VHT Pitbull Ultra Lead - Quick Playthru
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A quick play thru of this legendary amp. Bogner Uberkab loaded with T75/V30 combo. ESP Horizon loaded with an Arcane Inc Alnico 8 humbucker. SM57 mic.
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Goddamn!!! I don't even want to hear anyone else play these amps. Your method of catching the sound together with the crushing riffs is incredible!
Good to hear someone rip his instrument instead of boring cliche blues licks.
This is boring as hell, blues is way cooler.
@@michaelcraig9449 LOL.......ok grandad
@@michaelcraig9449 you joking, right?
this is the one that Mick Thomson used for Iowa, killer
He mostly used stacked River Knuckleheads.
@@illuddivinus3309 yeah after Iowa. He used VHT for the Iowa cycle.
@@nathanielcava4128 He used this in the studio, on the road he switched to a marshall JMP-1 with a mesa power amp i believe.
Yes Mick used this, Jim I think used a 5150 and Laney split.
That's exactly the reason why I have such an obsession with this amplifier, lol
Man that tone, that crunch...it all sounds so 90s. I love it!
I came here to hear some serious metal carnage. AND YOU DID NOT DISAPPOINT!!!
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Thanks Reza, it's all been said. I have this sound stuck in my head. For all those comments wondering what the status of a new version of this amp is, I contacted Dave at Fryette on a different topic and we talked about the UL, and this is what he said, "We are hard at work on the new version of the UL, but Covid made it take a lot longer than planned"
Start saving your cash. :-)
Amazing how all the notes come through such saturation. Masterful amp
What I like best about this amp is, even at maximum gain, you can clearly hear individual notes ringing out. Very nice definition and clarity!
I like how you let it ring out so when can hear the tone and sustain.
I ordered this Amp new and its mint! Will never sell it...
This is so hot and dry that this amp can turn anything into dust. I think I’m in love.
Absolutely the best amp demo channel out there. playing is beast.....imagination...flow...chop city.
I remember hearing one of these next to a Boogie in a boutique amp shop around '89. It totally CRUSHED the Mark III. It had so much more texture and superior tone, and the crunch had more chordal clarity. Wonderful amps!
hmmmmm that's a pretty bold statement....
I have a 1988 Mark III blue stripe and I am in LOVE with it. The fact that you say this amp crushes the Mark III for crunch and clarity gives me massive pause. How can I try one of these amps? I've never even heard about them until now. I've never seen them anywhere before.
@@skullkrusher4418 vht is now fryette. The pitbull ultra lead was their flagship model and has a very dry sound. You have to dig in to really get the saturation you’d normally hear in a Mesa or evh. What the OP said about chordal clarity is absolutely true. Hearing a vht/freyette in person is like nothing you’ve ever heard.
@@HiMyNameIsJonathan That REALLY intrigues me. I gotta get my hands on one I guess. Sounds like a dream for a player like me.
@@skullkrusher4418 synergy makes a module for the Ultra Lead. Steven Fryette himself assisted with the design. Could be worth checking out. Preamp is $400 or so. Doesn’t beat the original 120 watt head but the character is there. These amps do have a “edge” button that adds saturation but I keep mine disengaged.
The active eq really shines too. Fryette has said that is responds well to the nuances of each instrument. He’s a true master. It’s not for everyone, very unforgiving with how you play similar to a classic Hiwatt.
One of the best amps I ever owned. Sure wish I still had it. Thanks for the video!
SgtThump yeah, hearing again makes me sad I sold mine but it served me well.
I hope I find a good one somebody parted with. I almost forgot how unique these sound but this demo ...I'm sold again.
Great!! I love VHT but your playing is phenomenal. Love the riffage. You rock! Nice breath of fresh air.
One of the best amps I have ever heard, sounds perfect for that Helmet style of riffing.
Man, that tone is downright soul crushing. Solid!
This is one of those few videos where i can just bang my head to non stop killer riffs. This amp is amazing sounding. Thanks for showing how it’s done man!
One of my favorite amps ever. I play rock, not metal, and this amp delivers. Wish I didn’t sell mine years ago
This and the Sig X are the best imo! Heavy sounding as heel yet tight and articulate. The cleans are good for a high gain amp as well!
Well, time for another re - watch
Very uncompressed. LOVE IT
I bought this amp and used it extensively for a few years. It truly is a great workhorse., Also had a cl pit bull and it kicked ass as well. Back in the big rack days I had a purple face 2150 truly the holy grail of power amps.
Fuck yeah. I've owned one of these since the late 90s after I got a good look at Page Hamilton's setup (that melted my face) during the 'Aftertaste' tour. Sold all my Mesa stuff, ordered it and never looked back. Still the best imo.
