Vox AD120VT Valvetronix 212 Combo

Price Paid: US $750

Features: 7
Amp is packed with features lots of great amp simulation, all the bells and whistles you could ask for

Sound Quality: 9
Amp sounds great with all my guitars, strats, humbuckers, soap bar and even accoustic guitars can all be programed to sound great.

Reliability: 1
This is the worst amp that I have ever owned, sure it sounds great most of the time, but crank it on stage and the pedal board goes haywire!!! speakers cut in and out. To resolve this I used the direct out, but then that too started to cut in and out.

Customer Support: 1
I have sent emails asking for help. I have made atleast 12 calls to korg, I have taken the amp to their SF certified repair place and they REFUSED to work on it. I had to take my amp out of the city to another repair shop and well after 2 weeks they haven't touched it.

As a pro musician this amp has been a nightmare, If you depend on your gear to win your bread be verry cautious before buying!

Overall Rating: N/A
I've been playing for 17 years, I have owned vintage marshall, hi watts, fender twins, suppers,deluxe, tweeds, mesa.... Over 100 guitars in my time.
love the sound but what does it matter if it doesn't work?
Compared this to all the other modeling amps and went with this one for the ease of use and tone.
I wish that you could use more effects in conjucton- like use a dirt box and a wah isn't possible, or the octave and compressor.
If this amp was stolen i'd feel sorry for the thief! I'd start using a roland g3 to g5 for effects and get a real amp without a circuit board in it!

Submitted by Clay Bell at 02/25/2004 13:29

Price Paid: N/A

Features: 10
Features that I don't even need! It is a great amp for studio work or session guitarists. The effects are spot on, they sound almost identical to the real thing!

Sound Quality: 7
I use this amp with a 2002 Les Paul Classic. I play the amp on the 'UK 70's' setting. It suits my playing style very well! I mainly play hard rock in the band im in, I really cant complain about the sound! I have it plugged into a Marshall 4x12. I recommend this to everyone. The sound before sounded good, but lacked a lot of balls. A 4x12 improves the sound so much. When playing, the amp is always at full crank. It is very loud. It overdrives when you get it above 6/7 but if you want it cleaner, this can be easily 'corrected' by the gain knob. The sound I get is wonderful, and it is also great for playing funk/jazz or blues. Wouldn't recommend to a shred metal player. The speakers are also quite pish, no definition or bottom end when cranked, get a good 4x12 and it's good though!

Reliability: 5
Ah, the downfall. I've had to send this amp back twice! It's away right now actually! This amp has never been neglected. It's played loads of gigs but hasn't fallen out of the car yet! The amp runs in stereo. The left channel keeps breaking resulting in a fuzzy sound in the left speaker. And when played at high volume, the preset channels go mad and start randomly flicking between them all! :( BUT! I did accedently spill Irn-Bru into the vents and it was fine! I'll give it a 5...

Customer Support: 9
Customer Support is great. They're Vox, you know they're good! Quite a long time fixing though. I live in scotland, their factory is in Surrey i think!

Overall Rating: 8
Great amp for someone who wants a lot of effects and amps for cheap. All the models on the amp are very close to the real thing. I was very impressed by the wah wah, octave, acoustic, Rat distortion and tubescremer. Delay is great! Reverb is excellent for something that is solid state! Chorus is brilliant as is tremolo. The phase is quite good, and u can get a really funny noise from the flanger which is also cool. :) Well built too. Also looks like an AC30 if you take the cheesy 'Valvetronix' bagde off, which i have done! Cool amp.

Submitted by Anonymous at 02/14/2004 06:53

Price Paid: N/A

Features: 9
Great features,would have been nice to use compressor with distortion though.This is perfect for what I use it for.I play at church and need to nail a wide vaiety of tones at low volumes.

Sound Quality: 10
I am using a Peavey Wolfgang Special.Does great on the clean stuff and the heavier distrotion.

Reliability: 2
Unfotunatly!!This breaks my heart to write this but I dont want to see anyone else go through what I currently am.I love this amp but,I have the new VC12 pedal board and am having problems.Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt.Niether guitar center or vox is willing to do much.Send it to the shop and wait for weeks,maybe we will pay for it maybe we wont.How about "here's another one,sorry for your problems"No that aint gonna happen with these people.I have waited to write this review because I was mad ,well everyday I get a little more frustrated as I spend time and effort trying to figure it out.I will never buy anything from guitar center or vox again and will tell as many people as I can what I have expierenced.

