FIRST ►►Support the channel and get all the best guitar deals here: ► Sweetwater: imp.i114863.net/X6OrM ► Thomann: bit.ly/3opdh5w -------------------------------------------------------- ►Support the channel by becoming a member: ru-vid.com/show-UC8xsdxRvwRvNyl74kLDaOnwjoin ------------------------------ ► Try GuitarTricks for really great online guitar lessons: www.guitartricks.com/? a_aid=5f7fe527e8aba Get the AC10 here: Sweetwater imp.i114863.net/b33vvP Thomann bit.ly/38Jtcph Amazon (US) amzn.to/3vrxOtM Amazon (CA) amzn.to/2OFUC8D Amazon (UK) amzn.to/3qVirpS I've always been a huge fan of Vox Amps. This is an unboxing and first impressions of the Vox AC10 that I just bought from Sweetwater. Come back soon for a full deep dive demo and review. Wut R Timestamps? 0:00 - Hello 0:05 - This is the frequency 0:15 - I can't remember 0:30 - I'm not going to do those things I just did 0:50 - Big Brother is watching you 1:05 - I like Vox, a lot 1:25 - All the Vox 2:07 - What is this amp? 2:17 - so poor I couldn't even pay attention 2:33 - can I even do this? ru-vid.com/group/PLUKDOD2AiVCiI8jr-BfZl6bKv9P5x8ZsY 2:40 - Disclosure about the amp 3:03 - where am I? 3:23 - Exactly how much it cost for a Canadian 3:33 - I said duties 3:55 - what is this video not is. 4:10 - the actual unboxing finally 4:27 - what these videos are 4 real 5:03 - Foam fighter 5:25 - stool sampling 5:40 - debagged 5:55 - clearly high on the off gassing 6:10 - Tone samples - clean - dirty - all of the place. no 9:40 - No more tone samples. The part when I stop playing and starting rambling more. 11:34 - what the guitar isn't on the wall. 11:55 - Goodbye
Love what you're doing with the chapters. Always a laugh! For some of us bedroom players unfortunately the question is not "how loud does it get", but "how quiet can it get" :D
@@landonbailey haha, I'll keep my Vox Mini5 then until I can get into a band practice space 🤣 Funny enough, btw, my only problem with something like the mini5 is that it's meant to be used without pedals, but my tele is so "vintage" low powered I can't get any dirt without a boost 🤣🤣
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I love the VOX sounds! Have 4, 10, 15 & 30 watt versions! Head, combo & 2x12 combo. Just awesome!
@@landonbailey 42 years playing I've traded, sold and given away gear. That's my current VOX amps. Not included Marshall 100 Watt heads, combos, Fender 100 Watt heads & combos, Laney, Blackstar, Orange amps I've kept since 1979
From Leo: The AC 15 and the AC 30 have always been amazingly loud, looks like the AC 10 is following the tradition. Glad you could get one. I would like to hear more of the Tele with that amp. I'll bet it really works well with the JazzMaster also.
Beautiful guitar! Landon plays guitar very well and is an awesome singer, if you've heard him sing you'll relate. Ide like to hear more vocals. Anyone else agree?
I have a Vox 15W Pathfinder, I got it about 20 years ago. And I have a 10W Pathfinder headed my way from Sweetwater. This one I got mainly for the very simple controls. Anyhoo, for me, a Boomer, Vox is a Beatle thing. Love your show! Subscribed, Landon!
This is a perfect bedroom amp. I put a Timmy pedal in front of it just to give it a *tad* bit of dirt, and it's lovely. The onboard reverb is really nice to my ears. I certainly don't need anything more.
It seems like an excellent choice for playing at home and recording, though I'd probably get an AC15 for the tremolo and larger speaker if I could only get one Vox amp.
Ended up in a cheaply built seniors only building no way I can use an amp speaker out, no matter how quiet. I'm tempted by the VOX Cambridge 50 cause it's analog/Nutube, has headphone out, and speaker if I ever need it. That AC10 is awesome with that Tele!
Being from North America you get Fender clean drilled into your head all the time. So I rented a Vox AC-15 and was blown away from the clean tone - really nice. You should do a WET-DRY set-up with the Princeton and AC-10. Would love to hear that.
My main amp is a Vox AD120VTX Valvetronix from the early 2000s. At its lowest attenuation, it's a hybrid amp, and I love it at home. Eventually, I will own a handwired AC30 (and a handwired Fender Deluxe Reverb), and then I will be mostly satisfied in amp tones (lacking a Marshall JCM800).
