Vox Pathfinder 10 Combo

Price Paid: EUROS (110)

Features: 7
Comprado en Noviembre de 2003. Es un ampli de practicas con control de ganancia, agudos, graves, volumen general y distorsión. Las funciones básicas pero con un funcionamiento sobresaliente. 10W con altavoz de 6.5 pulgadas. Y el diseño clasico de VOX.

Sound Quality: 10
ES UN AMPLI DE PRACTICAS, eso lo primero. Toco con una Epiphone LP Custom Plus y Epiphone SG Std. Los sonidos LIMPIOS Excelentes, desde calidos a agudos con gran gama de armonicos en las frecuencias medias...el genuino sonido limpio VOX. La DISTORSIÓN creo que es una cuestión de gustos, tiene un sonido muy queen de los '70. Toco generalmente Rock Clasico, y algo de Metal, y para mi gusto se adapta perfectamente el ampli, aunque ya digo que puede que no os guste la distorsión...DIGAMOS QUE ES ALGO CARACTERISTICA.
El VOLUMEN...bueno, es sorprendente, GRAN POTENCIA... no se de donde la saca con ese 6.5", pero es increible. Para ensayos a bajo volumen (si el bateria se controla) funciona perfectamente.

Reliability: N/A
El ampli es nuevo, por tanto no he tenido problemas con el. Es ampli SOLIDO, aunque el TOLEX ES UN POCO FINO. Tened cuidado con no golpear las esquinas del ampli.

Customer Support: N/A
La tienda donde lo compré me da 2 años de garantia. No tengo referencias del servicio tecnico.

Overall Rating: 10
Llevo 4 años tocando y compré este ampli para poder llevarmelo a cualquier sitio a practicar. Estoy muy contento con el. Si lo perdiera...mmm ¡COMPRARIA OTRO! Creo que es una compra excelente, pero por supuesto LEE LOS COMENTARIOS DEL RESTO DE GENTE Y PRUEBALO! EN ESTO DE LOS AMPLIS HAY GUSTOS PARA TODO

Submitted by Vicent at 11/26/2003 17:22

Price Paid: EU (57) used

Features: 9
Features as described already. Outstanding cool looking little Amp.
A joy to look at. If you want to habe a goodtime with your electric guitar, there is everything you need in this little VOX.

Sound Quality: 9
I use a Texmex Fender Strat & a couple of good strat copies,
this little pathfinder sounds awesome, if you use a clean sound.
The more you turn the gain to 2 o clock, and the volume to three
o clock you can have a wonderful crunchy sound. Distorted sound
is average. All in all: Very very voxy. In arlier yaers I played
in a school band, there we used an old Vox AC 30, the small path-
finder reminds me a lot of this. Wonderful practise amp.

Reliability: 9
Reliable.

Customer Support: N/A
Didn-t need any.

Overall Rating: 10
Fantastic value for the money. I would buy it again, if it got lost.
I really love the sound of this little amp. Its also cool looking.
I have it side by side with my orange crush 10, which is my second
little "beauty". Somebody wrote about the orange crush, it would be
just another pathfinder in the housing of an orange, this is definitly
not true. Those little ams are totally different. Try, if you have the
possibility. Both are outstanding, doing a finde work. The little 6
inch speaker of the vox is one of the best speakers in this size, I ever heard. Thank you, VOX/Korg. Fine done.

Submitted by wiedenmann at 09/08/2003 01:43

Price Paid: N/A used

Features: N/A
I bought this amp either in late 2001 or early 2002. It was my first practice amp and was very useful (and quiet) for the little bit of playing I was doing at the time. Features have already been covered by other reviewers. I didn't need much, but when I found out about the tremolo on the Pathfinder 15, I couldn't resist trading it in.

Sound Quality: N/A
I was just using a mexican strat at the time. Sounded good, but I didn't use it long before getting the Pathfinder 15.

Reliability: 10
Never had any problems with it.

Customer Support: N/A
Never had to deal with 'em.

