Vox AC30 6TB

Price Paid: US $2500.00

Features: 1
I think its a 2000. The first one I purchased from sweetwater and shipped all the way to the Bahamas did not work so I had to ship it back for another one so I had to pay freight and duty twice hence the hefty price tag. The second one came and only the Brilliant channel was working, but I had so much invested I figured that I better keep it. If you are looking for an amp with features, look elsewhere. If you are looking for great CLEAN tone then maybe.IT NEEDS PRE/POST GAIN!!!!!!!!

Sound Quality: 7
I play a 72 Strat (stock) a 90's thinlne with Kinman pickups and a L.A guitar factory custom hollowbody with humbuckers. I try to mostlt play blues and blues and blues. I have a small home studio so the invironment is good for sound. I find the amp to be quite noisy even after changing the tube and replacing them with top of the line. I also took out the greenbacks and replaced them with anlicos, Big differance) To get this amp to start to crunch the volume level in the studio is too loud so I have never really experienced it. The clean tone is fat, bellish and a nice bottom end. But all in all I find it boring, I have not yet been able to dial in a sound that im happy with even with the help of numerous pedals. NEEDS POST/PRE GAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reliability: 5
I blew one pre tube and when I exchanged them discovered that only 2 of the power tubes matchrd. Whats up with that.!

Customer Support: 9
I dealt with Sweetwater, they treat me very well.

Overall Rating: 5
Ive been playing for about 15 years, i own and have owned a few other amps. If it were stolen I would claim the insurance and get a Mesa.
It has a great clean tone but the lack of features and the high cost made it very disapoiting. NEEDS PRE/POST GAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Submitted by Tiffy at 08/10/2005 09:08

Price Paid: US $1,100 used

Features: 9
I own what i think is an 1987 ac30 with celestion greenback speakers. It fits all my styles including rock, country western/folk, and experimental rock. It has 3 channels, with two inputs for each channel (total of six inputs). The normal channel inputs both get a great sound using only the cut and volume controls (the only available for the normal channel) and the high gain input on the brilliant channel when turned up gets the most beautiful transparent overdrive i have ever heard. The only downside is the tremelo channel, which sounds frail and is not powerful at all, and although the tremelo sounds good, it only has 3 speeds which are all far too fast for me. But all in all, between the 4 normal and brilliant inputs, it does everything and more than i need it to.

Sound Quality: 10
I use a g&l asat special with high output single coil/p-90ish hybrids. It suits all kinds of rhythym rock sounds with nothing but the volume turned up. I also throw a big muff in front of it for heavy riffs or solos and it is very smooth and fluent. With the big muff off, even on half volume (loud!!!!), it has a very small amount of noise, barely anything noticeable. I will never get rid of my ac30 because of it's ability to create so many beautiful sounds.

Reliability: 8
It appears to be fairly reliable. I have heard they blow up easily...but mine seems in great condition and ready to rock. I would always get the tubes changed fairly often and re-bias.

Customer Support: N/A

Overall Rating: 10
I have been playing for 7 years now and my setup is the g&l asat special>electro harmonix big muff>mxr phase 90>digitech digidelay>Vox ac30, and it does everything i want and more. I have owned a good variety of rock amps including marshall plexi's and a peavey 5150II, but i enjoy this one more than all of them. If it was stolen i would kill the man.

Submitted by Christian at 10/17/2004 17:34

Price Paid: 1,500 (Euros)

Features: 10
Mine is a 2001 model with greenbacks, bought new in 2002. Well, by now you know the features of the AC30TB. It has the standard features of the original and best AC30 circa '62/'63. There is a new version of the AC30 comming out soon called the custum classic for those of you who want extra, more '90's features, but i would choose this version if the new one had been available when i bought it....this one is just the standard real deal AC30TB. Personally i never used any FX loops and features like that anyway on my previous amps. In my opinion i have yet to hear a better sound and thats all that matters. Proper effect placement and use eliminates the need for any fancy pants features anyway. Its all about the next section......sound!!! The features provided allow this amp to produce the best guitar sound i have ever heard so its a 10 from me for features.