Customer Support: 1
No phone number given with product,just Email address that they never answer.I finally got thier phone number but its an East Coast #.By the time I get home from work to call them the are gone.

Overall Rating: 1
I wish somebody would steal it,seriuosly I love this amp wish I could give it a good review,sorry vox reliability and service are important too.

Submitted by Ed at 01/29/2004 02:35

Price Paid: US $814.99

Features: 9
I love the abilities of this amp. I've been playing guitar for 8 years and have been in a band for the past 3 years. The style of music that my current band plays is adult alternative pop/rock, in the vein of Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, etc. This amp fits in perfectly with the sound that I'm looking for. The clean sounds are so clear and sweet while the distortions are versatile in that you can get some nice mild overdrive to a harsh crunch to a powerful hard rock bite. The sounds of JUST the amp models sound great by themselves, so adding in the built in effects such as chorus, reverb, echo, only give you more options. I'm not a big effects person myself, so it has all the effects I'll ever need.

As far as power is concerned: it doesn't get as loud as I want it. Although I'm not in a METAL band, I still would like it if the volume would be a little higher. Nonetheles, the FULLNESS of the sound makes up for the lack of volume that it can reach. Because of the volume issue, I give this a 9 rating.

Sound Quality: 10
I use two guitars with this amp, a Fender American Fat Strat Texas Special w/ 3 single coil pick ups and a Ibanez early 80's strat with a S/S/H configuration. The clean sounds I can get with the Fender are simply awesome. Distortions are good, but not great, but that's mostly because of the pickups. I once used my friend's Les Paul on the Vox and the first thing I said to myself was "DAMN!! That's SOME BITE AND CRUNCH!!"

There are 2 great things about this amp:
1. It brings out the strengths of your guitar. Whether you're using a Les Paul with monster humbuckers or an acoustic with piezo pickups, the valvetronix can make your guitar sound the way it's supposed to be. Also, a friend of mine owns a cheap ass Fender made in Mexico strat that sounds AWESOME with it plugged into the vox.

2. This amp sound like a "real" amp in that you must have your chops down in order to play it. EVERY note you play is clearly heard (even distorted notes) so you have to be "on" while using it. In a way, using this Vox has forced me to become a better player...

Reliability: 4
Although I've had my Vox Valvetronix for almost two years now, I never bothered to post. I believe I've had enough experience with this amp to give a clear, honest opinion. Anyways, reliability IS an issue with this amp....

I bought this amp at Guitar Center (Covina, CA) on May 7, 2002. According to my receipt, my amp was an out of box piece, but my salesman assured my that it had been hardly touched... which was probably true, since most people hook up to the Marshalls and Mesas. I wasn't worried that it had been played with, no biggie. I was in a hard rock band at the time so it went to immediate use. For 4 months, it gave me no trouble whatsoever. After 4 months, things started to go wrong. Various problems occured, such as significant volume decreases, pedalboard malfunctions, loss of guitar signal. The reason why I never returned it back to Guitar Center was that these problems were only occasional. After 15 months of owning this amp, the left speaker just went out completely. Since my one year warranty was up, i had to go to a special repair store that specializes in Voxs (got the store location from the official Vox website). After one month, they fixed it. They basically replaced the entire computer portion. It cost me $300. I bought the amp for $800. Before i decided to go ahead and have it repaired, i thought long and hard about paying $300, but because I loved it so much, I just went ahead and bit the bullet. It's been working great for the past few months now.....

Sorry for my ramblings, but the JIST of what i basically wanted to say was that I think this amp CAN be unreliable. I don't know if it's the computer chips, but from all the research i've done on this amp (and believe me, I am a research fanatic) it seems people have been having the same problems as me (i.e. signal loss, unbalanced speaker output, malfunctions). Of course, 14 ouf of 15 people don't seem to have had any problems so far,...BUT.... how long have they owned this amp? I've owned this amp for almost two years and had 1 MAJOR prob. Food for thought.

Customer Support: 7
Basically, I remember getting an e-mail saying to contact an authorized service center to help with my problem. I found one easily and they charged me A LOT ($300) to fix it. One month later, it seems (and feels) like I have a brand new amp. In retrospect, I WISH I could've asked Guitar Center for some kind of extended warranty... especially with this amp.

