Still watching some older posts. I missed this one altogether. I did buy one of these about 3 yrs ago and use it often. It still sounds great and has been very reliable. It's easy to move it around my room to drive different cabs. That's my low budget review ...thanks again!!!
I'm an old guy, and I'm getting tired of hauling around my Blues deluxe . . . And I'm getting tired of having it repaired 😣. I think the mv series is the way to go! Solid state reliably, and weighs less than 2 pounds, while sounding awesome.
have one and use it as a back up and rehearsals ..it is amazing, awesome sound, gets loud enough to cut through the mix of my Alice Cooper tribute and it takes pedals like a champ. you can run 1/2 power and crank it up, it breaks up like an el84 running wide open..love it
I love this amp. I have 2x8 vox cabs for bedroom/recording and it's a perfect pedal platform. Btw, you can jump bright and fat circuits with mini switches (that I mounted where the handle holes are). The fat is meh but the bright gives you a different voicing in the highs. Really neat.
I'm a tube amp guy all the way, but this really would come in handy for a backup to get thru the night should it arise. Was looking at the Seymour Duncan amp but I think it's like 400 hundred dollars kind of expensive to me. Thanks for the info man.
You're totally right !! I agree 200 purcent.. Between a tube amp and MV50, impossible to know which one is a vacuum tube or nutube. They sound different but both have a super sound and well react with all pedal. I use the Clean model with a Celestion Ruby 8ohm and Friedman BE-OD Deluxe + Delay + Reverb in front...
I've seen people are using these on their pedalboard to run direct. I'd LOVE to see a video doing a side by side comparison of this and the Quilter Interblock. I'm torn on which to buy as a backup to run direct. I'm leaning towards. The quilter because of FX loop and voicing switch. Same exact price too.
So to those who are wondering if you can gig with it.....abso freaking lutley........ I have a $3000+ amplifier which is amazing...I bought one to run through a 2x12 cab with 8ohm speakers wired in series for 4 ohms to give me the full 50 watts in a two amp set up with my custom amp and it is amazing!!! I almost considered selling my custom amp and getting another one of these to run as a pair. They are truly amazing and well worth the $300aus I spent on it.
I’ve had a bogner 50am tube combo. No problem keeping up with grind metal drummer. In comparison, a 200W (peak) PA speaker could barely keep up, with distortion too. So is this 50w tube “similar” to a 50w tube guitar amp?
I can hardly wait for mine to get here....I like solid state almost the same as tube stuff. I have played both for more than fifty years. My little Fender Princeton 110 has a wonderful clean tone from 1998, and SS technology has gotten way better since then. We'll see if this can replace a Marshall .......
I have the MV50 Rock model and I route mine guitar -> wah/overdrive/eq -> MV50 input. From there I go from the speaker output straight into a 2x12 8ohm speaker (celestions) cabinet, but I also use the pre-amp out into another amp's pre-amp (front) and hookup my chorus/delay effects through that amp's effects loop. I am going to purchase a second MV50 and try a mod on it. I want to see if I can find room to add an additional "insert" jack somewhere on the unit and wire that up between the pre-amp and power-amp sections of the MV50, and then use that for an effects loop. Hopefully I can also loop that in before the pre-amp/headphone out jack.
Am I gonna chuck my Marshall JTM 800, my Vox AC 30 or my Fender Deluxe Reverb and replace them with a cadre of these??? No. Of course not. At the same time, will I pick up a trio of these and configure my live rig to make the most of these micro-voxes. Of course I will. Why? If it sounds good, it is good. End of story. Besides, after almost 40 years of gigging, I’m tired of bucking around all the iron and glass.
Hey Dylan, love your content, and this video is no exception. Have you had the chance to test the VOX MSB 25 and how it compares to the MV50 ? I'm looking for an affordable, portable VOX AC30 sound.
Great demo and fine playing, thank you. So if I understand correctly, you can go out from the MV either into a cab with the speaker (red/right output jack) out or through the line out/headphone (left) output. What I don't like in the line out scenario is the fact that they give you a speaker emulation by default (not optional). Because the way I see the MV50's as very useful in my rig situation is: pre-MV50 -> distortion pedals/wah - MV50 on the verge of breakup -> all the modulation/delay/reverb stuff in a multi-FX unit -> into a powered cab (I have a 2x12 50 W 1st gen Atomic Amp with a real tube power amp). That way, it would all essentially be tubes: the Nutube in the MV50 preamp, bypassed its solid state power amp because the power amp is the tube in the Atomic. Does anyone think this could work?
