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HH bass combo (needs attention) - pics

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:16 pm
by NickS
Just noticed someone's giving away an HH VS Bass 100W 1x15 combo - email sent, fingers crossed. But I bet someone else got in first.

Needs attention, it's been standing outside since last week :(

Update: No, I got in first. Picking it up tonight, Trish will go mad.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:32 pm
by benecol
Nice work Nick - you've so much HH gear now, I think you should take on some sort of HH characteristic: my vote is for the facial backlight - just a faint green glow behind the eyes, nostrils and teeth, only visible in low light conditions.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:32 pm
by Mike
You oldies sure do love that HH crap.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:38 pm
by benecol
I like anything that glows, Clarkson.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:50 pm
by Doog
benecol wrote:Nice work Nick - you've so much HH gear now, I think you should take on some sort of HH characteristic: my vote is for the facial backlight - just a faint green glow behind the eyes, nostrils and teeth, only visible in low light conditions.
hahahaha

Awesomeness, we've got a HH BASSMACHINE 250w head at our practise space- I think it's due a service cause it's getting a bit farty and switching in the graphic EQ makes things worse, but it's a fun and loud lil' monster. Has a built in phaser too !**happy**

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:50 pm
by NickS
benecol wrote:Nice work Nick - you've so much HH gear now
Only a VS head, VS combo and VS footswitch so far.

Actually, that combo is a bit hybrid - VS head in a 100L combo cab. I don't know whether that was HH using up 100L cabs or a later hybrid. Those folks in Blackpool that bought a VS combo a few months back were trying to sell the bare cab again last week.
benecol wrote: I think you should take on some sort of HH characteristic: my vote is for the facial backlight - just a faint green glow behind the eyes, nostrils and teeth, only visible in low light conditions
Sort of zombie effect?
Mike wrote:You oldies sure do love that HH crap.
Eh? Speak up? I think my battery's gone again.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:59 pm
by NickS
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Different cab to mine, Blackpool sellers.


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What mine should probably look like - can't see any ports on this one.
Doog wrote:we've got a HH BASSMACHINE 250w head at our practise space
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Starting at £150, hmm.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:01 pm
by Mike
Soooooo ugly.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:04 pm
by Doog
That's the fella! Head version of that. It was fixed a while back because the previous owner (former bandmate and practise space co-owner) knocked it off the oddball cabinet rig and spazzed up the jacks..

EEDIOT. But I bought it off him for £50 when he "moved out", so 1+ to me.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:42 pm
by NickS
Hmm. Bit of a Benecol moment. "Oh shit, it's THAT big?"

Then - "Hell, I can't lift it over the sill into the boot by myself".

I don't know how long I'm going to keep this thing if it's going to give me a herniated disc. I could buy a sack trolley but I'd still have to get it in and out - Amp cost, £0, handling equipment cost ......

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:42 pm
by benecol
Buy an ugly popemobile like mine.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:12 pm
by rrrob9
HHs are mint! I didn't have an amp so my drummer picked me one up for about £70, bless his socks. Think it's an SS100. They're so heavy, I know your pain! I think all the weight must be in the cabinet, which may explain why they sound so good? That's what I tell myself as I pop my vertabrae back into place, anyway. :shock:

:D

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:27 pm
by NickS
rrrob9 wrote:HHs are mint! I didn't have an amp so my drummer picked me one up for about £70, bless his socks. Think it's an SS100. They're so heavy, I know your pain! I think all the weight must be in the cabinet, which may explain why they sound so good? That's what I tell myself as I pop my vertabrae back into place, anyway. :shock:

:D
My 212 combo is a lightweight compared to this 115 bass combo. The 212 has castors that tend to make holes in the hardboard cover of the floor of my car boot (= trunk, youz guyz over there ;) ).

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:53 pm
by mellowlogic
These amps look really cool, can't say I've ever seen them before. It's like an angry robot or something.

Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:22 am
by NickS
mellowlogic wrote:These amps look really cool, can't say I've ever seen them before. It's like an angry robot or something.
Well, if you liked those pics you'll LOVE these of my own gear (Bass combo still lurking in the car ATM.)
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:01 pm
by NickS
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Well, I took a proper look at it just now. Someone's attacked various things with black paint to "smarten it up". Including the loudspeaker cone, I think. :shock:

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:31 am
by NickS
But it works! Used it at band practice last night, pots need cleaning but it works well! They even said they liked it, especially the guy who used to be a bass player and owned one.



It's hiding in the car again now.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:33 am
by Mike
I wouldn't leave it in the car. Last time I did that Pete Doherty stole my Marshall 2x12".

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:43 am
by NickS
Mike wrote:I wouldn't leave it in the car. Last time I did that Pete Doherty stole my Marshall 2x12".
When I spoke to the guy he said "I could leave it outside. No-one's going to walk off with it." He's right. It would take two and they'd still shuffle. One reason it's still in the boot is that I don't think I can lift it out by myself without one of these:
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:)

It fits in the boot under the cover, so it's invisible.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:22 am
by benecol
Think of the fuel economy, though.