Sound Quality: 10
With this amp i use the ‘69 Thinline Telecaster (single coils) and the ‘72 Thinline Telecaster (wide range humbuckers). The amp sounds fantastic with both guitars. The clean sounds on the brilliant channel are deep and full with a glassy top end. Think of the ping you hear when you lightly flick the edge of a waterford crystal bowl. Chimey, deep with crystal highs all at the same time, making the sweetest guitar sound for accompanying a great singing voice. When the amp is pushed a throaty bark arrives as the natural overdrive kicks in. This rasping overdrive rings like a bell and is the perfect rhythm drive in a band situation……it’s clear, well defined and unbeleivably responsive to your attack making it the perfect amp for a dynamic player weaving between vocal flurishes. Although the volume at which this amp starts to break up is huge and rarely accepted for indoor gigs, it is very easy to get the same sound at lower volumes…..enter the Marshall BB-2 Bluesbreaker pedal (very cheap but very useful). Set on boost mode for clean(ish) boost, set the pedal volume slightly above your perfect clean sound and it just drives the valves enough to bring on the exact same sound as the amp when it’s cranked but at a reasonable volume. The tone is perfectly maintained at both bass and treble ends and the sparkle is ever present. From there you are free to add your favorite stompers to drive this into the cosmos.

My pedal board goes as follows:- Boss TU-2 tuner, Crybaby Wah, Marshall BB-2 bluesbreaker (boost mode for clean breakup), Ibanez TS9 (on top of boost for full rhythm overdrive), Boss BD-2 Blues driver (on top of overdrive for lead boost), Marshall VT-1 Vibratrem (Tremolo), Boss DD-3 Digital Delay then back on top of the amp i use EHX Holy Grail Reverb (must be last in the chain with just a tad of verb, constantly on, not really needed at all but it does add a nice breath and depth to the overall sound).

I have every thing i need covered with these pedals, with no hums or gliches of any kind only excellent sounds from pristine cleans through my three stages of overdrive to rip roaring leads with the combination of the three overdrive pedals. The AC30 is the perfect host for good quality effects. There is fantastic headroom available at the clean end of the dial.
I've been playing over twelve years...i'm 25 now and i am the lead guitarist and lead singer in a rock band......kind of Radiohead/Jeff Buckley in first impression, I’ve been told,…..it’s not really intentional but I am very flattered by the comparissons. Im from ireland and the irish music scene is on fire at the moment......we're comming!!!

Reliability: 10
The most important thing to know about these amps before you buy them is that they require regular servicing to keep them in perfect nik. You cannot expect the amp to never require maintenance. These amps run really hot and the valves cause all kinds of problems if they are not monitored and changed BEFORE the problems arrise!!!
Make sure you have some 500mA fuses handy and a spare GZ34 rectifier and you have nearly every problem that these amps throw at you covered.
I have a tech that services my amp so it stays in running order. With all vintage valve gear you must have a tech to keep an eye on it or you will be left down sometime....no question. Keep it serviced and clean like a vintage car!!!
There is a great troubleshoot diagram on the Vox website at the moment and nearly all the problems are easily fixed by yourself by following these guidelines.
A yearly service by someone who knows valve gear well will keep you running sweetly without hassles. I cant stress enough how much this amp is worth the trouble!!! A rating of 10 if its kept in check.

Customer Support: N/A
I know the tech that services my amp tried to get some parts off of them and he ended up going elsewhere because tof the wait. However i do think that the company was in the middle of some kind of changeover at the time and maybe the service structures are being handled better now.
At the time, very bad......now, i dont know.

Overall Rating: 10
I have had many amps over the years, fenders and a few marshalls. Lots of my friends play music as well so i am very familiar with all kinds of amps, guitars and effects. My last amp was also a cracker...the Marshall JCM602 60W valve amp, very good but not in the same league as the Vox really. Having the AC30 makes every other amp seem like they are struggling to get to where the Vox is already. Its just a professional, mature sound that has that fantastic heritage and really amazing visual impact. There is no other piece of equipmentin the world that looks as cool as a Vox AC30TB. Just stand the two Tele's in front of it and you are impressing the audience before you even take the stage...really!!!

