NAD - Vox AC15C1

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

It'll be for sale here in 18 months.

Fair enough since I don't think any gear is a permanent solution but I don't generally flip amps quite like guitars. I did go thru quite a few different things for awhile as I figured out what I wanted to do, I got tired of big rigs, and in doing so fell in love with EL84 powered amps. I'm down to Orange and Vox and other than a Deluxe Reverb there is not much on my radar.

[Scott_F]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Fair enough since I don't think any gear is a permanent solution but I don't generally flip amps quite like guitars. I did go thru quite a few different things for awhile as I figured out what I wanted to do, I got tired of big rigs, and in doing so fell in love with EL84 powered amps. I'm down to Orange and Vox and other than a Deluxe Reverb there is not much on my radar.

I was just trying to be funny. More of an indictment of all of us combined! Sorry.

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Oh no I get it, no offense, it is funny and it is entirely the lot of us

[Scott_F]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

It's funny how most of my guitars I consider as keepers and likely never for sale. And yet out of all my amplifiers, there are only 2-3 that are off limits. Most of the others are in various stages of repair or just old collector pieces that I got great deals on. And all of them are for sale at some point.

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

I swear I was going to put a joke For Sale thread in the Trading Room hahahaha

Everybody's different. I have friends that have played for 40 years and still have almost every guitar and amp they've ever bought. I can't do that for a few reasons but guitars are just way more flexible to me than amps. I am almost always chasing something in my head and usually guitars are the fodder.

[CodeDante]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Love the color. Tomorrow I should be joining you with the vox ac15c1 club. Let's just say tomorrow there will most likely be a NAD thread from me.....
Literally cannot wait to play it.

[Scott_F]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Love the color. Tomorrow I should be joining you with the vox ac15c1 club. Let's just say tomorrow there will most likely be a NAD thread from me.....
Literally cannot wait to play it.

Presents we "buy" for ourselves are always the best. I bet it's working. You are the kid on Christmas Eve praying to God for the new bike tomorrow.

[CodeDante]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Couldn't help myself

GC 20% coupon was more than I could resist

New besties just hanging out

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Hey Wattage, does your ac15 buzz at high volumes. My new one is. Even at quieter volumes it buzzes very loudly when I use my overdrive pedal. I'm just concerned if that's the amp or the pedal.

[Scott_F]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Try running your pedal on just battery power first and foremost. Might eliminate it if you've got a crappy power source. Also, it doesn't buzz without your pedal? If so, it's not your amp.

[CodeDante]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Try running your pedal on just battery power first and foremost. Might eliminate it if you've got a crappy power source. Also, it doesn't buzz without your pedal? If so, it's not your amp.

I mean it buzzes but normal amounts without the pedal. But I do run the pedal just on battery.

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

I haven't run it flat out yet but at reasonable volumes there isn't any buzz. I have not fronted it with any pedals yet. I picked it up during some down time so it's just been used in my den so far.

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

It'll be for sale here in 18 months.

You were way off

I returned it today LOL

Oh well

[zenmindbeginner]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

So was it a lemon or did you just not like the amp?

[Chickenwings]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

Hey Wattage, does your ac15 buzz at high volumes. My new one is. Even at quieter volumes it buzzes very loudly when I use my overdrive pedal. I'm just concerned if that's the amp or the pedal.

It is a cathode biased amp. Those mofos buzz. You can get lower noise tubes, but part of the sonic character and richness of cathode biased amps comes with the price of a bit of hiss. Call it the "rock and roll" tax. You won't hear it once the drummer starts up and the band is rocking.

[Wattage]

Re: NAD - Vox AC15C1

So was it a lemon or did you just not like the amp?

The amp worked fine.

To use it and get the sounds I want at full volume meant I had to do some mods and mostly I just didn't feel like doing them. I knew going in that might be an issue but I gave it a shot. I imagine I could've worked with it if I really wanted to.

The reverb was kind of lame, a reasonably simple fix with a new tank. The Greenback was not the right speaker for me in this amp, it's a shame I've liked it in so many other situations. Opening up the amp it had a nice roar but I could never really get the tonal balance I was looking for, I assume it was part speaker, part tubes. There were a lot of really good lower volume sounds that I didn't find translated well once I opened it up.

Not a big deal, still like AC's a lot but I'll hold off for now.


***in dull disclosure mode*** I did happen to get my old Crate VC2112R back full time so the Vox would kind of be sitting around waiting for attention