Hey.
I have just bought a second hand Vox AC30CC from a mate for very, very cheap. Wasnt really looking to buy one but was to good to pass up. The tone is awesome!! My problem is there is no footswitch to go from clean to distortion. Is ther a way too fix this? Get it custom setup mayby??
Any help is much appreciated
Cheers.
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There's a way you can do this, ...
There's a way you can do this, something to do with patch cables and running one channel into another, or something. Ring a shop, apparently this has been the problem with these things since forever so there is definitely a way around it.
no no no this is wrong.... just buy a ...
no no no this is wrong.... just buy a big muff pedal off trade me for 75 bucks - problem solved.
I reccomend a Big Muff + Hotcake duo....
I reccomend a Big Muff + Hotcake duo.
I recommend a Big Muff + Hotcake duo....
I recommend a Big Muff + Hotcake duo.
Goddamn spelling......
Goddamn spelling...
This would be an awful waste when you ...
This would be an awful waste when you consider how good a crankedup AC30 sounds on its own. If you want to use lots of pedals, get a Fender. You buy a Vox especially for the overdrive, no?
ok what i mean is the AC30 is a ...
ok what i mean is the AC30 is a beautifull thing and you shouldn't be messing with it, that like putting a spoiler on your HQ Holden doh. Yes a hotcake would sound better than a big muff for tubey distortion but what would sound better still is both! yes NGE i'm with you on that one
Unless its some fancy new AC30 or I am ...
Unless its some fancy new AC30 or I am a moron (which is looking likely at this stage) the AC30 doesn't have a 'dirty channel' as such. As it doesn't have input/output volumes it means heaps of volume to get that lovely fuzzy vox tone. I find that the AC30 lurves a hot cake much more than fenders (which often have GREAT amp crunch imo) and thats a good solution for those who don't want stupid amounts of volume.
you can put a patch lead from one channel to the other which can give you lots of diferent tone options but nothing to fuzzy as such (at least not in my experience) but certainly more broken up and fluffy.
The big muff is truly a great pedal but sounds nothing like tube amp distortion. A tube screamer is fairly similar to amp overloadyness but quite aggressive.
I think you need a hotcake into a rat into a tube sreamer into a big muff in a nice vintage fuzz wah with a clean boost pedal in there somewhere for subtly amp driving sounds (ie turn your wimpy strat into a beefy lespaul merely by boosting the volume before the amp....it honestly sorta works).
gear talk sheesh, i love it.
so ¿what year is it?- ¿what type of ...
so ¿what year is it?- ¿what type of speakers does it come with?
hey dude how's are ya...
hey dude
how's are ya
good point danny... the speakers in the ...
good point danny... the speakers in the AC30s range from sublime to cruddy. from ecactly the same years!
I am thinking about changeing the speaker in my delux. I may go ceramic and try and make it less toppy. there is just soooo much excessive trebble in fender amps.
The good people at Mojo sound in wellington have a whole bunch of cool modern amps, which i know even less about than vintage amps and i think they may lend the band an amp or two for recording; which will then fall in love with and need to get deeper into debt to aquire. I keep telling my dad that my guitars are like mini assets and one I will sell all but my one most favourite so I buy a house and start a family...and get a job at some govt department....and cut my brain off
//and get a job at some govt ...
//and get a job at some govt department....and cut my brain off
Don't knock it till you tried it, buddy... Brains are overrated.
At Mojo, they've got 2 new fangled AC30s... one with Celestions, one with Warfedales... I know which one I'd go for.
I haven't tried this so it might not ...
I haven't tried this so it might not work:
Plug your guitar into the louder hole on the normal channel - there's your clean sound.
Run a patch lead (or guitar lead) from the other normal hole into the loud hole on the brilliant channel.
Get a standard amp foot switch with a jack on the end and plug this into the remaining brilliant channel hole. This will switch the brilliant channel (your overdriven sound) on and off. You may have to half normal (or fuck with how far this jack is into the hole). When the footswitch is on (making a circuit) the input into the other hole should be rendered invisible.
Depending on how your inputs are wired, when the switch is off (clean sound) this may also make the normal channel disappear as well he he.
You can of course swap the channels around.