Vox AC 30 CC2 vs AC 30 c2

[tizzit]

Hmm, Can't spare the cash for that at the moment as my next priority is a Timeline...BUT if there still around in a month or so time I may invest mate!

[ICBM]

Hmm, Can't spare the cash for that at the moment as my next priority is a Timeline...BUT if there still around in a month or so time I may invest mate!

OK, PM me then if you're still interested.

[noisepolluter]

The best of the modern ones is the 'Korg' AC30TBX reissue from around ten years ago - it's the same circuit (or very close), and although it's built totally differently it does sound very similar. OK, it doesn't have reverb, master volume, FX loop or any of the other extra mod cons of the CC, but it does have the original Vib/Trem channel (totally different from the tremolo on any of the modern models and much better, in my opinion) and it just plain sounds great.

Still wish I'd bought an AC15TBX back then. The amount of other crap I bought and then punted on would have paid for it several times over.

[ICBM]

Still wish I'd bought an AC15TBX back then. The amount of other crap I bought and then punted on would have paid for it several times over.

I had one and to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed with it. It *does* have the mod cons - or at least master volume, reverb and tremolo - and it did sound very nice at low volume. But it just didn't cut it louder, either for gigs or recording... it just sounded small, a bit boxy and over-compressed. Not at all like an AC30 really. And that was with an original 1960s Vox Alnico speaker in it, too.

It also blew the mains transformer for no good reason while it was just sitting quietly on standby, which did not endear it to me. Although Marshall - who made them - sending me a replacement for free helped!

[noisepolluter]

I had one and to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed with it. It *does* have the mod cons - or at least master volume, reverb and tremolo - and it did sound very nice at low volume. But it just didn't cut it louder, either for gigs or recording... it just sounded small, a bit boxy and over-compressed. Not at all like an AC30 really. And that was with an original 1960s Vox Alnico speaker in it, too.

It also blew the mains transformer for no good reason while it was just sitting quietly on standby, which did not endear it to me. Although Marshall - who made them - sending me a replacement for free helped!

I feel slightly better about that now

[thermionic]

I love my AC15TB! I found it in Cranes in Cardiff around 2002 (?) but the serial number dates it as 1996, hard to believe it had been there all that time. I owned a battered old JMI-era AC30 when I was a student but sold it when I needed the money and didn't have the room. I had a couple of 20W Marshall combos after (a Valvestate and a DSL201) which did a decent clean sound and great overdriven sound but couldn't really do the sounds in-between. I thought it sounded more Voxy than my old AC30, which always sounded too clean to me, no hint of crunch even on the few occasions I was able to turn it all the way up.

Mine is a 2x10" version, at some point I need to hear it with the 10" equivalent of Celestion Blues. I don't think it sounds small and boxy but I don't play live these days and have never had to really put it to the test in that respect. With the channel volume dimed it only gets a mild Beatlesque crunch, nowhere near the heavy distortion people seem to be able to get out of the CC and C versions.

[tizzit]

Don't suppose anyone knows a top notch spot to get a Vox serviced in the North East? Maybe a bit of aesthetic restoration too? The material on the front has come away from the gold binding as it's bent out a little bit... thinking about putting it right!