How does it sound playing an acoustic through it? I have a 3/4 Yamaha APX-T2 with transducers no piezo and it sounds great through my Vox DA-5 but I was wondering how this one with more power would drive the sound on this acoustic
I have a question. Maybe an idea you can make a video about. I have a valveking. Been chasing tone forever and love the simplicity of the VK112 dirt channel. I'm not over whelmed by the clean channel however. Would it be possible to wire an addition set of speaker wires from the VK combo speaker and plug into an amp like this and a/b it using the MV for cleans and the VK for my dirt? Would that split the ohms on the speaker? Would it push voltage back thru the speaker wires killing one or both of the amps? Looking for convenience but not sure about all the ins and outs of trying something like this/electricity/electronics, etc. Thanks in advance for any reply/input. Dig all the info and the channel btw. Loud Love from Colorado!
do you think this could handle small gigs? With and without the help of a PA. It has a line out so I'd only need it through a speaker cab for onstage monitoring.
I have the AC model and I love it. I got it mainly to drive a set of headphones when the rest of the house is asleep, but running it through a 10" or 12" speaker sounds great.
My question to you (also posted above as a reply to this vid, so sorry for doubling): So if I understand correctly, you can go out from the MV either into a cab with the speaker (red/right output jack) out or through the line out/headphone (left) output. What I don't like in the line out scenario is the fact that they give you a speaker emulation by default (not optional). Because the way I see the MV50's as very useful in my rig situation is: pre-MV50 -> distortion pedals/wah - MV50 on the verge of breakup -> all the modulation/delay/reverb stuff in a multi-FX unit -> into a powered cab (I have a 2x12 50 W 1st gen Atomic Amp with a real tube power amp). That way, it would all essentially be tubes: the Nutube in the MV50 preamp, bypassed its solid state power amp because the power amp is the tube in the Atomic. Does anyone think this could work?
Aaron Short. A kemper is a profiler amp, this is a tube technology tube based amp with less options than a kemper, but retains the traditional tube sound and a great clean.
Hi Dylan, can I use its line out for playing some cafe gig directly through the mixer? If I can't pack my cabinet, mic stand, and mic to mic it. What do you think about it?
yes you are right, and yes they are a great amp as is the boss katana. ownboth the vox clean and ac as well as the katana 100 head along with a vox ac 50 cp2 combo.
Allan Chapman. They sound like tubes but they are not, yes they are made like tubes exept they aren't cylindrical, so yes they are technically modern tubes except their form, but more like, square glass cubes or rectangle tube sounding instead of a traditional valve.
Right now there is on eBay is a verified Jimi Hendrix Owned/Used 1965 Fender Princeton: www.ebay.com/itm/263602156341?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 It's all about the gig or the dressing room or rehearsal space or what is available because they lost your gear etc...I have been following it to keep my finger on the pulse of the market. From what I've read Jimi would play though anything, but we all know where he ended up, with a wall of Marshall Majors the 200 watt tube amps and anything else available. Like Ampeg SVT's from the Stones. Maximum Respect
There is also on Reverb a Fender Deluxe Reverb 1966 Black EX CREAM ERIC CLAPTON JACK BRUCE amp for sale: reverb.com/item/6607987-fender-deluxe-reverb-1966-black-ex-cream-eric-clapton-jack-bruce it has come way down in price I found it around 22K. Maximum Respect
You can't generalize about SS amps: some of the greatest Blues tones of all times have been made with SS amps! BB King, Albert King: they mainly used solid state amps...my father has all the three MV50s: I tried them with different cabs (1x12 and 2x12 open back, Celestion Blue, 2x12 closed back G12T-75...) and they're not bad, but I wouldn't renounce to use my tube amps 'till my back is young and strong ahahahah! ;) IMO, you get what you pay for: if you think that these little boxes will sound like a boutique tube amp, you're on the wrong way: the cab helps, but the response\headroom is not there. It sounds like a tube PRE-amp, not like a full saturating tube amp (pre, PI, output tubes, transformer): if you generally play with the pre high, and the master low, these amps will do the trick, if you play a cranked, no MV tube amp, they will FEEL very different...
For those of us who don't care about power tube breakup/distortion it sounds like these little amps give some nice, tube like, warm cleans without breaking the bank (or the back).
