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00:00 Intro
02:56 Buying the amp
03:24 Trying it out
08:16 Conclusion
Here’s the obligatory “if you think that’s heavy, try an AC30!!” Comment. Congrats on the new amp man, the AC15 is one of the best amps ever.
or a Super Reverb, haha! Always wanted an AC15. Thanks for the demo.
I have an AC15 that I’ve been using at church for the past year. Stepped down from a Marshall JVM full stack. Easier to move and sounds so nice.
how did you get down from 100w to 15w?
@@jakubmachnik1259 I was no longer playing in a band and I needed to have something smaller for church. I still have the Marshall. But the Vox takes pedals so much better for ambient sounds for church.
No one really needs those big stacks anymore unless you really like moving air or you play out in the sticks
@@jakubmachnik1259 15w in a tube amp is plenty loud.
Even God said that stack is too loud! Lol
Your playing, content, and production is top notch, appreciate you!
I'm loving these videos, I feel I'm watching a true guitar fan. Keep it up my dude.
Fellow Strat guy here. Just picked up an AC15 myself a couple months ago, and it is amazing. I second that comment about including a compressor in your signal chain. Super helpful getting those cleaner tones to push through a mix, especially in the church world!
rory gallagher convinced brian may and others strat into a vox needs a treble boost. They used rangemasters but those are rare and pricey.
As someone who's played strats for the longest time, a massive tip I would give when it comes to fattening up your sound to fight the thin-ness, get a compressor.
Honestly, especially on a strat, once you start using one you'll probably keep one on at all times, it just helps a lot. Especially when doing FX stuff like U2-style delays, or layering leads
I use a different amp for cleans and distortion. The clean amp always has a compressor on in front. Distortion always has an overdrive.
I always use a compressor with my clean sound with the strat. I like the option to blend clean and compressed signal. It just does "something" that is right.
@@Ottophil Yeah you tend not to need a compressor when already running distortion. Can still help though, especially on something like a LP it can tighten up the sound (maybe that's because of the attack option on my compressor)
@@bymbie That is actually rather cool, haven't seen that before yet. But yeah, especially for cleans it just makes everything better and smoother
I agree with the compressor unless you’re running at very loud amp volume. With a Vox almost dimed out, it has a lot of natural compression, also a DR Z. At the volume most of us play, compressor helps. I use a Keeley. Dude makes great pedals. Love your videos man. Keep up the good work!
Even the Vox Pathfinder 10 is a beast, despite its size. It's amazing what Vox amps can do
For the price it's great, but it's not really something you can stick with for a long time, or at least is wasn't for me, but I bought an AC10 so I guess that tells you that they're making quality products to have someone return for more
i had a pathfinder and it was amazing
The pathfinder 10 is great, I also picked up the (now discontinued) pathfinder 15 and it’s so great!
@@nope929 I also had a pathfinder, then bought the AC10C1 and an older Cambridge with one 12ax7. They all had that vox sound I was chasing for as a Queen fan. The ac10 at high volume with my Brian May guitar sounded exactly like Queen. Since I moved on to Fractal I don't use any vox style amp anymore. My new favourite is the Diezel VH4. Never heard such detailed guitar sound ever. Also tried the real vh4 once and the Fractal model is spot on.
Another very similar amp to the vox is the Laney Lionheart. I had the 5w studio version. The only amp I regret selling.
@@nope929i’ve had a pathfinder ten for 8 years! not by choice i just can’t afford a new amp. even then i still love it and it sounds really nice
Love the Vox sound with a Tele for edge of breakup territory, and then putting overdrives in front. Great sounds!
Man your content is soo clean, clear, and easy to understand (especially when I'm an Argentinean whose first language is spanish) that I MUST subscribe to this channel! God bless you my man!
You have a fantastic amp. One of the best tremolos around - period. Decent reverb with it's own character. Don't overlook the value of the Normal channel. It's a killer clean and works great with pedals as well. As a Fender player, you will want to hear that amp shine doing it's clean thing in addition to the classic Vox gain. You don't want to miss it.
both channels run through the same tubes so they talk, you can use both channels at the same time, you can get the real low end doing it, screw negative feedback!!!!
The vox sounds amazing for what you're playing! Great choice and nice video!
