Sound City

OnTheFritz · Post by **OnTheFritz** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:25 pm

Look at this beast, 8 EL-34's!

The BIN looks pretty good for what someone would be getting.
BTW, I have no affiliation with this seller.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SOUND-CITY-SMF-TOUR ... dZViewItem

JD · Post by JD » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:04 pm

Isn't Sound City related to Hiwatt somehow?

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:05 pm

Yeah through Reeves or his assocuates in some way. I read the exact details before but I forgot that fast. I think I read it in Pittmans book.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:07 pm

There was a Sound City 120 chassis on the 'Bay a couple of weeks ago, stripped of the trannies but pretty complete otherwise....it was tempting.

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:08 pm

terry kilgore loves them - calls it his marshall eater

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:17 pm

Some people feel that way about HiWatts. Its such a bigger, fatter clearer just full larger then life kinda sound. But if you play HiWatts for a long time you miss the pelxi sound. Their just different. I never even seen a SC in person.

NitroLiq · Post by **NitroLiq** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:53 pm

The same could probably be said for plexies. Here's The Dave Reeves Legacy from Mark Huss' Hiwatt site. I'm pretty sure there's a famous pic of Page playing a sound city in the early days (between zep I and II)...inputs on the left side of the amp. He might even be playing it on that poorly recorded French tv show footage that's on the DVD...I'll have to take a gander later.

gldtp99 · Post by **gldtp99** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:18 am

this is a Sound City SMF and it has nothing in common with a Hiwatt-- i have one of these SMF heads and have owned 100 and 50 watt Hiwatts--- i also have Sound City 120's and a Sound City L100 halfstack-- the SMF was produced after Sound City production was moved to New Jeresy and shortly before they stopped building amps and this was long after D. Reeves left Sound City to start Hiwatt--- Leslie West is supposed to have been involved in the development of the SMF and the name came from him-- (Super MF'er)--- large, powerful amps with a strange sounding footswitchable Dirty channel--- i like to run the clean channel at 8 and the dirty channel at about 4-5 for tha clean sound and use a Rat for distortion--- amp doesn't really seem like 150 watts until the MV is cranked up past 7 or so-- between 7-10 on MV gets very loud--- i've modded mine to run on only one speaker cab if wanted--- orig needed two cabs to operate---- i have to admit that the mid -70's 100 watt Marshall with four EL34's i fixed up a couple of months ago for somebody sounds better and is at least as loud as my SMF head..........gldtp99