Got a used one today....surprised with the low end...for a 10 inch speaker...low is full/warm but very clear I guess BECAUSE of the smaller speaker....tighter? Overall...nice. Compares favorably with my Blues Jr (TRex).
I rented one from L&M last year and kept it. It was brand new, speaker took a few hours to settle. Sounded much better after that. Love it. Funnily enough I’m thinking about a Princeton now!
@@landonbailey since it was new it was full retail. Didn’t mind, not super expensive. I ordered a set of JJ tubes and put them in, made a tad more headroom perhaps. Not a huge diff. I heard the cheap factory tubes were the weak spot but I’d maybe just wait until you use them up. I’ve also been wanting an American Original guitar, a Jazzmaster, but the mercury American Pro II looks pretty hot. You liking the tele?
I had one of these in the limited “cream bronco” tolex a couple years back. Was great for playing and recording in an apartment especially with a master volume. I really connected with that amp.....not a close one but definitely a second favorite to my Princeton’s I’ve owned.
Master? I had a regular one, but it didn’t have a master and I just couldn’t keep it a reasonable volume without sounding a little thin. I’d consider buying one with a master.
@@jburdsinfuse seems I misremembered the details. It had separate gain and volume which I used to get quiet driven tones the way I would a MV AC15. I’m sure there are differences technically speaking. Mic’d up with gain it made a full sounding recording but prefer Vox for gain, Fender for cleans so I rarely left the gain out
I have a AD15VT, a very good friend of mine gave it to me when I needed a amp. I feel blessed by it, I love Vox amps myself. I have had a fender mustang 15w, I didn’t care for it so I sold it. I had a line 6 spider 20w, I liked it more than the fender. I had a Marshall code 50 and that thing was crazy nuts, a lot of effects and it was loud, but it was way to big for my room and I sold it.
Landon, I recently impulse bought a cream-colored AC30S1 Creamback largely because your early videos on Vox amps got me so hyped up for that sound. This AC10C1 is just a more manageably sized / watted size of that same circuit from what I read, the only reason I didn't go for the AC10C1 is because it did not have an effects loop. Strangely enough the AC30S1 is easier to tame to a manageable level in my apartment because I can just throw a volume pedal in the effects loop. PS: I had no idea Radiohead played teles and Voxes, yet another reason to love their music.
Odd. Just bought a Godin, and I was looking at either an ac10 or an ac15. I like the vox sound. Kinda clean without the "ice pick" highs of some clean amps. Nice review.
@@landonbailey oh, and the Fender Blues Jr has the master control volume. That way you can crank up the gain and the volume to get it to break up, then turn the master control down to lower the overall volume. Kind of like an attenuator. I tried it at the music store. I'm too broke to own one. Lol
Great video!!!! I just purchased this amp and I have no pedals. Hearing it just out the box was great. Only wish you had shown the setting you used. Thanks for posting and I will like and subscribe.
I have a recently manufactured Vox AC30 head. It has built in power scaling and that allows me to crank it at 2:00 a.m. without waking the neighbors, or far more dangerous, the missus. I’ve been told by the Vintage Ultra Lofty Vox Aficionados (aka VULVA) that I don’t have a REAL Vox, real like one made by the Jennings owned Vox with a 1964 manufacture date. They can just bite me. My AC30 head sounds unequivocally like an AC30. I’ll admit that a vintage AC30 has a bit more of the Voxiness here and there, but it’s not enough to justify paying $5,000+ and then have to stock up on certain rare-ish spare parts and then spend a few hours each month going through and checking and finding the bits that are about to die so that I have a reliable amp for each gig or for a studio session (not all studios have a storeroom chock with the U&C amps, well not anymore)...I bring my AC30 to the session as I’m occasionally requested to do so. I’ve do mine my own amp work for the few older amps I’ve owned over the years because the true vintage years are not rocket science to work on. I don’t own amps that are as old as I am, or close to it anymore. Why see the part above about why I won’t own a vintage Vox. I learned the hard way with Fender, Marshall and HiWatt. My point is that new Vox sounds like Vox and with new bits and modern accoutrements it’s the bomb. Even though my AC30 with the power scaling handles the lower volume requirements as the AC10 also does, it is a combo (not a head & 2x12” cab as is my present Vox) and that makes load in/load out for small gigs (if we ever get to do that again) and possibly studio sessions. I’d have to side by side compare it with my AC30 first. In the video, it sounds great. I like that it’s available where I’m at on the west coast for under $500. Thank you for the excellent presentation and the heads up for an Über Cool Amp.
cheers! I had the AC15CH and ya the attenuator is great. I would love to hear a blind tone comparison between a vintage Vox and the current generation stuff.