One of the guys in the band with me owns and runs a very good recording studio, we constantly record and reherse at the studio so a lot of gear passes through from other players and bands. I am looking forward to the day a worthy contender enters the studio...a dual!!! Get one, but be fully aware of the amp you are taking on with regards to upkeep!!!

Submitted by Quirke at 09/21/2004 03:05

Price Paid: US $1599.00

Features: N/A
Bought new in June 2004; don't know exactly when it was made. It is plenty versatile for all the types of music I play (or try to play) as I dabble in jazz, blues, rock and popular tunes. If you're reading this you must have some idea of what this amp has to offer. I kind of wish it had reverb but then again I would not want anything in the signal path that could potentially detract from it's tone. I thought a master volume control would be nice as well but after doing some research, I bought a Dr.Z./Trainwreck Airbrake (attenuator) which works beautifully and seems to be accoustically transparent. I hardly use the vibrato/tremolo feature at all. I play in my very small basement "studio/office" and this amp puts out the loudest 33 watts I've ever heard. This beast can stand up to my 135 watt Fender Twin with ease. I've read and have been told then the AC30 does well with all kinds of pedals, effects, etc. The only effects/ pedals I own are a DOD Chorus, a Pod and a Boss Compressor/Sustainer all of which I use with my other amps; I like the AC30 just as it is. In my opinion if you're into extreme distortion and/or metal sounds this amp may not be the amp for you. I'm going to stay 100% neutral in this category because you really need to sit down with the AC30 and experiment with the tone controls to find out if it's right for you.

Sound Quality: 10
Gibson SG std, Fender USA Strat, Epiphone Sheraton II w/ Classic '57 hbs, Ibanez AS120 full hollow jazz box, Steinberger GT Spirit. Every one of my guitars seems to have been "reborn" when played through this amp (sounds dumb but difficult to describe otherwise.) I can get any sound I want out of it, and then some. Every pickup combination has it's own unique character. Since I need to spend alot more time studying theory and playing and less time playing with the amp itself, I'll say that I havent even scratched the surface in terms of experimenting with pickup combinations and tone control settings. For now, I have bridged the normal and brilliant channels together so I can get a blend of both. The amp has only 3 tone controls: treble and bass, which affect only the brilliant channel, and cut which affects all 3 channels (right now I'm not using the vibrato channel) The treble and bass controls are extremely responsive, more so than I've heard with my other amps. The Airbrake allows me to go from clean to a nice, warm tube saturation rich with harmonics at moderate levels and an awesome bluesy breakup and overdrive at higher levels while maintaining a reasonable volume. I was very surprised to hear how clean this amp can sound. With the Epiphone and the Ibanez I can get what I just call "jazz tone" with a natural compression only a tube rectifier can give. I sometimes like to make my jazz tone a little "darker" than usual and the cut control rolls off the highs nicely. The Strat with it's stock pickups can be a little noisy in 3 out of 5 pickup settings but sounds good just the same, the SG is pretty quiet and sounds great too. Believe it or not, the Steinberger, under $300 from MusicYo.com absolutely screams. It is, of course, a tube amp so expect some AC hum. A previous reviewer directs the reader to an excellent web site where a "lead dress" issue is addressed:
www.voxshowroom.com/northcoast/vox/new_amps/30service.htm.
All 3 channels break up nicely at higher volumes. The vibrato channel seems to break up at a lower level than the other 2, at about half way while the normal and brilliant channels break up at about two thirds to three quarters. There is no brutal, extreme distortion from this amp at all.