@@DylanTalksTone Would you use an Impulse Response with the line out, or does the raw signal do it for you? Thanks. Great review by the way. I'm glad to see that NuTube is getting some love; it sounds great and it is actually a Valve. If you look at the technical documentation, it is pretty evident that these things are legitimately Tubes.
Why do you keep saying this is a solid state? It is of the new tube technology it has everything a regular tube has in just a smaller form factor. Hence the word "new tube" It is only the power section that is solid state . You should refer your viewers to the actual Vox website
As I mentioned in the video.... When you crank it beyond what we were able to for the video, you can really hear it. As we also mentioned in the video, this particular model is less prone to break up as it is meant to stay clean
Still watching some older posts. I missed this one altogether. I did buy one of these about 3 yrs ago and use it often. It still sounds great and has been very reliable. It's easy to move it around my room to drive different cabs.
That's my low budget review
...thanks again!!!
I have the MV-50 Rock, and it is AMAZING. This Nutube technology is LEGIT!
There is more Nutube Amps coming out soon, Big 150Watt Head and 2 more MV50s Higain and Boutique (Dumble).
I'm an old guy, and I'm getting tired of hauling around my Blues deluxe . . . And I'm getting tired of having it repaired 😣. I think the mv series is the way to go! Solid state reliably, and weighs less than 2 pounds, while sounding awesome.
have one and use it as a back up and rehearsals ..it is amazing, awesome sound, gets loud enough to cut through the mix of my Alice Cooper tribute and it takes pedals like a champ. you can run 1/2 power and crank it up, it breaks up like an el84 running wide open..love it
I love this amp. I have 2x8 vox cabs for bedroom/recording and it's a perfect pedal platform. Btw, you can jump bright and fat circuits with mini switches (that I mounted where the handle holes are). The fat is meh but the bright gives you a different voicing in the highs. Really neat.
I'm a tube amp guy all the way, but this really would come in handy for a backup to get thru the night should it arise. Was looking at the Seymour Duncan amp but I think it's like 400 hundred dollars kind of expensive to me. Thanks for the info man.
You're totally right !! I agree 200 purcent.. Between a tube amp and MV50, impossible to know which one is a vacuum tube or nutube. They sound different but both have a super sound and well react with all pedal. I use the Clean model with a Celestion Ruby 8ohm and Friedman BE-OD Deluxe + Delay + Reverb in front...
I've seen people are using these on their pedalboard to run direct. I'd LOVE to see a video doing a side by side comparison of this and the Quilter Interblock. I'm torn on which to buy as a backup to run direct. I'm leaning towards. The quilter because of FX loop and voicing switch. Same exact price too.
sounds great i was also thinking of getting a Yamaha thr5 but this might be the way to go.
So to those who are wondering if you can gig with it.....abso freaking lutley........ I have a $3000+ amplifier which is amazing...I bought one to run through a 2x12 cab with 8ohm speakers wired in series for 4 ohms to give me the full 50 watts in a two amp set up with my custom amp and it is amazing!!! I almost considered selling my custom amp and getting another one of these to run as a pair. They are truly amazing and well worth the $300aus I spent on it.
mrgretschfalcon two 8 ohm speakers in series results in 16 ohms. In parallel would be 4 ohms. Just in case you didn't realize.
Do you think I'd be able to gig with it thru an 8ohm setup?
And how do delays and reverbs work with no loop?
I’ve had a bogner 50am tube combo. No problem keeping up with grind metal drummer. In comparison, a 200W (peak) PA speaker could barely keep up, with distortion too. So is this 50w tube “similar” to a 50w tube guitar amp?
Great reviews aside, I could happily listen to Dylan's noodleing on a guitar for hours!
Lol thank you
I can hardly wait for mine to get here....I like solid state almost the same as tube stuff. I have played both for more than fifty years. My little Fender Princeton 110 has a wonderful clean tone from 1998, and SS technology has gotten way better since then. We'll see if this can replace a Marshall .......
Hey Dylan , did you try this little beauty with Kemper, İ mean how does the Kemper Preamps work with it?
If they're not already doing it, they should make 3 channel version of this.
They just released it ..www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MVX150H
I have the MV50 Rock model and I route mine guitar -> wah/overdrive/eq -> MV50 input. From there I go from the speaker output straight into a 2x12 8ohm speaker (celestions) cabinet, but I also use the pre-amp out into another amp's pre-amp (front) and hookup my chorus/delay effects through that amp's effects loop.
