Vox AD50VT 112 Combo

Purchased this amp from Best Buy in July/09 (Yep, just a few stores have a pretty good music instrument department) new in the box (clearance for VT50). I suspect the amp was made in the last year produced (2008) and has the fan that makes a slight noise but nothing that drives me nuts. Wish it had had more memory channels but for the price wasn't a deal breaker. The amp has all I need and more. Tweeking the amp models with the effects gives you more sound variations than ever dreamed. I'm just a weekend jammer with friends so this amp is more than I really need but gives the versitality to play anything.

Sound is what ever you want it to be. Reverb and chorus allow you to do just about anything and coupled with the amp models you find yourself fiddling around just to see how many sounds are in that box. Honestly, I hadn't heard of an "amp modeling" type of amp until my brother-in-law explained it to me. Not having a standard guitar amp for 20 years (just got the Ampeg bass amp last year)I was out of the market and wanted a good amp for a descent price. Kowing this amp has been upgraded to the VT and XL models offering 2 - 3x's the amp modeling presets, price drove me to search for a AD50VT which fills my sound needs above expectations. I did play the VT50 and it does offer more amp modeling pre-sets but the AD50 will get you there or close to it by just experimenting. Good cleans and as much distortion as you'll ever need or want (at least for this old guy).

Have only owned the amp for a couple of months....all is O.K. for now.

I have been playing for over 30 years (mostly acoustic) and have owned a 66 Tele, Ovations, Hagstroms(68 original) and curretnly have a Samic (Les Paul and looking for more Samics and Agile Tele), Ovation XL Legend 12-string, playing a Epiphone Les Paul Bass through an Ampeg 115HP and also have a Yamaha YPG-625 88 key for just messing qround. After playing through a Crate, Line-6, and a variety of other modeling amps I decided to buy the AD50VT (price at Best Buy was a huge factor). So far so good. I am reading the manual each time playing. Be surprised how much it helps in tweeking for the sound you want. Has a slight fan noice but nothing that drives me nuts. The 11 amp models are great plus the effects you get more than enough variations. I am a wannabe rocker at heart and mainly jam with friends and a brother-in-law who played professionally back in the 80"s and currenlty owns original Les Pauls,Strats, Martins, Taylors and plays through a 25 year old Mesa 10" - 30 watt. So far he likes the amp as well.

I have a VOX AD50VT 1x12 combo. Made in 2006. I play blues, rock, metal and jazz. This amp, is what it is. It is not good enough for me for jazz. The Mesa example doesn't have the feel of a true tube amp.I just don't feel the warmth and dynamics when you back down the gain or even backing down the guitar volume. It's not their in preset either. But with that said it does have some impressive tones and features. I use this amp at home and at band practice. It has the power for a four piece band. But know your limits. Another guitar player will walk all over you voice if you don't tweak the mid's with an EQ and/or some type of boost to cut threw or grab frequencies that aren't used by the other guitar player. The effects are useless except a little reverb , delay and the comp. The comp is percusive witch is not what I want all the time out compression.

I mainly use fender stratocasters. I have a 79 and a 60th Anniversary mexi strat with Tex-mex in the neck and middle position. And a Semour duncan Hot rails in the bridge. I know...I can here the hiss and boos. The new strat sounds better on this vox than the 79. I love the Dumble clean at high volumes. In manual setting tweak the mid and bass. Tweed is awesome its as close to vintage as you can get for your money. Like I said before it is what it is. The UK 70 in some of the other reviews has been labeled a Marshal JTM 45 OR a super 800. I am pretty sure it's a HI-WATT and wow it has a bottom end to it that has some punch!!! My 2 favorites are US hi gain and boutique od/Dumble. CRANKED UP!!! Turn back the volume on the gtr and this is some of the most exciting tones I have ever made. US HI-G makes me feel like I have something close to a Solano. It gets muddy with boost or tube overdrives. The nu-metal is just down right awful to me. I have never heard a mesa sound like it. It's a misrepresentation of a dual-rec. Theirs no control over its harshness and it seems very mechanically sounding. The AC 15 & AC 30TB that's the original boutique sound. Very close to the original and should be for obvious reasons. I hear from a lot of guys that's a Vox don't sound like one. Because I wasn't modeling one. Other player are impressed with the sound , the price and the Vox name.

