![]() Marshall Amplification: marshallamps.Oh and to answer your other question, of course there's an element of paying for a name, it's the same if you buy a Fender vs.Hiwatt USA (owned by Fernandes Guitars):.Bass Culture, by John Entwistle forewords by Roger Daltrey and Rick Nielsen.The Sunn Shack: /The_Sunn_Shack.htm ( archived).Includes “museum,” schematics and history.Unofficial Sunn Equipment: /site/museum/ ( archived).PlexiPalace Vintage Amps Forum: /plexiboard/viewforum.php?f=3 ( archived).Vintage Guitars Info: /fender2.html#pbass.Thanks to those who have made this page possible: Courtesy Christian A., Germany Resources and Information Contributors Two Hiwatt SE4151 4×15 cabinets and two Hiwatt SE4123 4×12 cabinets.įor more details, see Sound City/Sound City badged as Hiwatt and Hiwatt CP103.Ĭlick images to view larger versions.Four Hiwatt SE4122 or SE4123 4×12 cabinets. ![]() ![]() These amplifiers had no middle or presence controls, unlike the standard DR103.Ĭontrols, from left to right: Four inputs Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 Treble, Bass, Master Volume Standby, Mains.įeatures: Five preamp valves (four 12AX7/ECC83 and one 12AT7/ECC81) four E元4output valves Partridge transformers four individual inputs (1 and 2 differently voiced brighter than 3 and 4) with four independent volume controls 100 watts R.M.S. John also used two Hiwatt DR201 200-watt amps with one customised Hiwatt DR103 100-watt amp. Beginning early 1970: three Hiwatt CP103 100-watt amps.Three Hiwatt DR103 100-watt amps customised to the CP103 spec ( i.e., no “The Who” faceplate).1970, Falkoner Centeret, Copenhagen, detail of one Hiwatt customised DR103 (middle) as a spare, and two Hiwatt CP103 amplifiers, with “The Who” faceplate. Two or four Sound City 4×12 cabinets with 50-watt Fane speakers.Ĭlick to view larger version.Plus, control panel labels were taped over to further mask the Sound City origin. Four inputs Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 Treble, Bass, Master Volume Standby, MainsĮarly versions had various block script Sound City nameplate badges, but beginning in late 1968, the badges were removed so that some were unbadged and some featured Hiwatt nameplate badges.Two Sound City L100 amps customised to the CP103 spec, unbadged or badged as Hiwatt.These amps were customised for Pete and John by Dave Reeves of Hylight Electronics, the maker of Hiwatt amplifiers (and who originally worked at Sound City, a division of Dallas Arbiter), presumably to what would be the CP103 specification. Through 1969, John and Pete acquired more of these amplifiers, with the first “The Who” faceplate versions - CP103 - appearing in early 1970. ©Henk Hulstkamp.Īfter having used Sound City L100 100-watt amplifiers on and off from April 1967, both John and Pete began exclusively using Sound City L100 amps customised to the CP103 spec, unbadged or badged as Hiwatt. The Who Netherlands Photo Gallery (offline). Top cabinets are Hiwatt SE4123 4×12s bottom two are Hiwatt SE4122 4×12 or Sound City 4×12 badged as Hiwatt. Showing Hiwatt rig: top, customised Sound City L100 amp badged as Hiwatt (unused, as spare) bottom two, customised Hiwatt DR103, customised to the CP103 four-channel specification ( i.e., no “The Who” faceplate). Sunburst Fender Precision Bass with rosewood fingerboard.I used this baby from 1967 onwards through ‘ Tommy’ and all the tours up to ‘ Quadrophenia’.The neck, pickups and circuitry are from a ‘dead’ slab bass, the tailpiece from a Jazz bass, the pickguard from a black P bass and the machine heads from 2 white P basses.Two hours with a Phillips screwdriver and a soldering iron and I was ranting around my hotel room screaming “It’s alive, it’s alive!” In the mid 70’s it was retired from stage work so I had it refinished from sunburst into its present pink colour. It’s the remains of five smashed basses hence the name ‘Frankenstein’. JE: I put this together in San Francisco on a day off part way through a Who tour. John’s primary bass guitar on stage through 1970, and in the studio through 1972, the 1965 sunburst (later refinished salmon pink) “Frankenstein” Fender Precision Bass. 1969, second Isle of Wight festival, with the “Frankenstein” Fender Precision bass.
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