Welcome to the vox fold. I just had mine cranked two days ago and was reminded of how glorious it sounded. As other posters have mentioned, switch that speaker to an alnico blue, and the angels will be showing up at your door.
I love my AC15C1. Got it from a friend at church. Always loved Vox amps, so getting this one was a no brainer.
Glad you were open to giving it a go, and glad you came into the loving it mindset!
Vox amps were the first Guitar oriented amp circuits designed for guitar music and that were not just modified Radio frequency circuits out of the RCA circuits manual. Even the little Vox solid state modeler Adio Air GT is pretty incredible with surround sound no less and the advanced acoustical performance engineering built into it is very impressive.
You know your favorite TH-cam channels are growing when they start going outside. I'm so excited!
I’ve been looking at these for a few days and this pops up. Sounds great!
When I was a teenager learning guitar, I worked at a chili parlor with a friend from high school and I'd have my guitar in the the trunk and we would go to his house to jam after work. His dad was a former touring pro with a lot of great gear and would help us along. One night he put me on lead with a Gibson Explorer plugged into his road worn AC30. Been chasing that tone ever since.
I’ve been a Vox fan basically ever since I started taking electric guitar more seriously. I used to own an AC15HW, which I adored, but had to sell when my band broke up and I fell on hard times a few years back. but a couple years later I was able to replace it and I can say I am now lucky enough to own my dream amp- a 2007 AC30H2L which is housed in a beautiful mahogany cabinet and features the rare EF86 Normal channel. I saw it when I was first shopping for the aforementioned AC15HW and was immediately enamored but thought “no way I’ll be able to get one tho” ha. anyway, I always get really stoked to see people giving Vox love and especially when they’re discovering that love for the first time. enjoy your new amp!
Worth mentioning the Vox AC10, besides being a fantastic amp, it works great paired with anything. If I’m playing with something Fender-y, i have a switcher that unsilences the Vox as like a boost. It’s great!
Love my VOX AC15. Takes petals very well. Once you get a chance to tinker with it. Would love to see a video of the setting you come to like. Keep up the good work!
Super cool, Mike! Congrats and enjoy!
I never had a Vox or thought much about them until I heard one at the music store. The gain was just right. A light touch was clean and a little aggression was able to be coaxed from the instrument. Jazz, blues, early rock, surf, spaghetti Western and country all sound great. Basically Vox is very convincing within the popular styles of the 50s through to the 70s. I'm a minimalist and leaning towards, a one pickup p90 guitar, and no pedals. This kind of amp would be good for that. It has a nice voice.
Thanks for sharing, Mike! Great video. That amp sounds awesome!!
The vox sound is so unique. I bought a week ago an ac30 c2 and it’s magical. I NEVER tought that i will use so much the tremolo!! I use it on my cleans putting a low speed and a medium width and a lot of reverb and it’s magical! The top boost is even better if it’s possible and with the bridge pick up of a strat and max level on top boost you have the astonishing tone of deep purple.
Richie used an ac30 as one of his three (I think)main amps, around the Machine Head time, so it's not surprising.
Got it. Love it. Thanks for the video confirming my feelings about the sound.
Happy New Year sir and very nice sounding amp and playing as well. Thanks for the info.
Beautiful tone and playing. This amp impressed me so much that I actually dont use any pedals with it anymore. I find that its just perfect. .. I have the albico blues but even with the greenbacks it sings.
I have the same amp & I dumped half my petal board.
Best amp I have ever owned
Great choice! During the pandemic I came across a deal
I couldn’t pass up on a AC30hw. I wasn’t even looking for a new amp. I am so glad I bought it the tones are just amazing and they take pedals so well I almost forget insanely heavy though lol.
I dig your demeanor and energy. Cool video!
I love my AC15. I got a lot of great advice on EQ tone dialing from Jack Fosset's video. The tremelo's the best part. Great job on the channel and enjoy the new amp.
Love my Vox. It still has that mysteriousness to me where I’m pretty sure there’s some settings and tones I’ve yet to stumble upon yet
Happy NAD for you my brother! Sounds great 🤘
im a vox and marshall man myself! i really like your playing cause you dont overplay like so many do,including myself! nice phrasing!
Great stuff. Really enjoy the channel.
