The Vox AC30 Story
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- A brief but interesting history of possibly the most iconic tube amplifier ever made. It's the one that fueled the Brit Invasion of the 1960's
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Such a unique sounding amp. One of my all time favorite amps. Rings like a bell barks like a dog.
I love that the AC30 was born from the need to hear themselves over screaming girls lol. Brilliant 😀
But, oddly enough, ever since people have been begging people to turn them down. LOL!
Very well narrated documentary about this amp. Back when I was 18 years old in 1974 I picked up a used AC30 and a black Les Paul deluxe copy with three humbuckers made by CSI for about sixty quid if I remember correctly. I still kick myself today for selling that amp!
OMG! The ones that got away bro! 😩🏃
Nice Vox story
Really interesting. Well done Mike!
Great video buddy! Glad to have a little cameo! :)
Thanks again bro, love your cheeky little cameo too 😝👍🙏
Nicely done Mike! Great info... Thanks!
Love historical videos like this. Cool to know the stories behind the gear.
Me too and it was great fun doing the research.
China Mike! Dude thanks for the VOX rundown. The 91 AC 30 I've played is quite awesome.
I love when you do these type of videos. You do an outstanding job giving the full story and history and you make it very interesting. I bet these videos take a ton of time to produce and edit. Fantastic job as usual my friend and well worth your efforts. God bless and rock on 👏😎🎸
Thank you so much brother. They do take an age but worth it just for your comment alone. Have a great weekend my dear friend 😊🙏
Awesome Vox documentary. Should send a copy over to the Vox guys.
Please do if you have a contact brother...
@@Chinaguitarsceptic I only have their warranty contact info, I'm sure that they'd forward it to the powers that be though. returns@korg.co.uk
Excellent video mate..nice production.
Thank you 😊🙏👍
great stuff brother! I lived thru this and remember most of!
Great mini-documentary, China Mike, I thoroughly enjoyed it. :-D
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excellent, rundown well down of the Vox, thank you
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Great video. You should do a few more videos like this.
Will do. Thanks mate 🙂🙏
Awesome video !!! Thanks for it bud !! :)
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Mike, you have a great tone for narration/ voice over work.
Thanks bro. Available for voice over work 😁
Nicely done, mate. I have a '63 AC30 and an AC30CC2, and wouldn't part with either one. They continue to stand the test of time, and paired with Rickenbacker toasters, or Gretsch Dynasonics, Filtertrons, or HiLoTrons, you're approaching tone heaven. Strats, and Teles are equally pleasing through an AC30. Only one mistake I found in your entire video, mate. There is NO argument....The Beatles are head and shoulders the greatest band of all time!! 😆😆. Cheers and keep these gems coming!!
Thank you. I feel exactly the same way about the beatles but didn't want to alienate anyone who felt that was subjecture. 😊👍
@@Chinaguitarsceptic Ahhh...great minds think alike, brother. It's funny, but as time goes by, this seems to be a question that people have tended to argue less, and actually agree with. BTW, have you seen the album topping the NME charts, 50 years after its' first release.....I rest our case! 😆😆
Just curious, but as a fellow Englishman, albeit you're from the wrong end of the country, are there any AC30'S in the CGS's arsenal of gear, and if not, I'm curious as to why not? As you rightly state, its a part of British rock history, and a must have in the amp closet. Cheers, brother!!
@@stevem5010 cheers brother. Unfortunately not yet mainly due to cost and space but if the right one comes up I'm in for a project vintage one! 😊
Mike, I'm way past live performing now (due to health reasons), but I still crave the sound of my AC30s! That's the reason for switching to the lighter weight VOX Valvetronix amp. Who else better knows the AC30 sound!
Cool bud. I have the a valvetronix too.
How do you rate the Valvetronix compared to the AC30? I'm guessing it's less troublesome for a start lol. I have an AC30 and an AC15 but wouldn't mind something a little more portable!
I love mine and use it on a few of my videos. I should do a demo of it. Perhaps that's my next video??? 😊👍🙏📹
Great video Mike ! I would love to get a Vox SRT but ,I do have a Mini Super Beetle that I enjoy for now .Cheers !
Memory lane: specifically 1964 thru 65. Red/Pink Strat through Vox AC-30. No mods to the Strat. The amp was another story. First a “Top Boost” module fitted to amp. Then a second matching 2x12 speaker cab. Then amp fitted into its own enclosure. Brings a smile in my head when I think of each time I used that setup.
Wow brother! Glad this was a nostalgia trip for you and stoked for you that you lived through that awesome time. 🙂👍
Chinaguitarsceptic Cheers... Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Animals, Kinks, Yardbirds, AWB (before they were AWB), Lulu, and so many more. Each of them way better (and exciting) LIVE than on a piece of vinyl. All in my head. Just close my eyes and there they are. Memory is better than any sound system.
Keep on doing what you do .
