Leaderboard

I was DEFINITELY NOT in the market for a new guitar!!! I had just sold an extraordinary H157 to a good friend of mine a couple months ago, so I knew how awesome these new Custom Core H157s are. Then I go poking around on the Sweetwater’s website, looking at what new Heritage Guitars they’ve got in….and I see it A beautiful SILVERBURST H157!! And is was a demo! Normally a $4400 guitar, marked down to $3200!!! Only 8.5 lbs!!! ”I really can’t afford this”. “I really don’t need it” Throw common sense into the wind….i had to get it. More pics and a full review to follow!!

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After gigging with this amp for a while I’ll say without question that it is a wonderful amp for small to medium venues. Or bigger ones if you mic it. Since i play jazz almost exclusively - it is a great gigging option for clean tones at moderate high volume. 35lbs, so very portable. I put a Neo speaker in it to shave a couple pounds as well. Recently - our drummer is getting pretty loud and so in turn the rest of needed to crank up a bit just to hear each other and ourselves. (I mentioned it to him…he didn’t react particularly well). As a result of the increased volume i hit the headroom limit when we got a smoking groove going. So…to see if i could stay clean at that volume, i swapped the 12ax7 in v1 for a 12at7 and replaced the TAD 6L6s with Tung-Sol 7581As. Sounds glorious at living room volume. Maybe better than before, but hard to really know. Will report back after next gig as to whether i got more headroom, but with what i am hearing so far - i am optimistic.