Overall Rating: 7
Ahh, I love this part because I'm forced to step back and think of my total collective experience with this amp. With the reliability problems, cost of fixing, lack of "great" volume mixed in with the great sound, terrific options, and relatively low cost in comparison with other $1000+ amps, I must say, if I could go back in time knowing what I know now, I would probably go a different route. I'd probably get a Mesa Boogie or a vintage Fender. Although the Vox is my main amp now, I'm looking into purchasing another amp for main use while pushing back the Vox to become the understudy.

BOTTOM LINE:
Great sounds but unsure about reliability

Submitted by Andrew Okamoto at 01/22/2004 02:10

Price Paid: US $400.00

Features: 10
Not sure when the amp was made. It is extremely versatile as you would/should expect from a modeling amp. This is IMO by far the best modeling amp on the market, at the very least it stomps all over the Line 6's I tried... I went to Guitar Center with the plan to get a line 6, I saw this amp on sale and tried it on a whim...I didn't step away from it for 2 hours. I then went and played the Flextone 3 and there is no comparison. The Line 6 is very thin and twangy sounding on all settings...it lacks charecter...sounded like a toy to me...then again look at it's main customer base...15 year old boys who wont be playing in 5 years...just look at the advertisements and you can see who their aiming for. The Vox is very tubey sounding, more so than a lot of current tube amps...very warm and thick and silky - like buttuh - like a big stick of buttuh.

Sound Quality: 10
Unless you intend to spend your time just paying covers (which is fine if that's your thing), who cares if it sounds exactly like this one or that one? That having been said, here's the review. I play all different styles of rock, not too much new stuff as I personally find most of it kind of boring to play (you know there is a problem with the rock music scene when a group like Staind is a top band...they're pretty good, but not THAT good). I also play a lot of blues as far as leads, not the generic 70's les paul/marshall blues-rock, but stevie ray, gary moore, eric johnson, Satriani's blusier based stuff...modern electric blues. The numerous settings are listed in other reviews or on the vox web site. This amp is new so I am still learning the workings as there is a lot to know....but so far I've found that it can get an amazingly accurate "Brown" sound (played panama, and for the first time in 15 years it sounded the way it should..;) ), as well as anything else u can imagine, with the exception of some of the new metal sounds because a lot of the new metal is very processed...detuned guitars, solid state amps and heavy distortion. If this is your style then this amp is not for you, don't read on any further. You can however get that earlier Metallica sound - pre "and justice for all". [To the Nu-metal heads who are bashing this amp: you are simply using the wrong amp. The music you guys are playing is what people learn to play when they first pick up the guitar. Same chord shapes in every song and easy to learn. Then hopefully they progress on to bigger and better things. So for the most part, you are a beginner, regardless of how long u have been playing. Your opinion means nothing. Don't misunderstand me - there are a lot of extremely talented musicians in that scene, I just doubt you are one of them, if u were u would be happy with yourself, and happy people don't act like that. It's like a guy working at a local tire shop for 8.00/hr. talking about how the Goodyear Corporation is run all wrong. I hate to use this forum to comment about this, but I am sick of trying to get valid feed-back on an item and coming across "reviews" from these cynical untalented ass-clowns who bash everything but know nothing. I don't go on to ESP review pages and bash the guitars because I don't use them, I have no need to. Doesn't mean they suck, just not for me. Get laid and lighten up.]

(sigh)The multiple distortons are excellent for anything else...your tones through this amp are automatically more "sophisticated sounding"....the tonal quality is just better...warmer think "Eric Johnson" warmth with all the distortion you can ever need...you have to play this amp to understand. The flanger is based on the flange that eddie uses...the MXR. The tape echo is unbelievable...reminds me of Satriani on "Flying in a Blue Dream." All of the effects, in fact, are of the highest quality and eliminate the need for external pedals - excluding the optional foot controller, which is essential for gigging. Some sounds that are easy to get are Kravitz, stevie Ray, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Eddie, old Aerosmith/Zepplin...that was just in 2 hours. I agree with others when They say that they dare anyone to do a side by side comparison with the amps that the Vox emulates. Yes it will not be exact, but either are any 2 amps/guitars -any instrument in fact. I honestly don't care whether the amp models are an exact replica of those they emulate, the bottom line is I have 16 settings of amazing amp sounds - each one unique from the other. Then there's numerous effects that are very adjustable. The possiblilities are endless. BTW....It is open back, if you prefer a closed back that can be an easy modification that is easily removed. If it were closed and you prefer an open back, that takes a bit more work. Better that it's open IMO. I normally prefer a losed back but so far

Reliability: 9
This is where I am "iffy." The amp feels very sturdy. However there is a lot of electronics involved, and in my personal opinion, the more there is to something, the more there is to break - especially with computer related hardware. So I think you CAN gig with this amp, just be VERY careful with it, jarring it around could very well mess something up. I guess time will tell. I am giving it a 9 based on my personal fear, but don't get me wrong the amp feels like a tank.

