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Harry Joyce has been building electronics for over 50 years. He was taught military spec construction as a boy by a couple of Americans during WWII. He introduced that method to guitar amplifiers when he was contracted to build Hiwatt amps for Dave Reeves in the 1960s and 70s until Reeves' untimely death in 1981. In 1993, Harry was urged to end his retirement and once again lend his skills to the world of guitar amplifiers. Starting where he left off, he made many improvements to the Mullard circuit-based Hiwatt amps he had made two decades ago; resolving known service issues, adding an extra gain stage, improving the tonal palette, redesigning the transformers for improved sound and efficiency, changing the layout for improved signal to noise ratio, and implementing a useful effects loop.

 Power Amp:  Tube; 2 x EL34, 30 watts RMS @ 16 ohms

 Preamp:  Tube; 4 x ECC83

 Rectifier:  Solid state

 Speakers:  1 x 12" Celestion Vintage 30

 Channels:  2 (Normal, Brilliant); 2 inputs per channel

 Effects: None

 Controls:  Bass, treble, middle, presence, volume for each channel, master volume

 Dimensions:  n/a

 Weight:  n/a