HH electronic

HH Amplification

high performance professional sound equipment

A brief history of HH

This is an important British amplifier manufacturer that took the market and the world by storm during the 1970’s 80’s & into the 90’s. Among other legendary adopters of the HH professional amplifiers were Jethro Tull; Electric Light Orchestra; Thin Lizzy; Slade; Dr. Feelgood; E,L,O; Supertramp; 10cc; UB40; The Clash; The Specials; The Who; The Police; Madness; Cliff Richard; TRB; Pink Floyd; and of course the legendary; Marc Bolan to name but a few.

Aficionados and collectors globally will know and recognize the HH (of Cambridge, England) guitar combo amplifiers as pure vintage and innovative. They were created during a critical period in the evolution of professional rock industry technology and the British rock ‘n roll sounds and influence.

HH is an extremely high quality brand from England. This pre eminent company pioneered the large scale transition into integrated circuit technology in the 1970’s & 1980’s - but uniquely and faithfully maintained the warmth, tone and integrity of it’s ‘tube focused’ counterparts and rivals. This is an important point for users to note- even if they are ‘tube only’ players and prospective buyers of ‘big ticket’ pro amps.

An engineer named Mike Harrison created HH Electronic in the early 1970’s HH was located at Bar Hill, Cambridge, England. “Harrison Bar Hill” Hence the logo - H||H

HH designs were way ahead of their time, not just with electronics but with cabinet designs and overall looks, and boy did they look the part, even to this day.

For the musician and the retail market place the I/C100 Musical Instrument Amplifier was produced which gave 100-watt RMS of undistorted power. A separate speaker cabinet that matched the I/C100 was the 412BL minor Lead/Bass Cabinet.

The I/C100 was also put in to the form of a 212 Combo matched with then, a pair of Celestion 12" Speakers, arguably the most successful 100watt 212 combo amplifier’s ever made.

When moving to Bar Hill, HH moved up a number of gears to produce some very desirable music sound equipment, such as the MA100 Mixer Amplifier, V-S Bass, IC100L, V-S Musician, housing them in a very slim format and combo enclosures, this was actually a modular design. Many new speaker cabinets were designed and were put into production, such as the 212 & 412 Dual Concentric 212BL, 215BL, 412BL, 115PA Radial Horns and Bass Bin + Piezo.

Continuing designs brought along another of the first 19" rack mountable studio quality power amplifiers, the S500D, producing 500 watts of RMS power per channel, the first 2U 1Kw amp and this was in 1980. As time moved along, so did the expectations of the operator and a new design of amplifier was born, this being the V series, V100, V200, V500 and the now legendary V800 Mosfet.

Speaker Cabinet designs also changed, giving you the all new Pro Series, with those distinctive heavy moulded corners, all produced in house. Speaker chassis now being manufactured in-house under the supervision of HH Acoustics, to match perfectly with the amplifiers and speaker cabinets.

HH also catered for the serious sound reinforcement PA installer producing the much admired Concert System, using well constructed cabinets and speaker drive units. HH Concert Systems dominated the stage of virtually every concert around the world for well over a decade.

Many new products were produced, such as the Communicator 12 & 16 Channel Audio Mixer, new MA 200 & MA 400 Powered Mixers, the all new keyboard, P73 Electronic Piano and Stage Lighting System to name but a few.

HH moved again in around 1985 up to Clifton Road Huntingdon Cambs to continue further development of new amplification such as the VX Range of 19" Rack Amplifiers, MXA and Invader series speaker systems.

HH, currently owned by Laney continued to produce new amplification such as the New Pro Series Speaker cabinets, and a new range of MX Series Mosfet Amplifiers well into the nineties before stopping production around 2002.

Please browse the website at your leisure to see most of the products produced from around 1970 to 2002. For spare parts and service also see www.majelectronic.co.uk

If when reading this history section you have found it to be in any way inaccurate or perhaps you know of more info we have not mentioned please fell free to contact us and we will gladly update this file for all to read, thanks.

A list of just some of the performers who have used HH equipment...