Hine Bigknob 30 (2024)

The Bigknob 30 comes courtesy of Malcolm Hine, London-based boutique designer.  The Bigknob is his signature amp, featuring an innovative ergonomic control panel layout that is intuitive and hard to make mistakes with however dark, hot & sweaty the venue may be!

Bigknob 30  is a 30 watt valve guitar amp with two  foot switchable channels - Normal and Overdrive and a valve driven spring reverb

Controls left to right are:

• Volume: This control is only active when the Normal channel is selected, indicated by the green LED on the front panel.
• Treble: Common to both channels
• Bass:     Common to both channels
• Reverb : Common to both channels
• Drive: Controls the amount of overdrive in the drive channel, only active when the Drive channel is selected, indicated  by the red LED on the control panel.
• Drive Master:  Controls the output level of the  drive channel and is only active when the drive channel is selected, indicated by the red LED on the control panel.

The rear panel:

• Three 1/4 inch jack sockets for the channel switch , line out and extension speaker.
• Speaker Impedance Switch. For  switching between 8 ohms and 16 ohms.
• Power Valve biasing: there are two test points and a rotary control on the rear panel to facilitate external setting of output valve bias.
• Standby Switch
• HT fuse
• Mains socket with integral mains fuse.

Valves:

2 x 6L6gc
4x ECC83

Celestion Century Neo 80 watt speaker 102db sensitivity.

Cabinet material: Baltic Birch ply

Dimensions:
19".      Width
18"       Height
9.25 "   Depth
Weight 35lbs

Comes with footswitch and power lead.