HOLY VHT/Fryette D60!!! Where have you been my whole life??? Versatilty beyond words!

Congratulations ....

The Deliverance is one hell of a amp.
My Deliverance 120 is used more than my other amps these days...Clean and point of break-up sounds are huge. Medium & high gain all there. The dynamic and the way it reflects what my hands do works for me...

 

great amp. miss mine.

 

It's such a great amp...but sadly also a very loud bastard.

 

Welcome to the club!

 

phreaking brilliant cleans available, too, if you want them.

if these amps looked kinda "vintage-y" or "classic", less "hard" B&W,
if they had a cosmetic vibe that sat more within the narrow visual constraints of the bulk of the marketplace,
i betcha they'd be all over the place.

sadly, i believe that many folks might think like this:
"it's made for metal.",
"it doesn't look nice w/my relic'ed tele.",
"it doesn't suit the look of my current shoe-gazer/jazz/fusion/alt-rock/country combo",
and, then?
then, they kinda just walk on by.

great amps; phreaking great amps.
at the top end of the best guitar amps, ever, imo, AND:
i own some other truly great amps that i still dig to play.

i love the whole of the fryette line, including the 2 unique pedals;
i have four very different fryette heads, each offering something(s) that i've found in no other amps.

the d120 is my #1, the sig-x is my #2.

 

I like VHT/Fryette stuff.. but the only thing that makes me hesitate on the D120/60 is the power tube choice... if it was EL34's I would be all over it.. I just dont think I would like the tone of of the kt's...

 

I don't think this amp was build for power clipping FTMP.

 

On the contrary. Real musical and harmonically balanced power amp clipping is achieved by carefully matching driver stage, power tube and output transformer behavior. The D60 design goal is an amp that has the punch and clarity of a 100W amp combined with the distortion character and harmonic balance of a 50W amp. KT88s have the clean, dynamic quality of 6L6s and the transparent upper harmonic quality and smooth transition into clipping of EL34s. As a result, EL34 players get what they want and 6L6 players get they want without the compromises inherent in designs that offer tube switching which don't really produce an optimum version of either.

 

I am not ready.

 

Is it possible that you will develop an El34 based amp again like the classic series? or have you given up on that platform?

 

i used to primarily play el34-based amps, myself.
it might serve ya well not to pre-judge KT88's sounds, feel & capabilities
w/o having spent some real time with a d60, a d120 &/or a sig-x.
really; no kidding.
not just smoke.

 

Sometimes I find myself wanting a Germino just because they look so darn nice.

 

True, power tubes don't always dictate tone. Transformers and circuit design can play a bigger role. I need to check out a D60, going to hunt one down from one of the rental companies in L.A. so I can really hear one.

 

The reason why I said I didn't think power clip was in the equation was that the amp already has a truckload of gain at low volumes; for what I'm used to anyways...

 

This is exactly how I feel about KT88 in the right amp. Your design here works perfect for me.

The SAS is my favorite distortion pedal .... I highly recommend it. With my Sig X and Deliverance 120 it opens up a lot of different sounds from clean to over the top distortion. .... It sounds great with my other amps also....

I agree it has enough gain in the preamp for what I do.... but the poweramp distortion that it is capable of is more important for the way I play. Most of my life I have been more into poweramp distortion. I grew up at a time when few people had amps with high gain (started playing in 1969, very young) .... so it has always been a big part of how I play.

 

I never played one but from the descriptions it seems like an amp I'd REALLY like.

 

We never stopped. CLX (formerly Classic), CL and 2502 power amps all still use EL34s. It's no secret. They're on our website

 

It's unfortunately a common misconception that high preamp gain is interpreted to preclude power amp clipping. To me it's a palate from which to choose. A little of this, a little of that. You don't use a whole bag of flower for pancakes just because it's available.

Preamp gain is easy to get wrapped up in because it makes you sound good at low volumes. Power amp clip is harder because you have to play at band volume to get it.