Customer Support: N/A
Based on the numerous reviews I am seeing it appears the verdict is that the customer service abslolutely sux. Hopefully I never have to deal with them.

Overall Rating: 10
Is the amp perfect? Nope. Is any? Nope. Is this the best buy I have ever come across? Absolutely. Try one. If you like it, buy one. If some dick is trying to drown you out playing an Epiphone Zakk model through a Marshall valvestate, just play anything pre-1993---It'll shut him up real quick, for some reason it always does. Just move quick, they're clearing out the VT120 and moving in the VTX...Which is 600.00 more...Thanks for your time.

Submitted by Throckmorton P. Thompson III at 01/07/2004 09:50

Price Paid: US $499.00

Features: 3
This review is about the Vox Valvetronix 120 watt 2x12 modeling amplifier. This is an open back combo with celestion speakers made specifically for Vox. The valvetronix line of amplifier is Vox's attempt to regain market shares being dominated by Line 6.To cut to the facts I have owned this amplifier for about 3 weeks. I own a POD pro , and ART Dst 830 (w/celestions).I have a medium size project studio in my home and have played guitar for about 20 years.For several hours per day I have compared features of the Vox with my other equipment. In almost every category the Valvetronix has come up short.Whether you are a studio musician,home enthusiast or gigging please check out a few facts on this amplifiers features.1 While this is a modeling amp you cannot mix and match pre-amps and cabinets. 2.NO MIDI this means no backing up pre sets, have to use dedicated control pedal, WORST of all no computer editing ( I know many people are saying so what dude just play. I say digital amp with poor engineering)3. Vox has advertised matching 2x12 extension cab for the 120. They don't tell you in any publication including the manual that the internal speakers shut down when extension speaker jacks are used. I am guessing this is because the power amp only supports 8 ohm per side load. You could re-wire the speakers and what not, o'boy. 4. When using direct out for recording the external speakers do not shut down without inserting headphones or accessing external speaker jacks.(weak)5. The effects loop seems to be post every thing. What the hell? 6. Open back sucks all modeling should be done with a closed back cab. ( I think the new VTX has closed back) I will say top panel is well layed out and easy to use. However the Vox features cannot touch or even slightly compete with Line 6 POD series or the Behringer V-Amp Series including V-ampire amp.Even my ART DST 830 completely smokes Vox on head to head features. Based on price and expectations I'm giving features a 3. Check this amps features out for your self before you purchase.

Sound Quality: 4
I currently play a 1978 Les Paul Standard with double wound pick ups(very hot) and a 1974 Gold Top Les Paul Custom with DeMarzios. The main stay of my playing has been metal; you name it I have played it. I am very well versed in modal theory and play, and have also dabbled in jazz and blues. I want to say I am going to review the sounds on their own,not whether the modeling matches the the amp being modeled, as I have not personally played many of the models not to mention all amps and conditions (guitar,Strings,Rooms) are not the same as to have an accuret point of reference. Let me say first if your an experienced player of the heavy styles dont even bother with this amp. Almost any power amp and good pre-amp combined with a decent 4x12 cab will sound far better. The distortions are thin and definetely not in your face.The rectifier setting is almost a joke with the others close behind. You will also constently battle pre -amp noise as the noise gate/suppressor is pitiful.You will also find yourself constently adding presence only to be adding more noise.Some of the Vox models themselves seem to have more life than the hi gain models and sound pretty decent. If your playing with humbuckers the acoustic simulator stinks. Some will say no -hit!! But the boss pedal and the digitech R-series processors both do a lot better job. I have read that many people like the Vox stomp box section. I did not care for any of them as they lack any distinct character.Stomp boxes are cheap find a couple you like and use them. I basically use no modulation effects ever (for guitar) so would have to call them OK.The delay sounds fair but lacks any way to set it up other than the Tap function.The reverb basically sucks I qualify this because you cannot edit the tone ,shape,pre delay ,density, or any thing. Also the direct out is very weak, at least for any thing heavy.The following modeling processors completely smoke it. V-Amp,POD,Digitech,SansAmp, Zoom and ART. I kid you not I have worked with all of these models and found each of them betterI have read a lot of people ripping Line 6 since the Valvetronix have been released. I dont under stand this. Feature for feature,sound for sound the POD PRO is 10 times better. I would like to say in my comparisons I took the time to run these sounds thru several mixes (drums,bass,Keys)When miking this amp my ART DST 830 Killed it ,clean or distorted. All I can really say is use your ears and avoid the hype. If you need big sound get a big amp.If you don't have alot of cash and want to get into some amp modeling check out the Behringer V-ampire.

