thanks pix and chapree! well I was just being honest about how I feel about my purchase.. and that's what reviews are for, no?

Thanks!

Well that was my initial experience, max gain with Clean Boutique as most of the time I'm using the Mesa or JCM800 modeller.. so I have experienced that breakup sound at loud volumes. I don't like the sound it produces.

As for the clean boutique, it's clean but still gain-ey at max gain. But I'd say it's the best clean sound along with the Tweed amp. I'm using Tweed as my main clean sound now, like the bluesy feel to it.

Yeah it's crunch indeed. But crunch is not my forte.
When I mean "soft" it means that the overall volume, it sounds too low. the note dynamics are pretty good, excellent even.
Pix, so are you saying it's normal to have a lower volume on cleans on a tube amp? But I haven't really tried it at maximum volume and maximum output (at the power selector) but I think the sound should be fine. It'd better be coz if I get a gig in college this amp will be my companion.
Yeah I play 90% lead too.. as my main songs are Metallica. But I'm also planning to learn some clean songs with this.. that's why I prefer a clean bright channel.

This post has been edited by nerd: Dec 11 2005, 09:27 AM

yeah I guess so. but I'm cool with it. I saved a preset with my favorite clean, the tweed with the treble and midrange turned up and bass and gain turned down.

I think they won't be poised for world domination until they add the Roland Jazz Chorus and a dedicated clean volume control

I never said mine was a tube dude.. I just asked about the softer cleans on tube amps generally in my previous post. .but then the AD30 does share the characteristics of a tube like what drake said. It's a tube preamp stuck in the poweramp section. So it has that break up at high gain on the clean channel.

Yeah I made a mistake, what I really meant that, when I just bought the amp, I maxed out the gain and straight away changed to a clean amp and found the distortion. After much tinkering and with drake's help, I managed to tinker around and find a clean, usable amp. BUT.. the overall volume is still pretty low. And THAT's my main gripe about the amp.

And yeah, I think my amp is Da Bomb too!

Yeah that's what I heard too.. but then you gain some you lose some I guess. At least at that price.


Okay that aside,

Today I really got to test the true colours of my Vox AD30VT. I brought it to a jam session in my cousin's house in Taman Tun. He lives in a bungalow so we could just crank up the damn volume. I played the Vox with all the volumes maxed, and the voltage selector about 1-2 bars from max. Hell yeah, we created havoc.

My cousin has his LTD MH-50 hooked up to a Zoom GFX-5 and a Kustom KLR16 and I must say, it really stood on it's own against the Vox. Impressive lineup. Very impressed with the Zoom mainly. It's wah effects are really awesome and the modelisation is really good. Okay, we're here to elaborate the Vox not my cousin's setup.

So anyway, with those settings maxed above, and my MH-50 cousin on lead (he's better than me but he's 2 years younger! ) we began to jam Enter Sandman, Fade to Black, Nothing Else Matters, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Master of Puppets and Wherever I May Roam. I switched between playing rhythm with another cousin, and used the Tweed for my clean and the Numetal for distortion.

Paired with the "Higain" amp modeller on the Zoom, we really managed to create a deep, growling sound. Not really Metallica but I would say that was one of the heaviest sounds I've heard. Palm muted riffs sound extremely good on the Numetal setting.

When playing For Whom The Bell Tolls, I sat out as my other cousin took my place in playing rhythm. That, combined with the Zoom again, really created this roaring thunderous sound that could bring down the whole house. In the harmonics part of Fade to Black, the two guitars blended in flawlessly.

When I got to the clean parts in Master of Puppets and Fade to Black, I used my CH1 Tweed Preset which I stayed up until 2am to tinker, and I got a pleasant surprise.. it sounds pretty much okay, very gig-able. So I guess only on lower power outputs the volume problem occurs.

But, question is, how often do you get to blast your amp like that? At lower power outputs it still.. to put it plainly.. sucks.

So, even after a jam session with the Vox.. the verdict is..

Disappointing, but very much usable cleans at low output.

Very sweet, but not sugar cleans at high output.

I shall increase my verdict to an 8/10.

This post has been edited by nerd: Dec 11 2005, 11:46 PM

sorry, double post

This post has been edited by nerd: Dec 11 2005, 10:43 PM

Pix, I think u'd better talk that over with thewhacker.

No offense to thewhacker.

no problem pix.

how about we create a seperate thread for Vox owners?

It could be titled : Vox : Relentless Pursuit of Tone!

Over there, all the Vox users can post their Channel Settings or talk about getting the perfect sound..

if i use it as a stool during my jam sessions, i will feel my ass burning coz of heat from the tubes escape from the grilles.

@ ledzep

the line jack on our amp is a line in or line out? you connect the amp to your com from there?