I am going to purchase a second MV50 and try a mod on it. I want to see if I can find room to add an additional "insert" jack somewhere on the unit and wire that up between the pre-amp and power-amp sections of the MV50, and then use that for an effects loop. Hopefully I can also loop that in before the pre-amp/headphone out jack.
How did it go, man?
Question: What speaker is inside your 12 Inch Cabinet? I really love the tone!
I wish this amp had built in reverb since it doesn’t have drive. But I guess is has treble and bass knobs like a Fender.
Am I gonna chuck my Marshall JTM 800, my Vox AC 30 or my Fender Deluxe Reverb and replace them with a cadre of these??? No. Of course not.
At the same time, will I pick up a trio of these and configure my live rig to make the most of these micro-voxes. Of course I will. Why?
If it sounds good, it is good. End of story. Besides, after almost 40 years of gigging, I’m tired of bucking around all the iron and glass.
3 years later, are you still impressed? Are you still using it?
Hey Dylan, love your content, and this video is no exception. Have you had the chance to test the VOX MSB 25 and how it compares to the MV50 ? I'm looking for an affordable, portable VOX AC30 sound.
Cool review! Thanks for posting. Keep it up Dylan!
Great demo and fine playing, thank you. So if I understand correctly, you can go out from the MV either into a cab with the speaker (red/right output jack) out or through the line out/headphone (left) output. What I don't like in the line out scenario is the fact that they give you a speaker emulation by default (not optional). Because the way I see the MV50's as very useful in my rig situation is: pre-MV50 -> distortion pedals/wah - MV50 on the verge of breakup -> all the modulation/delay/reverb stuff in a multi-FX unit -> into a powered cab (I have a 2x12 50 W 1st gen Atomic Amp with a real tube power amp). That way, it would all essentially be tubes: the Nutube in the MV50 preamp, bypassed its solid state power amp because the power amp is the tube in the Atomic. Does anyone think this could work?
Can it be used in Europe & USA? What is needed to do that. Thanks
How does it sound playing an acoustic through it? I have a 3/4 Yamaha APX-T2 with transducers no piezo and it sounds great through my Vox DA-5 but I was wondering how this one with more power would drive the sound on this acoustic
Excellent video!
I have a question. Maybe an idea you can make a video about. I have a valveking. Been chasing tone forever and love the simplicity of the VK112 dirt channel. I'm not over whelmed by the clean channel however. Would it be possible to wire an addition set of speaker wires from the VK combo speaker and plug into an amp like this and a/b it using the MV for cleans and the VK for my dirt? Would that split the ohms on the speaker? Would it push voltage back thru the speaker wires killing one or both of the amps? Looking for convenience but not sure about all the ins and outs of trying something like this/electricity/electronics, etc. Thanks in advance for any reply/input. Dig all the info and the channel btw. Loud Love from Colorado!
do you think this could handle small gigs? With and without the help of a PA. It has a line out so I'd only need it through a speaker cab for onstage monitoring.
Jake Quincey absolutely
thanks. Just what I wanted to hear.
Can i buy it in USA and play in Europe without transformator ?
Cool, Have you experienced hiss/ hum with your MV 50 clean?
I have the AC model and I love it. I got it mainly to drive a set of headphones when the rest of the house is asleep, but running it through a 10" or 12" speaker sounds great.
My question to you (also posted above as a reply to this vid, so sorry for doubling): So if I understand correctly, you can go out from the MV either into a cab with the speaker (red/right output jack) out or through the line out/headphone (left) output. What I don't like in the line out scenario is the fact that they give you a speaker emulation by default (not optional). Because the way I see the MV50's as very useful in my rig situation is: pre-MV50 -> distortion pedals/wah - MV50 on the verge of breakup -> all the modulation/delay/reverb stuff in a multi-FX unit -> into a powered cab (I have a 2x12 50 W 1st gen Atomic Amp with a real tube power amp). That way, it would all essentially be tubes: the Nutube in the MV50 preamp, bypassed its solid state power amp because the power amp is the tube in the Atomic. Does anyone think this could work?
Ah, the power amp of this amp is Class D, like a Quilter. Is that what helps it be so small? Have you tried a little Quilter?
Iggytommy yes it is, and yes I have tried a Quilter. They are amazing. Pat is a Genius.
How does it compare to your Kemper?
Aaron Short well this is only one sound so it doesn’t really compare.
