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Vox amPlug Lead

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Price New Vox amPlug Lead @ Musician's Friend
Manufacturer URL http://www.voxamps.co.uk/
Ease of Use 10.0 (2 responses)
Sound Quality 9.0 (2 responses)
Reliability 5.5 (2 responses)
Customer Support 1.0 (1 response)
Overall Rating 9.5 (2 responses)
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Product: Vox amPlug Lead
Price Paid: Euros 44
Submitted 08/30/2009 at 12:25pm by outgone

Ease of Use : 10
There is pretty much nothing you can do wrong with this thing. You can adjust volume, tone, distortion and add the delay/reverb.

Sound Quality : 9
Like mentioned before:
Made for headphones (just the regular ones, you dont need any fancy studio headphones) and I recommend using in-ear ones to cut out all the noise your strings are causing.

Awesome sound for that small piece of equipment. I was amazed when I heard it the first time. In my opinion it has enough distortion to play everything from rock to thrash.
Also the delay you can add sounds pretty decent and it gets really addicting playing with it turned on.

Only reason why I don??t give it a 10 is because it has a little little too much mids, which makes it impossible to get a scooped sound (I know it??s not made for that), but therefore you get a real creamy, 80s type, lead tone

Reliability : 7
Made of plastic and maybe a little too breakable (not that I ever dropped it, but it just doesn??t look like it would survive anything higher than your bed). I??ve only had it for three weeks now, but it works and I don??t think it will fail as long as it??s not dropped!
ANother thing is the not existing resistance of the wheels for volume, tone and dist. It seems that it??s enough to stare at it to turn those things. My tip: Once you dialed in your settings, be CAREFUL not to touch the wheels when you plug it into the guitar^^

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 9
I play mostly metal, especially with this thing and I was looking for something that would give me a nice smooth lead tone. I also wanted some kind of reverb/delay effect to it and until now I??m very satisfied with it. And don??t forget: For that price you can??t go wrong!


Product: Vox amPlug Lead
Price Paid: USD 40
Submitted 02/18/2009 at 07:03pm by KJ52

Features : 7
Has controls for volume, tone, drive and delay. Made for headphones but can be used for direct recording or into an amplifier. Would be hard to cram anything more into a this small of a package.

Sound Quality : 8
I've used it mostly through headphones but also tried it with Roland Cube 30, Peavey Classic 30 and an old 5 watt solid state "Brentwood" guitar amp from the 60's. Tons of fun, have used 72 strat and PRS SAS with it and they both sound good. Hiss is controllable with the right adjustments. With Strat I can get a great Hendrix tone ala band of gypsies era. Not for clean sounds, won't entirely cleanup even with drive comeletely off but that's not what this is for. Really easy to kill a couple of hours with.

Reliability : No Opinion
Not for gigging, would be careful with it even around the house, it would be easy to lose!

Customer Support : No Opinion
At what I paid for it (ebay), I don't care.

Overall Rating : 8
Playing since 1963, just hobby and jamming nowadays. I play a little bit of everything, when I was on the road (long ago) played mostly blues rock, etc. I would recommend this little unit to anyone. Some of my stuff is: '61 ES345, 2x 1972 Strats, '62 Gretsch Corvette, 2004 PRS SAS, Ibanez AH10, numerous Japanese old electrics, Martin D28, Ibanez Concorde, assortment of amps. If it were lost I would get another, lots of fun.


Product: Vox amPlug Lead
Price Paid: USD 50
Submitted 02/18/2009 at 01:26pm by NABIL WAHEEB CHARBEL
Email: guitwiz64 at hotmail<dot>com

Ease of Use : 10
as e'll be rewardfeasy as they come,just plug and set the gain tone and volume and wail away.and believe me you'll be rewarded whatever the settings are

Sound Quality : 9
i only gave it a 9 cause it's not a tube driven effect,but it stands it's ground even if it's a chip and transistors circuitry

Reliability : 4
sure if i'm playing in my bedroom or plugged to a mixer,would i use it on a gig? not without a backup no because it won't withstand knocks and bumps

Customer Support : 1
i tried contacting them a few times for an adaptor for my tonelab le but no reply,so i hope i won't deal with them on this one

Overall Rating : 10
i play blues rock and a bit of metal so this one can nail both ends,when lower the gain to the max you get that blues edge and if you want gobs of distortion it's readily available plus it responds well with the volume changes,i've been playing for 28 years and now i mainly play my prs custom 22 which i bought recently so i think i'm in heaven now(i've waited for it 22 years believe it or not cause i live in the middle east).i'm a bedroom player now so i chose this one som i can play on the go without hooking up my vox tonelab le which is great by the way,i would've liked a control for the delay repeat but this is asking too much of a great effect that costs no more than 50 bucks and even when the delay is switched off it still sounds great.

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