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Post subject: Vox amp
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:52 am
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Anyone have any experience with this amp?

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Vox-Custom- ... 1517162.gc

It "sounds" (by the description and review) awesome.


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Post subject: Re: Vox amp
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:22 pm
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i have one and it is awesome. it gets the job done if you play in a band and can be used in a bedroom setting if your controls are set right. i put a rangemaster i built in front of mine and play it on the normal channel with the channel volume cranked and the master at about 1/3. it loves strats and teles. the top boost channel is awesome without the treble booster. the Beatles live there too. set right, the t.b. channel gets you to just before metal sounds but a distortion pedal will take it over the top. the amp is very touch sensitive and responds well to volume changes on the guitar. no problems with mine and i recomend getting one but, the're not for everybody(mainly guitar snobs and cork sniffers. you know what i mean).best discription... "raw dark and sweet, totally british" but it has that chime.


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Post subject: Re: Vox amp
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:56 pm
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shinkicker wrote:
i have one and it is awesome. it gets the job done if you play in a band and can be used in a bedroom setting if your controls are set right. i put a rangemaster i built in front of mine and play it on the normal channel with the channel volume cranked and the master at about 1/3. it loves strats and teles. the top boost channel is awesome without the treble booster. the Beatles live there too. set right, the t.b. channel gets you to just before metal sounds but a distortion pedal will take it over the top. the amp is very touch sensitive and responds well to volume changes on the guitar. no problems with mine and i recomend getting one but, the're not for everybody(mainly guitar snobs and cork sniffers. you know what i mean).best discription... "raw dark and sweet, totally british" but it has that chime.


Thanks. Also, while I'm at it: do you or have you ever owned a Fender DRRI, and which one should I get? (lol I know it depends on taste and intended use, etc)


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Post subject: Re: Vox amp
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:22 pm
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i don't own a drri but i tried one a while back before i bought the ac30c2. two very different amps. the vox is el84 based and it gets clean but not "fender" clean, it always has a tiny bit of dirt in the clean sound. the drri is totally fender tone but it dosn't get the pushed overdrive like an ac30. you have to coax it out with an overdrive pedal but it is a sweet amp and it only has one speaker ac30s are twin speaker amps and that's ONE of the reasons i bought it that and i just plain wanted one. by the way with the rangemaster and ac30 set up i can take the first couple rows heads off (listen to Taste albums and you'll know what i mean about the vox. Rory Gallagher might as well have had a samurai sword). drri best for old school fender "chicken pick'n" IMHO.


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Post subject: Re: Vox amp
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:23 am
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shinkicker wrote:
i don't own a drri but i tried one a while back before i bought the ac30c2. two very different amps. the vox is el84 based and it gets clean but not "fender" clean, it always has a tiny bit of dirt in the clean sound. the drri is totally fender tone but it dosn't get the pushed overdrive like an ac30. you have to coax it out with an overdrive pedal but it is a sweet amp and it only has one speaker ac30s are twin speaker amps and that's ONE of the reasons i bought it that and i just plain wanted one. by the way with the rangemaster and ac30 set up i can take the first couple rows heads off (listen to Taste albums and you'll know what i mean about the vox. Rory Gallagher might as well have had a samurai sword). drri best for old school fender "chicken pick'n" IMHO.


Thanks. Hmmm. I want both.

Here's one for you--a very precise question that I've seen mentioned here but not heavily discussed.

There seems to be two lines of thought on whether the clean Fender amps sound good using a pedal to create the overdrive at lower (or any) volume. Say we have a "quality" overdrive pedal.

Okay....many folks say the Fender clean amps (deluxe, princeton, twin) "take pedals great" and you can start w/ cleanest possible tone and use pedals to get whatever dirt you want.

But I have read a not insubstantial quantity of folks who say the resulting tone when one does it that way is anywhere from "not as good as the overdriven tone (no pedals) of other amps that are more made for that (like the vox)" to downright "ugly."

I know i have to try for myself, but IMO that is not really possible...can't really turn it up or do much in guitar center, and speakers are not broken in there either.

I like to play Nirvana style loud-quiet-loud. So I'm leaning towards the pedal method because I need there to be a big contrast....the clean is very clean and then kick on the overdrive for a big change..... as opposed to having even my "cleans" be kind of dirty or playing with one middle-range crunchy tone for an entire song. I want clean and then I stomp for distortion. I have heard many say the deluxe is great for that but *some* say that this method is an uglier overdrive. (then again, personal preference, one man's "ugly" might be the Nirvana tone I'm after)

I know many amps are good enough and better than my amateur playing, but just talking here for fun....


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Post subject: Re: Vox amp
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:32 am
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if your looking for nirvana's sound then you might want to try what ever they used (i was never really into grunge so on that i'm NO help). most of that sound was dirty as heck anyway. the drri will get you some super clean sounds and when you stick a distortion pedal in front of it all you have to is make sure to set the pedal's level(volume) to be the same as the amp's clean when you switch between them. just use your ears. as for the vox ac30 you have to ramp up the volume and get it overdriving and then hit it with the rangemaster (set at what ever boost you want). for whatever reasons the germanium transistor in the range master dosen't mix as well with fender amps. silicon based overdrives are best for them. vox and a rangemaster is the match made in heaven. on that note silicon based distortion pedals are equally as good with the vox. my set up works for what i'm after. my bdri amp i use my e.c. strat's boost to drive it, so i got the best of both worlds.


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