Overall Rating: 10
I eventually traded the 10 for the 15 because I wanted the the tremolo. I later bought a '77 Princeton, so then the 15 had to go. As a practice amp, it's basic and suitable. I never tried recording with it, but I'm sure it's fine for that.

Submitted by jnr at 08/13/2003 07:56

Price Paid: US $79.95

Features: 9
Just purchased on 8/5/03. I play mostly alt rock, blues, and some country.
I too, would appreciate a control for the mids but outside of that for $79.99 this amp kicks some serious booty!

Sound Quality: 10
I am playing a fender standard strat and a yamaha through this amp. Cleans are CLEAN, crank the gain about halfway and fiddle a little with the treble and bass...you will be amazed by how warm and pleasant this little 10watter sounds.

Reliability: 9
I plan to record @ home with it. I'm sure it will more than suit my purposes. I haven't had it for long enough for it to break yet but we'll see. It seems very sturdy upon first inspection.

Customer Support: 9
There is a warranty but my manual does not say how long it is.

Overall Rating: 10
I have been playing for about a year. My instructor uses VOX and I have not heard anything bad about this line of amps. I love the looks and sound of this little monster. If it were stolen Sam Ash would have $80 more of my money the next day. C'mon for $79.99 you show me a better practice amp.

Submitted by KC at 08/06/2003 12:26

Price Paid: US $79

Features: 8
Purchased from yer buddies at zzounds in June '03, so I assume it's fresh. Not a lot of knobs to fool with, but this unit proves less is more. Plenty loud for its size. Unless you're a munchkin, you'll need to turn it on end to sit down on it. Hmmm. Nice bass. Feels good! But I digress. Headphone jack doubles as line out, altho it's pretty hot for that purpose. Gain switch really jacks the volume, so you have to start all over with the other settings. Too bad the gain knob can't reside next to the volume knob because you'll seldom want to tweek one without adjusting the other. (My dream amp would have a pair of gears to decrease volume as I crank the gain.)

Sound Quality: 9
Using an American Strat and an Epiphone (Korean) Tele upgraded with U.S. Tele pickups. Like other, larger Voxes I have owned (Cambridge 15 and 30, T25 bass), this baby has incredible variety of tones available, responding distinctly to every change in the pickup switch or tone knobs. Definitely has the Brit sound, which I've come to define as strong bass, not much midrange and glassy treble -- pretty much the opposite of my Fender tube amps (Blues Jr.; '82 Champ reissue). Generally, very quiet on all settings, with little hum. With gain switch off, you can turn it up all the way in a small practice room and it sounds great. To keep the same volume with gain switch on, you need to roll back the gain and volume knobs to about a third or less. Low gain has a convincing Vox tube sound (as good or better as the larger Cambridge, which has (had?) a tube pre-amp. Hi gain is metal enuff for me. And if I need real volume, a patch from the Pathfinder line out to the input on my Vox T25 bass amp doubles my pleasure while maintaining the same tones. Sweet. Portable. Affordable.

Reliability: N/A
Still an infant, but feels solid. As with most electronics, I assume that if it doesn't break down in 30 days, it could easily last 30 years.

Customer Support: N/A
Is there a warranty? For 79 bucks, I just figured I'd junk it for parts if anything went wrong, and use the handsome case for a radio.

Overall Rating: 10
After lugging a Super Reverb around for 30 years, I finally learned that there are lot of nice little practice amps with excellent sound at modest volumes. Between my small tube Fenders, a 30-watt Fender Champion with digital effects, a Crate VC-508 and now the baby Vox, I've got it covered. And yes, Dear Wife, sometimes I do play them all in one sitting!

