Vox VT30 Owners Club.

[Pvee]

I have one and like it, and gigged with it for two years, but I am going to sell it now that I have a SCXD.

[Canadianbreed]

May I join this club, or should I say my son.

My son just bought a Vox VT30, were were comparing the lin6 spider IV 30 and side by side running clean with no effects at all including no reverb, the vox won, it's not a bad little amp actually.

Itr has ebough variants to keep him happy and enough clean tones to keep me happy.

Great thread.

Bill

[aritak]

Please let me join the club!

Bought myself a VT15 less than a month ago as a bedroom practice amp, and I was so impressed by its performance that... I brought it back to the shop and took home a VT30 instead. Those amps are so good that I thought it was a pity not to be able to use one for band rehearsals and little gigs as well, that's why I decided to get the 30w (& 10" cone) version. Still small and easy to carry around almost like a VT15, but powerful enough to cover extra-bedroom duties (at a very small price difference): perfect!

The only thing I did not like was... the sort of cheap looking chrome "VOX" logo. So I took it off and spray-painted with a dull aluminium color, and now I think it looks quite cool... What do you guys think?



PS: the grill slots on the top of the amp are neat pick holders...!

[robzero]

Heck, I didn't even know I was in this club!
Got mine late last year and love it. Every time I think I want a new amp, I just dial in a different model and plug in a different guitar and my GAS blows away. (That little trick just recently kept me out of the SCXD club ;-))

Aritak, that dull silver on the logo looks awesome.. gonna have to give that a try, and I never even thought to use the vent slots as pick holders! You learn something new on the internet every day.
Cheers.

[lareplus]

what brand of spray paint did you use? it came out perfect!

[aritak]

Originally Posted by lareplus

what brand of spray paint did you use? it came out perfect!

This is the spray paint I used (got it in Italy but I think is actually an American product?):

[aritak]

By the way, be careful when taking the logo off the amp: it is not screwed, there are 3 pins behind each letter that snap into small holes in the front panel, but it could break if forced too brutally. I used a flat screwdriver and lifted the logo gradually distancing each letter little by little. It came off quite easily, at least on my VT30! (Don't know if it's glued on yours...!)

[Televised]

I have a 5watt Pignose the size of a shoe box.....I have that Vox AD30VT 1x10.....and also have a Silvertone 1483 1x15 with a 2x12 Cab. I use the Vox at least 50% of the time.
Though it has a lot of Marshall and Mesa settings that I wade into from time to time, the majority of the time I use the Vox AC 30 setting with the chorus/reverb turned on. That, with a Tele/BL Keystones gets you some amazing chime and they are reasonably priced.
As a modeling amp for the price you can't beat it.....also for a taste of the Vox AC30 TB, I think it comes real close.

[lareplus]

thanks for the hints. . .yes, that is an american paint, i have seen it in stores. thanks for experimenting, it is good to see that it turned out so well. .

[hockeygoon]

I don't see a VT15 club, but this is close enough. Love the versatility of this amp, esp for practice. Easy to bring over to a friend's house and jam out or slip on the headphones and play while others are watching TV or sleeping.

For crunch my favorite amp model is the AC30BM. Clean, I use a lot of the different modeling options.

[VerySlowHand]

Thinking of joining... can anyone tell me if the headphones out is as bad as some of the reports? I read that the sound it pretty muffled.

[Fearnot]

Can't say I've played through it in a while, but I do remember being pretty unimpressed with the headphone out. Pretty lifeless.

[Jethro]

Originally Posted by Fearnot

This is a really helpful explanation why the chrome VTs may seem tinny and thin at stage volumes. A must read: How to Get Great Tone from Valvetronix at Gigging Volume

Useful forum too.

Hey...Big time thanks for the tip. This actually happened to me a few weeks ago. I typically gig with my Fender Super 60 (which weighs as much as a volkswagon ), but since I was doing a smaller Pub venue, I decided to try the VT30 out for size. I had great settings in the Family room at home, but at the gig it was really muffled and dirty once I raised the volume level....and not the good kinda dirty. I just couldn't seem to dial it in. The next day at home though, I had that nice tone again at normal volumes.

This link is worth reading.

Cheers,
Jethro

[Adam S]

Love mine!

[h2otorched]

I grew up playing in a band with my best friend Jim. From 69 on he
played thru his SF SuperReverb. The VT30 nails that sound. My favorite
is the Bassman 4by10! I use my CV Thinline. It's purity in motion.
On the Vox AC30 Top Boost with the Tele, you get killer Tom Petty tones.
I'm happy I have this amp.

[jefrs]

The headphone output of the AD30VT is fairly quiet, even with AKG 240s, so I take the line/phones output to a Peavey MicroBass (a clean amp with high headphone level) and use that as a headphone amp.

There are a pair of 47ohm (1 watt) resistors in series with each headphone speaker, R73 and R61, these effectively halve the voltage going to a 55ohm headphone set: they could be shorted with a jumper to increase the output, this should make little difference (0.1%) to the amplifier output since the next resistor (pre-out) is 47k. Note, I have not tried this but it's on my to-do list.

As a 12-in speaker cannot be fitted (I did try), so I swapped out the Vox for a Celestion G10-30 Greenback. Now that does make a difference, it does sound like a 12-in speaker. Maybe a 10-in does not shift as much air as a 12-in but the amp can gig alongside 2x12 valve combos: it can hold its own at normal stage levels and can compete with any 15W valve amp for maximum volume.

[Jethro]

Has anyone else tried swapping out speakers on their VT30. I've read some good things about Rajin Cajun and Scumbacks over on the SCXD thread.

[jb12string]

I picked up a 30 yesterday afternoon. Our lead guitar players POD XT live power adapter crapped out, so he used mine and I went to a local shop that was fortunately open on a Sunday afternoon and picked one up, so far so good, but I haven't had a chance to mess with it much. Now I REALLY need to sell my Hod Rod DeVille 212.

[BooneDog]

Just picked up this Vox VT30 at Guitar Centers Deal of the Week at $129. I've looked at these for a while, and at this price had to pull the trigger. Glad I did, it sounds great!

[aritak]

Originally Posted by Jethro

Has anyone else tried swapping out speakers on their VT30. I've read some good things about Rajin Cajun and Scumbacks over on the SCXD thread.

1 month ago I swapped my VT30's stock speaker (which I found to be harsh and/or muddy at times) with an Eminence Ramrod and couldn't be happier! The sound is much smoother and defined, so rich and musical... For the cost of a basic pedal, my tone improved radically. I just regret not having done the change sooner!




And, the "Eminence inside" tag (provided with the speaker) looks cool on the VT30's front, isn'it?