Its a fairly rare amp, do they command high prices?
I would love one of those for my clean / fuzz sounds.
The Captain- 02-13-2007
They are fairly clean at moderate volume, Cranked right up there's some crunch, but nothing like a Marshall. On the early Zep stuff, you're mainly hearing the fuzz box.
I have a couple of original MkIIs, MkIIIs and an Arbiter 100. For the record, I don't believe the modded MkII story either.
Hey Stu, How different is the Arbiter the old Sound City's??
~Dave
Stu- 02-15-2007
Gordon,
I've only seen three: mine, the one Paul Tribe has (posted by Philip) and one that was for sale at a Guitar Center store in the US. The one in the US was badly hacked inside and missing the original knobs, but they still wanted $1400 for it. I got mine last year for £250.
Dave,
It's the precursor to the Sound City SC105, which was the one used by Hendrix and Pete Townshend. The circuit is similar, but the Arbiter has 47n coupling caps on the first stages of all four channels, whereas the SC has different voicings. The Arbiter tone controls are also a bit different, more like a Baxandall circuit. The SC preamp schematic can be found on Mark Huss's site:
http://mhuss.com/Hiwatt/Schematics/SC105.gif
Of the later Sound City amps, the L100 sounds closest.
gordon7987- 02-20-2007
Thanks for that Stu.
Continuing the JP theme
this footage http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2003973125694702746&q=led+zeppelin
It looks to me like they are using WEM ER100s heads as backline! does that sound correct? I think ER range heads were transistor.
philip- 03-01-2007
What ever head JP is using, one similar appeared on ebay.de months ago.
It was a valve amp though.
gordon7987- 03-05-2007
Oh yeah you are right, Its John Paul Jones that looks to be using ER100s.
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Hey Stu, How different is the Arbiter the old Sound City's??
~Dave