VHT Special 6 Ultra 6W 1x12 Hand-Wired Tube Guitar Combo Amp  

Don't think of buying ANY other amp at ANY other price. This amp is IT! Sell your collection.

Using the swappable power tubes can take you from very old school Fender Champ/Princeton to full on punishing Marshall - and all very musical!!

Sounds are awesome right out of the box, however, options are what the amp is about.

I put an old 7581 (6L6 variant) in for a power tube, and old 12AX7 in preamp 1, and a long plate JJ in position 2. Forget about it! - I can do anything I want tonally now with all of the interactive EQ and gain structures on the amp. Fender and Marshall tones are all there.

IF YOU WANT TO THINK MORE ABOUT PLAYING AND LESS ABOUT YOUR GEAR - BUY THIS AMP!!!

Well built - simple layout...solid. Don't think twice.

Are you kidding?!

I have never before left a review here or anywhere alse, even though I have bought and sold 100's of thousands of dollars worth of gear including many boutique amps costing thousands....this piece of gear has inspired me...PLAY MUSIC - DON"T SHOP FOR GEAR!! - BUY THIS AMP!

This thing has great sound at managable volumes. Very Fendery tone. The controls allow for a wide variety of adjustments and the footswitchable boost is very cool.

I got two of these from Musician's Friend and both had problems and I had to send them back. The first just died - not a tube issue either. The second one, the input jack fell apart the second time I used it. I wasn't interested in trying to fix it after my experience with the first one.

If it worked, it would be a fantastic value. I've tried almost all of the other mass manufactured sub-10 watt amps and this has the best tone by far.

If quality control were raised, I would buy again in a heartbeat.

Clean and footswitchable (footswitch included) boost volumes (not chanels), depth control, treble range adjustments, 1/2 power switch, fully adjustable output wattage, tube buffered effects loop, this amp is loaded with features.

Build quality is excellent. Sturdy, nicely finished, you could tell the assemblers cared about the finished product.

This is, hands down, the greatest value I have ever seen in an amp. I have been playing guitar and buying 'stuff' for a very long time, and I don't make that statement lightly. In fact, they could charge twice as much and it would still be a good deal, this amp is that good.

I LOVE this amp! I am not a noob beginner just drooling over his first amp. I have been playing for 35 years and have owned many good amps. I have always preferred tube amps, but I was looking very seriously at the Fender Super Champ X2 and the Fender Mustang III. After a in-store test drive of both amps, neither one had the tone I wanted, not to mention the 'fizz' issue with the Mustang III. So, I started looking elsewhere, and I came down to this amp or the Jet City JCA2112. In the end, I chose this one over the Jet City because the Jet City uses a EL84 output tube, and this one uses a 6V6, sort of.....  you can literally swap out ANY octal tube in this amp, with NO bias adjustment, and it will just go with the flow. I have, thus far, tried the 6V6 (which it ships with), a Sovtek EL34B, and a Ruby 6L6GC. All of them sounded okay, including the stock 6V6, but the 6L6GC was creamy and wonderful sounding. I also swapped out the stock Chinese preamp tubes for a JJ 12AX7 and a Philips (long plate) 12AXWA.... big difference! They make these amps to mod and play with, heck, they even have mods listed on the VHT facebook page!

The only slight drawback I have with the amp may not even be an issue for many people.... the stock speaker, a 12" VHT 'Chromeback' sounded really 'woofy' at first, I mean I hated it, but the more I played it, the better it sounded. Now that I have put quite a few hours in on it, it really isn't bad. I'm sure that there is some 'better' speaker out there that I would probably be happier with, but for now, I have no problem using this one that came with it.

All in all, this is a great bargain, no, an EXCELLENT bargain. I have played all sorts of music through ths amp (Wes Montgomery style jazz runs, Van Halen, AC/DC, Govt Mule, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Kentucky Headhunters, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Country, old clean 50's style, you name it!) and they can all be easiily dialed in on this amp. I did this using my Strat, my Les Paul, and my SG. My Gibsons have all Alnico II pickups, which sound heavenly through my 5150II half stack and through my Marshall JMP 2203. As you can probably surmise, I didn't buy this VHT because I needed a monster, I bought it because I need a good, small, portable combo amp that can give me the sort of tonal variety that I get with my 'big' amps (the VHT is only 6 watts, but WOW what a 6 watts!). This amp delivers big time. It sounds good with the stock speaker, but I also ran it through my 5150 cabinet and it sounded beautiful and full.