Reliability: N/A
I don't gig at all; gave all that up more years ago than I care to remember. I therefore will stay neutral here as well. Preceeding reviews seem to tell the whole story from good to bad. If however I were going to gig with it, I'd definitely get a good road case. This is a moderately heavy (70+lbs) somewhat cumbersome amp. Although I have no trouble lifting it I would not want to be moving it around on a regular basis unprotected. I would also keep a complete set of tubes and spare fuses handy as well. Keep in mind that a tube change during a gig could take a considerable amount of time, even if you work fast, because you have to lay the amp down and take the chassis out to get at the tubes. If I were a gigging musician I would not be happy with that aspect of it's design at all. Overall, it seems to be built to last. The cabinet is very well constructed. I installed removable casters and it was not easy to drill into the cabinet. I haven't had any problems with it so far. Eventually I will replace the stock tubes with better ones but for now it's not busted so I'm not going to "fix" it.

Customer Support: N/A
No reason to contact the company so far; hope I don't have occasion to do so. The dealer (Guitar Center), a nice fellow who also reviewed the amp here, the aforementioned web site and my guitar/amp tech have answered all of my questions to date. As far as I know the factory warranty is for one year.

Overall Rating: 10
Started playing 30 something years ago, stopped completely for many years then got bitten by the bug again. I also have a late 70's Fender Twin, a Polytone Mini Brute IV and a Roland Cube 30. If stolen or lost I'd definitely buy another one. For my purposes, there is nothing not to like about this amp. There are, of course, alot of incredible sounding amps out there. I compared the AC30 to a Marshall Bluesbreaker and a Carr Hammerhead, two very fine amps, side by side at Guitar Center and I liked the AC30's tone better. I was a hard sell - I hadn't heard a Vox amp in many years and I was thinking, "Vox equals rock and roll and that's it." Finally (almost reluctantly) I let the salesman demonstrate it and it ended up in the back seat of my car shortly thereafter. I you think an AC30 might be the amp for you, I strongly urge you to read as many of these reviews as you please, then pick up your favorite guitar(s) and go to a dealer where the AC30 is in stock ready for you to test drive. This amp is a serious tone machine in every sense of the term. A great bang for the buck, this amp is a keeper.

Submitted by Joe L. at 07/28/2004 15:19

Price Paid: US $1100

Features: 9
I" bought this amp from aguy off of ebay. We arranged a pickup because he wasn't that far away (saved me $75 shipping!) and he thought that I should try it out. I got it for $1100, which I thought was a great buy, considering that it was a 2001 model. Six inputs, two for each channel, high and low gain. 2X12 Celestion Greenbacks are always great to hear. Class A or AB, I believe, and I think that there is some technicallity to when it is which. No fx-loop, you don't need one. If you're going to use overdrive or distorion, then put them infront of any delays or reverbs or other "time-altering" effects. The onboard Bass and treble control the Brilliant channel, while the Cut controls the normal channel.

Sound Quality: 10
Most people do not know just how amazingly versitile these amps really are. There is a little bit of magic inside, and it doesn't matter if it is one from 1965 or 2005. The tone controls and volume are EXTREMELY sensative, and can really get almost any sound desirable, much more than any Fender or Marshall amp I have ever played. This amp will grace you with hours of just sitting back and playing guitar while thinking to yourself, "Damn, this amp sounds so unbelievable!" Tones are easy to dial in, but I recommend really tweaking it to discover all that it can do. I have found, in my opinion, that Single coil guitars work great on the normal channel high gain input, such as stratocasters or the like; while humbuckers come out nicely throught the brilliant channel low gain input. This is most likely because the normal channel is darker sounding, so it takes those jangily singles and puts some meat on their bones, as well as boosting the level. The Brilliant channel takes those already dark humbuckers and adds some sparkle and shimmer to them, as well as lowering the level slightly, as to not muddy the sound. And the Vib/Trem Channel is quite fun to mess around on. No, it is not a serious tremolo/vibrato sound as Fender amps are, or even good pedals;but it is unique enough to be a distinct quality only attributed to that of a Vox AC30! And that should be good enough to justify it's presence on the amp.

Reliability: N/A
Not sure yet. Got it only 3months ago. However, I just re-tubed it with JJ tubes all the way through. Quite astonishing!

