Vox AC4 C1-12 (4 Watts of Vox Valve Tone) 

SUCH a great idea to put it through that Marshall cab! Thank you for thinking to do that for us.

Elmo -Thank you for another fun, honest and entertaining amp demo and review!! 👍

dude, you do a great job of your videos. Informative yet funny. Love the levity. Would have liked to hear an LP through this amp but I think I get the idea. Sub'd!

Nice War-Face Elmo, This Amp Sounds Good!

World’s best 4 watt amp, and the more time you spend with it - the better you get on with it. At certain settings and pedals mine reverberates naturally, loud as hell! I think the 10” version has more character and open back 2x12 cabinets just roar. Don’t look for ultra high headroom clean tone - look for pedals that work with the onboard grit. I can’t live without mine. The AC10 is easier initially to get a great tone - the AC4 ages like fine wine!

I like it. No angry bees with chainsaws. No hissy snakes. No fx loop is not a big deal breaker. Not particularly heavy to lug around. And the price is easy on the wallet.

hot damn I love that Vox tone

I owned one of these about 5 years ago. Fine clean tones but boxy when cranked. After 2 years of not playing it...I sold it.

At 5:02 is what it's all about. Fat distorted sweet sticky goodness of sound. Nice demo as always. 👍

Good golly, that was some outstanding playing.

That's strat looks cool

So I bought one of these for $80 at an estate sale this past weekend that a friend of mine recommended to me after he had gone there the day before “because they had a lot of guitar stuff.” Same dude comes over to my house and takes a pic of the front and back of the amp and sends them to his old lady a day or 2 later. She’s the sound engineer at brewery that has an outdoor amphitheater that hosts 3 bands a day, and has WELL over 10k patrons on a daily basis. He then made a few videos of me dialing in a Hendrix tone, a Brian May tone (well, several actually) and a David Gilmore tone using just a Strat, a cord, and the Vox AC4. She bought this amp from me for $350 to use at their facility. The artists just bring their instruments, the house provides the amps, drum kits, pianos, etc. They mic all the amps anyway and run them through the house PA system. It doesn’t matter how loud they are. If it’s got a good usable tone, you can make 10k people hear it properly if you know what you’re doing.

Vox have always been famous for their amplifiers, the sound is just perfect, for Malmsteen and Queen + 1 more like!!!

Excellent review, greetings froms Argentina.

I have the AC4HW and the speaker took forever to break in, totally different animal now. Much prefer it to the 57 tweed champ that it replaced!

Bad ass little amp.

I had the small ac 4 watts amp.Some years laterI got a cabinet (for car sound)and a Vox 12 Speaker.My neighbors couldent never guess, that 4 Watts, with a decent speaker,. How cool sounds can played.

Any Vox AC amp works fantastic with either a Rat pedal if you set the amp on edge of break up or a Treble booster into a cranked amp, only problem with the 15 or 30 is the weight starts to become an issue.

You got that Max Headroom thing going on.

thank you for your review. Have you allready tested/tried the vox MiniSuperBeetle ? Not fully valved (Preamp Nutube+Amp SolidState), but may (May?) be better for practicing at low volume ? a 10 inch but reverb and tremolo, more or less the same price

Always great info. Have you an opinion (or video) on the Hand Wired version? Thanks. Philip NYC Area

I have one of these picked up for $149 secondhand. I really like it, but the EQ works in a bit of an odd way. The Treble knob sounds to me like it’s rolling off low-mids as you turn it up. The bass knob works the way you expect it to. But can confirm, I play this thing unmic’d with friends. At home I just use a Rat for distortion to keep the volume reasonable.

Wicked man.

Very nice review, Elmo. I’m trying to buy a 5w max amp and this fornecer help. I’d like your opinion about what amp would you buy? Could you make a showdown video? Best!

It's jolly hood.

I would buy this amp but it has no reverb.. I got the pathfinder 15 R.. the no reverb is for me a no go... the style of Vox , I love the sound yes of corse, but why no reverb?? Harley Benton can do it.. what shall I do?

Valve shmalve… the AC10 sounds better than what I’m hearing here, both clean and dirty. Good demo!

Choosing between this and Marshall dsl1cr. I usually play thrash and heavy metal and hard rock (but sometimes I love to play blues, depends on the mood). So what should I choose. And btw I really hate "boxy" sound

vox ac4c1-12 or Laney Cub12R or Fender Bassbreaker 007?

