HIWATT Pedalsmith 50 Valve HEAD 50W | Pedalsmith 50H Head-50W Guitar Amplifier

The ultimate pedal platform, reborn: the Pedalsmith 50 rebuilds Hiwatt's legendary DR504 circuit for the pedalboard era.

A pair of EL34s pushes over 50 watts of the crystal-clear, piano-tight headroom that made Hiwatt the backbone of Pete Townshend's and David Gilmour's rigs. High and low inputs each act as a 'linked' input — the trick famously modded into 1970s Hiwatts for Pink Floyd — feeding both Normal and Brilliant channels at once for deep tonal sculpting, while the clean, quiet post-preamp FX loop keeps delays and modulation pristine after the valve stage. If you build your sound with pedals, few amps on earth present them better.

Key specifications

• Model reference: PEDALSMITH-50H
• Category: Guitar Amplifier
• Boxed dimensions & weight: 69 × 36 × 31 cm; 18.1 kg gross
• Made in: China

About Hiwatt

Hiwatt is one of the founding names of British amplification. Dave Reeves began building his famously overbuilt, military-spec amplifiers in London in the 1960s, and their huge clean headroom became the backbone of two of rock's most iconic sounds: Pete Townshend's wall of Hiwatts with The Who and David Gilmour's shimmering Pink Floyd tones. Today's range spans hand-wired English flagships and accessible tube and solid-state amps that carry the same DNA.