Vox AC15 TBX

A 1999 WITH 1 VOX BLUE ALCINO SPEAKER ALL TUBE.I WAS'NT HAPPY
WITH THE REVERB SO I PUT A SPRING REVERB OUT OF A FENDER IN IT.
THAT JUST GAVE ME MORE REVERB IF NEEDED.THIS AMP IS WAY BETTER
THAN THE 1996 AC 15 WITH TWO 10'S I ONCE HAD.I USE IT FOR ROCK
AND COUNTRY AND ROCKABILLY WITH DELAY PEDAL.

THE INPUT CONTROLS THE TONES.CRANK IT WIDE OPEN WITH MASTER
AT YOUR VOLUME LEVEL AND YOU GET SOME OF THE WARMEST DISTORTION
EVER THAT REACTS WITH YOUR PLAYING.I PUT A MARSHALL JACK HAMMER
PEDAL FOR MORE DISTORTION WHEN NEEDED.TURN THE INPUT DOWN FOR
GREAT CLEAN TONES.THIS IS THE BEST AMP I HAVE EVER HAD.I DON'T
USE THE TREMOLO MUCH BUT IT WORKS GREAT.I USE A ERIC CLAPTON STRAT
WITH IT AND A TELE.I ALSO HAVE A VOX CAMBRIDGE REVERB TWIN AND A
FENDER HOT ROD DELUXE.

HAVE NOT HAD IT LONG,HOPING FOR THE BEST BUT WOULD NEVER GIG WITH ONE
TUBE AMP NO MATTER WHAT!

GOOD DEALERS.

I WOULD REPLACE IT.I LOVE THE NATURAL TUBE DISTORTION,I HATE THE
ORIGINAL REVERB

Amplifier has a Treble and Bass, Input Volume, Master Volume, Reverb, and Tremelo Controls. Low Gain and High Gain Inputs. 12 " Celestion Alnico "Blue" Speaker. 15 Watts Class "A" Power.

Used w/ Amer. Standard Telecaster/Stock Pickups. Very clean sounding amplifier reminiscent of a Fender Clean Channel. Unlike Marshall "Clean" which is much warmer than this amp. A tube amp dynamic capabilities that include very subtle reproduction of lightly fingered/plucked/ghost notes. A very good amplifier for any type of music situation. Personally, this amplifier w/ my telecaster gives me the widest range of sounds possible from any guitar/amp combination.

Amplifier is 6 months old and has already crapped out on me. Used about 3 times a month since purchased. I apparently blew a fuse. I would've fixed this myself, however, the amplifier cannot be easily serviced. I would never play this amplifier in a live situation. If you blow a fuse (read...typical electrical overload could leave your band w/o a guitarist, or, you have to go through the PA-disgusting), you cannot easily fix the problem. Poor user servicibility gets a reliability rating reflecting this problem. To users who donot understand my rating, Vox has made great progress with the design of this amplifier over past designs including better heat dissipation etc..., however, the fundamental question is not how reliable is the amp relative to past models, it's a question of can you trust it for an important gig.

I bought this amp at a Sam Ash Music Store in King of Prussia PA. Very large department store kind of music store w/ a warehouse full of equipment. I saved a 100$ over going w/ a local mom and pop shop. Service and "Support" is not deficient, it's non existent. Take my advice, establish a relationship w/ a small shop that's been around for a while. Chances are, you'll pay a little more for your merchandise, but the relationship will come in handy. My original salesman quit a month after I ordered my amp. No one called to tell me the amp was on backorder. Furthermore, when the fuse blew, I was told that had I purchased an "Extended Service Plan"....read "paid them for a totally useless warranty that doesn't cover anything over and above the Vox warranty, they would have delivered the amp to the local authorized service shop as opposed to driving the amp to the shop myself." I would never do business w/ this shop again due to their inability to help me change a fuse.

I've been playing for since 1992. I've used Strats and Les Pauls, however my mainstay is the Telecaster. I use a marshall JCM 800. I would purchase this amplifier over any other amplifier hands down, except, hindsight being 20/20, I would've purchased from a reputable shop. No amp is perfect, poor serviciblity, fine fit and finish, excellent speaker quality, amplifier dynamic range add up to a B+.

Simple single channel tube amp. 15 watts, though that may sound small to some, it is plenty loud. It has trem and reverb. I love simple single channel amps because I want to get the sounds out of the amp myself. I don't like to cheat and use tools to produce the sound I want. Thus this amp may not be effect ladden but sometimes simple is better. I play 60's style rock, not effects, no tricks, just old fashioned rock and roll and I could not ask for anything better than this amp for my style. Simple and but very effective. The only thing I would like to see is a speaker out that powers the cabinet and the combo speakers at the same time.

