VHT / Fryette Pittbull: The dog that's also an evil genius!
Story time: Almost two decades ago I bought my first VHT Pittbull Hundred/CL. After reading through the internet (mostly Harmony Central reviews at the time) I decided I was going to get one. As luck would have it one popped up on the local classifieds and I had managed to pull together enough money for it.
Then as plugins got better and my interest in playing live fell to zero, The Pittbull amp that I loved was sold and I didn't really regret that sale until quite a bit later.
Well a couple of months ago after I received an acceptable royalty check I found one on eBay in an adjacent state, bought it, and had it shipped over. I've never had a good tube amp shipping experience!
So I pulled it apart then cleaned it up and retubed it. When I bought my first Pittbull the only tube amps I'd had experience with were Rectifiers, and I hated them. The Pittbull was everything the rectifier wasn't. It was tighter, more defined, less sloppy. It forced me to be focused! But I always wondered if something else could be better. After all, I mostly made my decision based on Harmony Central reviews!
Well, now that I'm older and I own all of the amps I'd considered back in my childhood, I can appreciate this amp on a whole new level. Yes it's unforgiving and it forces you to play with accuracy. Yes it's dry and at times and it can feel like it lacks sustain. No, there's no comfort blanket! If you're having a bad night, you're flat out going to hate yourself when the show is over. Even when the gain is on 10 there is still note definition, it runs with low noise, and running a drive pedal in front of the amp brutalizes the tone, creates more than enough sustain for anyone, and it still keeps all the same properties that allows those notes to cut through. This honest amp tells you to do better, and it rewards you greatly when you do. Steve Fryette is an evil genius that demands we all be banished to practice!
I'm so happy to have this amp back! I love everything about it and I'm super happy that I can share it with you through these profiles!
From sparkling cleans to metallic brutality, This profile pack contains 35 profiles of a 2005 VHT / Fryette Pittbull Hundred/CL with 5 different cabinets, 4 different mics, and multiple different settings.
--GEAR USED--
For these profiles the Maxon OD808 Extreme won the drive pedal brutality shootout, but there are a couple profiles that use an st9+ as well.
All of these profiles went through a Shadow Hills Mono Gama preamp with the Steel transformer setting engaged. Mics used were Shure SM57, Audix i5, Neumann TLM193, and Beyerdynamic M160.
Cabs profiled: Diezel front loaded 2x12 w/ V30s, Engl VGB412 w/ V30s, Krank Revolution 4x12 W/ Eminence Legends, Randall RG412 W/ Eminence Jaguars, Custom Built 2x12 w/ 'Made In England' Celestion Greenbacks
