fox369's Reviews

Greatest Flange Pedal!

Great looking, sturdy stomp-box with some fascinating tones and colours. The tones which this pedal gives off are unique and world famous.

The Greatest Amp I Have Ever Owned!

The best £160 I ever spent! These amps have long been discontinued and are now very rare and very expensive and so I was leaping for joy when I picked up this absolute beauty at a fraction of the retail price. It needed a little fixing here and there yet was well worth it and now sings beatifully. This amp is possibly the gorgeous amp you can buy without having to fork out £2000+ for a genuine 1960's AC30 or something. Aesthetically pleasing and sounds like heaven. I cannot speak highly enough of this amp.

Look and feel beautiful yet do not seem too practical or necessary.

After not too long (less than a year) my Schaller antique copper finish strap locks have weakened and I have removed them and reverted back to a regular though more reliable (believe it or not) guitar strap and do not miss these much.

Fine Pickup!

Interesting design. Does the job. The input placement is a little awkward however. Overall a good pickup that does what it is supposed to.

The Best Fuzz Pedal In The World!

This was the first guitar pedal I ever owned. A Greek friend of mine was clearing out a space and came across a vintage 1970's Big Muff Pi and so I happily bought it from him for £30. This pedal started everything for me, it changed the way my guitar sounded and compelled me to really carry on playing rock and roll music. This pedal is super easy to use and needs no instructions to operate. This pedal gives me the deepest, thickest, singing tone I have ever heard on record or live, anywhere. I am keeping this stomp-box for life and I am sure that it will prove to be a rock upon my board and the go to pedal to really pump up the jam!

My first real amp...

The Vox Valvetronix range of combo amplifiers and heads is already well established; with a reputation both for sound quality and value for money. Indeed, I now use my AD30VT for pretty much all my live performances and for recording, but what happens if you take the same amplifier, rewrite the software and then put it in a slightly taller cabinet equipped with a 12-inch speaker rather than the 10-inch speaker used in the AD30VT? The answer is that you get the AD30VT-XL — unquestionably the dark side of the AD30VT both in looks and sound. The other models in the range have also taken on companions from the dark side, so from 15 Watts to 100 Watts, you can find an XL model to suit you. The secret to the sound of these amplifiers (other than the 15-Watt model, which doesn't benefit from the tube stage) is that they combine DSP digital modelling at the front end with a 'Valve Reactor' miniature valve power stage after that, and then a high-power, solid-state amplifier to drive the speakers. The Valve Reactor switches from Class A to Class AB according to the amp being modelled, and because there's a level control following it, you can drive it as little or as hard as you like. This is a large part of what enables these amps to sound like a hard-driven tube amp at just about any volume level. Inside the AD30VT-XL the amp and DSP hardware is the same as for its better mannered sibling, but the DSP code has been rewritten to provide eleven new amp sounds, ten of which are mainly for high-gain or overdriven tones and one of which is almost ruthlessly clean. The models are based on classic vintage amps of the past, boutique high-end amps and high-gain hybrids created by the Vox engineers. Glass is the ultra clean sound based on the clean channel of a boutique amp known as the Overdrive Special whereas Funked recreates the classic US 'blackface' combo sound that is ostensibly clean but with a bit of a raw edge to it at higher drive settings. After that things get progressively dirtier, though perhaps not as nasty as the names might suggest. Buzzsaw, for example, is modelled on a well-known British 50-Watt head popular with 70s rock, while Crunched is based on a modified VOX AC30/TBX Top Boost combo. At lower drive levels this delivers the distinctive jangly AC30 sound but gets quite raunchy as you turn up the drive. Thrashed is based on a popular 1983 tube 100-Watt head while Raged, which is actually a good setting for classic rock and the dirtier side of blues, is based on the high-gain channel of another well-known modern, all-tube 100-Watt amp. Modern provides a higher gain with a scooped mid-range EQ for more overtly metal tones, while Fluid is a take on another UK present-day high-gain amp where the mid-range EQ makes it ideal for legato-style playing. Molten is based on Vox's US Hi-Gain model but with extra gain and with just a hint of an octave effect evident in the preset. Black is a sort of hybrid high-gain Class A amp, but just play the opening riff to Paranoid when you call it up and you'll know right away why they called it Black. Damaged is the final and nastiest preset, once again based on Vox's US Hi-Gain model with yet more gain and a re-voiced EQ that produces a dark sound with a gritty edge. A rotary selector switch selects the amp type and in Preset mode, each one comes up with EQ settings and effects appropriate to their style, though you can of course change these. As with the earlier AD- series amps, there are only two memories for your own sounds, though if you buy the optional VFS2 footswitch, you can also switch to the manual setting where you can set up a third sound. Eleven effect settings are available, most comprising pairs of effects. Here you get a sub-octave effect, a compressor, delay, reverb, compressor plus chorus, compressor plus phaser, chorus plus delay, chorus plus reverb, flanger plus reverb, tremolo plus reverb, and rotary plus reverb, as well as global Noise Reduction, which is a type of expander/gate to keep down noise when you're not actually playing. The effect amount may be directly controlled using the Edit knob, and holding down Tap or Bypass at the same time gives access to two further effect parameters depending on what effect or combination is active. The Tap button sets the delay time or modulation speed. A single button toggles between Channel One and Channel Two where you can save your sounds using the Save button. Press once to get into save mode, select the channel you want to save into and then hit Save again — it's that easy. Manual puts you into a 'what you see is what you get' control mode' as opposed to Preset, which calls up specific effects and EQ settings for each amp model as you select them using the rotary Amp switch.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, PRECIOUS, LITTLE AMP ON EARTH!