I play a Song Custom Guitar with Seth Lover Humbuckers and an Epiphone Casino with P-90s. Both guitars sound fantastic on this amp. For Who like songs I use the song and the Vox produces glorious rich punch.
The natural "distortion" sound, if you can call it distortion, is great and easy to control. Want more turn the input up, want less turn the input down. Simple. For a slower Beatles like song I use the casino and once again I get a great clean tone, but with character. There is a quality to the Vox clean sound that gives it an edge, every note high and low is clean but this amp adds a little bit of something that only a Vox provides. Now, I play this amp through a 2x12 Vox Replica cabinet and it really tightens up the sound. The single twelve in the amp still sounds fantastic but I have yet to find anything that beats the sound of the AC15 through a cabinet.

I have had a few problems in the years and a half since I got the amp.
The input went fuzzy on me and I had to fix the reverb tank. No big deal though, but still kind of annoying.

Went through my dealer for repaires so I have not talked directly to vox.

I have been playing five years now and this is my first real amp. I will never replace it. A week ago I plugged a rare Voc AC-30 head into my cabinet and after extensive playing I came to the conclusion that with only one input the AC15 can dial in all the tones of a 3 input AC-30. The AC-30 has briliant, normal and Trem/Vib channels but I could get all those tones from my amp with a little tweeking. Features may be limited but this amps provides every tone anyone could want, and those tones not found in the amp can easily be produce with the right stomp box. But like I said, I prefer to manipulate my tube amps to produce the tones I want. Effects just keep you from getting the most out of your amp. Once you've mastered tone control on your amp then start the effects. With the Vox AC15 I started with a few effects but learnt my own lesson the hard way, and now the only effect I use is a DOD graphic EQ to push the tubes harder and produce punch that no other amp can produce quite so naturally. Fantastic amp for every simple guitar player out there. Why pay more for a AC30 when the AC15 does everything a 30 does but at half the cost and twice the versatility?

The AC15TBX was manufactured in 1997. It is a reissue of the AC15 with reverb, tremolo and master volume. 1 channel, 2 inputs, line out.
Nothing revolutionar. Bouht it second hand for apprx 700 US dollars.

I mainly use the amp with an '95 American Standard Tele with stock pickups and a 1998 Gibson ES 355 with '57 HB.
The amp haa an annoying ring coming from the acutronics reverb tank, that howled in sympathy with the notes of my guitar. After a closer look I noticed that its was exactly the same rverb as in my 60watt Fender Blues Deville. So I copied the reverb tank bag from the fender and had my sister in law to make me one. Costs max 5 US dollar. Had I ordered one in the shop it would have cost me 50 US dollar. ANd the problem is solved. The amp produces a very nice clean an naturaly compressed sound with theTele. Playing the ES335 through it needs some tweeking on the boss GE7 equalizer I put infront of it. Both guitars do verry well with the Vox. To my ears better than the Fender Deville. I also use an Trace Elliot Velocette 10" as a backup. The Velocette seems to be a little louder than the vox, but the Vox sings in more naturaly way. I had the TA before the AC 15 and it gigged with it a whole summer of last year. But since january of this year I have this small beauty from Vox, and I wont play anything else no more. I play in an locla cover band, here in Falnders (Belgium), rythm and blues, Pop, rock, and soms straight blues also. I play the rythm guitar. On the Tele I put the bas all up and the treble all down. On the 335 I keep the middle at 12h and the base at 1400.
I almost never use the reverb.

Gigged with it one in a month, 4 hours withour rest, ans rehearsel with it once in a week. It hasn't let me down. My amp tech had a closer look to it's inner belly and confirmed me that its is alsy technically spoken a good amp. Only problem, is the accescibilty of the tubes. It will be a pain to replace one or more.

No problems yet, good shops and good technicians in Belgium, so won't be of any worry I guess.

I play since 10 years. Used a 70'Fender twin, Faylon 100watt, Fender Blues Deville, Roland GP16 effectsprocesor. I never had that shimy clean or that wonderfull overdriven tone that come's si naturally with this jewel. I am definitly looking to get myself his larger brohter an AC30TB, because on one or two occasions the AC15 was not miked and had problems to be heard next to my friend the leadguitar player. He is using a Mesa Boogie MarkIV and that is a loud thing!
If necessary I would try to replace it. Guitars and amps are awfully expensive, especialy the good stuff like Gibson, Vox, Fender, Mesa and so on

Master Volume,Bass,Treble,Reverb,Volume(gain)and tremolo.It also has a line out.

I use a ES335,Strat and Telacaster. This amp is great for anything except heavey metal. It is quiet, and definately has the traditional Vox sound.It is also very loud for its size and packs a Blue Alnico Bulldog speaker.( the only way to go).It can overdrive quite well for most aplications and takes almost all pedals I have tried really well.