This amp has been very reliable. It does what it clams to do. Their are limits to its use. Does it replace any of the amps it modules? No!! Never will. Who can replace a 59 bassman, a Dumlble overdrive special, a Marshal jtm45 or a vintage HI-WATT? Some of us have the cash too. I don't, I bet you don't ether.I want all of these amps but I cant'. So I did the next best thing I played all the modeling amps out there and Vox was the one I couldn't stop thinking about. 25 years of playing,and watching gear prices that were affordable once become out of reach for most of us. Hats off to Vox for having the vision.I never new I could have this much fun with tone. I was always told find a tone and stick with it, don't complicate things. I use this amp every were I can. For now I don't have a backup. Until Vox MAKES AN ALL TUBE VERSION that is. So far so good.

I extended the warranty 3 years. No problem. Oh the fan does not bother me because I don't ever play that low to hear it. Come on guys! The fan!
I cant hear it past volume two. I didn't know it had one until I read some of the boo hooing in the reviews. You bought an amp in $250-350 range, it is what it is. Like Johnny Cash said to his drummer "Play the dam thing man". In its class and price range it is a good amp. Don't expect it to be more than what it can do and you will enjoy your self. You played the amp before you bought right? Yes $300 or so is a lot. But, you didn't buy a Triple-rectifier, then get bored with "It's killer tone man" which it does have. I don't dispute this. Because you now want to play classic rock too and your sound is one dimensional. And then get pissed off because you made an impulse buy of $6,500.00 head and cab. And the local dealer will buy it back for $1,500.00. God for bid they make a buck on resale to pay employees or any thing. So you but it on craigs list $5000.00, then $4000.00 , then $2,200.00 for 6 months. Then you write a review about the vox valvtronic amps. Because your band mate has one and can't compete with your fire breather. But the chicks dig because he sounds like he can play anything. So your review says" the fans to loud man ". Its not the fan its you. I PLAY MINE SO @#!%$ LOUD I CAN'T HEAR THE FAN. VOX will keep on moving without a customer like you. Pick the right tool for the right job. Customer support has answered and solved any problem Ive had. But then I didn't ask the amp to walk on water.

I have been playing for 25 years. I have sold gear I shouldn't have and had to. It happens when you need money in an emergency. If my amp was lost or stolen I might buy the vox pedal board w/the 11 modules and maybe a 50 watt stack. Just because of I really like to have at least 2 10" speakers. Maybe a Cornford,Fuchs, Solano or Bad Cat. I would rebuy it if money was an issue. I don't like the noise reduction character. I don't mind amp noise. I play strats Its part of the sound. The noise reduction makes it feel like the amps not wide open. Like an all tube amp has a feel as if you still have a lot of head room left. I wish this amp had a open back option. But I do PLAY it !@#$%*& LOUD! And I do enjoy what this amp does. The comparable amps like fender cyber or what ever seem to lack vibe. The line 6 I came close to buying. I don't think any of them as modeling amps are as good the VOX. It is what it is. It seems the closest Ill get to any of the great amps it employs.

Bought 2 of these babies from guitar center.
Plays excellent through my PRS, not so great on Rickenbacker 330 or possibly semi or hollow electric guitars. I do the channel switching. I love the idea that I can use 3 different sounds with the footswitch. I was gigging with these amps at least once a week. It is good enough for medium size halls without miking it.

