Vox AC30-like tone
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FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
Re: Vox AC30-like tone
I couldn't decide between 15-25W brit and american voiced amps so I bought the one that went better with the Les Paul first and decided to go find a nice Fender amp later.
So, in short, 2 amps isn't too bad if you have patience.
I have owned the Fender super champ xd before and it did a nice blackface impression. The "small british combo" setting wasn't the best but it made up for that by having a good reverb setting to go with it.
Modeling can get you pretty far if that's your thing but you better try it first and see.
I couldn't decide between 15-25W brit and american voiced amps so I bought the one that went better with the Les Paul first and decided to go find a nice Fender amp later.
So, in short, 2 amps isn't too bad if you have patience.
I have owned the Fender super champ xd before and it did a nice blackface impression. The "small british combo" setting wasn't the best but it made up for that by having a good reverb setting to go with it.
Modeling can get you pretty far if that's your thing but you better try it first and see.
Pink Unicorn Horsey
Megä Pöny Rÿdr
Re: Vox AC30-like tone
I roundly disagree. Neither channel on the AC30 sounds particularly Fender-esque to my ears, and if anything, you have a better chance of approximating Fender cleans using the Bright channel.
- Keith
I roundly disagree. Neither channel on the AC30 sounds particularly Fender-esque to my ears, and if anything, you have a better chance of approximating Fender cleans using the Bright channel.
- Keith
James Rock
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
If you do go modelling I've found the VOX modelling (no surprise here) has excellent Ac30 tones whereas most other amps do it quite terribly.
James Rock
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
If you do go modelling I've found the VOX modelling (no surprise here) has excellent Ac30 tones whereas most other amps do it quite terribly.
guitarded
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viewaskew2k5
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
I'd say look at the newer Laney's that are coming out/announced at NAMM.
I'd say look at the newer Laney's that are coming out/announced at NAMM.
TGenolcyC66
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
I recently looked at a Marshall 900, a Bugera 1990 and a Vox AC100CPH. I play mainly 60's and 70's rock and blues and wanted clean but also some distortion and a channel I could mix, and had to have reverb.
I bought the Vox AC100CPH. Channel one is clean as glass and channel 2 offers overdrive and distortion, but not over the top 80's like the Marshall and Bugera. Would have bought the Bugera over the Marshall.
The Vox AC100CPH was discontinued some time ago and there are some really nice buys out there right now, in the $400-$600 range. I found mine new, shipped for $450 and couldn't be happier.
This amp offers a lot, check it out.
I recently looked at a Marshall 900, a Bugera 1990 and a Vox AC100CPH. I play mainly 60's and 70's rock and blues and wanted clean but also some distortion and a channel I could mix, and had to have reverb.
I bought the Vox AC100CPH. Channel one is clean as glass and channel 2 offers overdrive and distortion, but not over the top 80's like the Marshall and Bugera. Would have bought the Bugera over the Marshall.
The Vox AC100CPH was discontinued some time ago and there are some really nice buys out there right now, in the $400-$600 range. I found mine new, shipped for $450 and couldn't be happier.
This amp offers a lot, check it out.
Ascension
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
Find a used Zinky 25 watt Blue Velvet. I am absolutely floored by mine every time I play it out!!
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=809752&content=songinfo&songID=8629894
http://www.box.net/shared/zc3kipddj1
Find a used Zinky 25 watt Blue Velvet. I am absolutely floored by mine every time I play it out!!
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=809752&content=songinfo&songID=8629894
http://www.box.net/shared/zc3kipddj1
ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
Re: Vox AC30-like tone
There is a brand new AC30 dedicated modeling amp out by VOX, what I think is a Valvetronix with the "AMP MODEL" knob deleted.
There is also yet another brand new series of AC15 and AC30 out, The AC Custom line. Note: Not AC Custom Classic; just AC Custom.
There is a brand new AC30 dedicated modeling amp out by VOX, what I think is a Valvetronix with the "AMP MODEL" knob deleted.
There is also yet another brand new series of AC15 and AC30 out, The AC Custom line. Note: Not AC Custom Classic; just AC Custom.
Stef
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
This is true. Fender is Fender and Vox ac is a crunchy british style amp.
AC30's Normal channel,with a treble booster in front, sounds very marshally- a la Blackmore, Page and everything Brian May has recorded
This is true. Fender is Fender and Vox ac is a crunchy british style amp.
AC30's Normal channel,with a treble booster in front, sounds very marshally- a la Blackmore, Page and everything Brian May has recorded
Pink Unicorn Horsey
Megä Pöny Rÿdr
Re: Vox AC30-like tone
...and for what I've been using it for, Iommi. Definitely has a Marshall-esque vibe to it.
- Keith
...and for what I've been using it for, Iommi. Definitely has a Marshall-esque vibe to it.
- Keith
jimijames
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
If you don't mind going for a lower wattage amp, the epiphone valve juniors when modified do a sort of fendery clean thing with some vox chime. I got one off of ebay that was already modified for $150, bought a bitmo tweaky kit with it, replaced the OT and converted it to a head and got a 1x12 cabinet for it. Overall I have about $350 into it, not counting the speaker I pulled from a 4x12, so if you don't mind the simplicity, you can get them to sound pretty nice for cheap. Heck, I got the combo for $150, you can probably pick up a used head+cab for $200 or less, and that leaves plenty of room for messing around with it.
They've got a lot of gain on tap normally but modified they have a ton of range. I use a 5751 in the preamp, which makes it a bit more fendery, and I've hooked up some caps to the volume control (a la the instructions from bitmo) to where it's brighter when it's turned down (clean) and warmer and fatter as it gets turned up (distortion). Not exactly voxy, not exactly fendery, really it's own animal more than anything else but it has some hints of each when you're playing.
If you don't mind going for a lower wattage amp, the epiphone valve juniors when modified do a sort of fendery clean thing with some vox chime. I got one off of ebay that was already modified for $150, bought a bitmo tweaky kit with it, replaced the OT and converted it to a head and got a 1x12 cabinet for it. Overall I have about $350 into it, not counting the speaker I pulled from a 4x12, so if you don't mind the simplicity, you can get them to sound pretty nice for cheap. Heck, I got the combo for $150, you can probably pick up a used head+cab for $200 or less, and that leaves plenty of room for messing around with it.
They've got a lot of gain on tap normally but modified they have a ton of range. I use a 5751 in the preamp, which makes it a bit more fendery, and I've hooked up some caps to the volume control (a la the instructions from bitmo) to where it's brighter when it's turned down (clean) and warmer and fatter as it gets turned up (distortion). Not exactly voxy, not exactly fendery, really it's own animal more than anything else but it has some hints of each when you're playing.
drpietrzak
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Re: Vox AC30-like tone
Bugera has just released a Matchless "inspired" amp called BC30.
Bugera has just released a Matchless "inspired" amp called BC30.
