VHT Standard 18 Head
Tuesday night, Soundwave Studios, San Francisco. Justin, amplifier designer and Shangorillas organist shows up with two of the new VHT Standard 18 Heads. Justin usually plays his Hammond through a Fender Bassman head. “Who’s going to play through that?” I ask.
“You are!”
So everyone is just issued VHTs as a matter of course? Best. band. evar!!1!
The Standard 18 Head has a really simple look. Black vinyl covering, smoother and thicker than the Tolex on my Fenders. Simple piping outlining the front control panel and wood grain logo plate. It felt really nice to the touch. It’s a full-sized head, hefty but not unmanageably heavy. I did have to move some stuff around to find a place to set it down. The rehearsal space is starting to look like the floor of Real Guitars.
I hooked it up to a Avatar G112 Cube with a single 12″ Vintage 30. Can’t say enough nice things about that cab, btw — really complete response — clear highs, full mids, strong bass.
Like the 18w Marshall to whom it owes its inspiration, the Standard 18 has two separate channels: a master volume/gain-controlled channel with bass, mid, and treble eqs, and a simpler volume/tone-controlled channel with hi- and lo- inputs. Most of the night I was playing through this first channel, and only for a couple of songs did a switch to the second, simpler channel.
I started in the first channel with everything set at 12:00. I play a Tele with lower-output Duncan single coils. At this neutral setting, the guitar was plenty loud enough to hang with drums, bass, organ, bari sax, trumpet, and a wailing singer. The sound was very full and warm, a decent percussive attack and nice sustain. I like things a dirtier and sharper, and that’s when I started futzing with the knobs.
Pushing the gain knob up added some hair to the sound. Going all the way to the right gave it a fairly agressive tone. Not metal chunka-chunka, but still ripping and tight. I backed that off a bit (it’s a soul band after all) and played with the other knobs. I ended up settling for several songs with bass at 10:00, mid at 1:00, treble at 2:00, gain at 2:00, master at 1:00. Plenty loud, warmth and girth at the bottom end and plenty of snap and chime at the top. Most of the time I was playing with the guitar volume between half and 3/4. A couple of times I kicked in the RC Boost, but it was mostly unnecessary. Would have been great for some ballsy hard rock.
The Standard 18 reminds me a lot of a reissue JTM 45 I used to have. Overall, a very warm sound, but nice attack and snap. Individual notes come through very clearly. It’s not at all a muddy or overly middy sound, but there’s a solidity to the response that is extremely reassuring. Makes me want to play simple lines, because every single note rings so powerfully.
I hope the head’s waiting for me again next time practice rolls around. I’d like to play some more with the second channel, and try out a guitar with high-gain humbuckers, just to get a sense of the range. Justin’s organ sounded great too, though my ears were pretty much pinned on my own guitar sound, so I don’t know how he’d characterize the differences.
OrangeAD30TC (guess what amp he plays) reviewed the VHT Standard 12 and Standard 18 in an article a few months ago on The Gear Page. A few of his words about the Standard 18: “With a tele it owned”. That was me, playing Justin’s Tele at the VHT workshop in Brisbane. It sounded pretty durn good with OrangeAD30TC’s solidbody Taylor, too. He does much better job descibing some of the tone nuances. VHT has some sound clips on their website, but it would be nice to hear a few more from other players.
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