Apartment Amp? - Vox Pathfinder 15R IMPORTANT UPDATE

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:20 am

The Vox showed up at my parents house today. Clocked out of work around 1am so I picked it up from my folks', ran back to my place and gave it a quick go on the quietest audible level out of the speaker, then plugged in some headphones. It seriously sounds like an ac15, the Gain and Volume work great together, gets that great clang and great vox signature chime on the cleans. The gain boost is eh, alright I guess. IIRC I read somewhere that the footswitch controls the Tremolo and the Gain Boost, not trem and reverb. I suppose it could have its use but you would have to have the gain and volume set just right to not have the boost make things crazy loud.
So far its only been the Tele straight in, no pedals or Jag action yet. Loving it so far. Its already surpassed my expectations in the first few minutes of having headphones plugged in.
I wonder if i could run my pedals in stereo between this and another amp with a headphone out, and then build some sort of AB/Y box but for 3.5mm jacks intead of 1/4" for STEREO HEADPHONE ACTION

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:06 pm

after all this.....now i would buy the new 40W fender mustang amp if i was staying here in this apartment.

haze dude you are always welcome to come over and rage in my new house/basement when we move in 2 weeks. fuck apartment amps 4 life

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:13 pm

Id be happy to bring the vertical stereo rig over and commence fucking ear hoels with you bro roe. I did realize that the mustang amp thread came hours after buying the vox off ebay. Many a palmface occured

Ro S · Post by **Ro S** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:46 pm

Thumbs up for the Vox Valvetronix.

I have a Vox Valvetronix VTX 60 watt.

There is switch at the back where you can turn the watt output down but still get big gain.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:43 pm

loeveen eet

broncobuster80 · Post by **broncobuster80** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:15 am

the tele/vox combo looks ubercool man!

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:03 pm

oooh sexy

Finally unleashed my child self and took things apart

AND L@@K!

"REAL" SPRING REVERB!!!!! which sounds a piss poor! Not too worried, the '63 Spring on the Verbzilla is nice enough
Heres with my phone wedged in the thing, nothing looks too cheap

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:22 pm

I was surprised how loud the amp gets, too.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:40 am

IMPORTANT UPDATE
KEEPS UP WITH LOUD DRUMMER IN SMALL ASS ROOM
Gain at noon, Gain boost on, Volume at 10-o-clock
HOLY FUCK, roll back volume for cleans, full on for sexy times

Was the first time practicing with a full band in a long time and brought the Pathfinder for portability and to stretch its legs a bit. So glad I picked this as my apartment amp. YouTube videos where I'm plugged into the Vox get compliments on how good the Bassman sounds because thats the amp people see in the background.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:58 am

Great score man. I love my Pathfinder 15. Mine doesn't have the reverb though.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:03 am

Its a typical cheap sounding spring reverb, you can see the spring in some pics i posted. Its fun to kick the amp around as well. The reverb knob is more of a mix control, not adjusting the actual about of dwell just the mix of it.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:05 am

Isn't that the case with pretty much every amp with spring reverb though? Don't think I've ever seen or used a dwell control on an amp.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:12 am

This is actually my first amp with reverb built in, the rest of the reverb i've used has been pedal based so call me spoiled

I do miss having a reverb on my board though but the pathfinder adds a nice spacious touch

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:35 am

It's looks like some kind of Accutronics or a derivative without the protective case attached. I put a new Accutronics in my Sound City as the stock one was cack - it's now the same style that's in a Twin, DR or HRD etc. You just have to the check resistance and grounding on your current one. You can then choose springs and delay type to what you want. Costs Â£20, though I'm not sure you'll have the room in there or not.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:43 am

Doog wrote:Isn't that the case with pretty much every amp with spring reverb though? Don't think I've ever seen or used a dwell control on an amp.

Interesting thought, I wonder what effects you'd get when you feed the reverb signal back into the reverb drive circuit.