Does this amp work well with pedals, and does it sound good with distortion pedals, and would it sound good as a metal style amp

I got mine cheap ,so I put in a blueback speaker and Boogie valves.Now fav. Amp ever...all I need for home

I’ve had this amp a week and can’t find any weakness. With a Strat its killer! I have to wait for the wife to go out before I can crank it.

you should try the ac4tv it's almost like this but change the speaker from 12 to 10 and the controls

Just bought one second hand for 175 euros. Sounds great And has more grit than my bugera v5. And for the price I couldn't say no.... It was cheaper than the bugera. Jijiji

Great review, Elmo. Thanks for playing "normal" music as well ;) Three years ago I bought the AC4-TV (I think that's what it was). Great looking white amp. It came with a a built in power soak attenuating down to something like 1W and 1/4W. The lowest setting was atrocious -- sounded like a swarm of buzzing mosquitoes. The 1W setting was ok, but honestly, the amp needed to be played wide open with lower volume for it to sound good. However, it came with a 10" speaker... it was trebly enough to cut through the windows of the house. Yes, way too loud for ordinary home use (at least with a half-decent tone). Overall, I found it awful and returned it. No regrets. I was always wondering if the 12" model would be better but after hearing your demo, I don't think so. Oh, and no, playing a reverb pedal into the front was not a good sound! I agree that the AC10 would be way better.

I was looking at a used AC4 that sounded pretty decent in the store, but didn't really get to crank it. From what I'm hearing here, it sounds like it's giving up a bit with higher gain. Might have to take a pass on this one. Love to hear suggestions for a small-ish tube amp I can pair with my DSL-5 for a dual amp rig. Cheers

Sir,can you tell us about that fender yjm overdrive....is that one is the same like the old black yjm that need noise suppresser pedal...and can that pedal can be use with humbucker kind of guitar...tq

Great review, but i wonder if it is usable at low volumes at home?

Sounds good on clean and light overdriven ... and at 10:06 !!!

Great video but just one doubt... between this AC4 12 and the AC10 which one do you prefer?? I'll appreciate u reply me 😊

Hahahha I really like that I want to break free solo piece

I owned one. Used to run it parallel with a Orange Micro Dark w/ a 1x12 cab via Radial splitter. Fantastic recording sound! Way too loud for my small apartment tho, and both unfortunately went with a bunch of other gear during the "Great Covid Gear Purge of 2020". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2:53 let's drop gain 3:00 let's add a bit of gain :)))

Oh, you need to turn it up.

My brother works for Evertune and he keeps this amp on his work bench. He told me it was very LOUD and sounds great for the buck...if I recall...the only drawbacks if that's what you want to call them...just the obvious quality issues inside the amp...that one would expect from an amp made overseas nowadays.

I bought the AC4 TV and couldn't get a good sound out of it , way too muddy. Returned it and got the AC4 112 and in stock form it was much better. After replacing the stock crap speaker with a British blue Celestion, just barely fit, and doing the tone cap mod for better bass control this amp screams! When I plug it into my 410e Peavey cabinet with stock speakers it gets really fat sounding.

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Your amps sound better turned off than mine sound turned on. :)

add gain... and check out if your audio card clipping lights are brighter than the sun (-:

Ok.... how does it compare to a Katana!? Don't you just love it. At least you know I'm watching

10:07 = Flight of the junkie Bumblebee

thanks for saving me from buying this mistake.

I love tone and a low watt all tube amp is a perfect platform for home or small gigs BUT this awesome little amp even with it's 12" speaker is hard to find but lacks one much needed thing and that's AN EFFECTS LOOP!!!! Without reverb built into the amp it should have an effects loop for modulation effects so they don't muddy up the front end of an amp,and one more thing is it should have a mids EQ but that can be fixed with a simple EQ peddle

Thanks I know now I don't want one of these... think I can just about get away with AC15 at home. Plus I know I can take the same app to the gig.

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wonderfull but no clean tone ? Thx for great demo, very fast playing .....

IMO such low watt tube amps do not make sense. I tested and owned lot of them, my conclusion is they are too loud for use in a flat, but not enough loud to gig, and at low volume they sound is thin. In particular the AC4 C1 has got top-boost eq, but miss the cut treble control that is useful to tame hight frequencies, also the cabinet is too small for 12" speaker and miss low end. For bed-room use modeling amps perform way lot better and costs less.

This amp with a surfybear metal reverb is all anyone could want

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Everyones a comedian. oy vey

Sounds flubby

Sounds like even the slightest touch of low end in this thing makes it fart 😆 oh well nice try vox.

Tone is sharp and scratchy to my ears. I'm sure Vox AC4 is a great amp with a long history ... but why doesn't it sound great? I don't think EVH and Lynch could get their tones out of these ... It's puzzling.

You should talk more, I stopped the video at 3 minutes in and you were still yapping.

Sounds flat and dead in the lower registers. Needs to be set free (sorry Brian - 2 winces in one video !).

To me it sounds choked like something is holding it back, don't like it much

Let me guess does he hate it because it doesn't have an effects loop 🤣🤣🤣 - this guys entertaining but can't take him serious. His name is not difficult to pronounc. Subbed for entertainment.