Submitted by FenderCrate at 06/06/2003 15:00

Price Paid: N/A

Features: 5
Well it's only a practice amp, but you get a good layout for controls, pre & post gain and bass & treble eq, would have liked a Middle control tho

Sound Quality: 8
From such a little amp i was really surprised!
All my amps are tube and i wanted a small solid state job for practice when i couldn't turn the other amps up to their potential. That being said i had a rough idea of what to expect.
The clean channel is good, can dial up a fair range of sounds but really would have liked a mid control as mucking around with a boss GE-7 in front of this amp gave me some quite good tones compared to what the standard eq could dish out.
Dirty channel isn't the best but can be used with a booster pedal or just a dist pedal on the clean channel

Also, as a previous reviewer stated about adding a mono switching jack to be able to connect to an ext speaker ... i mounted one in & was able to drive a marshall 4x12 with ease (on the 8ohm setting of course) now i can use amp as a little 10 watter head! It's very easy to do!!!

Reliability: N/A
I've had it for 3 months so far so good, it's made of particle board so don't go throwing it!

Customer Support: N/A
havent had to contact them yet

Overall Rating: 10
for the price, its a great little amp!

Submitted by Anonymous at 05/13/2003 20:46

Price Paid: 100 (EURO)

Features: 10
I guess that's well-known by now

Sound Quality: 10
Yeah, that's what it's all about and believe me: it's absolutely amazing. If someone had blindfolded me and put me to some kind of a test, I would never have guessed that the sound came from this little bastard! It produces body and bass that seems to be impossible from a speaker that's so small! When you use it in clean mode and turn up the gain more than halfway, it almost sounds like a tube-amp. And it's not only the quality of the sound, but also the quantity. Man, this thing is said to be 10 watts only, but it's 10 watts like they used to talk about 10 watts in the fifties. It's LOUD!!!! Also it's very versatile. You can produce anything from superclean to really disgusting overdrive. I use it on a Telecaster and on the new Ibanez AF75BS and both sound great on it. The sound just never gets thin. I've compared this amp with several other small amps and there is a big distance in quality between this one and others, no matter what's the price. Finish is very good too.

Reliability: 10
Looks very good to me, I won't try it, but I think I can throw it off the stairs without damaging anything . . . but the stairs!

Customer Support: N/A
Nothing special

Overall Rating: 10
I've been playing guitar for almost 30 years now, for fun and professional. The only thing I can think of that I miss (well, a bit) is a footswitch, or at least the possibillity to connect one. But that's an unfair complaint for this price.
Every guitar-player in the world and certainly every guitar-playing Beatle-freak: go out and buy it. The quality is really unbeatable for this price and besides that, it looks great. I found myself constanly looking at it, when I played all those beautiful Beatle-songs. Just dreaming away and pretending to be a bit of a Beatle myself!

Submitted by Remco at 05/11/2003 05:23

Price Paid: US $79

Features: 8
new 2003 pathfinder 10 bass and treble controls manual overdrive switch
direct/headphone out.This is being marketed as a practice amp when its real effective use is as a low volume recording amp.Ive been playing guitar for 25 years and im a real stickler about sound,also having worked many years as a audio engineer.I spent hours at a big music store trying out every amp in the store inclding fender, marshall,on and on..
and this little sucker sounds pristine at low to mid volumes..I played it through a dan electro single pickup and poeple couldnt belive that sound was coming from this amp...if you live in a small apt or have space constraints and you need a small amp to sound good for your recordings..this cant be beat! rich,clean tone! not so impressive in the overdrive dept but I bought it for the "vox" clean sound and it sounds like a class a tube amp on low volumes (well close anyway :)
for 79 bucks its a steal fact.. i went in ready to spend 250 and I ended likng the sound out of this little sucker..its a diamond in the rough..despite korean made..their tech guys had a good day when they made the tones for this guy...good job voxmen

Sound Quality: 10
as I mentioned above amazing rich clean full bodied tone at low to mid volumes an exc tool for recording! sounds as good as any amp I've heard
at low to mid volumes...if your a rocker looking for big overdrive commense would say..buddy you gotta go more than 10-15 watts
but want that nashville clean ,tom petty ,bob dylan,wallflowers sound this little sucker will capture it on tape in a studio envirnoment! way to weak for real on stage use when a drummer is pounding away..but exc for mid volume rehearslas when the drumer isnt particularly taking his frustrtions out on the drums :)

Reliability: 8
brand new ..looks pretty well built! i woulndt worry..but hey 79 bucks..if it busted id buy another one..heres a thought 4 of these running quadraphonic stereo :) better than an ac-30 :)

Customer Support: N/A
un tested!

