Wish SNK Pedals VHD (VH140C)

[biggness]

The iconic Ampeg VH140C in a pedal. This amp has been requested a bajillion times through the years, but a las, no cigar. Perhaps requesting the pedal version is the way to go since FAS have their reasons for shying away from modeling solid state amps, but absolutely kill it with Drive Block modeling. From my research, the pedal and actual amp are basically indiscernible in tone and feel.



The Ampeg VH-140C Solid State Amplifier was a staple of the 1990's Hardcore and Death metal genres. Long since out of production, the VH (variable harmonic) line of amplifiers produced still sought after heavy distortion tones.

S&K pedals has taken the distortion channel directly from the VH amplifiers, pedalized it and powered it with a pedal board friendly 9v supply. Controls include: Level, High, UltraMid, Low and Gain.

The VHD can be run one of three ways.
1) into the front end of your amplifier like a typical distortion pedal
2) into the series effects loop return, bypassing the preamp
3) into a power amp or slave amp (i.e. a sunn concert slave)

 

[biggness]

I can provide the pedal also if there is interest.

 

[Dave Merrill]

What's Ultra Mid?
That's new

 

[biggness]

What's Ultra Mid?
That's new

They’re at the other end of the spectrum, opposite Haunting Mids.

 

[zebric21]

+1

 

[zebric21]

Here is the amps' schematics. Fractal requested to post those if we want to make a wish.
Seems official but i couldn't know.
https://crankygypsy.com/mechaniac/140C/VH-140C Schematics.pdf
Ampeg official support file

 

[blastbeatdown]

After seeing Defeated Sanity last night, I also think this would cool

 

[zebric21]

After seeing Defeated Sanity last night, I also think this would cool

One of my favorite bands. They also use the orange pedal baby as a power amp in most shows.

 

[biggness]

After seeing Defeated Sanity last night, I also think this would cool

One of my favorite bands. They also use the orange pedal baby as a power amp in most shows.

One of my favorite bands of all time(and some of the most mind meltingly difficult riffs to not only play, but memorize.

I saw them on the Sanguisugabogg tour too, and you’re right, Vaughn is running the Orange Pedal Baby with a Kemper Profile of the VH140C he recorded the latest album with, plus some compression and eq in the Kemper Profiler Stage too.

I think if Cliff knew how big of a following the VH140C and its clones have in the Brutal Death Metal world, he’d add this as either a Drive or Amp model to boost sales.

PS - Sanguisugabogg took the crown from Meshuggah as the biggest, loudest, thickest sounding live act I’ve ever heard. My nose cartridge tingled the whole set and chest felt like a brontosaurus was taking a nap on it lol Heckuva show

 

[blastbeatdown]

Sanguisugabogg took the crown from Meshuggah as the biggest, loudest, thickest sounding live act I’ve ever heard.

Despised Icon sounded ridiculous on this tour as well, and I’ve been going to see them every time they come through for 20 years. I’d happily buy that sound guy a beer. Holy smokes. Everything was crystal clear and heavy AF.

 

[biggness]

Despised Icon sounded ridiculous on this tour as well, and I’ve been going to see them every time they come through for 20 years. I’d happily buy that sound guy a beer. Holy smokes. Everything was crystal clear and heavy AF.

Heck yeah, they did.

One of my favorite tour packages that has ever been put together.

 

[biggness]

AuroraDSP partnered with ThisHeavyEarth to release their Flesh Rot V2 as a plugin and it sounds frickin killer.

The Flesh Rot V2 is their Ampeg VH140C clone, with a couple of their tweaks.

I believe any iteration of the VH140C would be a huge hit, especially with the options we have to tweak it even further. There isn’t any pedal or amp model in the AxeFx that does this sound/feel. I also can’t think of any other amp that has a cult following like this one does.