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Vox vs. Marshall
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TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,149
How do they stack up against Marshall's in general. No particular model in mind here....
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depends on what you play.
Marshalls are more crunchy and heavy.
Voxes are much cleaner and crisp with a very distinctive tone some people find it annoying. It can be very bright and clean they are also known for their tremelo's and top boosts.
You'll find people that absolutely adore Voxes and some that hate them, Marshall is more generic. Both have reliability problems.
If you like the vox tone you should check out Orange and Matamp. Extremely well built amplifiers with the classic british tone. Also Supro would be a good one to try.
It depends on what you want the amp to do. Marshalls are probably more versatile.
Ultimately I prefer Fender cleans to Vox but it's apples and oranges.
If you want a more flexible amp get a Marshall DSL or TSL you can't go wrong from the 800's 900's or 2000's.
http://www.orange-amps.com http://www.matamp.com
http://www.marshallamps.com
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My buddy loves his, and he gets great tone out of it. The Vox amps seem to be more tempermental, and it can be hard to find a guy to work on them if you live outside the major cities. But there's a reason that Savage and Top Hat amps have virtually copied the AC-30 design. The Beatles had an exclusive deal with Vox, and Paul still plays Vox amps for his guitar (Mesa Boogie for bass).
love bluesbreakers. but I'd rather have a Fender custom shop bassbreaker. Imagine the balls on that thing when you crank it and put a Tubescreamer in front of it.
http://guitargeek.com/rigview/379/
And they identify the Mesas as Dual Rectifiers...
Of course, now he plays those Armstrong acrylic guitars and just Boogie amps.
thom now uses a marshall bluesbreaker. jonny still uses an ac30 as one of his amps i believe.
many people prefer the single recs as well saying that they break up sooner than the triple recs. This would make sense given the lessend compression from having 2 less rectifiers. That being said the road kind is the model for "give me enough knobs and I can control the world"
Ah... thus the confusion. Hmm... I've seen them perform on TV recently, and I didn't see the AC-30's out there. Maybe he hid them somewhere.
how about these. Basically hot rot custom shop fenders.
http://www.rivera.com/prod_latest.htm
Mmmm... the Quiana 410 sounds like heaven to me... like a 2-channel Bassman with reverb... I'd just hate to tell people I play an amp called "Quiana"...
It's actually a super reverb I think. Paul Rivera worked in the custom shop at fender for many years. I absolutely adore the chubster, with a subwoofer, forget the 4x12, it's all there already, just crank it.
I though about trading my orange for all of say 5 seconds.
Translation:
"Hi, I'm gay."
I mean, where does he come up with these names?
Yeah, I was aware of Paul's connection to Fender...
I've always been suspect of any amp that claims it can accurately reproduce both a JTM45 and a '59 Bassman, not to mention any other amps in between. Brown sounds, Blackface sounds... It just doesn't sound right. Unless he's got two completely different amps in that one box.
Yeah I hate the name too, that's why I'd go with the chubster.
Well I know you can get the amps in 6L6 or EL34 configuration I think. Its not going to be right on either amp but with the various boosts and brightness you can get really close. The clean is very good and so is the dirty but you know how that goes its all speculation and it's up to your ears. I wonder what Quinana means anyway besides that you have 2 dads.