Bribak
February 27th, 2006, 08:59 PM
Hello all,
First post here from a new member. I've been researching amps for the last two weeks trying to find the best home, non-gig, practice amp that I can find to deliver up my "ideal holy grail" tone at bedroom volume levels. I would really appreciate it if some of you Vox ADxxVT owners would take a listen to this sound sample over on Amazon.com and tell me whether this tone can be obtained from these Vox amps.
Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000N9P/sr=8-9/qid=1141095255/ref=pd_bbs_9/103-0876008-5843008?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Please click on the link and listen to "Can't Quit The Blues" from Tommy's EXCEPTION TO THE RULE CD.
Tommy Castro's tone on this tune (and many other tunes on his recordings) just plain DOES IT for me. I mean...unbelievable...deep inside on some visceral level. An even better example is his intro to "Suitcase Full of Blues" from his CANT KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN CD. Unfortunately, the Amazon.com clip of that tune doesn't include the intro. But if you listen to this here clip (if you don't have the CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN CD) you'll still get an idea of what I'm after.
So far, I haven't been able to find it on my current gear - MIM Deluxe Fat Strat (Tex Mex Pickups), Fender 65 Princeton DSP (solid state amp). Maybe (probably) it's me and not the gear. I am working mainly out of the neck pup, and I am also experimenting with a Digitech Bad Monkey.
Can I get that "sizzling, frying, honking, crunching" yet still warm sound out of these Vox amps? Is it possible in an amp without all tubes? For the longest time I was leaning towards a small tube amp like the Epiphone Valve JR. or Standard...or even the Fender Blues JR. But I am concerned that I won't be able to use these at high enough volumes to find their "sweet spots". Most of my practicing will be done later at night with my family sleeping two levels above.
I realize this stuff is hard to describe. I'm beginning to think that maybe the key factor here is the "different" way that a tube starts to distort when you push it. Can a solid state amp like the Vox capture that kind of frying distortion/overdrive.
Anyway, any help you guys/gals could give me will be appreciated. I feel like if I could find tone like that...man...I would be happy even just droning the same notes over and over. I love the music too...but...Ohh Man...that tone.
Thanks, Brian
First post here from a new member. I've been researching amps for the last two weeks trying to find the best home, non-gig, practice amp that I can find to deliver up my "ideal holy grail" tone at bedroom volume levels. I would really appreciate it if some of you Vox ADxxVT owners would take a listen to this sound sample over on Amazon.com and tell me whether this tone can be obtained from these Vox amps.
Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000N9P/sr=8-9/qid=1141095255/ref=pd_bbs_9/103-0876008-5843008?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Please click on the link and listen to "Can't Quit The Blues" from Tommy's EXCEPTION TO THE RULE CD.
Tommy Castro's tone on this tune (and many other tunes on his recordings) just plain DOES IT for me. I mean...unbelievable...deep inside on some visceral level. An even better example is his intro to "Suitcase Full of Blues" from his CANT KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN CD. Unfortunately, the Amazon.com clip of that tune doesn't include the intro. But if you listen to this here clip (if you don't have the CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN CD) you'll still get an idea of what I'm after.
So far, I haven't been able to find it on my current gear - MIM Deluxe Fat Strat (Tex Mex Pickups), Fender 65 Princeton DSP (solid state amp). Maybe (probably) it's me and not the gear. I am working mainly out of the neck pup, and I am also experimenting with a Digitech Bad Monkey.
Can I get that "sizzling, frying, honking, crunching" yet still warm sound out of these Vox amps? Is it possible in an amp without all tubes? For the longest time I was leaning towards a small tube amp like the Epiphone Valve JR. or Standard...or even the Fender Blues JR. But I am concerned that I won't be able to use these at high enough volumes to find their "sweet spots". Most of my practicing will be done later at night with my family sleeping two levels above.
I realize this stuff is hard to describe. I'm beginning to think that maybe the key factor here is the "different" way that a tube starts to distort when you push it. Can a solid state amp like the Vox capture that kind of frying distortion/overdrive.
Anyway, any help you guys/gals could give me will be appreciated. I feel like if I could find tone like that...man...I would be happy even just droning the same notes over and over. I love the music too...but...Ohh Man...that tone.
Thanks, Brian