizzy documentary.

 

[iamthebassman]

Not to mention Roger Waters way back when.

 

[zombywoof5050]

I know Phil Lynott used a Custom Hiwatt 100 along with another head that I can't recognize, could be an Ampeg, at least once while on tour. Here he is in a Thin Lizzy documentary.

That amp next to the Hiwatt is an Acoustic, and that's an Acoustic cabinet on the bottom.

 

[lowend1]

Glenn Hughes with Deep Purple - Hiwatt DR405s live, and 103s in the studio (if memory serves)...

 

[lowend1]

Whoops! DR201s, apparently, in studio and live - although I'm pretty sure the 405s were in use for the big gigs like CalJam.
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