Who has experience of the new Vox AC30 C2 amps?

GratefulFan wrote: Meant for fun, but I can take it down if it annoys.

Nah, keep it up man! That was brilliant work there :)

inu-liger wrote:
most Average Joes don't know nor do they give a rat's ass about the most minute of details. To them, it's just a little decorative piece on the big cake that they're not going to notice anyways. The hardcore fan minority are the only ones who are likely to give a shit anyways, really, and even then...

I used to think that too, but I've come to see otherwise.

These seemingly small things are not so small. A few "small" differences like this in a show can make the difference between someone saying "I liked it" or "I didn't like it"... even if they can't fully explain why. Most music fans aren't musicians, but in some indescribable way, many of them still notice.

Ahh :/

...the same way people decide if they like a dish at a restaurant. The chef is cooking for the average joe - not fellow chefs. An extra spice or two can make all the difference.

And so can turning a knob on a guitar amp. "They sucked live" can actually mean "they were too loud" which can actually mean "the guitar had too much top end" which can actually mean "their sound guy was an idiot."

Food for thought, I hope .. ?

That's a good way to put it, I suppose

Put Sovetek el84 tubes and brittish alnico blues into the c2, put a fryer deluxe treble booster in front then play the Brian May Super guitar through, they sound really good.

Ah, the tubes in the one I'm playing thru are CHINESE!!!  You may be on to something.

@ Grateful Fan, Real Wizard, etc..
Yes, keep it up.  Interesting that something that was so bad and horrible has been turned into a punchline.... by the people that claimed it so bad and horrible!!!  

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a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
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You have no sense of humour whatsoever, do you?
No wonder everyone regards you so negatively

Changing the tubes will make a minimal difference to the sound, however the speaker is the main area you need to focus on when buying an amp, years ago it was common practice to replace speakers in amps, these days nobody seems to do it prefereing to stick with what they get as stock. Change the greens to blues and you are 98% there.
Litte confused by Micorwaves posts, you said you have not heard or played the new AC30's, yet you dont like the sound?
Go try the AC30c2x it has the right speakers, or go buy an AC30C2 and stick blues in it...much cheaper...but you get the same amp.
When you've dont that you get everythimg form classic Hank Marvin, to Keith Richards to Brian May, it makes for a truely amazing amp, all the tone of a vintage with teh durability of a new one, plus you can play it at low volume and still get the tone.

Micrówave wrote:
Here's my keyboard (Nord Electro 3) which costs more than EVERYTHING in your picture about to be played in front of 40,000 people and national TV (ABC) in Dallas on New Year's Eve a 1½ months ago.  We headlined.  I think I know a little bit about amplifiers.That's a Valley Arts Electric you can slightly see in the picture as well...  again, costs more than EVERYTHING in your picture.

Pre gibson/pre samick?

Or the new ones?

i have seven of the old ones...and in all honesty...they are the only ones worth talking about!

And If this new Vox has a master volume then for bedroom players or small giggers...it's already better.

you can't realistically use a Vox ac30 at home or in a small gig...only if you're doing big gigs.

and if you want british...marshall all the way!

Micrówave wrote:  @ Grateful Fan, Real Wizard, etc..
Yes, keep it up.  Interesting that something that was so bad and horrible has been turned into a punchline.... by the people that claimed it so bad and horrible!!!  

hyp·o·crite

noun 

1. 

a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.  

With all due respect Microwave, get stuffed.  I find it unlikely that I need to slowly explain concepts of satire and the absurd to someone like you.  A person who cracks an Osama bin Laden joke doesn't surrender their moral right to feel horror at acts of terror.  Jon Stewart doesn't take to the airwaves with 30 minutes of hypocrisy four nights a week.  I don't personally have the generally negative view of you that Richard describes, but you've done a great deal of late to suggest that you are limited in ways I would not have anticipated all the same.  Among other things, It's a bit hard to swallow when the same guy that unflinchingly deploys biting humor as a device *all the time* wants to (absurdly) call it something like 'hypocrisy' when it catches him a little on a subject he doesn't completely like. My personal bar for posting that picture was "Would this make me (perhaps grudgingly) laugh if the tables were turned?".  It would have, so I did.  As I think it's fair to say that ensuring comfort is clearly not the goal of about 90% of your posts, that was a mental courtesy of sorts that you probably hadn't really earned anyway. Regardless, as it was your picture I defaced without consent I've decided to remove it. Can dish it out endlessly, but not really down with taking it.  So noted.

GratefulFan wrote:
It's a bit hard to swallow when the same guy that unflinchingly deploys biting humor as a device *all the time* wants to (absurdly) call it something like 'hypocrisy' when it catches him a little on a subject he doesn't completely like.

Wait a minute, isn't that ... hypocrisy?

Exposing binary thinking - one of life's greatest virtues.

-removed at GratefulFan's request-

Definitely keep it there, Digi-liger. It's the closest you'll ever be to playing for a crowd that large!!!!

Unless you can get that band you had back together and "come up with amazing guitar solos where it's needed".
www.last.fm/music/Unbalanced

Are those amazing Squier solos or did you break out the Peavy Raptor?