NAD: Hayden Mofo 30

[DoctorJay]

I'll await your assessment with interest. Congrats.

[OU818]

It's heeerreee







Unfortunately I am at wor for another 5 hours. Eagerly awaiting home time so I can crank this up

[brianr0131]

Well? PCB or PTP?

[OU818]

Well? PCB or PTP?

I can't open it at work

Will have a look on the weekend. I'm going to go with PCB but will be happily surprised if wrong.

[BrianGT]

can't open it at work

Will have a look on the weekend. I'm going to go with PCB but will be happily surprised if wrong.

I really do hope it's handwired but regardless............they do sound good!
Enjoy!

[Le Chat Noir]

Interestingly, I notice that Ashdown's Little B*stard bass amp also has a limited run of 100 UK 'hand made by Dave Green' ones and guys on bass forums have said those are PCB too - in fact, one was told the components are identical to the Chinese ones, just assembled by a UK worker. It's pretty condescending to Chinese workers actually - if it's in the UK it's 'hand made' by an individual, but an equally skilled Chinese labourer is just some faceless cog in a machine...

Call my cynical, but I also highly doubt that Dave himself sat around hand-soldering 100 each of these two amps!

[BrianGT]

Call my cynical, but I also highly doubt that Dave himself sat around hand-soldering 100 each of these two amps!

That's my whole point really....he didn't.
He may have fitted the PCB's in place and connected the flying leads but to me that's not "handwired"........

That doesn't take anything away from the sound of them...because the two I have heard both sounded great!
I am sure this one will be no exception!

[Randy Bass]

That thing is beautiful. I'll be interested to hear how it sounds.

[OU818]

Unfortunately the other guitarist blew the speaker in his combo last night so I lent him the Hayden and the cab, so no bi-amping test last night. It sounded great when I cranked it up at home though, the cleans are really well rounded, especially through P90s.
Strangely though I found the cleans on the US input to have more headroom and depth, contrary to the description of the US channel in the manual (bright, early breakup) however this could also have been the neck P90 as it is a fairly dark pickup as it is.
The Mofo boost is where things got fun. With Gain on just under half, Master just on 12 o'clock and Mofo set to full the Hayden goes from mellow cleans to searing overdriven lead. Pinch harmonics came out clear and easy whilst palm mutes had aeolus crunch to them. Very vintage sounding.
The only gripe so far is, despite it's reported 30w through 4x EL84s, it can't compete with the Rocker 30 for volume. Most times I had to have the Master on 3 o'clock to compete with the Rocker on 12 o'clock. This could be a tube thing however Nd will be replacing them shortly as the amp is second hand, despite being made only last September.
Will hopefully update my report after I get to have a good run of it on the weekend. Oh and the stealth c switch is awesome. 2 watts on tap is perfect for when I am playing at night when home.

[Randy Bass]

It's not fair to the Hayden to expect it to be as loud as a Rocker 30! It's no average 30-watter. My OR50 with the same power valves cannot keep up with the Rocker 30 for some reason.

[OU818]

It's not fair to the Hayden to expect it to be as loud as a Rocker 30! It's no average 30-watter. My OR50 with the same power valves cannot keep up with the Rocker 30 for some reason.

Probably a fair call. If I remember correctly my DT was just able to make it over a drummer, guitarist and bass player in a small rehearsal room, whereas the R30 sits on about 12 o'clock and dominates. Thinking of grabbing a Marshall Haze 1x12 cab to run mic'd up with the R30 through a 2x12 Mesa. Anybody used one of these cabs yet?

[Foef]

Nah, don't do the Marshall Haze.
You'll be dissapointed. I know i was.
The sound was just too loose formy taste.
Don't like muddy overdrive...
Fuzz on the other hand.....


Grtz, Bert.