Vox AC15CC1 112 Combo

This is a perfect amp for what I play. Rock, indie rock, country, or blues. It is a very versatile amp if you know how to create great sound through the use of tone, guitars, and pedals. The AC15 is my first tube amp. It is also my first amp I have owned without foot switchable channels and I love it. When I first purchased this amp I was a bit worried about the single channel and playing without a channel footswitch. I have adapted well with the use of an overdrive pedal. I have also learned with the purchase of this amp that the dynamics of playing comes from the way you pick your guitar, not by the volume at which your clean and distorted channels are set.

Reverb on this amp is good, not great. If you want reverb, use a fender. I still use the reverb and it works well, but it could be better. Tremelo on this amp is growing on me. At first I didn't like it or use it much. The more I play, the more I tend to use it. As I broke the amp in, the tremolo is becoming more versatile.

I love the versatility of this amp by simply adjusting the master volume and volume. It can go from clean to crunchy and sounds great.

I give the features an 8 because I think the reverb could be a bit better, or maybe becuase it is not similar to the reverb I am used to from fender amps.

Sound quality is exceptional. I will start with tone. I have never owned an amp that responds so well to the tone control on your guitar. I play a fender strat, and I am loving the sound that this guitar produces with this amp. It responds very well to pickup position, guitar tone, and picking dynamics. As for the amps tone, with the use of the low and high tone settings, you can lock into a variety of tones. Even with the use of an overdrive pedal, I get almost too much tone at times.

Volume on this amp is good for my use. I am in a basement band. We practice here and there and play parties and such. We use a PA and mic our amps. I have yet had to really crank this thing up and let it loose. It is loud enough for a band and small gigs but can break up a bit a higher volumes. Good thing we have a decent PA. Good thing about the volume, I can get good breakup at lower volumes. The results are great tone without having to crank the amp too loud.

With the use of an overdrive pedal ( a rather cheap, durable, and decent sounding pedal, the Boss OD-1), I am loving the dirty sounds I get from this amp. The amp never gets completely clean like a fender, but even when it is crunchy, you can hear individual notes. It has helped me become a better guitarist from a technique approach. I can hear my mistakes unlike back when I used a solid state distorted amp.

It appears to be built solid. It is rather heavy to be hauling around. I haven't had any technical issues yet, I hope I don't have any. Some reviews say it is horrible when it comes to reliability. I think if you know how to take care of something it will be reliable. I try to take good care of this amp and I haven't had any issues yet. If I were playing a gig, I would have a backup no matter what kind of amp I have.

I think I purchased a warranty but I can't remember how long it is good for. Maybe 1 or 2 years. Have not had to deal with customer service.

Overall, I give it a 9. I love the tone on the is amp. I love the versatility. I love the way it has helped me become a better guitarist. What more could you ask for. It fits my music style. It fits my needs. Sure, if I played metal, or If I played large gigs, this amp would not be good for me. But I play rock, indie, and country, and it suites my needs well. It has plenty of volume for practicing in my basement, and it can hold its own when playing with the band. I never thought a 15 watt amp would be enough volume, but it is. After I purchased this amp, I started to notice all the other artists that use VOX custom classic series amps. I am impressed. There is very little that I would complain about with this amp. I suggest to get yourself one. It is affordable and it sounds great.

This is a great amp! I played a ton of amps a few days ago, fender blues junior, fender pro junior, orange tiny terror combo, orange tiny terror head and cabinet, vox night train thru a vox 212, vox valvetronix series (30 and 50 watt), and a few marshall mg series.

The ac15, IMO, had far and away the best clean tone. The tremolo and reverb channels are really nice, especially the tremolo. I'm not a big reverb guy, so I tend to keep it pretty low if I'm going to use it at all, but the tremolo adds some really interesting depth to the tone. The volume boost section is great for producing a nice growl, but you won't get a metalesque distortion out of it. The only thing I wish is that the volume boost was footswitchable.

It sounds great on its own, but if you want to switch between clean and a bluesly classic rock drive, you can't. As such, I'm using an MXR distortion 3 pedal, which set low, gets a great overdrive tone. I'm looking into a variety of valve based overdrive effects, because I don't want to loose tone, but the MXR is fine for now.

