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Surprisingly playable guitar
I have the white early '70's one with single pole pickups. The neck is comfortable and the balance is good. When I take it to the rehearsal space everyone checks it out (as in what the hell is that ... uh, can I try it?). It sounds fine. I'm not sure it has a distinctive tone, but you can certainly make your own via pedals or amp. It "colors" well if you do that.
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Classic looks, takes some effort for good tone
I've always loved the trapezoidal looks of the American made Vox amps. Yes, the Beatles only used them on the final U.S. tour in '66, but they used solid state gear to record in the mid 60's and it sounded great. This amp is old (or vintage) paired with it's cab it looks fantastic. All the detail you'd ever need is on the Vox Showroom site. It plays fine (and foot-switch works and they are hard to find), but has a bit of a hum and needs tweaking (which I'm told can be done). It is loud and bright.
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they didn't use a as much of the vox conquerors and defiants as you think, they used more of the hybrid amps (revolver, sgt pepper, parts of mystery tour) as well as a blonde fender bassman 6G6B, a slmer zodiac, a selmer treble 'n bass and ender dual shomans... deluxe reverbs and the bassman 50 came ina round white album... the solid state voxes were a passing thing as mucha s the ac30s and ac15. People think of those amps, but a lot of teir vox tones on the records are ac50s, ac100s and those UL hybrid voxes... for some reason we all see them with ac30s or with conquerors though!
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Yes, it's hard to know exactly what was used when and yes they didn't stick with it (maybe some use during '66/'67). I guess the point being at the time anyway tubes were not revered like now (solid state was the go-go future! Satellites and all that). Anyway, mine sounds good and looks great. It could sound better with a bit of love.
247
Awesome, harmonically rich fuzz pedal
It can generate a wide variety of fuzz tones from smooth to harsh but still musical. And it looks fantastic! Not many of these made (somehow I got one).
247
Weird and wonderful
As a guitar player, at first I wasn't sure how to use this thing. It wasn't cheap, but looked fun so I saved up to buy it. It is not intuitive, you have to play with for a while but it can make some marvelously weird noises. You can plug other things into it, too, like drum parts or synth and tweak them. Quite frankly, I will never be able to shred, so "boxes" help me find a unique sound. If they help cover up playing deficiencies so be it.
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Does what you'd think
You can get wild sitar sounds out of it, but also atonal not so musical sounds if you are not careful. Takes some experimenting. Turn the lights down low and trip out.