Ultra-small mini amps have gained great popularity as “first amps” or "practice amps." Their highly cost-effective price allows them to be purchased casually as an accessory. The convenience of battery power and their space-saving ease of use only add to their appeal. Many professional guitarists like these amps for warming up in the dressing room. The casual guitarist may enjoy keeping a mini amp in the office, in the bedroom, or may carry one for inspired performing at any time. With the VOX AC1 already a member of the VOX lineup, the new AC1 RhythmVOX adds a wealth of features never before seen on a mini amp – until now! In particular, the rhythm function rivals that of dedicated units, providing a total of 66 Rhythm/Song Patterns. The AC1 RhythmVOX is a great choice not only as a first amp, but also as a warm-up amp on the road or in your rehearsal space, for practicing using the patterns as a metronome, or even as a rhythm box. It's sure to have a long and warm relationship with any guitarist.

Great Recorder, really useful and easy to play.

"The JHS HORNBY range of student recorders has been popular with schools and colleges throughout the land for many years. These instruments match perfectly for ensemble work and are extremely affordable for both the private student and education authorities.

Manufactured from high quality plastics and ABS resin on the 500H and above, each recorder has air tight double sleeve joints ensuring exact tuning throughout the tonal range and ease of play." - http://www.jhs.co.uk/jhseducation.html

**EHX - Perfect Clone**

This pedal is a staple part of my musical diet, and I love how simple it is. It has one single turn dial, and a switch to turn the full chorus effect on or off. It has a distinct sound I have not heard anywhere else in other chorus pedals. However, and I am not whether it is just my personal pedal or not yet it does seem to eat up 9v Batteries quite quickly.

New-Retro-KORG

This is a fantastic tuner, and a great addition to my future pedal board. This pedal has 4 different display modes, inviting one to tune their strings up and down, over and over just to see the beautifully retro looking flashy lights. I have seen videos comparing different tuner stomp boxes and the KORG Pitchblack stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Super Kool Easy To Use KORG!

I enjoy this KORG tuner a lot. It is super easy to use, reacts very quickly to the strings and plugs straight into my guitar, bass or keyboard. I like the calibration function and the overall durability and reliability of this most mobile chromatic tuner.

Cool Cobalt Silvertone

This was the first Electric Guitar I ever received. My parents bought it for me once upon a Christmas, and I have never let it go. It has had its up, downs and its breaks but it still lives on. Great price, very good for beginners and is a cool guitar all round.