Customer Support: N/A
Have only contacted them for a querry about parts. They got back with me right soon, so all is well. They seem nice enough.

Overall Rating: 7
It was in poor exterior condition- but I was sure to remidy that. The outside was torn in several places, and the handles were scuffed and beaten, while the gold fascia strip was dented and dinged, the gold piping was blackened, and serial plate scratched and mangled. I ordered several new parts and materials, and set out to restore this amazing tone-machine back to all of it's glory- with the help of Antique Electronic Supply and Vox themselves. About a week or so later-it was finished. Looks better than the new ones. I even purchased a dustcover for it-the black tolex will dry out and fade if not covered. Email me at mpisarcik@hotmail.com if you want to see some pictures- I took many before and after photographs. Hope this helps out for all of you prespective buyers! Cheers.

Submitted by Matt Pisarcik at 07/15/2004 12:21

Price Paid: US $750 used

Features: 7
I am reviewing a Vox AC30/6TB Reissue from 2001. I bought it on ebay and it is real beat up (Beware small, grainy pictures on ebay.) I have been playing 60's style Blues/Rock/Pop for all of 10 years and this amp is by far the most versatile amp i've ever played through. Three channels nonswitchable/Trem-Vib/Cut+Top Boost/Class A. Very different but great (40+ year old circuit!) Dream volume for club setting, nightmare for asshole neighbor. This amp is the reason my Bass player is going SVT and my drummer is going DEAF!

Sound Quality: 10
My main guitar is a 2002 Gibson Les Paul standard with Burstbuckers and the sound can get a bit muddy on both the Trem-Vib and Normal channels though the sound is quite brilliant (literally!) on the Top Boost Channel. Each channel has two inputs both hi and low. High seems to suit Single coil equipped guitars better. Plugging my late 70's Fender Stratocaster into the Top boost hi input, I almost juiced my Beatle boots! Rubber Soul/Day Tripper!! My Les Paul (Lily)likes both inputs and basically tells me which way to go. A great thing i learned by goofing around with the controls are that since the cut control acts like a universal prescence control located in the power amp section, I can boost the bass and treble in the pre-amp and trim the top off with the cut to get that spongy Anglo/Vox tone. I almost creamed my jeans!! Amp is noisy. I read that you can turn up the volume knobs up on the channels that you are not using to eliminate this but it doesn't seem to work on mine. Vib-Trem channel has some kind of crackly tube noise that i have to get checked out. Truly, I think that the Vox is the Greatest sounding guitar amplifier for Rock ever.

Reliability: 10
Well, I have yet to gig the amp (show on May 26) and i have heard that the Ac30 reissues are notoriously unreliable and downright poorly constructed. As mine has yet to erupt into a mini mushroom cloud, I say good job!

Customer Support: N/A
Never have dealt with Vox Amplification/Korg. Probably never will, they probably wouldn't believe that its a reissue anyway (really, it looks soooo cool!)

Overall Rating: 10
I also own a 1970 Fender twin reverb, 1972 Marshall JMP 50w, 1964 Magnatone/Easty M15 Custom, 1960 Fender Princeton, 1963 Gibson GA77 Vanguard. I love all of these amps for their individual voices and would sacrifice my nuts before ever resigning them to some sad fate in the hands of an mediocre musician, but I honestly believe that they will all be ancient history before I give up on my vox AC30.

Submitted by Richie Gastelum at 05/18/2004 02:04

Price Paid: N/A

Features: N/A
I thought i should post a some information for anyone experiencing low level hum coming out of their Vox Ac30 reissue's. There is a fix for this at the excellent webpage link below. This fixed the hum in my ac30. As the site say's, do be careful as you are working around high voltages.

http://www.voxshowroom.com/northcoast/vox/new_amps/30service.html

Sound Quality: 10

Reliability: N/A

Customer Support: N/A

Overall Rating: N/A

Submitted by Anonymous at 12/02/2003 06:53

Price Paid: 75 (British Pounds) used

Features: N/A
I bought this amp in around 1962 in the UK. It was a Vox SuperTwin with a speaker cabinet the size of a normal AC30 and an amp cabinet of the same width and depth and about a third the height, rather like the two-part Fender amps.

