HIWATT SSH Custom Studio Stage

SSH Custom Studio Stage description:

The Hiwatt SSH Custom Studio/Stage is a valve driven guitar amp head featuring classic class A design with four El-84's.

For recording, the Studio setting uses just two of the EL-84 tubes in the power section to give you the sustain and overdrive you need at more manageable levels (like the Custom 20 Head and Combo). Switch the Hiwatt SSH Custom Studio/Stage to Stage setting and use all four EL-84's together with the special wound transformer, giving you all the power and sustain you need. Still not enough? Then pull out the gain switch for serious overdrive, but yet still hear the tone of your guitar. It's how a classic British valve amp should sound. Now dial in the all tube design Accutronics spring reverb, back off your guitar volume and you have the coolest sounding amp on the planet.

A look inside the Hiwatt SSH Custom Studio/Stage will reveal point-to-point hand wiring, turret tag boards (no printed circuits), and hand laced wiring harnesses. The power and output transformers are manufactured by Partridge, the original 1970's supplier to the original design sheets. The components and wires are the modern available equivalents of the vintage components, 1-watt carbon resistors, and wound polyester capacitors being used throughout.

The main features of the Hiwatt SSH Custom Studio/Stage include:

• 4 x EL-84
• Gain switch
• Accutronics spring reverb
• 3 stage tone network
• Adjustable 4, 8 & 16 ohm output impedance
• Switchable voltage
• Hand wiring