"A milestone of Classic British high-end tone"
Hivolt 103 Custom Guitar Amplifier plugin is based on a vintage Hiwatt* DR103 year 1970 with original Partridge transformer and military point-to-point wiring.
Hivolt 103 Custom Guitar Amplifier plugin is a 2 channels amplifier with shared EQ for both channels. It has 4 inputs, 2 for each channel (normal and brilliant). Hi inputs are DOWN and LO inputs are UP. Patching of channels works here, and you can blend for additional versatility.
All amplifier parameters knobs work as EQ/drive controls basically, they are very interactive and very responsive:
CABINETS
With Hivolt 103 Custom Guitar Amplifier is possible select between six different guitar cabinets, four microphone emulations with on/off axis position switch, continuous position and distance knobs.
A complete Mixer section with Solos, Mutes, Pans and Faders allow you to blend together the two microphones with the ambience.
IMPULSES RESPONSE LOADER
Impulse Loader let you load up to three 3rd-parties impulse responses, you can blend them together using volume, pan, phase, solo and mute controls.
A useful browser window has been added so you can easily search through all your third parts IR files.
CLEANER / NOISE GATE
Noise Gate section plus a Cleaner circuit to reduce rumbling and harsh is included.
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Legal Disclaimer:
Hiwatt DR103 is a registered trademark of Hiwatt Electronics Ltd. Hivolt 103 was developed by Nembrini Audio SRL based on its own modelling techniques. Hiwatt Electronics Ltd has not endorsed nor sponsored the Hivolt 103 in any manner, nor licensed any intellectual property for use in this product.
Reviewed By Faydit [all]
February 14th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
Long overdue, that this legendary amp gets a good simulation, as it has a very special, very own sound, which, despite of some, also existing similarities, rather differs more from a typical vintage Vox, Marshall or Orange. From modern high-gain amps anyway completely.
Some sort of very unique clean to semi-clean British sound, which you hardly can get out of modern multi-channel-amps as little as out of any pedals. Think of the typical The Who or Pink Floyd sound, cleaner than a Plexi, but with good dynamics, excellent harmonics and, if needed, a lot of sustain due to the vintage power amp saturation.
For me personally these British clean to decent, transparent overdrive tones always sounded very fascinating and I always preferred them over any typical American clean to semi-clean tones.
Typical Nembrini quality, sonically as good and convincing as the Voice DC30 and the Mrh 159.
The P50E speakers seem to do a good job, but I personally would have preferred a cabinet with some - in my opinion - more authentic Fane Purplebacks instead. Or alternatively a cabinet with some Goodmans or Simms Watts speakers. But ok, these IR's you can easily get somewhere else and load them by yourself.
Great work, thank you.
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