Can you play bass through a Vox AC30?
You can totally play bass through a guitar head into a bass cabinet, it’ll sound great! You’re not going to get much volume out of an AC30 combo, though, and certainly not much low end. If you do manage to get any decent low end and volume you risk blowing the speaker.
What is the Vox AC30 sound?
Share. By Sweetwater on Nov 11, 2015, 6:57 PM. The Vox AC30 is one of the classic tube guitar amplifiers that shaped the sound of popular music. Introduced in 1958 by Vox, the original AC30 amp featured 30 watts of Class A power into a 12-inch Goodman 60-watt speaker.
What does Vox Tone Cut do?
It’s a low pass filter. It works like the tone knob on your guitar. I have a vox ac30c2 and the effect is VERY noticeable. If you can’t hear any difference the circuit might be busted.
What does cut do on AC30?
By using a high-frequency filter across the two signals, and making it adjustable, you cancel out the highs the more you turn it up. This is why the Vox’s ‘cut’ control works the ‘wrong way round’ for a treble control – the more you turn it up, the more highs it cuts out. Now we have come to the AC30 power amp.
What do Vox amps sound like?
Vox Amps. Vox generally sit on the subtler side, as their amps are regarded more for their clean tones. Known for sounding “chimey”, Vox amps tend to produce an almost bell-like presence for a sweet and articulate quality.
Is the Vox AC30 a tube amp?
What’s the magic behind the sound of the Vox AC30C2 combo amp? The tubes, of course! The AC30C2 offers up three of the popular 12AX7 preamp tubes and makes use of four EL84 tubes in the power section to make up its 30 watts.
Are Vox amps good?
Known for sounding “chimey”, Vox amps tend to produce an almost bell-like presence for a sweet and articulate quality. Although their cleans are excellent, many iconic guitarists have relied on Vox amps for the aggressive sounds that they’re capable of too.
What is HT on Vox amp?
If your amp has a valve rectifier (a GZ34 in the case of the Vox in question), the HT (high-tension) supply doesn’t come-up until the heater warms up and thus the HT voltage rises quite slowly. This means that the amp naturally comes on gradually over the course of a few seconds.
What is tone cut on amp?
Tone Cut control The AC30’s Tone Cut is an integral part of the AC30’s sonic shaping. It works backwards, reducing treble as you turn it up. This quirky circuit sits in the power amp section, so there’s no loss of gain in the preamp tone control section.
Do Vox amps have negative feedback?
It has no negative feedback. Negative feedback is just what it sounds like – you take a part of the signal from late in the amp’s signal chain, often from the speaker output itself, and you feed it back into an earlier part of the amp where the wave is running a negative version of the signal you are using.
Are Vox amplifiers good?
Vox amps are excellent amps for many different styles of music but metal. And the first reason is this: Vox amps lack the needed lows that make metal guitar sound heavy and chuggy. And that only sounds great when the amp you’re playing them through has some bass or low end. This is not the case for Vox amps.
Are Vox amps versatile?
From pop to country, to rock and punk, the Handwired Vox AC amps are versatile and trusty – the AC30HW2 is one of my favourite amps we’ve ever had in.