Use solid body guitars. Danelectro doubleneck and Paul Reed Smith 1994 CE24. This was the best guitar amp for sound I ever had. Had some tube freaks tell me it was a lousy sound, but you have to love the sound yourself to be happy. Previously had Twin Fenders, Vox AC15, Mesa Boogie Rectifier, plus other low name amps. But this was the killer. My main sound was the Clean Compression sound that came out. Plus the distortion was the greatest, My Tone sound was dialed in and of course it takes some dialing in to get what you want.

Issue with the amp is that it's not a gigging amp. It's great for leaving the amp at practice. Too much jarring around and something comes loose. With my 1st amp within a year I lost my sound to where I could only use the presets. Warrenty with Guitar Center and they sent me a check and I was able to keep the amp and I got another AD50. Within 16 months, this time the sound was cutting out at high volumes. Guessing the soldering must of came loose. This time they are wanting me to send the unit and then they will send a check out. Bottom line, you need a backup if you gig alot.

Emailed the company on an issue, took them 4 days to reply.
Warranty was through GUitar Center. Guitar Center is good.
Didn't even try Vox.

Been playing for 28 years.
This time I'm buying the Vox Custom Classic AC30CCH.
I'm a little leery about this cuz it's from China, plus I've read the reviews on it, so I'm taking a chance.
But I really loved the AD50. I was going to buy the Valvetronix AD100VTH but I'm afraid that they may discontinue the model and if they do that then I would have to eventually upgrade to a different model like what I'm doing now. But The AC30CCH looks like it may have features that I may be able to dial in. I may have to use a distortion on this puppy and use a compression box. We'll See.

The Vox ad50vt is an hybride amp. It has a transistorpreamp, tube and a end amp. Wit this configuration 11 popular amps can be selected. To every ampselection a lot of effects can be added. It has a prefect balanced preset, but can also be maually chanced.

The output is 50 watt. Suits perfect.
Te tube is placed befor the endamp to give a more realistic tube sound.

I used it with a telecaster and a les paul model. The sounds are wonderful. Just like the original Vox tube amps. Jou want to play it clean or rough. Play it

I have a a few weeks and I can not say how it is over a few years. The construction is very good, and perfectly finished.

The waaranty from the dealer is 3 years. So that is very nice

I pay a few years now and I tried a lot of amplifiers.I have a good feeling over this amp. It has a nice an honest sound and has the presets that I want.

This is a mid 2006 model. I mainly play classic rock, blues, church worship, and some jazz. The amp is versatile enough for the common "gigger", but if you are looking for the tone that you will stick with your whole life, then use this as a stepping stone. The amp features have already been stated in other reviews. I wish it was open back. Some folks like the closed back, but I'm more into the shimmery, mid saturated tone along the lines of SRV and John Mayer mixed with the ability to have clarity in my leads like John Petrucci. The only amp model I really dabble with is the AC15. The others sound very fabricated and thin. I use this amp in small to medium venues, although I had the opportunity to use it in an arena with 4,000 attendees. If mic'd it holds up fine. You can make this thing loud!! **Note** This amp sounds tons better cranked. You loose lots and lots of head room at low volumes. It seems to have a problem handling effects pedals (lack of head room).

I play with a Gibson Les Paul studio, a mexi tele with Texas specials, and a deluxe players strat with texas specials. The amp can do many styles and tones fairly well, but none of them really stand out. The amp can do many tones that fit me. I find that I like a mild blues for rhythm and a saturated rock tone for leads. The amp allows for fairly close replication of these. The amp is relatively quiet compared to a lot of amps. It all has to do with the power you are getting. Clean power equals clean signal. The "clean" channel is whatever amp model you choose. Then they follow the same path. Progressively louder from 0-8 and then just compression from there (especially with the wattage dial down below 50 watts). I am switching from this amp for several reasons. One of them being that the amp doesn't do any one thing really spectacular. The others being the closed back (preference), and the head room problem when you add pedals. Another thing I've noticed is that the user settings seem to vary by a minute amount every time you turn the amp on. I can't handle that. I need consistency.