Don't get rid of it; you will miss it and there really is no other amp out there like it. I bought one in 2003 and still remember my jaw dropping the first time I lit it up. I parted with it 6 years later.....think it is time to pick one up again.
@@SluggerStark You should, man. I'm just re-tubing mine (just the preamps) for the first time & I cannot wait to finally finish that up and fire it up.
I've been a fan of the Pitbull since first trying one out around '89. Absolutely brutal gain! The only amps that come close in gain and tone quality are Bogners and Diezels. They positively CRUSH Mesa Boogies.
Fryettes are truly the best amps in the world. Beats all my Mesa's, Marshalls, etc. They are beasts.
Brilliant amp design. Saturated get gritty and scratchy but full harmonics
Reza, I have never watched a dull clip from you. Always balls to the wall tube amplifier brutality!! What fun you must have cranking all these beautiful amps. The filter effect on this one rules. Big fan here.
the best guitar gear review channel I've come across in recent years, actually stumbled upon lol. now looking at your stats slightly shocked - how come this cool channel only has less than a 1k subscribers , same goes to views...???
Feel free to share it mate!
No doubt I will!
Agreed. Thanks for all of your posts! Helps me think about amps I can’t try out for myself where I’m from. A former student of mine had this amp. I really wanted to like it. It’s good. Bogner and ENGL are more my style though. Was probably one of the nicest amps in the mid ‘90s. Love those KT88s.
This is probably one of the most controversial amps in the heaviest metal community. Once you dial one in, it's nirvana of expression and cuts like razor.
Because of jealous and insecure people!
The "Iowa" chainsaw..
Love that when I’m curious about a amp Reza has a video for it! Just purchased this amp! Lucky me!
5:05 that is brutal!
This and a Randall Century 200 are my dream amps. Such a brutal sound, it’s a shame they’re hard to come by. They’re not cheap either but they live up to their price tag.
I wanted to sell my sigx with the fatbottom vht 4x12 for 1200$ and nobody wanted it in switzerland, and now i not sell it because i love it
This is what made slipknots Iowa killer
Idk corey was pretty pissed lol. Jk it was awesome. What do you think about mudvaynes ld50 tho?
Holy grail of tone
I have the dual combo CLX (CR100 I think... with reverb instead of the Depth knob in back unfortunately, and EL34s instead of KT88s, otherwise same layout). Best amp I ever heard, and yours is possibly even clearer sounding which says a lot. GREAT riffing helps haha. Cheers.
Incredible! One of my favorite high gainers as well.
Mannnnnnn! That is the best combination of brutality and beauty that I have ever heard! And killaceous riffage too!
lynyrddeville thanks!
One of ur most brutal clips
Sounds insane! I think this might be the amp i've been looking for!
Andy, owning the EL34 version of this, the Sig-X model and using the ultralead patch on my kemper, I can guarantee you, if you think it is what you've been looking for, you won't be disappointed as it sounds even more brutal but just as tight in reality !
@@ShredZ79 Oh man! You wouldn’t happen to have these kemper patches online would you?
@@Andy-km3pg The one for the UltraLead I use is on the public rig exchange, names start with "Riffem Fryette" and there is both a DI/cab version of it. I use the DI since I hook up the power kemper to my real cab.
@@ShredZ79 thanks heaps mate!
@@Andy-km3pg You're welcome, enjoy!
Helmet sound
gato gris -Which is why I must get my hands on one.
Badass! Riffs are tight as always. Nice review!
Goddamn i love how this amp sounds
Best UL demo in YT :)
That is a great sounding amp! Nicely done.
I want to add that I played one of these a few weekends ago and it sounded awesome. This video does a good job of representing the tone.
I’m a metal head, I’m like a football fan when I plug into an amp. This particular amp I’d be like “Hey check this out! PAGE HAMILTON!”🤘🏽😝🤘🏽 Like he’s one of my favorite QBs of all time lol!
Of course I wouldn’t be able to sound like him. I’d have to live on veggies and stuff to get the right tone 😎
very smooth gain structure.. wow.. super tight bottom. Now I know why Noodles runs them.
Sounds like a mix between a Mesa MKIIC+ and a SLO.
Ridiculous!!! \m/
I appreciate the catchy riffing btw
yep. i heard aaron turner of isis/hydra head etc play one of these at soundcheck for a small show once and i was amazed at the clarity the amp had at high gain settings. and..no noise.
It's his main amp since forever. He started with old Model Ts when they were dirt cheap (not anymore sadly!) and then he went with this beast. He tours sometimes with Orange stuff but this amp is his main core in everything he does.
Everyone that asks me about this amp gets.the same answer:
"There is no amp on the market ever built that has more of a personality than the Pitbull UL."
This amp os so clear and responsive that EVERY single idiosyncrasy in your playing will be heard. I cant wait to get this thing back in the studio when I find one. I love Fryette but I need that VHT grille lol.
