VHT/Fryette Fatbottom cab: best suited for a certain style?

[amp maniac]

I´ve been owning an Ultralead for a while now and love its clarity and tightness. Right now I´m using a Soldano cab with it (not loaded with the original speakers though) and it sounds good, but every now and then I´m thinking about getting the cab the amp was designed for. However, the style of music that I play is not limited to metal (which it does fine of course), so I´m playing a lot of clean and blues stuff as well. I dialed in a nice warm clean and a very organic overdrive in channel 2. The third channel gets tweaked the most as I sometimes use it for a very smooth lead tone, sometimes for a very aggressive metal tone.
Now I´ve read a lot that the Fatbottom cab sounds really tight and focused. As I can imagine that most of the people owning an UL use it primarily for metal, I´m not quite sure if this cab is for me. Can it make the amp sound too hifi / sterile? I have no opportunity to play before I buy, so I´m kind of looking for advice to point me in the right direction.

Thanks!!

 

[2prog4u]

The Deliverence cab may be a better choice. Same speakers, just rear loaded if memory serves. I've heard descriptions of less focused and more room filling. I have a FB cab, and its fairly unforgiving, though mixing in two Celestion GK85s in an X pattern helped to some degree.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

a VHT FB cab will be much better in my opinion. I have five 4x12's so I do have a VHT fatbottom slant with p50e's and a Soldano with V30's and the Soldano cab is the weakest of the bunch (Bogner, VHT, Marshall, Splawn and Soldano). Its not just the V30's either as I like those in my Bogner. The Soldano cabs are built slightly smaller and less thickness of wood. I don't know, maybe they sound great with a SLO but they are just so-so with whatever I ran through it.

I use the FB cab with a VHT 50CL w/EQ+REV. Its not just a "metal" cab. In that setup it is focused, clear and tight even with a lot of gain. This is more so a quality (depending on your tastes) of VHT amps in general so if you have some slop in your technique and hide behind gobbs of gain they it may not be for you but since you have a UL I'm sure you like the amp qualities. I would go for a FB or Deliverance cab myself.

 

[philnz]

Fryette Deliverence cab all the way.

1. More vintagey, less beamy than the fatbottom cabs.
2. Will quite happily do the bluesy/ rock thing.
3. Works great with UL, CL, Sig:X.

 

[Ventura]

Deliverance owner here... Nice 4x12, more of a player's feel to the cab.

Fryette make awesome cabs.

Peace,
Mojo

 

[amp maniac]

Thanks a lot for the recommendations. Will the difference between the FB and the Deliverance cabs be more noticable at higher volumes? I only play at low volumes...

 

[Ventura]

Thanks a lot for the recommendations. Will the difference between the FB and the Deliverance cabs be more noticable at higher volumes? I only play at low volumes...

Not particularly, I don't think. I just found the FB to be a touch too stiff when the volume did get up there; and the Deliverance was more lively at higher volumes. Low volumes may not even mandate a 4x12. Get a 2x12 or an ISO 1x12. Depends on the application.

 

[garey77]

I have a UL and a FB cab. I recently switched from a cab loaded with V30 clones and g12h30 speakers, in an X pattern. Immediately the difference I encountered was that the frequency response of the p50e speakers allows more of the amps' voicing available, seeming more like a more neutral vessel for the tone, rather than the cab coloring the overall tone in (sometimes) a negative way.

Also, I believe the only really notable difference between the Deliverance cabs and the FB cabs is the front to back bracing (which the Deliverance lacks) for dynamic response.

I have played my FB cab live a couple of times now, and I really love its response. My band has tunes that are mainly rock based, but have hints of blues, funk, prog, and metal, and it goes through all of them with ease. I really like it.