It’s ideal for blues players looking for a slightly more aggressive edge to their tone, compared to the regular ‘benchmark’ tweed sound. Pushing up the gain to about halfway takes you into the Blues Invasion era, with a singing sustain and a touch- sensitive toothy attack that compliments any guitar. Take the reverb off, add a little more gain and you’ll find a perfect Beatles Top Boost jangle, which sounds superb with our ES-335. The AC30S1 gives a modern interpretation of the Top Boost tone wrapped up in traditional looks If you pick ‘Marvin style’, using the bridge pickup of a Strat and holding the trem with your little finger so the pick is roughly over the neck pickup, any decent delay in the AC30S1’s effects loop will get you a satisfyingly authentic Shadows sound. This effect is excellent and matches many studio effect/plugins for quality, with a range that goes from natural background ambience to full-on cavern.Įven with the level control maxed out, the effect doesn’t overpower the guitar and works well for authentic 60s guitar sounds. Low gain settings produce slightly boxy mids and a medium-fast attack, evoking many classic pop instrumentals from the 60s, especially when mixed with Vox’s digital spring reverb. The controls are deceptively simple, with a wide range of gain and tone that makes it easy to dial in any guitar. After a few minutes though, initial hum fades away and the amp is remarkably quiet. Like all cathode-biased amps, the AC30S1 takes a little while for its voltages to stabilise. We auditioned the amp with a variety of guitars, including a Gibson Custom Shop ’63 ES-335, a PAF-loaded Les Paul and our Duncan Alnico Pro-loaded Strat. Overall, this amp is built to the typically high standards we’ve come to expect from Vox today: built to last as well as looking great. The power toggle switch has been replaced with a momentary action type that operates a relay, which feels a little odd at first, but we quickly got used to it. Thankfully, there’s a small switch to turn this function off.
#Vox amps review Bluetooth
It’d be neat if they supported Bluetooth, getting rid of the single cable that is needed now (to the headphone) well, I guess you can always plug in a Bluetooth transmitter to the output of this amp.The AC30S1 has an energy-saving power supply that switches the amp off if no audio is detected for around 15 minutes. There’s no indication when the battery is running out of juice. Because it weighs more than a typical cable you plug in to the guitar, you need to watch out for it loosening the nut of the guitar’s output – not a big deal. Very minor drawbacks: the knobs are a bit hard to adjust and to read the labels. The amp goes from clean to distorted with the gain/volume knobs, this sample focuses on just one setting that I used:Ĭlick here to open another window and play sound samples Here is a sampling of some AC/DC riffs that I recorded to give you an idea of what to expect for the kind of sound that this community likes.
I bought it without the benefit of being able to listen to it first, and was pleasantly surprised. But I think it’s pretty good for what it is and for how much it costs. Tone-wise: of course, it’s not near any of the other gear featured here that keeps us drooling. Here are a couple of pictures of it plugged into my guitar, and near the bridge so you have an idea of size: to jam along an mp3 player), a headphone output, and provides three knobs (volume, gain, and tone). You can read more detailed specifications from their Web site, but long story short: the amp runs off two AAA batteries has the guitar plug input as well as an “aux” input (e.g.
#Vox amps review portable
Or, if you are visiting your in-laws… or if you want to go out on Halloween trick-or-treating as Angus – strap on a portable speaker and let yourself go playing on the streets. For you, it might be useful in the same case. For me, in the beginning it’s been very useful because I didn’t want to subject wife and kids to bad playing amplified – accoustic is suffering enough. You can pretty much leave it plugged in to your guitar if you often practice unplugged because you don’t want to be loud, or are not near an amp, it is quite convenient. What is great about this amp is that it’s portable, very easy to carry around. Since then, the line of these Vox amplugs has grown – they now have classic rock, lead, metal variants – but I have not tried any of them. This is the first amp I owned – I purchased it last year right after I purchased my guitar. The Vox AC30 amplug is a portable, battery-powered solid-state amp that plugs in directly to your guitar and provides a headphone output.
Some of you have shown interest in practice amps and/or amps on a budget, so I thought a review of the Vox AC30 “amplug” that I own would be useful, including a couple of pictures and a sound test to give you an idea of how this thing works in practice.Ī bit of background. This is my first gear review here at SoloDallas.
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