The 15 watts is more than enough, it has this silicon rectifier, which I don't really know what that is, but I know it is supposed to make it such that the amp is really able to run at a full 15 watts. This thing is big, heavy, and loud!

The back panel is in kind of a weird location, inside the open back, pointing down into the amp cavity, not straight out the back.

I'm using a PRS Soapbar II, sounds great. Sound quality is second to none, in my opinion. I think the tone of this amp would suit any blues, rock, or jazz player. If you are looking for wicked fuzz, this amp is not for you. But you are shopping for the cleanest purest tone you can find, this amp is it!

Only had it a few days, so far so good. I picked up a heavy duty hand cart for it, 12" speaker tube amps are really heavy. I want to protect my back and the amp! The model in the store had a few issues it seemed with keeping the power cord plugged in. This is mostly due to the location of the back panel, as described above

This amp is made in china, but I can find no negative reviews in this regard.

Haven't had to deal.

I've been playing for about 13 years and this is the first nice amp I've ever bought. I've only ever owned crummy solid state practice amps. This thing is worth every penny. If it was lost/stolen, I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. I guess it wasn't until recently that I really started thinking of amps as instruments in their own right. But once I had that perspective, and really started listening and paying attention to tone, this amp was the only choice.

Vox AC15CC1 with stock speaker. 2008. Single channel verb and really nice tremolo. Using primarily in my project studio. Plemty of power for this and could probably keep up with a drummer in the field. This is my second vox (the first was a SS monster in the early 70's but we wont go there)....Foot switch for verb and trem. Verb sounds strange listening to only the tail after a note but is excellent in small amounts and rounds out the individual notes WHILE you are playing. Not your "one amp to rule them all" but has great tone to complement others.

This is where this amp really shines. I own a Ornage Tiny Terror, Marsall DSL and 1936 cab, Fender Super 60, Roland Cube 30 and others and the Vox is a whole new animal. Thick beefy tones on every string with just the right amount of grit easily dialed in. Folks use the term "organic" and I agree. The best part about this amp is that it reproduces the tones of all your guitars in an unusual way. You can start using the tone and gain controls again instead of leaving everything always dimed and really "hear" your guitar! Fantastic versitility this way. Warm rich..not as clean as the Fender and WAY warmer than the Ornage or the Marshall...Sounds great with my Schecter C-1, Epi LP plain top, Ibanez Artcore semi hollow (talk about tone control!)and even a mexi-tele with vintage noiseless pups but sounds best with humers. Clean(er)smokey and fat is where it's at! If you are looking for heavy cruch get a Orange..(one trick pony but it does it very well)

I have used this amp only in the studio and so far so good. Have heard of other issues with fuse, input jack, etc. (C'mon guys you can change a fuse!!) No problems here.
Seems solidly built..heavy..but then try lifting a Super 60 with the transformers from H%ll!!

Warranty on most parts is short (90 days) but with a tube amp thats the way it goes. Never had to contact Vox.

As said this amp is VERY different than my others but it is really great. Knew it was excellent from the first chord..really! Been playing over 30 years..yikes!!! and settled into the stuido life long ago. Since I can easily plug into all the amps and different guitars it is really easy to hear the TONE this amp makes. Buy it without one hesitation unless you need more power and extreme cruch (or 2 channels). I read all the reviews and bought one without hearing it and I am very happy. Put a ribbon mike and a good pre (Great River, etc) and you are in tone heaven!!

The features are already covered in the previous reviews. The tone is good at low to medium volumes, but I can't honestly say the amp is real versatile.

This rating is a melding of two aspects of the tone: lower volume and higher volume. At low to medium volume, this thing sounds really great. Probably the best "sort of" clean I've heard. Just really nice. The tremolo is awesome, and I have no issues with the reverb either, I think it's fine. To get any sort of volume out of this amp though, you have to crank the top boost, and that's where the problem comes in. It is absolutely the worst sounding, gritty, harsh, lo-fi (not in a good way) distortion I've ever heard. I think a solid state Crate sounded better than this thing. So I'll halve it and make it a 5. It should actually be lower, as you'll need to crank it to play in a rock band.