After having a 1963 AC30 and 2 reissue Ac30's this amp really fits in. After having trouble with both reissue's in the PC board area, I was reluctant to buy another new one. But the AC15 is really put together alot better than the AC30. The tubes are covered and kept away from the speaker and there is a foam strip coverining the pre amp tubes.Everthing that was bad with the AC30 reissue is corrected here. If Vox was smart, they would reissue the AC30 head and speaker cab.That would keep the PC board and the speakers seperate, and away from tube rattle and vibration.The AC15 has been trouble free so far. And I have pushed it to the limit.

This combo has one 12" Vox Bulldog Speaker, a birch cabanet; treble, bass, volume, master volume, reverb, tremelo speed and depth controls; and two inputs. It is very impressive to look at... very retro looking. It is a class A tube amp and is not extremely versatile. But does everything I want it to. It is a great amp for plugging directly in for a wonderful "British tone" without using any F/X. For 15 Watts... the AC15 is really quite loud.

This amp goes from warm and Clean to bright and slightly over driven. Not a lot of distortion. But I did not buy it for heavy crunch. The reverb is very usable... not over the top like Fender amps. The Tremelo is amazing, I did not think I was the Trem type, but I actually use it from time to time. I use mainly single coil instruments including a couple of Rickenbackers, a Strat, and a Tele. Double coil instruments make this amp very "jazzy" (read "warm and thick"). Music from U2, Beatles, the police(go figure), and other UK artists flow from this amp.

The Vox is the only amp I have right now and has not done me wrong since I bought it in May of 1999. I don't play out much so the amp is not getting much abuse. I Feel the amp is very reliable though, I do not feel is likely to dissapoint me. But then "Never say Never".
It is a tube amp after all.

I work in a music shop, and have delt with Korg(Marshall, Vox, Parker, and a few others) many times. They are usually quite helpfull on the dealer side. Any authorized Marshall repair centers should be able to do Vox stuff too.

Ive been playing guitar since 1987 and have owned a few amps. This is by far THE BEST sounding amp I have ever owned/heard. I have also demo'd and AC30... and the AC15 TBX is better. If it were stolen or lost I would purchase another one without a second thought. The cost of this amp is the only thing that counts against it. But it's still worth it. I originally picked the AC15 over the AC30 because of weight... I could barely pick it up. After owning the amp for a while, I found that that is only where the advantages begin. I also own an old Rickenbacker amp. But it is really an antique. The vox is "my amplifier."

This is a reissue Vox AC-15 with the blue bulldog speaker. I'm rating its features this high because of what I view as design improvements in the new AC-15. A master volume, line out, and other new additions might have pissed off purists, but in a practical sense its a godsend. You can make this thing overdrive even at bedroom volumes, and the tone control is very responsive. You don't get many bells and whistles, but it's a Vox, it's not supposed to.

I'm playing a Deluxe Strat Plus and Godin G2000 through various fuzz boxes. I play in the vein of My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, and Sonic Youth, and the amp just sings. It takes to fuzz brilliantly, better than any other amp I've ever played (save the AC30) and has really strong mids without losing definition. Its harmonics are mindblowing, and the sound is very full and immersing. It has 'that' sound even at low volumes. Sure, an AC30 does sound a bit better if you're not limited by volume, but many of us are -- that's why this is such a wonderful amp.

I just got the amp so I can't really say how reliable it is yet. Seems like it's well made, though.

Never had to deal with the company yet. I hope I never have to.

I got this amp in a close-out sale at a local shop. I saw the price and couldn't believe it. Great deal on a great amp. I recommend it to anyone, but play on it first. Some people don't like the Vox sound, but you might end up falling in love with them, too. I sure did.

Simple controls. High & Low Input, Bass, treble, Master volume, & Tremolo.The power may seem skimpy but cranked up it really sings, especially after the initial 10 or so hours of use. The one thing I would like is a headphone jack as I live in an apartment in the city. I will also say that for most guitarists, this amp is plenty big & loud. I am so happy each week when I am carrying it to practice with my band. I'd have no back if I had bought the AC 30.

I play a strat, tele, 360/12, and an ASAT Classic through the amp and I currently favoring the ASAT, but they all sound great. The tone doesn't ever really get nasty so stay away metal guys. Great for blues, and especially pop guitar (my band's sound). Definitely not an amp for everyone, as there are not a wide range of sounds, but, oh, if you like the sound it gives, you are truly set. I am.

So far so good. I got it in the early summer and all systems are go. The sad fact is that it is mainly played on weekends, so I haven't tortured it (yet).

I ordered a cover from them (pretty shitty workmanship there) but they were real nice and shipped it right away.

I couldn't be happier with my AC-15. Tone is what I want, not 800 bells & whistles. Just get a good overdrive pedal (I currently am using a Voodoo which I like) and be done with it.