The company was founded as VHT Amplification in Studio City, Los Angeles, California by Steven Fryette in January 1989 and was the first to produce a true three-channel vacuum tube amplifier.
A few years after moving from Seattle, Washington to Los Angeles, California in 1976, Steven Fryette landed a job as a repair technician at Valley Arts Guitar.
VHT Amplification officially began in January 1989 on the dining room table of a Studio City, California apartment near Valley Arts.
Sylmar In 2001, VHT moved its operation into the SWR Sound Corporation facility, where the company released the Valvulator GP3 guitar pre-amplifier to accompany its power amplifiers.
Dynamic Sensing solved the problem of making a stand-alone pre-amp behave more like a tube guitar amplifier head.
The Memphis Thirty combo, incorporating its specially designed AR75 speaker, is the first new Fryette Amplification product release to come out of Burbank.
North Hollywood In 2010 Fryette Amplification relocated back to North Hollywood, where they developed the Power Station, LXII Single Space Stereo Tube Power Amp, S.A.S and Boostassio Pedals, Valvulator GP/DI Desktop Recording Amplifier, and Aether hand-wired modern vintage amplifier.
Both are CNC (Numerical control) milled, constructed with Baltic Birch & front mounted with the Fryette P50E speaker.
The Class A, 2 channel Memphis Thirty 1x12 was the first amp in the new Memphis Series and features EL84 power tubes, 30 Watt & 18 Watt power modes & a unique removable hatch on the front panel allowing users to easily access and change pre-amp tubes.