Vox Tonelab SE

Fairly simple to use,

It sounds digital. Effects are good. Especially the delays and chorus.
The EQ knobs could do a little more. Definately lacks bass. The wah has a digital sound, kind of disappointing.

So Far so good.

It would be nice if you could swap presets with other players on there web site. Other wise experiance with customer support.

I play Rock and blues. I'm using a Rocktron Prophisy and a VHT power amp. I've been playing for about 20 years. I'm disappointed with the Vox SE. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it yet or send it back. It has some good tones but for the money it just seems to be lacking something. It might be in the cab models. The effects are overall pretty good. Better than line 6. Also the tube has a light behind it to make it look like its working. I heard from a dealer rep. that theres only 1 watt passing through the Tube. Take that for what its worth.

this is the "upgraded" version of the tonelab and VC-12 and i liked the firs version better. This unit is much more complicated than it needs to be, the simplicity of the other tonelab was ideal. There is a manual which is very good but also very long.

well, there is less gain and presence than there was on the original tonelab and there is also more digital noise. The sounds are overall fairly weak and they deleted my three favorite patches (voxman,haven,and police)from the other tonelab. There is also less, and not much to begin with, bass on the EQ so if you want more bass you are screwed if you are running it through the FX Return on the back of your amp unless tou are running through a mixer.
Another thing to consider, if you plug it in and it sounds muddy and dosent have any presence and you are running through the fx return, you want to push the global buttin then push the up or down arrow untill you see LN(line) not AP which means amp. I know is confusing but it is on page 15 of the manual.

well, I would most likely use it with out a backup because I have a Marshall AVT 275 which has built in effects that would do fine in an emergency situation.

never dealt with the company for problems but I do my business directly through them and they have always taken good care of me.

I love melodic metal and good 80's rock so it was a good match but just not as balzy as i would like. There were a lot of very cool sounds and things to play with and it has a volume and a secondary expresion pedal for wah, pitch shift, modulation and delay timing and more.

This is where this unit really wins - I've only had it 3 days & have already dialled up some killer sounds direct to my pc. It literally took me a few minutes to get better mid gain sounds than I have achieved before. The two amps per patch function is really useful - you can setup rhythm & lead on each & leave the pedal free for someting else (other that an lead boost).

Used a strat & a prs both sound v. good with it. More than flexible enough for me - amp/cab mixing yields some very nice sounds. Effects sound very good to me, incl. the wah. Used it through the effects return of my valvetronix & cornford amps - sounds great through both. I've had a hard time deciding which amps I like best as they can all sound very good. The 68P marshall gets some fab sounds just breaking up - amazingly valve-like.
Going direct sounded as good as miking up speakers when recording.
Only small complaint is that there is a little more hum than I would expect but it isn't enough to bother me - definitely there though.

I'd not gig without a backup of some sort. It looks very well made and a nice design too.

No idea but I've heard good things.

I've had/have a lot of Line6 gear, this is much easier to use & to get great sounds out of, especially in regard to clean & just breaking up sounds (I play mainly blues & rock - no metal).
It's knocked my socks off so far. Got better sounds to disc that ever before in a few minutes. Well worth a try.

It's easy to turn the knobs. The problem lies with getting to know the sophisticated features beforehand. With, for instance, Line6, you can get to know any device inside out just by downloading the manual. Nothing of the sort with Vox. I have demoed it only in the shop and I'm not that interested in the presets (altough they sound good). I want to know how much power I have over the features and parameters of the device.
As Vox hasn't been able to let us know all the effects that come with the device, I'll try to do it for everyone:
Pedal:
Orange Dist
Fuzz
Octafuzz (octave up)
Comp
Acoustic
Vox Wah
Auto Wah
U-Vibe
Blk Org Phase
Octave (down)
Ring Mod
Treble Boost
Tube OD
Super OD
Boutique
Fat Dist

New Cabinet: Tweed 1x8

Modulation:
Classic Chorus
Stereo Chorus
Classic Flanger
Bi Chorus
Duo Phase
Textrem (tremolo)
Rotary (sounds awful, why didn't they utilize Korg's G4 technology?)
Pitch Shifter
Mod Delay (1)???
Filtron
Talk Mod

Delay:
Echo Plus
Multi Head
Analog Delay
Mod Delay (2)??? Did they run out of effects?
Sweep Delay
Stereo Delay
Cross Delay
2 Tap Delay
Rhytm Delay
Hold Delay
Reverse Delay (cool backwards effect)

Reverb:
Spring 1&2
Plate 1&2
Chamber 1&2
Room 1&2
Hall 1&2
Gate

There are visible screens for Tuner, Banks, Patch Names (now you don't have to rely on your memory alone to tell which sound lives in which patch, eg. "black od" instead of "4 C") and some other trivial info. The tuner comes on really quickly (with L6 Floorboard you have to stand on the switch for ages).

The presets sound really good, as does the individual amp models and the effects (save for the rotary). The expression pedal instead of just Wah is a cool feature (although it leaves me guessing again). Only the mod, delay and reverb are changeable in the effects chain.
But as I said I have only demoed it (though couple of times with several guitars).

Looks and feels very sturdy.

How hard it is to make a PDF of the already ecxisting paper manual???

This far it seems to be the best option out there for palying live (SE=Stage Edition) and I will grab one as soon as I get rid of my POD. But there are many questions I haven't been able to find an answer for. Like can more than only one effect be used simultaneously from "pedals" (octafuzz+univibe, Wah+anything else)? Can I use a separate volume pedal and use Tonelab's own pedals as an expression pedal and a Wah? Argh, if only I could download the manual! But otherwise it feels like an ispiring product.