Are vox amps for pussies plus#

I played a gig with a band last year and there guitarist had a Lone star 2x12 *drool* They soundchecked first and the Mesa sounded very one dimensional and narrow, The engineer suggested the mesa go though the PA just to spread the Sound a little and to lose the reverb and delay as the room was over 45 feet high and built of stone.The guy said it was integral tp his sound and didnt need the PA- needless to say, the keyboard player sounded great- pity we couldnt hear the mesa. You can see everyone making excuses and giving it a wide berth. Ive got a vox ac30 and a castle flightcase, This is allways the last thing to load into the van at the end of the gig.

Are vox amps for pussies plus#

Plus there's a chance they're still sticking in a big 'ol Output Transformer for the little guy, allowing me to stick in an 8 ohm speaker and clean up even more.

Hopefully the master volumes means it will clean up enough, but with a 5W I'll hold my breath. I'd would've rather had a single knob vibrato like the vintage ones.Īny bet's on weight? I'm just hoping the I don't regret hauling the guy around when the honeymoon wears off. It has a master volume knob and gain knob or whatever, not really worth the space, but over 9000 times better than those stupid attenuator switches. Pretty sweet, it's effectively a clean/dirty channel switch to some degree. And the footswitchable hot/cold switch removes the tone stack and adds a lot gain, but didn't get all farty. Also instead of that stupid tone cut it has Bass and Treble knobs. But knowing myself I'll probably give the champ 600 away to a friend, buy a vintage champ eventually, and from what I hear the real vintage Vox AC4's sound like a turd, that's why there is little or no similarity in the schematics. I don't know what kind of profit Vox is making on these things, but this cheap skilled labor will not be around forever! Then again for the same price I could get a nice boutique champ. I was watching the current AC4 head like a hawk, I was so close to pitching my Champ 600 for one. Well I'm out of reasons to resist this thing. Well the cabinet is probably made of MDF poop. I'm sure the tubes will be cheap chinese, but a single EL84 for the AC4 is not a expensive as a matched set, and I already have some vintage 12xx7 tubes to mess around with. I had this horrible feeling that the AC15 HW and AC30HW were both PCB boards, but I searched for pictures and they are eyelet boards, and very neat at that. I'm personally having trouble debating if I should buy one versus a HW amp, but I don't mind supporting 'Nam as much as I do China. There are a pair of videos from NAMM so far on youtube, & the date is supposed to be around May, so let there be speculation and discussion for those interested! It's basically the 'top boost circuit taken from the ac30' according to them. I know this has been announced elsewhere on tpdri, but Vox is now going to offer a Vox AC4 in a 10 inch (blue, $300!!) and 12 inch (hand wired, white, $800). I thought the Vox's were made in china, but online somewhere it said the HW are made in Vietnam. I know it's heavier than pine in a old Fender, but still there seems to be a large difference? Do they have additional gain stages or heavier chassis? I'm an engineer & understand tubes amps decently if anyone can explain what sets Vox amps apart. I'm wondering if people find them rewarding to gig with? I'm not really concerned about the clean head room, I'm just wondering if they're worth the extra weight to most? I'm not just talking the HW, the CC are a few pounds heavier at most.Īnother question, what's the big difference in weight? I know the HW have birch plywood cabinets, props to them for that. Leaves me wondering how much their new AC4 HW is going to weigh?

The ac15 is about 50 lbs and the ac30 is 70 lbs or so. I've been checking out the Hand wired Vox Amps, but my god are they heavy! Their cabs are so oversized also for the wattage and speaker size when compared to other tube amps.