Knowing full well that I will have to mic the amp (or use the included Line Out jack), I would gig with this amp with no hesitation whatsoever. Hey, I'd even love to grab another one to run them in stereo, that'd be a wonderful little rig with a variety of great tones!

Really, I can't say enough good about this amp. I have drooled over the thought of an old blackface Fender for a very long time, because I know how beautiful they can sound, but who can find or afford one? Well, this amp has that same capability, and it is literally made to mod it to your taste. Is it loud? Nope, and it aint supposed to be, but the tone is staggering for such a low-priced (notice I didn't say 'cheap'?) amp. Buy one, you won't regret it!!

This amp has a lot of tone choices for something so simple. Don't confuse simple with lack of versitility. Play with the amp and the range of tones is huge. The push pull clean channel with foot switch is great. I rarely use my overdrive pedal anymore. The watt contoles are great and really add to the versitility of the amp. And yes, it is hand wired. I checked.

I was amazed at how well this amp is constructed. The thing is built like a tank. Nice attention to detail. The individual components are heavy duty. The speaker sounds full and really breaks in nice after a few months of playing. The tubes are some no name brand but sound nice anyway with smooth break up as the amp starts to overdrive. A retube should bring out some additional high end sparkle. Hard to believe this amp is made in China. Don't worry about where it is made. I've had mine for 6 months with no problems at all. I play almost every day so it's had plenty of use. This amp is good stuff.

A great value in tube amps. I shopped around for a long time and did a lot of reserch prior to buying this amp. I have no regrets. Sounds better than some amps that cost a lot more.

This amp sounds very nice, has lots of tone choices, is well made and is a great value at this price. It was a great choice for me because I don't need 100W of volume at my house yet there is enough volume to fill smaller venues if needed. Clean and overdrive tones are very nice. Hand wired means you can upgrade parts later if you want. I highly recommend this amp.

For the price, VHT focused its features selection for this Special 6 Ultra on tone, not on effects. So, you get no reverb or tremolo. Not surprising. Instead, what VHT does give you is an incredible amount of adjustment in tone via the combinations of wattage output, tone, depth, volume, volume boost, and ultra selector settings, as well as this quirky 'texture' switch. This texture switch doesn't appear to do much when you first plug in the amp, but after a week or two of using this amp, I've come to appreciate the subtle changes in tone it does make. With all of these options in tone adjusted in different combinations, you can, in fact, begin to create your own reverb. I'm still trying to dial in the settings that appeal to me the most for my Strat vs. my Flying V, but the efforts in doing so have been immensely pleasing.

Absolutely no complaints. Built with tremendous quality. I took it on the road this Christmas weekend and loading it into the car this morning, my son said, "Dad, is that thing heavy?" He could see how I was struggling a bit with it. That's not to say it weighs too much. It's just to say that it weighs a lot more than you would expect for a 6-watt tube amp. Of course, weight is down to size of speaker, real wood cabinet, etc. , which this amp has got. Which also gives contributes to its great tone. The quality is in this amp is tip-top.

Without a doubt, this amp is one of the best pieces of musical equipment I have ever purchased for the price. It's taken me a lot of trial and error with equipment purchases to discover what's really great for the given price. I'm not a pro player, but I do spend a fair amount of money on equipment for my playing hobby. And because I'm not out playing halls and clubs, I don't need a lot of wattage. So, I've purchased and returned a number of tube amps in the 4- to 30-watt range. This VHT Special 6 Ultra punches far above its weight. It's an absolute keeper.

If you read my comments above, you'll know very clearly how I feel about this amp. Yes, it's built in China and no, I don't favor anything Chinese, but this amp is superb and I have no qualms about rating it unequivocally as a '10.'