Vox AD100VT-XL

[blueswaite]

Often wonder how much it cost to make an amp like this. I have a Vox AD60VT and AD120VT just seem to like them. Gave my Grandson my AD120VT. Wasn't really looking for an amp but at a blow out of $219 for a 100 watt amp I couldn't resist.
I believe when they came out they were around $600.
Always really like the Boutique Clean on all the Vox modeling amps that is the model I mainly use with my Strat highway one
Amazing what they can sell them for at the end of the life cycle.
Thanks

[gs790]

Let's go ahead and bump this tread.

Anyone really beat up the Valvetronix amps? I've played around on a 2 year old unit and more or less liked what I was hearing. Unfortunately it was a standard guitar center Saturday afternoon and I couldn't find a Peavey to figure out how it was going to interact with my guitar. I really couldn't listen all that closely to what the the amp was doing. I was having more fun going full gain, full volume, and cutting the power to have the thing cranked while it was using it's 6" voice. I probably should have been a little bit more thorough investigating how it drives clean, before distorting. I'll put that on the agenda if I can get over there on a weekday afternoon.

So tone is relative and as long as I like the sound that is coming out, nothing else really matters. But the anal retentive in me has to ask. Amp snobs/connoisseurs, on a scale of 1 to 10, how do these modeling amps stack up to the real things? I'd expect something in the 6 to 7 range, but I couldn't pull anything out of the sales guys that didn't come out of the brochure and the old hippies were busy dealing with slightly needier customers.

[sydsbluesky]

gs790 -

As far as how close they sound to the real ones... bah... most experience I have is with the old POS line 6 modeler amp a guy I know once used didn't sound like the real ones... BUT... it sounded good!

Different isn't bad. It's just not the same!

That having been said - Marshall JCM800 ftw.

[warmstrat]

Put it this way... The best tones I've ever gotten out of any guitar ever with any amp ever have been my '90 Squier Strat (with shielding and a slight variation of JohnH's "Dual-Sound" mod) plugged into my little Vox AD30VT.

Yes, only 30 Watts. The only times I ever want it louder are also times when I have a mic and a PA at my disposal.

FWIW, I'm not just talking about one tone - it's the full range of tones, from early-days Knopfler to classic Gilmour to Van Halen to Steve Vai (not that my little strat does Mr. Vai any justice, but the amp sure is trying.)

Had a brief bit of trouble with it cutting out and making sputtery noises, but the folks I bought it from sent it back to Vox and it came back two weeks later working brilliantly - my two preset channels were even as I left them.

Incidentally, it's also strong enough to sit/stand on, if the mood ever takes you.