Product: Farfisa Amplivox 18
Price Paid: euro 350
Submitted
02/11/2007
at
06:34pm
by
xaver naudascher
Features
:
9
must be from eraly to mid 60's. It's more suited for clean to crunch stuff. 3 channels (only 2 work on mine). 1 accordion channel with bass and hi EQ. 1 mic input (good for more crunch) and 1 guitar input with 3 switches for bass, mid or hi boost (doesn't work on mine). it also has a vibrato section that can be switche d with a pedal. i use it in the studio. loud enough for me. full tube, 18 watt with a 12" speaker from Jensen.
Sound Quality
:
10
simply wondeful! best amp i have heard in ages for creamy vintage clean sounds. pleasant hi freq and lots of good sounding low end. the vibrato is extremely cool sounding. besides the classic fender and vox a league on it's own. i actually cannot believe how good it sounds... of course you can't get every sound out of it but what it does it does with attitude and a ton of vibe... 10++
Reliability
:
5
major nightmare before i could hear it the first time. bought it 6 months ago and it broke during shipping. the cabinet came apart and damaged the amp as well. plugged it in and could only hear noise. tonehunter.de did a beatiful job in repairing it. took a while but it was worth every penny and the long wait.
Customer Support
:
10
inexistent. these amps are 40 years old... what do you expect?
Overall Rating
:
10
10+. a truly incredibly good sounding amp. i consider myself very lucky to have scored one. i got hooked onto Farfisa when i bought the smaller brother Amplivox 8. also neat (needs fixing) but not even close to it's bigger brother.