Reliability: 5
Relatively cheap built

Customer Support: 2
I own a small business and like some human factor yet I could not get a human on the phone to answer any questions which was my first mistake. .

Overall Rating: N/A
This amp is going back. Woudn't recomend for hard rock at all.Very,Very over rated!!!

Submitted by J.G.Middleton at 01/02/2004 01:30

Price Paid: US $650

Features: 8
This amp is slammed with useful stuff. The greatest feature is the soud quality of the unit as an entity. Everyone should definately read the manual because I found stuff I didn't even know it had aka The noise gate. I just bought a noise gate for my fender (for the hum) and I dont even need it now. In my opinion the use of more than one effect at a time is useless when there are so many modeling choices on this amp. They work the distortion well enough to satisfy my tastes. I was easily able to get the sounds I craved. The only thing that would have made it perfect would be the inclusion of the foot pedal with the amp, instead os a seperat device. I had to go to another store to get a controller. my only gripe.

Sound Quality: 10
I use a strat with hotrails in the bridge(the hum factor), a tele, and a Les Paul. It effortlessly complements each of these guitars and accents their features and makes them sound as they should sound. Thats what it is all about.

Reliability: N/A
I haven't had it too long yet so, whatever.

Customer Support: N/A
havent needed it

Overall Rating: 10
I am only 18 so I haven't been able to play too long and I am primarilly a bass player, but I still know what I want my guitar sound to be. and I can achive that sound with this amp. My bass is a Warwick and I bought it for the same reason I bout this Guitar amp the sound. The features and effects just sweeten the deal.

Submitted by Jeff at 12/28/2003 22:23

Price Paid: N/A

Features: 9
got all kinds of doodads - onboard effects, built in attenuator for the output. nice delay/chorus/reverb section. effects loop is to be expected. too bad it's solid state.

Sound Quality: 5
flat, squashed even. i originally thought it was an amp with all kinds of sounds built in, but after trying it again i realized it was actually an effects box with an output stage and speaker. it had a great variety of sounds - none of them exceptional, many of them would prove unusable. not as bad as the line 6, but, is that really saying much?

Reliability: N/A

Customer Support: N/A

Overall Rating: 6
i've been playing for over 30 years. i was looking for an amp to replace my rack system, which i really don't feel like carting around. i've decided to go with a fender hot rod deluxe instead of this one, or the other amps i tried. what i really wish it had was a real tube pre and power section. by the way, the fender cyber online demo blows the vox demo webpage away. that would be a good place to satrt with comparisions, although the cyber is also rather undynamic sounding. i've got a mesa studio preamp which will give me all the distortion i'll ever need, but the more elusive element of a good sound, and the more fundamentally important, is a nice sharp kicking low end and a glassy transparency that allows the true nature of a guitar to shine.

my advice to anyone who wants to buy this one - do yourself a favor and listen to some real amps first. trying an amp in a music store will always sound better than it will onstage. so be really, really critical.

Submitted by gunslinger at 11/30/2003 18:57

Price Paid: US $1.000

Features: 10
I have the 120 Watt head and the 212 cab

Sound Quality: 10
no noise, very quiet, I use the ac-15 setting with a little verb . I like the MIDS of this setting. let me set the record straight, I have old super reverbs{1964} a tweed Bassman 1959 I am using a 54 tele, a relic strat, and a Prs artist 24. I play for a living and have for the last 30 years I spent years on the road with blues singer Delbert McClinton and also guitarist for Bobby Whitlock {Derick & the Dominoes} I have a good idea what a amp should sound like. this is a great amp I use it in clubs and outdoors at blues festivals so far so good as long as its working Im gonna love it.
Ive had it now for 8 months and if it went down I would get another

Reliability: 10
so far so good

Customer Support: N/A
havent had to use them

Overall Rating: 10
great amp for me ...the old amps are in the closet for now
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Submitted by Dave Millsap at 11/30/2003 17:06

Price Paid: US $699

Features: 9
Well, it's been covered in great detail already. This isn't a stand alone solution to replace a rack of effects. I see it as an amazing sounding amp with a few basics thrown in as a bonus. I generally use a simple effects chain, so it satisfies all my needs, with one exception. That is not being able to use wah with other "pedals". That gets it a nine from me.