Best regards
WELL DONE ..
my island friend !!!!!
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I have a modern version of the AC30
Cracking vid bud
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Mike!! I'm a metal player but the AC service is a amp I want. My amp has a vox amp Sim. Closet I'll get today . Ty for doing this 👨🏽🎤
My pleasure brother I enjoyed it and researching to learn more myself.
Good job mate
Ty 🙂🙏
Can you imagine my delight in finding a shop that held all of the VOX (USA), Thomas parts!
Oh boy! 😊👍
Very informative and interesting video Mike.
If possible could you do a review on the mini super beetle amp ?
Cheers and keep these videos coming !
🙂🙏Thank you
You're really upping your production standards. Hiring the Brit for narration was a nice touch. 👍
😂👍🙏 I hear he's available for any vo work you need!
Lol...good one!
Good video Mike (bit of extra info on Brian mays tone is to simply turn every control on all three amps to max) Pete mallendrome (his tech) has an easy job
I don't know about an easy job. I've read those vox amps on full really take their tolls on the circuits, tubes and speakers. They've got an army of AC30's they rotate through.
@@peterschmidt9942 yep he has on stage three spare amps and three spare amp cabs (just spare speakers) and a lot of spare valves (Pete buys blasted pairs eg worn in)
I have a UK made Vox and a Chinese made Vox. 2 fine amps, the Chinese amp is very well built and more than a match for the UK amp. Don't believe the hype that all the Chinese stuff is rubbish, it certainly is not.
China makes pretty much everything from your iphone to washing machine. There is good and bad quality at all price points. Good point well made my friend 😊👍🙏
My VOX AC30 (bought in 1980) was purchased from the NAMM show that year. It was clearly marked KORG! So I had a strange amp, as nobody seems to say that made in China units were not available at that time! I chained the Brilliant & the Trem channels together, with my Fender Telecaster Custom. Help me out Mike, just what did I play & record with , in those days?
Yes that was in the korg period mate
Great video! Competing with Five Watt World for creator of the highest quality short-form music gear documentaries on UA-cam! Unfortunately, I enjoyed your video way more than I enjoy the sound of Vox amps.
Cheers brother you've opened my eyes to a great channel there. I like the original concept of minimal gear but he does well at the history stuff and it seems to be working better for him. Dig the comparison too mate 👍
Totally agree about the videos...though I love VOX amp sounds!
The AC30 is an iconic amp and one of the Amps that have defined many artists sound. It should be in the top 5 amps that have ever existed - is position in that top 5 though will come down to personal preference. It place and importance in musical history is irrefutable...
🙂👍 Cheers buddy.
I used to have an AC 30 when I was a teenager but gave it to a freind who played in an irish showband I also lent him my coloumbus les paul lawsuit guitar bought in 75 when I was 17 still have it and I am now 61 . AC 30's were the bogs dollox's
Still are bro!
Just found out James Williamson played his Les Paul through a 60s AC-30 on The Stooges Raw Power album one of the great guitar tones in rock
Wow cool thanks man I didn't know that either! Cheers
Great Doco Mike! As an Aussie, my apologies for the bankrupting of the ORIGINAL Vox company!
Wasn't you mate 😂
@@Chinaguitarsceptic I know, but it WAS an Aussie that was responsible, seeing the BB flight recorder was an Aussie invention, (& as per usual, could NOT get investment backing from tight arsed Aussie financiers & speculators! Hello, IBM!!!) so he went to the British aviation industry to develop it!
You could probably answer this MIke - Is Hackney anywhere near Squatney?? ;)
Nice doco mate.
Lol! 😂😂😂
Had one in 63.
Watching the history on the Vox 3000...(inside joke). BTW...I also had to learn the accordion...didn't really like it though. Thanks for sharing Mike!
Thanks brother. 😊🙏
Best amp in the guor
Beauty
Is that Pete Best on drums at the 13:28 point in the video? It isn't Ringo, this man is far more broad across the shoulders and much taller too.
I thin n at that time it would be
It's Jimmy Nicol who covered for Ringo for a few shows in Europe and Australia in June 1964 as Ringo had tonsilitis.
Thanks mate
The Beatles "arguably" the biggest band of all time? There's no argument. Without them, the British invasion would never have happened, and neither would have all the groups (both British and American) that followed that seminal musical event. None of the genres of rock that people loved in the following decades would have existed, and we'd all be listening to Chuck Berry, Elvis, and Buddy Holley with a nostalgic tear in our eye because the Britneys, Gagas and Mileys would rule the world.
I agree 100% but I didn't want to alienate anyone who felt that opinion to be subjective. 🙂🙏👍
Subtítulos en español POR FAVOR GRACIAS
Veré lo que puedo hacer, pero creo que UA-cam tiene un servicio de traducción.
@@Chinaguitarsceptic Gracias!
He subido los subtítulos en español de este video y espero que se procesen pronto amigo mío