Anyone else have a Vox AD60VTX?
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Nice amp there, Wes. I don't know if anybody else here has one of the high-end Valvetronix amps, but there are a bunch of us with the cheaper AD15-30-50VT models. Probably the best place to get that info is going to be the VOX forum sites, where you've already been.
Just a couple of comments from my use/experience with my AD30VT so far (had it since Christmas time). Since I'm mostly a blues/classic rock player, I tend to stay with the older/cleaner amp models. I particularly like the Black 2x12, Tweed 4x10, Boutique CL, AC30TB and UK 70's/80's models. For effects, I tend to stick mostly with straight reverb and compression, with occasional use of chorus, delay, and rotary reverb. Effects is one area where your amp has W-A-A-A-y more flexibility, because you can combine multiple effects simultaneously, where we ADxxVT owners can only use one effect setting at a time (though several are dual effects, like chorus/delay). But I rarely delve into the hi-gain models or use some of the more radical effects like the flanger and phaser. Nothing wrong with them, just a personal preference thing.
One thing that I have found very useful for the type of music I like to play was to get a good overdrive pedal for use with the cleaner amp models, e.g. the Black 2x12 and the Boutique CL. It's very tough to get much of an overdriven tone with these models (at least without raising the roof off my home), so such a pedal is great for getting a little dirt in my tone. I've been using a Digitech Tone Driver for this purpose, and have been really pleased with it. Another Digitech OD pedal, the Bad Monkey, has several ardent supporters here. But I believe the AD60VTX has OD pedal capability built into it, so you probably won't need these external pedals.
Additionally, I picked up a used Dunlop Crybaby wah pedal (the AD30VT's autowah effect is of very limited usefulness, IMO) and a cheap little Behringer 7-band EQ pedal for more tone-shaping control than the tone stack on the AD30VT affords.
I'm sure you'll love the AD60VTX, based upon the glowing comments I've read from some other owners. The biggest problem seems to be that it's easy to be overwhelmed by the almost endless choice of combinations it offers!
BTW, love your choice of verses there. Actually, when I first saw your forum name along with your avatar and the quote from Philippians, I though perhaps "Lawless" was a reference to Paul's writings in Romans about how the grace of Christ has freed us from slavery to the Law, in the old Hebrew sense of the word. Didn't realize it was your middle name!