The new floorboard is amazing. All the old reviews trashing the old "playschool" board may no longer apply, unless you are unwilling to shell out the extra $100 for the upgrade. The tuner feature on the board is better than that on the amp. More lights and more stable.

Some earlier reviews mentioned that there are preamp tubes in the unit, but I found out that this is a mistake. There are in fact two 12AX7's (Sovtek), but that is one for each stereo output channel. I took the unit apart to check out the layout, etc. The power amp board essentially consists of two nearly identical halves, each with a tube in the final output stage.

My main reason for poking around the guts was to check out how the speaker outputs were wired. I wanted to use my Marshall 4x12 on occasion with the amp, but without the internal speakers. Basically the speaker outputs are inserted in series, before the internal speakers (switching jacks, normally closed). Plugging into the external speaker outs essentially inserts the external speaker in series before the internal ones. This is why there is an 8 ohm max listed for the externals (8 ohm + 8 ohm in series = 16 ohms, which is the max impedience that most power amps are designed to push). Inserting a 16 ohm Marshall would put too much of a load on the amp.

Plugging into the speaker jacks does not bypas the internals. There is a simple workaround to this however. Since this is a series wiring, shorting the + and - leads to each internal speaker essentially takes it out of the circuit. This is easilly done by connecting each of the speaker leads to the same terminal on the speaker (i.e., plug black and white onto each of the two tabs the same terminal). If you do this, the caution here is to not run the amp without an external speaker (just like a regular tube head). There is actually a jumper inside that can be clipped and shunted to ground that will do the same thing, only through the switching jack. I am going to do this as soon as Vox tells me it won't void my warranty. That will give me the best of both worlds.

Finally, mine isn't made out of particleboard. I can clearly see the grain in the plywood on several of the panels. It is possible that some of the smaller panels are particleboard, but I can't say for sure. Anyway, my 70's Marshall 4x12 is a mixture of particleboard, pine braces, and plywood.

Maybe Vox has been listening to customer demands on the later production models. The certainly did with the floorboard.

Sound Quality: 10
When I first got the amp, I was extremely impressed with the Vox and Fender sounds. I thought that the Marshall and other high gain sounds were missing a bit though. This was immediately corrected when I plugged the amp into my 4x12 (rewired for 8 ohm stereo, 30 watt G12M Rolla Cellestions). I own two early 70's Marshalls, and these models can very much hang in there with them. Do they sound exactly like a Marshall? I think that's a strange question to ask, because my Marshalls will sound different over time for various reasons. I can't imagine someone being able to sit the Vox next to a Marshall, turn the knobs the same way and claim to get the same sound. Hell, my buddies and I laugh about how our lead 50's have had good years and bad years, pre-recapping, post recapping, etc. I look forward to having a consistent tone with the Vox, changing out the 12AX7's aside.

I also need to point out that the Vox and Fender models didn't sound as good through the 4x12. No big surprise I guess. There were still decent, but no longer authentic sounding, sort of like the high gain amps with the 2x12 open back. The amps work best in thier own element, which to me really speaks highly of the modeling.

I haven't experienced any of the noise problems discussed previously. In fact, mine is a very quiet amp, relatively speaking. My Soktek tubes are slightly microphonic though and I plan on swapping them out.

Reliability: N/A
I haven't owned it long enough to say. But looking throught the other reviews and the vox message board, it does seem that most of the reliability issues are related to the switches or switching jacks on the back panel. If that is true, then although it would be a real problem, it would also be an easy one to fix.

Customer Support: N/A
NA.

Overall Rating: 10
I can't imagine a better bang for the buck. I am completely satisfied. If I don't experience any of the noise or cutting-out problems that others have seen (and if they aren't simple fixes) than I can say that I found the perfect amp for me.

Submitted by Chris W. at 11/26/2003 20:17