Share your Vox AC15/30 settings

[AJBaker]

My AC15 is a weird little amp, but so versatile once you've worked it out. What are your favourite settings?

I'll start (percentage of knob full):

Master:100
Cut:100

Top Boost
Bass: 100
Treble: 90
Volume: 100

This setting is LOUD, but versatile. It has a lot of gain, but by turning down on the guitar I get a nice clean sound, and plenty of drive for lead. Treble turned up on the TB channel would usually be painfully bright, but with the cut at max, it's tamed enough to be usable. Sounds like an angry tweed/marshall.

 

[ellisvertellis]

A little crunch with lots of presence and ready for pedals! The master volume usually is a lot higher, this was photographed at home...

The tone cut is a very useful feature, I'm still experimenting with it. It seems to me the higher you turn up the drive, the more tone cut you need to keep it from being too harsh.

 

[mRtINY]

I jumper the normal and top boost.

Normal gain set high to the point that I get grind when I dig in and it cleans up when I don't (or roll back the knob on the guitar). Then, the top boost is set to a lower gain and the tone controls are used to balance the clean tone.

Reverb up with the reverb tone down a bit.

Top cut turned up quite a bit (so that the highs when I dig in and distort are not too harsh).


-tINY

 

[MadJack]

That's as mine sits in my bedroom right now. I use a Morley ABY to switch between the Normal, Top Boost and both channels. I run a Weber AlNiCo Blue Dog for a speaker and a Mod Reverb tank. I tweak the Tone Cut as needed for each guitar and control any dirt changes with my guitar's volume level. Very rarely do I use pedals with it, as I can get most the tones I want with just my channel selection and guitar volume adjustment and digging in, much as mRtINY stated above.

If I do use any pedals, it's usually my Soul Food and/or my Spark Mini Boost on the Normal Channel. A Flashback is used for when I want to use a delay and it's settings vary widely.

 

[AJBaker]

Have any of you found much advantage in rolling the master back? I found that before halfway it didn't sound very good, and after halfway it didn't make a big difference.

 

[mRtINY]

Have any of you found much advantage in rolling the master back? I found that before halfway it didn't sound very good, and after halfway it didn't make a big difference.

I have an AC30 and neighbors..... so, yes, the master is turned way down.....


-tINY

 

[TheletterJ]

Can't fail with this setting as a pedal platform:

Plug into Normal Low
Master: Full blast!
Top Cut: 25% to 50% depending on the room.
Volume: To taste

 

[Lucky Day]

My settings depend on a)which version of the AC30 and especially which speakers, b) what guitar I'm using and c) what kind of music I'm playing.

 

[GLee94]

I play a '89 mij tele through a vox AC15 (standard greenback) w/ these settings. I tend to get a pretty good edge-of-breakup tone (frusciante-esque)..


Master: between 10 o'clock-noon (depends on how heavy drummer is playing)

Tone Cut: Pointer is on the "T" in Tone Cut (~11 o'clock)

TBoost: Bass: 10 o'clock, Treble: ~2 o'clock, Volume: ~3 o'clock

I clean up the grit with the volume knob on the guitar and I use a Green Rhino for a lead tone.

Works very well and I don't change the settings as much as one might think from guitar-guitar. Usually adjust the tone cut for my humbucker guitars, but i like the \ / shape to balance the interactive tone control. IMO the extreme settings wash out the mids and make it hard to cut through. But our drummer is also VERY heavy-handed.

 

[AJBaker]

Can't fail with this setting as a pedal platform:

Plug into Normal Low
Master: Full blast!
Top Cut: 25% to 50% depending on the room.
Volume: To taste

I'd forgotten about this old thread!

Just to say, that this is what I've also come to discover as a really great setting. If you remove the treble caps, you can even ignore the tone cut.