Very nice amp I love the tones especially that clean with tremolo and reverb!beautiful
I have the same amp but it’s blue with white trim and it IS the SOUND! glad you like it man.
another thing about the AC15C1, the treble and bass stack is interactive, even in the normal channel. A way to get more tone shaping out of the amp is to plug into the Normal, crank the volume in the Top Boost circuit, and adjust the treble/bass and adjust accordingly with the Tone Cut. the downside is that you might need to turn up the Master Volume up a bit too, but I can't remember exactly; you also may have more background noise when running the amp, but it's not too noticeable unless you're right next to it and everything else is dead silent. the AC15 is absolutely a versatile beast, with tremendous value.
There's a reason why this has been one of the best-selling tube amps for the past 10 years. As you pointed out, it nails the vintage Vox tone without breaking the bank, enough power to gig, great analog reverb and tremolo, loaded with Celestion speakers (both Greenback and Alinco Blue are great in their own right), and two channels with a master volume. But please do yourself a favor and crank the master volume up when you have the chance! It REALLY opens up the amp and it's a totally different story. An important part of the Vox tone is to get those EL84 power amp tubes cooking and you can't get that with the master volume set low.
playing indoors you will not crank the master. At 10 watts it is still too loud to crank up in most homes. maybe we need a Tonemaster style version ..
Congrats! That amp looks like new and it sounds great.
Dang good review. Made my day big time. Haven't ever seen such a good review. Keep this up man please.
Sounds really crisp and clear!!!
Your videos are gorgeous dude. Super nice production.
love seeing how your channel is growing. It's so heart warming to see someone's hard work pay off!
New amp sounds great Mike! Enjoying your videos and sense of humor!
That's awesome!
The 30 S1 has been calling to me forever. Maybe this year.
Great video mike! Hopefully you can stay doing vid 'bout Strat cause i love to hear and i'm not have one yet but maybe one day, soon, i'll get it :)
Same amp as I bought as my first electric guitar amp. I trusted what I heard on a few youtube videos. Sounds great and it's loud!
I like the kinda stuff you play on this video it sounds good dude
Thanks for your review. The cleans sound great.
great tones and wonderful amp
Always loved tube amps! Went from Marshall 1/2 stacks, to twins and club 50s. All really heavy and tough to load in and out of most gigs. A friend turned me on to Vox with an AC4, loved it, but too small for most gigs- then I got a AC15. So far it keeps up and makes great tone. Great video and channel!
Absolutely love the 15! Brilliant tone!
Like a year ago I saw you playing a Supro and it inspired me to get one and it’s been great and I havnt seen your vids since. Last week I got a ac15c1 and it’s so great. Love your content
Sounds good Mike! I bought my first Vox last summer, a used AC30. I really like it too.
when I got my LP I plugged into the closest amp in the store - an AC-15. The two complement each other so well that I got the amp and have since used it on my other guitars. It brings out the character of those instruments in a way that I like. Great amp but, yes, very heavy!!
The AC15 has been my go to amp for the last 11 years, love it! Congrats on your new amp :)
Happy New Years!
I have one too and it’s fantastic! Nice playing too
Lovely playing mate. I use a couple of AC15s in a wet dry configuration. They really are great for gigs and home playing, as well as making great pedal platforms
Hello Mike, I love your content and your guitar playing! Thank you for your great work! You sound great with that beautiful AC15!👍👍
I'm happy to hear that you are pleased with the Vox AC15C1 :) I also have this amp and love it!!! I have many amps but if I could only have one, this would be it! Having said that, I usually pair mine with my Fender Bassbreaker 45 combo (which is equally awesome) - a great combination! Anyway, glad you like the amp :)
I'm actually thinking of getting an AC 15. Perfect timing...love your content!
When plugged into the "top boost" channel, use the volume knob on your guitar to control your guitar signal's input-to-amp level and you can control the channel's amount of overdrive. Turn down; it cleans up - turn it back up; natural overdrive swells back into the sound picture. It's a natural (and practical; less footwork) way to control tube-amp overdrive, especially a Vox of the type you own now. Give it a try!
Hard to go wrong with an ac15 or an ac30. Beautiful sounds abound. You're at the beginning of a very rewarding relationship, my friend!
My dad has one of these and it's a beast. My humbucker guitar and his P90 guitar both sound meaty through it. Convinced me to get a tube amp too, and now I have a little Blackstar 5w tube amp.
I definitely like the Vox over the Supro you used on earlier recordings. Save your back by picking up a little hand truck to move the thing around with.
