Vox Or Marshall?

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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    off the top of my head, the orange rocker 30. a few bucks more but not much. has clean and dirty channels and will be somewhat similar to the vox soundwise as it has a similar tube array.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    exhausted wrote:
    off the top of my head, the orange rocker 30. a few bucks more but not much. has clean and dirty channels and will be somewhat similar to the vox soundwise as it has a similar tube array.

    yup, the Rocker 50 is a little more of the same look with the 2x12 configuration. THe Rocker 30 is only the single 12, it just depends on the application.

    I would say AD30 twin Channel or HTC (about 1399 US for the HTC) as well but they are a little darker woolier than the AC30CC's not that I see this as a bad thing really. I'm sure you could make it a little more chimey with blues or blue dogs but I can't vouch for that yet. I think what they did is give you a cleaner clean channel and then use the regular channel they built on the single channel AD15's and 30's for the overdriven crunchy channel. The AD's are a lot more reserved than the Rockers though too at lower volume levels. Just like AC30's they need to Breath to show off the greatness.

    They aren't that much more expensive really and they sound fantastic.
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  • Kegzy05
    Kegzy05 Posts: 93
    I just heard today that the vox custom classics have been manufactured in China for the last two years or so. All this time i thought they were still made in britain.. Would this have any effect on the custom classic line do you think? I just know that the Chinese are good at cutting costs of things.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Kegzy05 wrote:
    I just heard today that the vox custom classics have been manufactured in China for the last two years or so. All this time i thought they were still made in britain.. Would this have any effect on the custom classic line do you think? I just know that the Chinese are good at cutting costs of things.

    i had one of the chinese built AC15s. it was a rock. no quality issues whatsoever. it sounded great. i sold it because the reverb wasn't very good (but that wasn't a build quality issue, it's a design issue) but i'm planning on buying another soon now that i have a good outboard spring reverb unit anyway.

    i haven't heard complaints about the reverb in the AC30s.
  • Kegzy05
    Kegzy05 Posts: 93
    Well after a bit of looking around and ALOT of questions I have narrowed it down to my main interests. These are:-

    Vox Ac30
    Orange rocker 30
    Mesa Boogie 5:25
    Marshall Jcm 2000 Tsl 60watt
    Fender '65 super reverb reissue
    Fender Super sonic
    Fender Hot Rod deville

    A big list i know. I have become a bit worried after i learnt that the vox and the orange (the two that seemed to interest me the most) are now made in china. As well as celestion speakers... I dont know whether this would matter or not, i have heard people saying it doesnt make a difference and heard alot of people saying that the sound and reliability have dropped big time..

    Originally i wanted a nice warm clean amp that will also dirty up with a few effects pedal added aswell. But realistically I probably will be using distortion at least 70% of the time so maybe I should just settle with a amp with strong distortion? like the marshall maybe? Anyone have any opinions or ideas? My influences are pretty much Pearl jam, more pearl jam, U2 and mainly 80's - present rock.

    I also just want to thank everyone thats been giving me feedback recently about guitars effects amps etc.. Ive found it really helpful and really appreciate everyones help.. Sorry about the long post guys.
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