NAD: Vox Cambridge Reverb

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:58 pm

Lady Shad and I were in a local flea market (the Big Top, for Jcyphe and other Tampa fans) looking at books, and I turned around and saw an old Vox amp for $199. Asked to take a look at it, and it was clearly old as hell and action packed with tubes. Dude had no guitar in his booth for me to test it, but the tubes started glowing when it was plugged in and it made a reverb-saturated pop when turned off, so I figured I'd gamble on it. Took it home and it works perfectly - my footswitch from the Valvetronix even works to turn the reverb and tremolo off and on. It's brighter than my usual dark-ass amp selections, but it sondz 2kool 4tr00. Lady Shad googled it up and they seem to go for somewhere around $700.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:06 pm

Damn shad, great find. Those rainbow stickers are staying I hope.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:20 pm

Does it sound like this? Killer looking amp. Love the knobs.

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theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:23 pm

Yeah, that's about right. I have only played the Prisonstang and Shadowmaster through it though. Looking forward to the punishing treble from the Teles.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:12 am

Someone is selling on CL near me for $720. In his description, he said it was solid-state, though they could be wrong.

Vox Cambridge on CL

What year is your amp?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:20 am

'65 - the only year they were tube. 66-69 were solid state.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:35 am

Bright amps are weird. I'm hearing all sorts of shit from my Big Muffs that wasn't there before. Like individual notes. NOT SURE IF LIKE.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:00 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:'65 - the only year they were tube. 66-69 were solid state.

That explains it then. That is good to know. I need to get a Vox at some point.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:45 am

Jelly as fook. Holla at your boy if you ever want to part with it.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:20 am

Dafuq... I only find expensive shit in my trips to Florida (Except for the Omar Ibby).

Great buy dude. I'm fucking jelly.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:38 am

I have had an LPB for a while now with no use for it, but it drives this amp wild.

torchindy · Post by **torchindy** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:52 am

If you can find a treble booster try it out. It sort of does the opposite of what you'd think- it boosts the treble, yes, but boosts it so much that just the treble overdrives, totally taking the harshness off and smoothing your notes out like a buttery violin.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:58 am

Looks pretty similar to an OLD ASS VOX I used to play through at band practices. It belonged to our drummer's dad, I think it was a Vox Escort 50. Solid state, sounded rad.

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:52 am

I had a Vox Escort as well, sounded good. It was only 15 - 20 watts or so though and had amazing old Celestions in it. Probably why the one you used sounded good.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:34 pm

Good work. Quite the bargain!

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:43 am

You did rather well there! Nice.