Fyrette VHT CL vs Deliverance

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I’ve played a D120 and a CL50, I think it was. The CL seemed brighter and leaner/meaner. Kind of a snarl to the sound? The D120 is just huge sounding, maybe smoother?
 
I am interested too. I have a sig:x which I love, but it doesn't get much attention as my other amps. I do want a pit bull CL though someday.
 
I've never had a CL, but have had a UL, D120 and D60, and currently own a CLX and Sig:X.

I believe the CLX and CL are supposed to be voiced pretty similarly.

CLX has the most gain available, and is probably the tightest though we're splitting hairs there. UL was tightest of all but honestly just didn't speak to me. I think I lacked the right cab for it at the time though.

D120 was like a bulldozer. Mighty and thunderous. Dry, immediate response.

D60 was one of the best modded Marshall sounding amps I've ever played. Van Halen, AiC, etc, while still having a great Marshall style clean (think RHCP circa blood sugar).

Sig:X is like a blend of the D60 and CLX, but a little looser.

The D amps are tops for cleaning up with a volume knob. No amp I've played does better.
 
CL has a single 12AX7 driver stage, a different power transformer, a different output transformer. It breaks up easier and has a bit more give - and the EL34 voice.
The Deliverance 120 has KT88 a 2-tube driver/PI stage similar to the UL.
The CL has the Green and Red channel. The Deliverance 120 preamp is similar to the Green channel. The Red channel has more gain, saturation and voiced a little different.
Seems to me the CL50 and CL100 was a bit more raw sounding than the CLX or Deliverance 120. Deliverance 120 has some serious punch and girth.

https://youtu.be/c-AfFQz0yN8
 
I currently have the CL and have owned the UL, SigX and D60. I feel the CL is a good combination of all of them honestly. It has amazing cleans if dialed in properly. Has the lower gain Marshall-esque stuff when in low gain mode and of course it can get super tight and brutal when pushed in high gain mode with the gain up and boost engaged. Its more forgiving than the UL easily and it is tighter and more aggressive than I remember the Sig being. The D60 was a bit harder for me to appreciate at the time, I didn't have the right cab for it and I hated the volume taper. It was basically an on/off switch that was nothing then Bam! My opinion is that the CL is the best of all the Fryette amps, minus the SigX because that has a million knobs and switches and I just didn't jive with that one.
 
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