In those days the Vox AC30 was what almost everyone played. If you had a record contract Vox would give you a backline. Since it was either this or a Selmer (Fender was very expensive, and Marshall was yet to come), most bands accepted the deal.

This must have been one of the first top boost amps. It was finished in gray and had the normal Vox controls plus a couple of small white knobs in the back of the amp for ther treble and bass boost.

Sound Quality: N/A
The amp gave you everything a standard AC30 did plus a killer expansion of tone. Vox used to import a totally undistinguished range of guitars from Italy - even worse than the low end Selmer guitars. I connected one of these to the amp and got a halfway decent sound out of it.

The extra circuitry was supposed to give you up to +30db on treble or bass or both. The whole circuit board (including the tube) wasn't on the standard chassis, so someone traced out the circuit for me. It could have been a welcome addition to most of the amps of the period.

Reliability: N/A

Customer Support: N/A

Overall Rating: N/A
As you can gather I owned this amp only for a while. I was trying to use it with a Farfisa compact organ and eventually traded in both. Had I kept it I wonder what it would fetch today - $5,000?

Oh well. At the time I knew a guy who bought a '59 Les Paul and then spent all his time complaining that had he waited he'd have got an SG instead. We just didn't appreciate how these guitars and amps would appreciate in price over the years.

These days I get a good sound for a fraction of the price of a new AC30TB using quality pickups on cheap guitars and a POD 2.

Submitted by Anonymous at 09/01/2003 18:00

Price Paid: US $1,599.99

Features: 10
In summer of 2003, I purchased my Vox AC30/6 TB from a Guitar Center in NY on special order. They had none in stock nor any in the Long Island shipment warehouse, so it had to be imported from England. I have owned a Marshall AVT half-stack and a Crate, which were both very good amps and with a lot of punch and sound. But i simply wanted a tube amp... for the balls-out tone and classic crunch they have. My 2003 Vox is the KING of the vintage tone. No real special gimicks or reverb or chorus or delay just straight, pure and simple blessed-by-God-Himself TONE. Simplicity is the greatest feature of this amplifier. As seen in the history of guitars, the simplest designs have been the ones to prevail and flourish throughout the years (i.e. - the Fender Strat). The same goes with Amps, and that is why this one is one of the greatest ever made. Its simplicity and brilliant sound make it just that.

Sound Quality: 10
I use a 1971 Mosrite Mark I Ventures model with the AC30 with no pedals, gimicks or anything. Need I say more? Well fine, I will. The sound is incomparibly sweeter then any amplifier and guitar combination i have ever tried. I've run a Les Paul Std. and an early '70s Fender Mustang (which i still own) through all kinds of Marshalls, Fenders, Mesa Boogies... those sounds do little to deter me from the AC30/Mosrite combo. Absolute pure VINTAGE

Reliability: 10
No problems at all with the AC30... even gigged. I have hauled it to and from jazz practice 4 times a week for several months and have played it at least 50% volume on Brilliant channel each time. 0 problems.

Customer Support: N/A
Never had to.

Overall Rating: 10
With my Mosrite, this amp needs no pedals, effects or anything to polish the sound. It's all right there. I highly suggest that musicians who are searching for classic, vintage tone able to be played with just about any style music (cranked out with distortion even) and are willing to dish out the few extra hundred dollars needed to nab one of these, get the Vox AC30. I know it's pricy, but I've always believed that you get what you pay for. Its the same reason why a person today would buy a Mercedes over a Toyota. They both get you from point A to point B... but there is no comparisson in quality, features, and overall satisfaction. You simply get the best with this Amp.

