{"id":36,"date":"2007-01-29T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/01\/29\/my-old-hiwatt-50-watt-12-stack\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T07:15:07","slug":"my-old-hiwatt-50-watt-12-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/01\/29\/my-old-hiwatt-50-watt-12-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"My old HiWatt, 50 watt 1\/2 Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Boy was this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiwatt.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ext-link\">HIWATT<\/a> thing freaking HEAVY!!! It was such a bitch to lug around. But I loved my HIWATT 50 watt, !!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Guitar_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3631424768\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I vividly remember being in the band for &#8220;GOD SPELL&#8221; at St. John&#8217;s College in Brantford. The music director for this production, who admitted to only be able to play the stereo, use to help us load the BEAST onto a dolly and moving it back and forth from the music room to the gym for rehearsals. He always said &#8221; This big thing sure sounds great but, HIWATTS SHOULD HAVE WHEELS!!!&#8221; The cabinet and the head where the same weight I think.<\/p>\n<p>I sadly do not have this beautiful piece of my history with me but ahhh, the memories! My parents bought this for me from the now defunked Brantford icon, &#8220;Music and Sound&#8221; run by Bruce P. He fled the country to the US because of some tax stuff, or so the story goes. <\/p>\n<p>I had went and checked out amps and decided on this one. The sound was just HUGE! It also had a warm and soothing sound as well. Great from RUSH to Renaissance. With just a acoustic, it was wonderful. I used &#8220;Groove Tubes&#8221; in this with great results and changed them yearly, they were a bit pricey but you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this demo that I found on YOU TUBE <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p =align \"center\"  <object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5xPfhFb7AM\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5xPfhFb7AM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The morning after my 16th birthday was fuzzy and quite warm to say the least, the days before air conditioning in my house. I woke up and saw the sun coming into my basement bedroom. This was nothing new but this time I could barely make out a big fuzzie rectangular object sitting in the door way. When my eyes started to focus on this off thing, I realized that it was a FREAK&#8217;N 50 WATT, HIWATT, 1\/2 STACK!!!!!! 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