I have 2 VOX valtronix amps, one 15watt and on 30watt. They both crank and used both for church playing also. Love my VOX!
They crank bigtime like a biotch all day long. Fantastic amps.
Hay man great stuff. I've seen a few of your skit type videos pretty funny. This was a really nice playthrough of this amp though. Nice playing and super high quality sound I thought. I just got an AC15 recently it is a very cool amp and does all the things you mentioned perfectly. The best thing about it has to be that Tremolo circuit man it is just sweet. Whether it's just subtle movement your looking for or full on Chop. It just sounds awesome. Keep up the good work and great playing. Subscribed🤘
That The Black Keys nod at the end killed it 👌🏼👌🏼
I have one but it's about 18 years old and I put it through the ringers for years!!!! 4 hour jams at 10 lol after18 years it sounds better then ever
Love these vox amps they're the best.
I found this video in my recommendations... just watched you review of this VOX amp. Very pleased by what I heard. I own a VOX V9320. Like yours, she's heavy. Sounds real sweet though. I subbed you.
It’s incredible ! I bought it for Christmas !
Great video, very good sound and it really captures the AC15. I bought mine as I was in a 60s band and the bass player had a vintage Vox. I am no longer in that band but I loved how much character it has so use it in my rock back. I have a Strat with vintage style low output pickups and it is so fat with the Vox that I am using it instead of the other guitars in that line-up.
That top boost channel is the ac 15's bread and butter!!! You can make that gitfiddle sing bubba!! Great video!!!
Great video Mike! A great way to thicken up your tone for one is if you have a tone knob on that humbucker then def roll it down to 7-8 or take some treble out of your amp. But thank you for the video and keep it up!!!
Vox AC15C1 is quite versatile amp. I have recorded about 40 alternative rock songs with it. You will love it I’m sure :) happy new year🎉
After years of going ampless with Strymon, Helix etc, I have come back to using amps and just the common AC15 and BluesJr in stereo. Sold the rest but still have an ACS1 as backup to do the Fender+Vox sound but I’m in love with tube amps again.
Great amp ! It looks amazing too ✨
This is a piece of rock history indeed and thank ou so much for this video because it is not getting more authentic than this!!!
Luv it brutha! Ima got me a ac15 and it’s the shiz!! I put in a Celestion blue and… my neighbours aren’t happy!!
If you don’t already have a princeton, I’ll be watching for it on a future video!!🇨🇦
I have this amp, the C1x version with the Alnico Blue speaker. Love it. Only thing I’m not a fan of is the reverb (prefer the Fender reverb) but I rarely use reverb anyway, nbd. The Tone Cut knob is your friend for smoothing out the top end. I also have had fun playing mix-&-match with different dirt pedals - that amp will do a LOT.😎🎸
Agreed.
The amp would be 100% perfect with better reverb.
Oof the crunch from that top boost is *chef kiss*
A master volume is a great feature. It really sounded very nice.
Welcome to the world of Vox Mike. You wont be sorry you went here. I love Fender amps also, but the Vox experience is a whole other level. Now let me blow your mind for a second. The amp you have, the AC15C1 has a Greenback speaker in it. Very much a 70s to modern day Vox sound. Great with high gain and great for an edgy Vox sound.
The same amp comes in the AC15C1X. The difference? The Speaker. The Alnico Blue. When people talk about the vintage Vox sound from the 60s...this is it. Its brighter and has more chime. I played these two amps side by side and lets just say, I have some really nice AC15s. Deciding would have made me crazy. So when I want that rockin gritty Vox sound, the C1, When I want to bring out my Beatles or Byrds or 60s Vox tones, the C1X.
You now need to discover the world of ABY. You plug into an ABY switcher with the Vox on one side and a Fender style amp on the other. You'll never look back. The tones you can get from a two amp set up are amazing....and the ABY switcher also lets you flip between the two amps! So you're not limited to two amps, you can always just turn one "off"
Bought a Vox AC15C1 new in Summer of 2013 when I was 16. Now almost 10 years later it's still my only amp. It survived years of gigging/recording. I changed the tubes and modded the speaker to a Weber Blue Dog Ceramic (then my band mates complained I wasn't as loud so I changed back to the Greenback). Although I use Logic Amp Designer more often nowadays for recording I still love to drag it out when I wanna move some air in the room.