Zero. Nada. Nothing. There is no other way for me to rate this amp. I owned one of these for less than 24 hours. I bought it at the Denver Guitar Center one afternoon, and returned it to the Colo Springs GC the next morning. I had already tried out two of them along the front range. Both of them had issues (GC in Pueblo, something was wrong, I don't know what, the trem was intermittent, and the amp would lose volume while playing; GC in Colo Spgs, the reverb was intermittent, sometimes it would come on, sometimes not). I tried both of these amps with and without the supplied footswitch and got the same (bad) results. Even with this experience, I took a chance on the one in Denver because of the 30-day return policy. I played it about 15-20 minutes up in Denver, and it sounded nice, but I wasn't comfortable cranking it (I hate when others do that). So I bought it and drove it 50 miles back down to my home in Colo Springs. I plugged it in, powered up, waited 2 or 3 minutes for Standby, and then switched it on. I went to plug in the guitar, and there was a problem with the jack. The plug would go in, but it was tricky. I looked down in it, and there was an obstruction of some sort. I can only assume it didn't handle the 75mph drive down from Denver, which also tells me it ain't gonna withstand night after night of gigging. That did it for me: 0 for 3, coupled with all the other bad reviews of Vox quality on this review board, and back it went. I don't know how anyone could trust one of these things to gig with. If it works for ya, great.

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Nothing I can add, except the looks are so cool, and the low-to-med volume is really beautiful, and that was w/o the AlNiCo Blue, I can't imagine how good that would sound. They need to get these quality issues addressed though, it's just ridiculous. Ended up with a new Peavey Classic 30, which of course is a different amp, but the "clean" channel does have some similarities to the Vox. However, with the PV, it actually sounds BETTER when cranked, unlike the Vox. Also, the PV is much louder.

short in features, the reverb is junk even at low setting

use old gibson les paul style and frankenstrat, soud quality is brittle and thin, with no depth. noisy with all of my pedals. reverb, junk..

bought it at 3:00, returned it at 5:00.

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bought it because I wanted an older, thicker tube amp, i was very dissappointed in the sound. I'm using a vox ad120vt and it kicks its but hands down and has great effects onboard. especially the tape delay. Also have a 1949-50 epiphone emperor amp head, it is from heaven. seriously, these old amps with 6l6 tubes are by far the best sounding amps in my 25 year experience. if anyone has any info on this old head, please contact me at mattkeohen@hotmail.com thank you

Features, so here we go, Ac15cc1, stock.
One channel, no more is needed, nice and simple,control panel doesn't look like the cockpit of the space shuttle !!!
I play some british invasion, other styles as is required, mostly we write our own stuff, we have done all the cover stuff, boring!
I mostly play at home, with a couple of friends, so I don't need heaps of watts, suits my needs perfectly.
Usual tube combo, 2x12ax7's pre amp, 2xEL84's power amp.
I prefer JJ's in my pre amp section, have left stock sovtecs in power amp.
Standard speaker, had to play it at loud volume for several gigs to get the speaker to loosen up a bit, stock speaker sounded good to me,once broken in, not as bad as some reviewers have stated, personal taste I suppose, basically I take the attitude, of, how much is enough ?
If you want to constantly experiment with speaker, valve combinations, you will never be satisfied, as there is way way too many variations avaliable, keep it simple.

Very good sound quality, nice thro my ES335, and ES175,Gold top, sounds a bit like um s--t thro fenders, ugly sounding guitars!
Good break up, depends upon settings used, can be a bit muddy, but not too much of a problem, just adjust it accordingly.
I write down my settings used for each song we write, so I get the sounds I want out of it every time no worries.
As I have afore mentioned, styles played are some british invasion, but mostly we write our own stuff, can be any thing we dream up, no thrashy trash, any one can play thrash !
Good fret board skill is the thrill, not volume!
Don't use pedals, I'm from the old school, learn to play the guitar properly, and you can get most sounds you desire.

Have owned this amp for one year, no problems with it at all, nothng, not a thing.
Well that's not entirely true, I broke the tip off one of the JJ's whilst replacing the valves, BUT, that's not vox's fault, is it ?
I don't need a back up, I trust this amp for home use.

Not needed to date.

