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Those of you who are on my Facebook already know, but the Fuchs is out the door in record time. Had to face that it was just not my style of amp. So it's been replaced ...with:
I just got back from my first band practice using it... and I'm still grinning.
Pics and details to follow tomorrow morning once I'm on a real PC and not a tablet.
Edit: pic added!
It's a 1992 VHT (rebadged Fryette) Pittbull Classic.
Power section is 4 x EL34, 100 watts full-power. Capable of Pentode and Troide operation. Also has a half-power function which only runs the outside tube pair @ 50 watts. At half power+triode operation, power is reduced to 25 watts.
Preamp section is 3-channels + a footswitchable boost that works on channels 1 and 2, coming to 5 distinct sounds from the footswitch. I'm only using four (I have the boost disabled on the clean channel), so channel descriptions would work like this:
Channel 1: Bright, bold, chimey clean. More Hiwatt than Fender. Has that characteristic fast response like all of Steve's designs. Very flexible and lots of headroom.
Channel 2 (no boost): Malcolm Young. No joke. Just pure cranked Marshall Plexi. Probably the biggest surprise and coolest bonus to this amp. I've never used a high-gain amp that could be set up for metal and still pull off this sound without changing settings.
Channel 2 (+boost): Hard Rock / Metal rhythm. Thick, chunky, and TIGHT. Not immense gobs of gain here, but plenty. The tightness and pick response / dynamics of this channel make it feel like you're using more gain than you actually are. The closest thing I would compare it to would be Countdown-era Megadeth. It's not your typical '80s shredder hot-rod Marshall tone. It's more woody, more immediate. Perfect for what I was after, actually, which was something that still felt right to me but was different from all the Splawn stuff I've been using for so long.
Channel 3: Kill mode. Uses the same EQ as channel 2, with independent volume, gain, and "edge" switch that does... something. It adds a little top end sizzle and apparently increases the gain as you play higher notes. I don't know. It sounds cool. I leave it turned on. This channel can do everything from old-school metalcore to djenty sounds to Annihilator / Exodus, etc.
Anyway that's my new jam. Honeymoon in major effect, but it might be the best-sounding and most-useful amp I've ever owned.
I just got back from my first band practice using it... and I'm still grinning.
Pics and details to follow tomorrow morning once I'm on a real PC and not a tablet.
Edit: pic added!
It's a 1992 VHT (rebadged Fryette) Pittbull Classic.
Power section is 4 x EL34, 100 watts full-power. Capable of Pentode and Troide operation. Also has a half-power function which only runs the outside tube pair @ 50 watts. At half power+triode operation, power is reduced to 25 watts.
Preamp section is 3-channels + a footswitchable boost that works on channels 1 and 2, coming to 5 distinct sounds from the footswitch. I'm only using four (I have the boost disabled on the clean channel), so channel descriptions would work like this:
Channel 1: Bright, bold, chimey clean. More Hiwatt than Fender. Has that characteristic fast response like all of Steve's designs. Very flexible and lots of headroom.
Channel 2 (no boost): Malcolm Young. No joke. Just pure cranked Marshall Plexi. Probably the biggest surprise and coolest bonus to this amp. I've never used a high-gain amp that could be set up for metal and still pull off this sound without changing settings.
Channel 2 (+boost): Hard Rock / Metal rhythm. Thick, chunky, and TIGHT. Not immense gobs of gain here, but plenty. The tightness and pick response / dynamics of this channel make it feel like you're using more gain than you actually are. The closest thing I would compare it to would be Countdown-era Megadeth. It's not your typical '80s shredder hot-rod Marshall tone. It's more woody, more immediate. Perfect for what I was after, actually, which was something that still felt right to me but was different from all the Splawn stuff I've been using for so long.
Channel 3: Kill mode. Uses the same EQ as channel 2, with independent volume, gain, and "edge" switch that does... something. It adds a little top end sizzle and apparently increases the gain as you play higher notes. I don't know. It sounds cool. I leave it turned on. This channel can do everything from old-school metalcore to djenty sounds to Annihilator / Exodus, etc.
Anyway that's my new jam. Honeymoon in major effect, but it might be the best-sounding and most-useful amp I've ever owned.
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