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MadAsAHatter
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Very Cool. Love that you have a matching cab.
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midgod07
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Me too! That cab is phenomenal. Sounds great with my other 2 amps as well.
Smash
Hack
Smash
Hack
Probably the same damn amp, honestly
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midgod07
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I was just about to say…you from Texas?
Smash
Hack
Yeah. I think I played it maybe the same day you bought it or something. It was an amazing amp. I had never played a fryette before that, and I can tell you, I kinda fell in love with your amp.
RedB4Black
Well-known member
Yes . It was the same amp. Lol
Dale B
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I hardly ever activated the EQ on the right. I just used the channel EQ. I pretty much always just dialed it in with my ears. I tube rolled the crap out of the ones I've owned also. I liked either Chinese KT88s or JJ KT88s in them. I tried GE 6550s, EH KT88s and Sovtek KT88s. The New Sensor Gold Lion tubes hadn't been introduced to the market at that time. Anyway, I liked what the JJs did to the power section in that they made it totally clean. I liked the way the Chinese KT88s shaped the power amp also, but they had a slight wool to them. EH KT88s lacked some high-end extension with what I was using at the time. The GE 6550s sounded like a =C= 6L6GC on steroids. I had an older one that could swap to 6L6GCs, and I ran =C= 6L6GCs in it. I ultimately preferred KT88s.
As far as preamp tubes... Telefunken Ecc83 smooth plate in V1, followed by a Chinese or RFTs and a Mullard 12at7. I tried all kinds of preamp tubes. I rolled tubes as a hobby to help make subtle changes.
I absolutely hated the way Alnico 5 pickups sounded with any of the ULs. I almost always ran Anderson pickups (ceramic magnets) for anything that wasn't super detuned. I ran an EMG 81 and 60 in my baritone with the 18 volt setup.
The Ultra-Lead, to me, will always be the kind of lightning fast, clean aggression. For detuned or baritone type stuff, it was the absolute best thing I ever plugged into. I like it tight, aggressive, percussive and cleaner for stuff in B and A. I had to keep from using it in a band I was in because I would absolutely bury the other guitar player's 5150II. We were playing in B with Baritones and C with Gibsons.
As far as settings go, just experiment with everything you have. Pickups, guitars and speakers are going to be your biggest difference makers. I owned about 5 different ULs from 2000 to 2011.
Those are just my thoughts on the ones I used to own.
As far as preamp tubes... Telefunken Ecc83 smooth plate in V1, followed by a Chinese or RFTs and a Mullard 12at7. I tried all kinds of preamp tubes. I rolled tubes as a hobby to help make subtle changes.
I absolutely hated the way Alnico 5 pickups sounded with any of the ULs. I almost always ran Anderson pickups (ceramic magnets) for anything that wasn't super detuned. I ran an EMG 81 and 60 in my baritone with the 18 volt setup.
The Ultra-Lead, to me, will always be the kind of lightning fast, clean aggression. For detuned or baritone type stuff, it was the absolute best thing I ever plugged into. I like it tight, aggressive, percussive and cleaner for stuff in B and A. I had to keep from using it in a band I was in because I would absolutely bury the other guitar player's 5150II. We were playing in B with Baritones and C with Gibsons.
As far as settings go, just experiment with everything you have. Pickups, guitars and speakers are going to be your biggest difference makers. I owned about 5 different ULs from 2000 to 2011.
Those are just my thoughts on the ones I used to own.
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Apex1Rg7X
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Yeah I was like, wait a minute here I know this picture, Lol.