I actually have this headshell if you want it.
UL is my queen , always !
and Wizard MTL is the king metal amp? Or would that go to the Diezel Herbert or Bogner Uberschall?
Awesome Reza! Love the review. Again, wish you were back at Rig-Talk!
scarem84604 thanks man, someone stole my screen name and they banned me..haven't seen that site in months...
Not to start anything but didn't you request to be removed from the site and have all your posts deleted after some guys started getting racial etc.
indeed! once it became about threatening my life etc. I was out. aint nobody got time for that!!
I hear that. It took me a long time to come to terms that a rock/netal orientated guitar site would be so right wing and I'm still surprised by it but they recently banned religious and political discussion to try and ease back the craziness. So now people in Off Topic just get to talk about their latest rifle accessory!
Agreed... miss your post on Rig-talk. Also great review of this amp...
So I'm thinking of a new head, I pretty much only play metal lots of jug jug jug stuff/80's thrash. What would you recommend between the VHT Pitbull, Friedman Butterslax or a Diezel Herbert?
That is freaking sick man, damn.
dope sound! When i was playing metal this is the tone i was always looking for. I was one of those metal zone kids. I could get it to sound kinda close on my friends jcm800, but it was still a little plastic-y.. Anyway, cool vid.
What's the word on a renewed version of the Fryette UL? I heard some whispers but nothing concrete.
sounds deep and gnarly
I think I repeated this demo about 70 times. UL sounds amazing. Btw, Reza have you ever plugged into Fortin Natas? I heard this amp sounds similar to UL.
bullet rider I have not! Those are pretty rare!
RezaMatix Yeah I know. I hope you make Natas demo :)
bullet rider I would love to!
damn, this thing is brutal. great demo, dig it.
Sounds wicked man! What octave pedal are you kicking in in this video?
ManAliive Foxrox Octron!
Wow that was badass tone
When I got my pitbull Ultra lead I upgraded the p50s of course and did the full stack and oh my God does this amplifier Rock and it rocked around the nation made my Marshall look like a crate LMAO LMAO LMAO
.....crates not that bad
Fuck! Sounds perfectly insane!
super tight and brutal!
Great tone as always! I wanted to buy UltraLead, but one day i played Randall Satan which felt like Ul but with more punch in the mids and as tight as UL and decied to go with Randall and never look back.
That's cool. I played the Randall and to my ears it was typical Randall, some fizziness in the highs I could never dial out. But nothing you would hear in a mix on stage.
In my opinion Satan was not a fizzy as Messas can be. Overal Satan voicing was very close to UL.
Steve Carlsson UL sounds better than the Randall
An absolute beast of an amp. I remember when I first played one. It was in one of the many boutique amp shops I visited in the late 80s. I tried it right next to a Boogie Mark III. It ate the Mark III for breakfast. I thought it had a much more interest variety of gain textures and a better tone to boot. It's not my favorite high gain amp. That would be the Soldano SLO. But it's one of the best every built. I play jazz fusion so I don't use this level of gain, but I love an amp that can do this. It's like going pedal to the metal in a Ferrari on the Autobahn.
This might be a tie with the VH4 for the ideal metal amp. Nice riffing bro.
I like the new Diezel VHX that is a really cool new amp!
@@GuitarsAndSynths not for 5 grand.. fuck that.
Dayum those downstroke chugs!
Great metal amp and cheap to buy used too. Way less expensive than a Diezel or Wizard and gets the job done.
THIS can definitely do Metal. But that being said I see Herberts selling for cheaper than I see these most of the time.
@@RezaMatix Ya, I was gonna say you can pick up mk1 or mk2 Herbert for around the same price or cheaper. The Ultraleads seem to be steadily rising in price now. Kinda sucks, because I want another one. Bought mine in 2004 for 1600 Canadian and I still consider it one of my all times favourites.
SluggerStark new model
of this is coming in December, save your money.
@@RezaMatix Oh hell ya!!
wow i was very impressed. but i think what put this amp over the top was your guitar...those esp horizons are no joke!
wooooooo !!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! Very good!!!!!
Mudvayne!!!
Beautiful playthrough man. I am curious, what are these jazzy sounding chords that you play around 2:46 ? They really bring out some really awesome hidden beauty out of the amps, I've noticed the same with your Mark 2C++ vid.
Lethargica Stengah thanks for watching, that section are just 7th chords!
Page Hamilton style!
So Dry!! But in a very sick way.
That thing is brutal. Ever think of making a Kemper Profile of it? I'd love to have one! Great sound!
Bucks Absente sorry, I don't support Kemper. They are and have critically hurt amp manufacturing
@@RezaMatix I respect your opinion! Great video anyway!
