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.
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:06 pm
by Zack
Damn shad, great find. Those rainbow stickers are staying I hope.
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:20 pm
by taylornutt
Does it sound like this? Killer looking amp. Love the knobs.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:23 pm
by theshadowofseattle
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:12 am
by taylornutt
Someone is selling on CL near me for $720. In his description, he said it was solid-state, though they could be wrong.
'65 - the only year they were tube. 66-69 were solid state.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:35 am
by theshadowofseattle
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:00 am
by taylornutt
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:45 am
by Nick
Jelly as fook. Holla at your boy if you ever want to part with it.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:20 am
by mkt3000
Dafuq... I only find expensive shit in my trips to Florida (Except for the Omar Ibby).
Great buy dude. I'm fucking jelly.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:38 am
by theshadowofseattle
I have had an LPB for a while now with no use for it, but it drives this amp wild.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:52 am
by torchindy
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:58 am
by Freddy V-C
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:52 am
by NickD
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.