Overall Rating: 10
superb low to mid volume sound quality...raise the bass and use non agressive strumming and its shines like the sun

Submitted by flavman at 03/11/2003 10:10

Price Paid: US $79

Features: 6
This is a very simple Korean-built 10-watt solid state amp with Volume, Treble, Bass, Gain and Volume knobs, and a pushbutton for additional gain. It also has one guitar input and a 1/4" jack for headphones or line recording. The 6 1/2" speaker is Vox-branded. I kinda wish it was battery operated for even more portability. It is a great bedroom amp. Vox hasn't cut any corners with the cosmetics. It looks like a baby AC30, with the vintage brown diamond grille cloth, basketweave tolex, chicken head knobs, gold fascia strip, and white piping, just like its big brother.

Sound Quality: 7
For such a little amp, it sounds surprisingly rich! I figured it would be on the tinny side, but it actually sounds excellent for what it is. The Pathfinder 10 does a good job of approximating the classic Vox chime in a very small package. The Gain setting sounds like crap - too harsh and garbled - but the Clean setting is great. It can get pretty loud - not quite powerful enough to go against a drummer, but nice for living room sessions. I keep the Distortion switched off and the Gain knob almost dimed, and control the volume with the Volume knob. As long as you keep it from clipping, it sounds really nice.

Reliability: N/A
I've only had it a few weeks, but it seems to be well-made.

Customer Support: N/A
I have never heard anything bad about Vox/Korg's customer service. Vox Vice President Mitch Colby makes himself available on BBS boards like www.voxtalks.com.

Overall Rating: 8
I have owned in the past several other Vox amps, including a '65 AC50 head. The Pathfinder 10 does a pretty good approximation of the famous Vox sound. I bought it because 1.) I needed something I could use with headphones late at night, and 2.) it looks so COOL! I was also impressed by the sound of the Pathfinder 15 I played in store, and hoped this one would be similarly good. (It is!) My guitars are a 1962 Gretsch Tennessean, 1984 Rickenbacker 330, 1966 Rickenbacker 330/12, and a new fender Japan '62 reissue Tele.

Submitted by Anonymous at 03/10/2003 12:47

Price Paid: US $69.99

Features: 8
This review is for the Vox Pathfinder 10...you know what it has is you read the previous entries...all sound pumped through a 6" speaker. Too bad the cabinet couldn't hold an 8" speaker. Portable, and easy to carry.

Sound Quality: 8
Clean sounds are good with a Mexi strat and Dano U2, you can really get some full sound for practice and low-level jamming with both tones set in the middle. The distortion/gain is alright, but don't dime the gain and the volume...too muddy.
Clean - 9
Gain (low) - 7

BUT...IT CAN RUN A MARSHALL 4x10 CAB! I wired an extension cab jack in the chassis(disconnects the internal 6" speaker)to get some more full sound, and I was AMAZED how much fuller the sound was..clean tones rang, and the gain channel actually sounded crunchier. At full volume through the Marshall cab, it's waaaay lound enough to play along with a light drummer, and a bass player. IF YOU CAN USE A SOLDERING IRON?, DO THIS MOD! Just get a mono switching jack...this cracks up people when they see this "mini stack."

Reliability: 10
It has fallen off shelves, other amps, and been dropped. It has been banged in and out of doorways, and still works fine.

Customer Support: N/A
Haven't dealt with them yet...

Overall Rating: 9
For the price, it's a fun amp. With the extension jack mod, it serves as a backup when the tubes run out...alot better amp for the money than what Crate, Marshall, etc. has to offer.

Submitted by Chris at 10/31/2002 08:23