Ampeg VH - 140 C in a pedal ?

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Beyond Black said:
The cold brutalness is key. It’s such an unrefined, cold and vicious tone, nothing pretty about It. Totally different animal than a tube amp, but it’s own thing and equally cool and fun. I’m hitting mine with a Fortin TS9 and a Gup Tech Quebec in the loop And it’s horrifying. It doesn’t need the QB for added low end since the amp has more than enough, but the presence function is huge since the amp doesn’t have it.
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Thanks for dropping the tip about the Quebec! I do believe I might have to try that with mine.
 
Glencore said:
Thanks for dropping the tip about the Quebec! I do believe I might have to try that with mine.
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YW! It’s a great pedal and gives you much more control over the VH’s high end. Takes it next level Imo.
 
mnemonic said:
I have the plx spiritus, and also a tagboard clone I made a few years back, pretty fun preamp for old school death metal. I like my tagboard clone a bit more since I added some extra controls, a ‘tight’ knob after the first stage (basically the same as how Amptweaker and friedman do the ‘tight’ knobs on their pedals), and also there is a very aggressive low pass just before the eq and I made that adjustable. Changing the low pass filter can open up the top end a lot but it also gets very un-vh140-like quick.

One I haven’t seen anyone make a clone of is the gx130c, which appears quite similar but eq looks different from what I remember.

Then there’s the earlier SS140 which is quite different circuit-wise. But those ones don’t have the cult following so I don’t know how many people would care.

Aion make a Vh140c pcb and their build docs have a much easier to read schematic than the factory schematic. Though the big electrolytics on the clipping stages are backwards. The factory Schem shows + to ground, and their patent for that clipping circuit also shows + to ground. Dunno if it matters, I tried it both ways on my clone but I don’t recall if I heard a difference (was a couple years ago)
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I used an SS-140C for years and recorded a few EPs with it. I loved it for old school death and thrash rhythm tones. It has a little less gain than a VH-140C but is brighter and a little tighter to my ears.
 
Mad Axe said:
I used an SS-140C for years and recorded a few EPs with it. I loved it for old school death and thrash rhythm tones. It has a little less gain than a VH-140C but is brighter and a little tighter to my ears.
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Jimmy bower is still using his with eyehategod
 
RaceU4her said:
Jimmy bower is still using his with eyehategod
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Oh nice, I caught them the last time through STL and was puzzling over what Ampeg he was using here with a Boss SD-1. Sounded killer!
 
Hey guys I’m looking for a pedal for my head. If anyone can help out that would be great. Are there alternatives to this pedal?
 

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RaceU4her said:
yeah, where as most my tube amps i can get to sound somewhat similar there is nothing that sounds like the vh140c. ive had mine for 20+ years now, back in the day here all the hardcore and death metal bands played this tiny little shit hole bar with a room on the side, the vh140c's always sounded best to me so thats what i got. even now many amps later if im going for the horrifyingly brutal thing its still my go to amp. this older clip i did i think captures it pretty well, i dont hear any of the pedals sounding anything like this


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I’m looking for a foot switch for me VH-120c. Do you happen to have an extra or one tosell? Or know a place to track one down?
 
damned1313 said:
I’m looking for a foot switch for me VH-120c. Do you happen to have an extra or one tosell? Or know a place to track one down?
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Can’t help yah there, I’d imagine they gotta pop up on reverb or wherever though.
 
griff10672 said:
I like building pre amp pedals ........... I could put this channel into a pedal I think ..... might take some work ..... think it would be worth it ?

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Amptweaker Pedals already did it A long time ago. Pretty sure it's called the "tight metal".

Dying fetus (original vh140c) was running that pedal into the power section of an EVH 5150 for a while, before he startd messing with the savage mkii.

But hey, every pedal builder just rips others off now so go for it and add a switch. Voila. 🤣
 
ChuggNorris said:
Amptweaker Pedals already did it A long time ago. Pretty sure it's called the "tight metal".

Dying fetus (original vh140c) was running that pedal into the power section of an EVH 5150 for a while, before he startd messing with the savage mkii.

But hey, every pedal builder just rips others off now so go for it and add a switch. Voila. 🤣
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already built one ............
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