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1. #Vox ac30cc2 reverb low output full
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Though you can use these amps with any suitable extension speaker, Vox offer a ported eight-inch cabinet, the BC108, that’s specifically designed to be used with these amps. Both the MV50 AC and MV50 Rock respond well to your guitar volume controls. Crank up the gain and you’re into instant rock gratification with a generally fatter, more grinding tonality than the MV50 AC. It also has more gain available than the MV50 AC and the sound only approaches cleanish on the very lowest gain settings. Lastly, we have the MV50 Rock, which follows the same control layout as the MV50 AC but is voiced to deliver more of a Marshall-type Brit rock tonality, with little respect for clean headroom.

Clearly, the sound is Fender-inspired, and as a pedal platform the amp does a great job the two tone controls give you a little more tonal range to work with.

#Vox ac30cc2 reverb low output plus

There’s no separate Gain control, but you do get separate Bass and Treble controls plus that three-way power switch. The MV50 Clean is perhaps an amp for the pedal lover, as it stays true to its name no matter how far up you crank the volume control, only showing a hint of breakup when pushed really hard. Does it sound like an AC30? It’s hard to tell exactly - I’ve had a couple of AC30 Top Boost amps over the years, and by the time you wind them up to their sweet spot, the volume is punishing! But it is fair to say that the MV50 AC sounds the way I always wanted my old AC30s to sound when playing at sensible volumes.

#Vox ac30cc2 reverb low output full

You may need to add pedals if you’re after a Brian May tone, but with the gain up full it isn’t far off. There are only three controls - Gain, Volume and Tone - but that Tone knob has a long reach, with the middle of the range sounding pretty ‘dialled in’ to me. I have to admit that my favourite of the three amps is the MV50 AC, which serves up chiming cleans imbued with that characteristic Voxy jangle, lovely touch-sensitive blues tones, and plenty of overdrive when the gain is turned up full. In the studio, of course, you can add delay-based effects after recording. In practical terms, if you want to add reverb or delay for live performance without doing so on the PA desk, you’ll need to run the amp clean and get your filth from pedals. The only real drawbacks are that these amps don’t include reverb and have no effects loop, and that might limit your processing options when gigging. Because of the size, as well as the usual live and studio uses, it would be well worth considering one of these amps as a backup in case your main amp fails - though it’s possible you’ll find that you prefer the sound of the MV50 to your regular amp!Ī headphone/line output with speaker emulation doesn’t mute the speaker feed - so you could use it with the speaker disconnected for silent recording, or could conceivably use it live to feed a mixing desk at the same time as a speaker, allowing the FOH engineer to apply further effects as needed.

There’s also an EQ switch to add a little low end when using the amps with smaller speaker cabinets. There’s a speaker impedance selector on two of the models (4Ω, 8Ω or 16Ω), which means most speaker cabinets will be happy to be fed by them (the MV50 Clean model has a three-way power setting instead). There’s a helpful power percentage meter on the front panel, and while the number of controls may seem limited, there’s actually everything you need to get a great sound.Ī rear-panel switch acts as a Standby power switch and there’s also a switchable Eco mode that puts the amp to sleep if left unused for about 15 minutes. A 50W Class-D power amplifier makes the small form factor possible. But there’s no modelling going on: the preamp stage is all analogue, combining solid-state components with Korg’s new ‘flat’ 6P1 Nutube triode valve, which is fitted via a socketed connector to allow replacement if needed.

#Vox ac30cc2 reverb low output series

The PSU has a separate mains lead so doesn’t clog up your power strip, though it has one of those clover-leaf connectors rather than an IEC plug, so you’ll need to remember to take the right cable to a gig.Īlthough the outward appearance and underlying technology are the same, there are three different amps in the series (the AC, the Clean and the Rock), each with a different voice. The designers at Vox must have had one of those ‘just because we can’ moments when they dreamed up the MV50 Series of amplifiers - we’ve all seen ‘lunchbox’ amplifier heads, but if you had to put your lunch in one of these you’d probably starve within a couple of days! Little larger than many stompboxes, these tiny amps are built into tough metal enclosures and run from an external PSU (which is, at least, rather more robust than most of the wall-warts and carpet carbuncles we come across).