I understand but I meant does the clean sound stand up to the cleans you can get on your Kemper...
Aaron Short the cleans are great. That’s exactly what this model does well.
how do they compare to your Kemper? :oP
Aaron Short. A kemper is a profiler amp, this is a tube technology tube based amp with less options than a kemper, but retains the traditional tube sound and a great clean.
Hi Dylan, can I use its line out for playing some cafe gig directly through the mixer? If I can't pack my cabinet, mic stand, and mic to mic it. What do you think about it?
YES! I used the line out quite often
From what I have seen about these amps they are not solid state, it is tube just a new design.
Allan Chapman it still has a class D solid state power section, but yes you are correct.
yes you are right, and yes they are a great amp as is the boss katana. ownboth the vox clean and ac as well as the katana 100 head along with a vox ac 50 cp2 combo.
Allan Chapman. They sound like tubes but they are not, yes they are made like tubes exept they aren't cylindrical, so yes they are technically modern tubes except their form, but more like, square glass cubes or rectangle tube sounding instead of a traditional valve.
great review. thanks man!
very nice. do you think Jimi hendrix would have liked this?!!!!!
Right now there is on eBay is a verified Jimi Hendrix Owned/Used 1965 Fender Princeton: www.ebay.com/itm/263602156341?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 It's all about the gig or the dressing room or rehearsal space or what is available because they lost your gear etc...I have been following it to keep my finger on the pulse of the market. From what I've read Jimi would play though anything, but we all know where he ended up, with a wall of Marshall Majors the 200 watt tube amps and anything else available. Like Ampeg SVT's from the Stones. Maximum Respect
There is also on Reverb a Fender Deluxe Reverb 1966 Black EX CREAM ERIC CLAPTON JACK BRUCE amp for sale: reverb.com/item/6607987-fender-deluxe-reverb-1966-black-ex-cream-eric-clapton-jack-bruce it has come way down in price I found it around 22K. Maximum Respect
You can't generalize about SS amps: some of the greatest Blues tones of all times have been made with SS amps! BB King, Albert King: they mainly used solid state amps...my father has all the three MV50s: I tried them with different cabs (1x12 and 2x12 open back, Celestion Blue, 2x12 closed back G12T-75...) and they're not bad, but I wouldn't renounce to use my tube amps 'till my back is young and strong ahahahah! ;) IMO, you get what you pay for: if you think that these little boxes will sound like a boutique tube amp, you're on the wrong way: the cab helps, but the response\headroom is not there. It sounds like a tube PRE-amp, not like a full saturating tube amp (pre, PI, output tubes, transformer): if you generally play with the pre high, and the master low, these amps will do the trick, if you play a cranked, no MV tube amp, they will FEEL very different...
Uh, The Beatles also recorded with the SS Vox amps of the time: Conqueror, Defiant etc...Sgt. Pepper is not a bad album! ;)
For those of us who don't care about power tube breakup/distortion it sounds like these little amps give some nice, tube like, warm cleans without breaking the bank (or the back).
Who made that "V"?
Do you know if the tube is used for the headphone feed? Is the headphone feed comparable to the speaker out?
TheMusicVlogger as far as I understand yes. Also, the speaker out and line out are almost identical tonally
@@DylanTalksTone Would you use an Impulse Response with the line out, or does the raw signal do it for you? Thanks. Great review by the way. I'm glad to see that NuTube is getting some love; it sounds great and it is actually a Valve. If you look at the technical documentation, it is pretty evident that these things are legitimately Tubes.
This right here is the holy grail of guitar amp technology. Now that the end of the world is here, I'm afraid they'll stop making it.
which spkr,,, mic
Can it hold its own with a drummer?
Hell yes. At full 50w into 4ohms, 1x12" or 2x12", it will keep up with a loud drummer.
I sold of my amps, I just use that baby with some pedals into a 4 ohms speaker.
Why do you keep saying this is a solid state?
It is of the new tube technology it has everything a regular tube has in just a smaller form factor. Hence the word "new tube"
It is only the power section that is solid state .
You should refer your viewers to the actual Vox website
Oh mike Humphrey.... how are ya buddy.
I have no idea what You are hearing ...
there is no discernible "tube sag" in the recording
As I mentioned in the video.... When you crank it beyond what we were able to for the video, you can really hear it. As we also mentioned in the video, this particular model is less prone to break up as it is meant to stay clean