I never played one before but I spent a little bit with a strat and this little white colored Vox that's supposedly handwired. I don't know if handwiring in China is any better than manufactured PCB amps, but it did sound pretty cool. I'm not going to buy one, don't have GAS for one, but it was pretty cool getting some different tones out of an HSS strat with the S1 switching. I didn't really understand the top boost thing because there was just a singe EQ section and it was labeled "top boost." It had a hot/cool switch of some kind and a high/low input. I used a Boss BD-2 on the low input and it was very cool.
I don't know if they still make it but I remember a little Vox that was similar to the Handwired one, but it was blue and wasn't handwired. It didn't sound too great. The handwired amp blows that one away. Along with the BD-2, I used a Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. The amp was able to output some pretty good distortion and sounded like studio quality with the pedals. I'd say that it sounds better than all of the Marshall 1 watt amps except for the 1w JCM800. It has a 12" speaker and probably sounds better overall and more versatile than the Class 5, but I don't know if it's build quality is as good as the Class 5 which I think is also handwired. Pretty cool amp.
I don't know if they still make it but I remember a little Vox that was similar to the Handwired one, but it was blue and wasn't handwired. It didn't sound too great. The handwired amp blows that one away. Along with the BD-2, I used a Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. The amp was able to output some pretty good distortion and sounded like studio quality with the pedals. I'd say that it sounds better than all of the Marshall 1 watt amps except for the 1w JCM800. It has a 12" speaker and probably sounds better overall and more versatile than the Class 5, but I don't know if it's build quality is as good as the Class 5 which I think is also handwired. Pretty cool amp.
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