Submitted by Havoline Disset at 08/28/2003 20:32

Price Paid: US $2000

Features: 9
I HAVE A REISSUE BLUE SPEAKER VOX AC30TB. 3 CHANNELS 6 INPUTS. WOW AND YOU CAN EVEN CHAIN THE CHANNELS. THATS VERY UNIQUE AND YOU CAN GET ALOT OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS!

Sound Quality: 10
I HAVE A G&L ASAT CLASSIC(TELE STYLE)WICH I THINK IS BETTER THAN THOSE FENDERS! I PLAY ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC. STYLE IS RADIOHEAD,OURS,U2,BEATLES, NIRVANA AND OTHERS. AND IT DOES SUIT MY STYLE.AMP IS SOMETIMES NOISY BUT YOU CAN CONTROL THAT BY PUTING THE AMP ON STANDBY SWITCH AND PUT IT BACK ON, NO PROBLEM. I SET MY AMP NORMAL VOL AT 9 O'CLOCK, BRILLIANT VOL AT 8 O'CLOCK TREB AT 11-12 O'CLOCK,BASS AT 7 O'CLOCK,CUT AT 12 O'CLOCK PLUG PATCH CORD FROM THE LOW NORM. CHANNEL TO TOP BRILLIANT CHANNEL AND PLUG GUITAR TO THE LOW BRILLIANT CHANNEL. MAN THE SOUND IS X-CELLENT FOR ME. AND ALSO DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF GUITAR YOU HAVE. I ALSO USE EFFECT PEDALS AND ALSO DEPENDS HOW YOU USE THE PEDALS......

Reliability: 9
I HAVE PRACTICE AND GIG WITH IT AND NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS. I THINK IS GOOD TO CHANGE THE TUBES EVERY YEAR AND ALSO DEPENDS HOW OFTEN YOU USE IT LIKE ME THAT I USE IT PRACTICLY EVERYDAY. MAKE SURE YOU GET ELECTRO HARMONIX TUBES BECAUSE THEY COME WITH SUCKY EI TUBES. YOU CAN ALSO BUY A SMALL FAN TO PUT ON THE BACK SO THE TUBES WONT GET TOO HOT. BUT I DONT USE ANY FANS AND HAVE NO PROBLEMS. I OFF COURSE AND STILL DEPEND ON IT.

Customer Support: 10
I HAD EMAIL THE GUYS OVER AT KORG/VOX AND THEY REALLY SUCK. NEVER HAD ANY RESPONSE BACK. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IF I CALL THEM ON THE PHONE I GET A VERY GOOD RESPONSE AND VERY GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICES. I HAVE CALL THEM LOTS OF TIMES AND THEY HAVE NOT FAIL ME AT ALL. THANX JOE GILMARTIN FOR THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Overall Rating: 10
ID BEEN PLAYING FOR ALMOST 12 YRS AND I ALWAYS WANTED ONE OF THIS MONSTERS SINCE I WAS YOUNG. AND IT TOOK ME 10YRS TO GET ONE. I GUESS BACK THEN I DIDNT HAVE A 10 DOLLAR AN HOUR JOB HU!FINALY I GOT IT AND IM VERY HAPPY WITH IT AND I MEAN VERY. MY AMP IS RUN BY MY GADGETS. AMP/DANELECTRO DTE-1/SOBBAT PB-2/EHX-SMALL CLONE/VINTAGE RAT/MAESTRO FUZZTONE REISSUE/BOOS DS-2/MXR DYNACOMP/SONGWORKS REVERB CHAMBER/MARSHALL SHREDMASTER/VOX WHA TO MY BEAUTIFULL G&L ASAT CLASSIC. MY EXTRA EFFECTS THAT ARE NOT REGULARS ON MY BOARD ARE A MARSHALL DRIVEMASTER,VOX VALVETONE,VOX REPEAT PERCUSSION,AND A BOSS TR-2. WITH ALL I FEEL I HAVE THE BEST EQUIPMENT FOR THAT STYLE I PLAY, AND FOR A BAND THAT PLAYS ALTERNATIVE ROCK.

Submitted by CHUY at 07/24/2003 17:22