Vox Pathfinder 15r

Beau · Post by **Beau** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:28 pm

Who noodles on one of these?

Tell me about it.

How is the headroom?

Is the 'verb sandy shores?

Shvat is deh skinny?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:33 pm

I had one of those about 10 years ago. I loved it, and I've used Vox amps (and a few Bassmen) ever since.

The cleans were fantastic, the overdrive was lame at full tilt but perfect for having a gritty cleanish crunch, and the tremolo is PERFECT. The reverb has a spring or a tank or whatever makes that insane BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAshashasha noise when you kick it.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:44 pm

I've got one of these. Really nice sounding amp. Has really nice proper spring reverb - heard some people complain that it's too subtle but it's always been fine for my uses. Tremolo nice too.

Only ever used it at home for messing about and recording so plenty of clean headroom for that. Tend to use pedals for dirt with it but as Shad says you can drive it to a mild crunch well enough. Sounds a bit shite on full though.

I think Honeyiscool used to gig with one of these so he might know more about the headroom at higher volumes.

HeartfeltDawn · Post by **HeartfeltDawn** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:27 am

Cool little amp to hook up to a 2x12". The trem is indeed lovely.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:18 pm

My favorite small amp! Does cleans at low volume, breaks up nice at mid to loud, has some decent verb and trem (nothing super special, but solid), and sounds the business!

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:37 pm

What? It's a solid state amp. There's no breakup as you turn it up.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:15 am

When you leave the master low and turn the volume (gain) up, it sounds awesome. Not "breakup" I guess, but still great.

HeartfeltDawn · Post by **HeartfeltDawn** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 7:55 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:What? It's a solid state amp. There's no breakup as you turn it up.

There is some speaker breakup. And since when do SS amps not break up? They aren't totally flat and clean throughout.

Post by **Doog** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:34 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:What? It's a solid state amp. There's no breakup as you turn it up.

Negative: solidstate amps can totally break-up.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:19 pm

REALLY? I'mma crank the Princeton Chorus up to PIZZA tomorrow when my roommate's not home.

olin · Post by **olin** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 10:45 pm

As above, it was my first decent small amp and based off this alone have stuck with Vox since then.
Reverb is spacious and with the tremolo is really usable.

Also strongly second kicking the spring tank for weird noises.

HeartfeltDawn · Post by **HeartfeltDawn** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:01 pm

olin wrote:As above, it was my first decent small amp and based off this alone have stuck with Vox since then.
Reverb is spacious and with the tremolo is really usable.

Also strongly second kicking the spring tank for weird noises.

I also recommend kicking the drummer for weird noises during performances or recording.

Post by **Doog** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:27 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:REALLY? I'mma crank the Princeton Chorus up to PIZZA tomorrow when my roommate's not home.

Young man, we've had a complaint from this apartment block about someone setting their guitar amp all the way to PIZZA

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:20 am

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