Your band mates complained about you not being loud enough? Lucky man, my band mates complain that I am too loud, lol.
You’re going to think I’m crazy, but I’ve had an AC15 for 5 years now and I’ve barely touched it. In part because my gear has been all over the place and I got the thing for next to nothing because I ran into someone who didn’t know what they had. Now I am working on a dedicated guitar room and I took the amp out and cranked it up with a low master volume. As you said, game changer! I’m really enjoying this thing now!
Nice one! Vox really do make some lovely amps. The best electro acoustic fiddle sound I ever heard came out of a Vox AC30 and a cheap passive bug mike.. I enjoyed this! 🎶🌟👍
I was a Fender amp guy for YEARS.. I had a 1975 Twin Reverb which was LOUD. lol. I had a Marshall at one time which I liked. Again.. LOUD.. But one day I picked up one of Vox's headphone amps.. just for practicing and keeping somewhat quiet. and I LOVED the sound in the headphones. Lead me to pick up MY first Vox. which was an AC10. Absolutely LOVE Vox. Straight in, no pedals.. sounds great. I'm sure the AC15 will treat you well.
I have one, I love it, I was playing one day, the sound cut out, tuned out to be a bad preamp tube, I replaced it myself , the tubes do wear out, and need to be replaced eventually
The tone cut is the key…turn it all the way up, then back it off until you get the treble that you want…that’s the sweet spot! Plus an ABY like others have said. I put new tubes, new reverb tank and a Celestion blue speaker in mine…it’s perfect now, for now lol
The C1 is the best deal you’ll find in its price range. Well built for a modern affordable amp. Not bad sounding either. Actually pretty darn good. With your style,a deluxe reverb would be a good match too. More expensive tho.
Now that I know more stuff about tube amps , I want one . I was fortunate to have been hired by this group a couple of times . The engineer would turn on the amps 10 minutes before we got there . He says an amp sounds really good for recording after the the tubes are really hot/cooking .
Hi, Got an AC30C2. Been my first tube amp, still playing it @ 60.....love it. Single coils and humbuckers....
Nice playing.. Thanks
This was my first real tube amp, and so far it has been the only one I’ve ever used. I’ve used other amps before but this one is the one I stick with
Welcome to the club. My Vox AC15 has been my go to amp since 2016, and wish I bought it sooner. Great pedal platform though I only use like 3 now. Try it with your tele and if you got a semi hollow like a Sheraton or 335.
Vox Night Train is a great recording amp for all it's other shortcomings.
I got my nephew a Vox Pathfinder and was quite impressed with it..good little solid state amp.
For amps, I went from boss katana to an hx stomp, to an ac15. Using the hx stomp through ac15 I've been able to create pretty much any tone i want. I found that for cleans, set ac15 clean or edge of breakup and use a compressor from the hx stomp to make tone more full, it brings so much life and dynamic to the amp. Seeing people comment similar things for cleans. For drive, I still use the compressor sometimes, and more gain from amp plus overdrive pedal
I just found this video three months later. I've had mine for nine years and it's one of my two favorite guitar amps. The other is a 6G2 '62 Brownface Princeton that I run with my AC15C1.
First recommendation is for the ABY pedal. The basic Morley ABY works great for me. You get (A) Normal Channel, (B) Top Boost Channel and (Y) both channels run parallel. the (Y) cannel is like a fatter, fuller Top Boost channel.
I found the stock (Belton) reverb tank to be a bit too kerrang-y. I swapped in a MOD reverb tank. I used the medium decay, but if you like a more ambient reverb, use the long decay.
The stock Celestion Greenback is a great speaker. My taste leaned more to the Celestion Alnico Blue for a bit more of a vintage tone.
I have a AC15C1-TV (just an AC15C1 with a different cabinet) and this amp has been amazing. Some worthwhile mods are changing the reverb tank to a 3 spring MOD unit (around $30 and easy to change yourself), new tubes (I went with JJ’s), and maybe the speaker but the Greenback works perfectly fine with this amp. I went with a Celestion Bad Cat which has the low & mid grunt of a greenback and highs of an alnico blue. Also getting an EQ pedal helps expand this amp if you need more flexibility on the normal channel.
Yep that’s the sound! Is that the greenback? Nice playing!