This has to be the highlight of the amp. It is a workhorse. No problems, many scrapes, dings, and as i like to call it "character" to the amp. It has never puked out on me. I have it on for 5 hour stints 3 times a week. The only issue here is the variation in the saved settings mentioned above. I consider that reliability.

Never talked to them. Never needed repaired. Authorized repair centers are common. "Competent" authorized repair centers are not. Nuff said. The warranty is 3 years conditional warranty. I'm almost out of it.

I've been playing for 9 years. 5 semi-professionally. I own the above stated guitars, and a pedal board with the following in line: Boss chromatic tuner, Crybaby, Boss EQ pedal, Boss OD-2, Ibanez TS-808 (with vintage chip), and a Boss DD-20 (in line due to tone of pedal). All are connected with custom length Monster patch cables. I use only monster guitar cables. If it were stolen, I would buy a Fender HRD 2x12. I love the grill. I hate the closed back. hate it. I compared to the Marshall MG series. This blew them out of the water. I chose this one due to the cost and the possibilities. I wish it had an open back cab, and I wish it had better electronics. The amp was a good step up, but now I'm ready for a more permanent all-tube tone. If I didn't need the cash to trade up, I would keep this one for a practice at home amp. That would be nice.

This amp has loads of features, most of which i havent used. i only really use the boutique clean and AC30 amp models and the tremelo and spring reverb effects, all of which i love. my only criticism would be that you cant use the delay and reverb together. Also there are only two programable channels, where as three would be useful for me.

My setup
Guitar: Rally Neo sound (335 style)
Pick ups: Twin Humbucker 3 way toggle
Strings: D'Addario 11's
Pick: Jim Dunlop Tortex Blue 1.0

My Style
Ive got a one man band, playing alternative indie bluesy rock and thanks to my guitar set up and this amp ive got the exact sound that i want. which is an old skool fat bluesy type sound typial to that you would only usually expect from highly priced tube amps.

Gain And Volume
Thanks to being able to adjust the output power of the tube via a knob on the back of the amp you can either turn the volume right down and still get a full on tube overdrive (perfect for rehearsing) or get a lovely clean tone at very high volumes (ideal for gigs). Although peronally i like a tiny amount of tube distortion on the peaks of my clean sound.
The variety of drive options is massive from perfectly clean tones to crazy heavy distortion, however i only use three drive settings, a clean tone on the boutique clean amp, a crunch on the AC30 and an overdrive on the AC30. these sounds are also varied a great deal between pickups.

Noise
There is a noise reduction option on the amp which is very effective, however i like a bit of old skool amp noise and like to highlight my mistakes, so i dont use it.

Ive only gigged it a few times and touch wood its worked fine, but i have a feeling that it wouldnt be to happy if any water got spilled into the vents on the top of the amp.

never dealt with them

Im really a drummer so i dont know much about the technicalities of guitar stuff, but i know what i like and i like this amp. I have guitarist friends who own very expensive tube amps and i prefer the sound, performance and ease of use of this.
I love the AC30 sound but i would still buy this amp instead, due to its versitility and ease of use and i would buy another without hesitation.
If the amp had 3 programable channels instead of 2 and the reverb was separate to the other effects the amp would be perfect.

In summary, if youre looking for that old skool tube amp sound without the tube amp price tag this amp is just the ticket.

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Quite good. The cleans are very natural feeling. I dont use the distortions much, so I cant issue a judgement. Dolphinstreetmusic.com has some very good sounding videos using this amp. The effect are good, but limited, compared to other programmable units. I like popping country twang, and the compressor on this amp does this pretty well, but with a big volume increase at the setting I like.
I didnt find a nice woody mid-rangy sound, like my old Legend Amp had. I dont think these digital modeling amps are capable of that sound.
I like the auto-wah for some ocasional funky stuff. Note that on the new VT series the auto wah is GONE, and the compressor has been BADLY compromised. It is combined with the chorus setting, and to my ears, adds only harsh distortion. I think that these 2 issues will keep me from considering the VT50 when it becomes available.
I am looking for a used AD50VT, and see it as a complete grab-and-go self contained system. for my gigging.