Kemper sucks. Had one for a year..nothing like an amp
Brutal !
Hey man are using any boosts? Sounds killer!
Kevin Armstrong That is the sound of an UL unboosted. You don't need to put a pedal in front of one. They are pretty much the tighest metal/rock amp you can get. Channel 3 of the vh4 is super tight as well.....but that is alot more $$$.
Great channel. Cheerz! :)
That got absolutely disgusting in the best possible way towards the end there
Killer riffs and Killer amp. There is one of these on reverb, but it says Fryette across the front rather than VHT. Is it the same?
Steve Groebe as long as it’s an Ultra Lead and has the EQ, the brand transitioned to Fryette
@@RezaMatix thanks man!
bad ass Reza!
Man what is that effect you always use that makes it sound like it drops out of a couple of speakers
EQ!
Sick man!
Reza, have you tried the Deliverance? How did it stack up, in your view, to the UL (for metal)?
Snyder0317 never tried one!
How does this head compare to the Fryette that Page Hamilton of Helmet is using? Your riffing is on point!! 🤘🏻😛
Downgrade this is the same exact model and year he used.
RezaMatix, thanks!
RezaMatix, thanks!
Seriously though...how do you get all of these amazing amps? Can I just borrow a few of your amps?
buying , selling , trading. this one is for sale if you want it :)
RezaMatix sir I wouldn't waste your time. I only wish I had the $4000 to own your beautiful instrument
$2100 Shipped Conus. :)
RezaMatix lol yeah some day, that is genuinely a hell of a deal. I don't have that type of money till December
@@RezaMatix available?
good player, great amps, so hard to sort out what makes up your great tone. what do you feel you get out of your Arcane Alnico 8 humbucker that a stock les paul hum bucker would not provide?
huge difference. gibson stock pickups are horrible to me. Alnico 8 is a very strong magnet, it keeps the low end very tight, lots of harmonics and plenty of output.
RezaMatix very helpful!
@@RezaMatix which Arcane Inc Alnico 8 do you use. On a couple different video you have cited at least two
john doe if you can actually get in contact with Rob from Arcane just ask for the Reza pickup. 13k, there is only 1 other Arcane i have demoed and that's a higher output custom model called the Powerdozer, but it's only in 1 single video i've done online.
RezaMatix helpful. And yes I have read the guy is busy. Lol.
holeeee shit that amp sounds brutal.
Wow, I had a chance to get this model or the Deliverance 120, I went with the deliverance, I regret it
Zachalou whydoineedalastname it's never too late to sell one and get the other...
Sounds great. Do you find it to be as "stiff" and "unforgiving" as its reputation suggests?
NO! its TIGHT, so that may throw some people. But it puts out whatever you put in.
Thanks for the info. I'm going to have to hunt one down.
The VHT fat bottom cab with the eminence speaker is what is stiff, the UL through a MESA cab with vintage 30's is how I like it best at 8 ohm.
Its because of the Fat bottom cabs. They are designed to have no alterior speaker excursion or cabinet involvement other than your volume. Theae amps are extremely tight yes, but with a v30, or greenback they get chunky. UNEARTH used these through 1960B cabs if I remember correctly. I only played one in the store a while back I couldnt beleive how tight it was at full gain. Just a crushing amp. ONLY caveat to it is no matter how you set it your tone is front and center in the jam room. So if you want that easily blended tone of say a mesa, that wont happen with this lol.
hesher
Nice impro !
So Reza, which would be better for thick super chuggy metal, the Pittbull UL lead channel or Butterslax's channel 3?
WOTUFAKA! Super chuggy? The Ultra lead. It is tighter and naturally had a bigger low end and darker tone. With the 6 band eq, you can make this thing chug like no other amp.
I had an ultra lead for 10+ years and then a sig:x that I still have, I wish there were something out on the market now that was like an evolution from these heads. I still crave new tones. It doesn't seem like there is any head on the market that is taking the metal torch and pushing shit to the next level. What do you think is good that's been released in the last 10 years? That has high gain, but a different voicing than this type of VHT tone?
FlexYoFace Chase you should check out the uberschall video i just posted.
Hi man, very nice tones ! Did you mic the v30 or the t75 ? my guess would be v30 but I just want to make sure ;)
Jeff Sternon yes!
So dry , the grind is over 9000
Have you tried the Sig X?
i believe i have a video of it here on the channel...
@@RezaMatix I'll try and find it, thanks!
Is that Tony Iommi in the beginning?
lol no
fk who has the 80s version of these they must be ULTRA rare
Helmet page Hamilton 🇧🇷👇✌️
this riffs from some track or it`s improvisation ?
all improv sir.
This amp or mesa 2c+ if you could only keep one for metal?
Friedman Naked Mk2
@@RezaMatix lol the answer is always C with these things