Fryette Pittbull Ultralead II

[DanTravis62]

How good are you with a soldering iron? We have a company to start.

I'm decent but i'm no @RedPlated or @glpg80 or monomyth or anything like that; i fix amps for local people and know enough to do basic repair and maintenance.

What I am insanely good at is the "product research and testing" part because i'm one of the crazies that actually uses this shit for literally all of the use-cases it is for. I record tube amps with real mics, I use a kemper for silent recording, I play club gigs where the PA is a paperclip and some yarn,and I play gigs at festivals and theaters where I can use basically whatever I want including live IR solutions.

I am the patient zero who these people should be trying to convince to buy this shit because i use basically ALL of it, every day.

I believe the Suhr Pete Thorn amp was the first tube amp with built in IRs, but they also sell a version without the IRs.

I think it was a very good thing that they did offer both options, but I don't think Fryette is in the same sort of business situation where he can realistically offer a bunch of different versions, which makes it even crazier that he built.... this.

Which yeah, it might sound good, but who the fuck is it for?

 

[Techdeth]

As SgtThump mentioned earlier, Steve took a loan from AXL and put up the name for collateral. AXL ended up with the name. A lot of companies went under during the 2009 crash, including the one I was working for. If it wasn't for the success of the Power Station I don't know if Fryette would still be around.

Thanks for clarifying

 

[harddriver]

I have to be in the camp of if the new amp doesn't have at least the same size output transformer this new rack mount amp probably won't punch like the old school chassis amp with BIG IRON. It's possible Mr Fryette has addressed this so I guess it's a wait and see situation.

It's interesting he went this route with his flagship amp but as with the mini amp head trend maybe this was his intent.

 

[Greazygeo]

I mean take a DI capture with only the loadbox hooked up, and then taking another DI capture plugging in the cab and only using the loadbox as a DI (no micing). The captures will come out quite different, depending on the impedance curve of the cab and loadbox. When I did this, my loadbox captures come out more scooped and hi-fi, where the cab captures have more mids, and just kind of more fuzzy all around.

Yes that is how I do mine. The cab is always plugged in. Tried only the amp to loadbox and did not get results I liked.
I normally take two captures, one DI off the loadbox with the cab plugged in and a second that is micing the cab.
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Some reason, if playing thru the amp into the PS-2 then its line out into my interface /daw, it sounds different without the cab plugged in. Strange.

 

[Greazygeo]

The people who want one will convince themselves the digital EQ sounds just as good. Then several years from now be “back to a normal amp”. That’s the problem with digital I’ve found.

Now that I’m looking at it more, I can understand what he has done, but now I think he should have just gone all the way. If he is already putting digital in it, should have added a full sweet of effects. Then it would have real don’t what he wanted. 2RU amp with digital delay, reverb, EQ and IR post amp.

Every DAW has digital eq in it? Don’t see too many complaints…well there is always the analog guys I guess.

 

[Kagami]

I think it was a very good thing that they did offer both options, but I don't think Fryette is in the same sort of business situation where he can realistically offer a bunch of different versions, which makes it even crazier that he built.... this.

Which yeah, it might sound good, but who the fuck is it for?

I think you are on to why the original Pittbull series was "discontinued" in the first place, he had a hot seller the PS lineup and decided to focus on that. There's no woodworking and tolexing, they take up less space, transformers and chassis are cheaper, etc.