Re: the Vibrolux has landed...
well, I have been giving it a run through I must say that so far this amp is a keeper for sure! I talked with Hot Grits quite a bit before pulling the trigger on this puppy and so far he's dead on! It is fatter, more raw and nastier than a black face or silver face but not quite as raw/nasty as a tweed. the Clean tones are great, althought is doens't stay clean very long! I woudl say that it has very little clean headroom for a 40 watt amp but I bought this thing for crunch so I like that. The reverb is not as wet as BF reverb but still very Fender sounding and can get wet if that's you thing...I find it hard to dial in just a little bit of verb on my Twin...it's sither just barely on or soaking wet, the Lux doens't have that problem. The vibrato is great too...I have not opened the amp up yet to see why but the vib sounds different than the vib in my Twin...I like it as well, not more or less than the Twin just different. The great thing is that it has the verb and the vibe on both channels so the channels are set up normal and bright like a Tweed and I love it...you can swap channels when you go from a Strat/Telle to a Les paul or you can blend the channels like you wold on an old Tweed/4 hole Marshall!
Mine has all Sovtek preamp tubes which (IMO) are not great but they could be worse, they will be getting changed out soon. It has a set of NOS Phillips 6L6WGB (5881 style) which are great...the are very round sounding and compress quite nicely. Mine also has the Jensens removed and swapped for a set of Kendrick 20 watters (Blackframes)...I like them but I do wish that they were a little more heavy duty on the wattage...if I push it hard I get a some cone breakup, which is fine. The bottom could also be a bit more solid but thats cool too...it adds a nice texture. Over all I relly like this amp and the speakers. I will say this for sure...I tried out one or 2 in stores and found them to be very hissy/noisey as well as very bright in a non musical way...after new tubes and a speaker swap this one does not sound like that at all! It's much quiter than any of the ones I treid in stores and the treble is much less in your face.