I have the white version of this amp. I LOVE it! I put a G10 in it, and man it sounds huge! I also replaced the tubes with JJ's since the factory ones died.
I always appreciate an unvoxing video! I like running two amps together...I use a splitter vox.although a stereo effects pedal would do the same thing. One line to the Fender the other to the Vox...you're going to love what you can do with that...some gain on one, the other just reverb, etc..
AC10 and a Princeton pretty much the ideal at home valve amps in my opinion, run them wet dry keep the ac10 as your dry amp it’ll sound massive only using two small combos.
Very cool lamp. Haven't owned a guitar amp and 15 years. I'm always playing through my effects straighten tool my interface do my studio speakers I had a box AMP one time a long time ago 30 years ago you could play bass and or guitar on it it had two 15 inch speakers in it and a huge head I go something like 300 watts. Tubes if I remember right boxes always had cramps. And by the way Donner has a tele out you might want to check it out
Good point on liking a video... we're always told to do so before even watching the videos. Cool little amp! I'd get that. Don't have room for one of those large amps.
To Vox, or not to Vox. That, my friend, is the question of the day. I did my Vox earlier today, just in case it matters : V212C (inside of a Fender Mustang GTX100😊). I think I will see if I can pull an AC10 out of that same magic hat? The AC10 looks and sounds great!
Change the power tubes to JJ and the preamp ones to svetlanas and complement it with a speaker changer to a Celestion Greenback G10 ... tone heaven! And the amp becomes even louder :) But it removes the boxyness you get a bit.
I believe that a Canadian importing an item from the US to Canada, there is a magic number above which duties and tariffs kick in. That number, the last time I checked, was $800 USD.
You gotta like this video, people! And subscribe. And complain to Fender about Landon not getting a shot at that Fender Acoustajaguar thingy. That Vox. Man, that Vox...
Just bought one of these in Australia, changed out the preamp tubes to a 5751 in V2 and a 12AT7 in the PI tube and put Gold Lion EL84's in the output, and changed the bias resistor to 180 ohms. This amp is so warm and clean now. Check out the Guitar Amp Tech RU-vid channel, he steps through the biasing..... Love this amp!
hey cool! I'm liking it all stock right now. mods are fun for sure. These amps are self biasing as far as I know, I'm no expert in amp tech at all. was the bias adjustment needed because of the different resistor?
@@landonbailey the bias resistor at standard 120 ohms overdrives the power tubes. Bringing the bias resistor up to 180 ohms gives a bit more clean headroom, so the gain/output stage doesn't saturate as early. Check out the Guitar Amp Tech at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D1Cydw-dejs.html for the mods he's done, makes the amp cleaner all the way through the gain settings. I can have this clean up to around 1 o'clock on the gain now and sounds very warm and full and, given the 10 inch speaker, it's got a really good bass response. The preamp tube changes out the 12AX7 to a 5751, so slightly less gain in the preamp, and the 12AT7 in the PI boosts the clean headroom as well. You still get the chime, but doesn't saturate as early. Great for Blues but still drives hard in the higher gain settings, so you get the Vox rock 'n' roll there there too. Crank the reverb for that Apache vibe. Minimal changes, but big results, soooo good. I can't stop playing through this, awesome with single coils, Tele and Strat just sing through this thing. Best bang for buck value, sounds huge. Love it!
So actually today I brought a brand new Marshall DSL40 home. I looked at an AC30 but right now I’ve only got a Blues Jr right now and I just thought the 40 made more sense to me. I think I’ll get a Vox next tho.
@@landonbailey It’s so loud man! I watched your stuff on soundproofing and panels and I think I need some panels. There’s no one in the house to bother and neighbours whatever they don’t care about me so soundproofing not so much. But yeah I really like it. Way more versatile than the Jr. I’m not right into effects so I haven’t played with the loop yet. But like I said I might look at a Vox next. Maybe the 10. Anyway great content as usual man. PS I’m Canadian too what’s the best place this side of the border for parts like tuners bridges etc?
Cool vid, I don't have anything else to add. I'm just doing my viewer participation so youtube promotes your channel. That way I can see paul rudd demo the acoustisonic mustang next year.