Dont know first hand. These reviews site quite a few problems. I dont think these computer type amps last a long time, and since the manufacturers only allow a model life of about 3 years, getting these amps fixed down the road appears to be impossible. Pretty close to "use it then pitch it when something goes wrong, like a computer. What happens to all this electronic junk, anyway? Are we dumping it all in the oceans?

At any rate, I'm a bit leery, but for about $200, I'll risk it.

No experience

Vox makes good, good sounding stuff. I'm impressed with the several Voxed I've tried in the stores. (About 4 hours time on them).

The vt series has added some great sounding models, and the line out is said to be improved, but I think I'll go for an AD50, for probaly half of the VT50's cost.

One 12-inch speaker
50 solid-state watts
12ax7 tube preamp
11 different amp models
Adjustable wattage dial

I primarily use a 2004 60s' reissue Fender strat. I will occasionally use a Schecter S-1 Elite. I play mostly blues and rock and play in a band at chuch. We play a lot of contemporary christian music and this amp is wonderfull. It offers a wide variety of sounds and is very versitile. Let me put it this way... I have a Fender Blues Deville 4x10 reissue which is modified version of the old Fender Bassman, and this amp actually sounds better. There is a model of the 4x10 tweed on this amp and it sounds sweet. I've had this amp for about 3 months and really like the way it sounds. I can't quite give it a 10 because there are some amps that sound better. (a fender twin for one) But it is the best sounding solid-state amp I have ever heard. After playing with it for some time there is a little trick to maximizing the sound. Rather than control the amp volume with the wattage knob on the back, crank the wattage to 50 and control the overall volume with your master volume control. If you push the master volume, but lower the wattage, your clean headroom disappears rapidly. This amp's best qualities are its clean channels. The overdrive amp models sound a bit "processed". The only overdrive amp model I really use is the boutique OD. Again, another reason for the 9 rating. Overall, nothing but great sounds and even better considering the price.

Mine has functioned very well. Only minor issue is sometimes the amp decides to forget what your user programs are.

Never dealt with them.

If this amp were stolen, I'd get another. Very reliable to gig with and very sturdy. Great sound for the money. I would recommend this to all musicians from starters to experienced. I've been playing for about 15 years. This amp is geat.

I bought my 2005 AD50VT from a friend who was fed up with nit. He said he couldn???t get any volume out of it for gigging with his band. Hell, it???s 50 watts, I thought something must be wrong with it. But for $150 I took it off his hands. I discovered that he had failed to use the wattage control on the back of the amp. He came over the other day and heard me wailing away on the ES 335 with an AC 30 setting and his mouth fell open. ???What did you do to the amp???? he asked. I lied. I told him I had it worked on by a pro sound guy. (I couldn???t make my good friend feel like a wad head.)

I get great tone out of my AD50vt and I play it out all the time. In the studio, I cranked the gain up and the wattage down and I???ve got the perfect TV face Fender Junior going???perfect for Chicago-style blues. It chimes on the AC15 and AC 30 setting and I play it coupled with a Marshall Ministack for a rich, gritty 60???s sound. (AB switch with the Marshall getting about 30% and the Vox carrying 70%. The Marshall is there for a bit of dirt and coloring. It does the job quite well.) Both my Les Paul 57 Gold Top Reissue and my ES 335 love this box.

And my friend? He is still throwing money around trying to find ???that??? tome I stole from him for $150. Maybe I should tell him???but then again, he is helping the economy.

Excellent... and not just for the money. This amp is becoming a classic in its own right.

Many studio guys i know have them.

No problems. The fan doesn't not bother me. You can't hear it when you stand two steps away and micing the front for studio work, it never shows up.

never needed it. But the on-line manuals are great! Hello marshall are you listening!!!!

I've been playing since the 60's. This is the best amp I've ever owned. And I've owned a lot of amps.