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.
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:44 pm
by BearBoy
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.
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:27 am
by HeartfeltDawn
Cool little amp to hook up to a 2x12". The trem is indeed lovely.
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:18 pm
by damienblair17
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!
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:37 pm
by theshadowofseattle
What? It's a solid state amp. There's no breakup as you turn it up.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:15 am
by damienblair17
When you leave the master low and turn the volume (gain) up, it sounds awesome. Not "breakup" I guess, but still great.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 7:55 am
by HeartfeltDawn
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:34 am
by Doog
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:19 pm
by theshadowofseattle
REALLY? I'mma crank the Princeton Chorus up to PIZZA tomorrow when my roommate's not home.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 10:45 pm
by olin
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:01 pm
by HeartfeltDawn
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:27 am
by Doog
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
