Finally made a clip of this amp...put in a Celestion, and it's pretty nice. Still doesn't really yield punchy rock/metal tones but nice clean/crunch and not a bad lead tone at all, IMO.
There were a few here who also had this amp...what speaker do you use?
Last edited by deeaa; May 8th, 2010 at 10:51 PM.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
You know, the more I play this amp now, the more I like it. I've now adjusted the EQ's quite a lot and I get the Vox cleans real nice now, quite jangly and nice crunch, but I also finally managed to get a real nice driven rhythm out of it. It just requires cutting the treble HEAVILY and also bass, and lots of mids added, but now I can get that too.
If only the thing had more than two sound settings saveable...It'd really be great if I could have the clean plus two drive settings. And the D/I out still isn't quite up to par...but anyway, I'm glad I swapped my li'l TM10 for this. The TM still has the best SS drive rhythm sound and D/I I know of IMO, but this is much nicer for home playing, lots more versatile.
I guess I have to start drawing on those setting sheets I printed out of the manual :-)
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
Sounds good.. I still want to try my VT50 with a 4x12 cab and see if the high gain models improve.
The high end on all high gain models and the Brian May model sounds too fizzy through the original speaker.
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
Exactly...and it's not just that the speaker has lots of high end, it has lots of ultra-high frequencies too. I should think running music through it might sound pretty OK even...I guess it's tuned for modeler, not as guitar speaker so much.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
Still a great sounding amph! I really dig your clips. I have played the 50 top with a 4x12 cab for some time and it sounded great. Guees that if you attach your cube to a cab you'll get some huge sound and can easily cover your metal and punk stuff!
Rock on Sauna-Boy
Jimi75
"A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the business. But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free," - Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
Thanks! The clip is actually recorded in the Sauna foyer/rec room :-)
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
I suppose there's a lot of apartments without one, only a common one to which everyone has scheduled times to use it, plus biweekly common sauna nights.
But I do think these days they build saunas even in one-room apartments most often.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
I suppose there's a lot of apartments without one, only a common one to which everyone has scheduled times to use it, plus biweekly common sauna nights.
But I do think these days they build saunas even in one-room apartments most often.
Makes me wish the US builders would wake up and make saunas commonplace.
Guitar: Gibson SG Standard Natural Burst, Squier CV 50's Tele, Hell Guitars No. 2, Squier CV 50's Strat, Reverend Club King 290, Taylor 522e 12-Fret mahogany,
Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass Short Scale
Amp: Fender Super Champ X2 Head, Egnater Tweaker 15, Fender Mustang I, Acoustic B20 1x12 bass amp
Pedal: Budda Budwah wah, Wampler Ego Compressor, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food, Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, Wampler Velvet Fuzz, Seven Sisters Eve Tremolo, TC Electronics Gravy Tri Chorus & Vibrato, Catalinbread Echorec, TC Electronic Alter Ego 2 Delay, Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb, MXR Carbon Copy, Catalinbread RAH, Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, BYOC Mouse 2.0 Distortion, BYOC Boost/OD-2
Yeah, I really liked my AD30VT for cleans and bluesy drive, but I kept fighting it to try to get a hard rock/80s metal sound. Since that's my wheelhouse I had to look elsewhere. If I had no interest in hard rock or metal, I could have happily played my Cajun-equipped AD30VT forever.
Vox AD30VT sound video clip
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