Vox
4 Watt Tube Combo Blue With VX10 Speaker
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Outfitted with vintage appeal, the AC4C1-BL mini combo amp is overflowing with personality.
Highlights:
All-tube mini combo amp
Legendary Top Boost tone inherited from the VOX AC30
Gain, Treble, Bass, Volume controls
4 Watt Class A amplifier design
12AX7 preamp tubes (x2); EL84 power tube (x1)
Historic 1963 Blue vinyl covering; Tygon fret cloth; retro Bakelite handle
10" Celestion VX10 speaker
The AC30's Top Boost sound has fascinated guitarists around the world for over fifty years. Capable of massive crunch or the clean, classic "chime," this Top Boost tone is the essence of VOX's identity. The AC4C1-BL now delivers this unbeatable sound in a portable, compact body. Gain control, Bass and Treble tone controls, and a Master Volume allow any player to easily recreate this historic sound. Remarkable not only for its authentic VOX sound, the AC4C1-BL is also captivating in its appearance.
The rich, blue vinyl and Tygon fret cloth date back to 1963. Completing this vintage ensemble is an "old-school" Bakelite handle. Boasting the highest levels of design sensibilities, the long-awaited VOX AC4C1-BL offers an easy way for anyone to achieve the legendary AC30 Top Boost tone.
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Classic and love the retro look 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
Good VOX Tone 4 of 4 customers found this review helpful
No bells and/or whistles 21 of 22 customers found this review helpful
It can be dialed in to sound chimey at times and crunchy at others. It's not quite satiating enough for the most extreme Vox snobbery, but it's pretty good for a bedroom amp.
I found it WAY too bright for a Strat in it's stock form. I snipped out the bright caps and now it's fine.
If you're not familiar with 4watt tube amps, you're underestimating how loud it can get. It can keep up with a kit as long as the drummer doesn't smack the skins like they owe him money. It won't compete with Dirk Dingus and his Marshal half stack but it's fine for a jam. If you're gigging with it you'll have to mic it up.
Four knobs, count 'em, four (Gain, Bass, Treble, Volume). The bass knob is useless, set that at ten and break it off. The treble works like the treble on an AC30, it's normal up to 12 o'clock and then it acts like a sweep. The Vox AC4C1-bl can go from sounding very trebly all the way up to sounding ear-bleedingly trebly, and everything in between.
It has a 16ohm output for an extension cabinet, enjoy this at your own leisure.
The stock tubes sound fine. I swapped them for JJ's anyway because I'm a little neurotic.
Great at what it does 5 of 5 customers found this review helpful
blue 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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| 4 Watt Tube Combo Blue With VX10 Speaker | 369885 |