I have been playing guitar constantly (as a hobbie, daily) sinse high school, I am now 48 years old, have played all your usual amps, state and valve, hybrids, messa, Peavy ,Ac30, Fender rubbish etc.
Played in many bands, owned several Fender telecasters, mostly Gibsons ES models tho, don't play Fenders any more, yukkkk!
There is nothing like experience, so I guess I would have to say, at this stage in my life, this amp is ideal, Marshall stacks etc. (and other high wattage amps) are good if you perform at large venues, and want that "send me deaf" sort of sound, I won't go into all the amps I have owned,just a few as mentioned above as it is not necessary.
I would rate this amp as a very good low wattage amp, nice sound, tonal variation excellent, break up nice, depending upon settings.
Relaibele and sexy to look at !
Betta than my ex wife...lol
Would buy it again.

Simply put, it a single channel all-tube 15 watt amp that sounds beautiful. Just beautiful. You get knobs to set rate and depth for tremolo, but I'm not into that sound so it's useless to me (and most I'm guessing.) You get reverb, gain, and master volume, which offers some tonal options. Some might want a separate gain channel, but I get my overdrive through a pedal, so no problems there. At 15 watts, it's loud. I can keep up with a drum kit no problem, and dont even have to dial it up all the way. That said, I can drop the volume low enough to play with my baby boy sleeping upstairs, and the tone is still mint. Do not waste your money on the Celestion speaker upgrade. It comes with a Wharfdale that sounds great, and only gets better as it gets older. Biggest problem - it weighs a tonne! I'm scoring this an 8 only because there could be many more options.

Here's the reason you buy the AC15cc1. It sounds AWESOME. I play with an Elitist Les Paul Standard with Gibson custom humbuckers, and the combination is nirvana. I can go from stunning clean, to hard rock crunch, which is where I spend most of my time. The overdrive is smooth and articulate. But I prefer to get my drive from a BBE Green Screamer. Now let me tell you, this amp, with the BBE pedal and my Les Paul is tone heaven. This is the sound I would hear on albums and say "man, I wish I could make my guitar sound like that." There is a very, very slight power hum when you go from "standby" to "on", but you'd have to have your head up against the cabinet to hear it. As mentioned above, the Wharfdale speaker is great... you'll notice the tone get warmer as you play and the speaker loosens up.
Here's the most telling part about how good this amp sounds....I love to tinker (new tubes, new speaker etc) and I can't bring myself to even unscrew the back of this amp cause if it's perfect, you don't mess with it.

No issues at all. There were a batch of these amps that had bad fuses way back when, but that's no longer an issue. And I don't understand people complaining about plastic knobs - everything on this amp has a solid, substantial feel to it. That point is made more evident by the fact that it's heavier than a 1955 Chevy big block, but I think the weight is where some of the tone comes from. Don't let the overseas production sway you from this amp...their standards are obviously high. Nonetheless I give it a 9 cause nothing's perfect.

Never used em. Would probably be a horror show, cause all companies usually are. I always expect to be hung out to dry after the in-store return period.

I'm guessing you're comparing this amp to another low wattage all-tube amp like the Fender Blues Junior, Blackheart Little Giant, Peavey Classic...etc. I tried em all before I purchased the VOX - and none measured up tonally. That's with humbuckers. Single coil may be different, but I doubt it.00
If it were stolen, I'd buy another the next day. Simple as that.
I've been playing on an off since I was 7. I'm now 34.
I play mostly hard rock... Guns n Roses, Kiss, Clapton, Van Halen, 80's hair bands. And the VOX can nail em all.
Good luck with your purchase.

Stock AC15 CC1, 2008 model. Everything you need without overcomplicating things: master, tremolo depth & speed, reverb, bass, treble, pre-amp volume. Single input, single channel. The AC15 comes with an on/off footswitch for the tremolo and reverb which is really handy and cool of Vox to throw it in as part of the package.

I bought this amp for home use, recording and small gigs - fits the bill perfectly, and I mean perfectly. I love the simplicity of this amp but it's the sound that matters and this amp has it in spades.

I've been pleasantly surprised at how powerful this amp is at only 15 watts. Even at gigs I get plenty of headroom between the preamp and master so great for getting the sound right. It is ridiculously heavy though so carting it around is a drag ??? worth it though.

I play an Epiphone Casino which has P-90 pickups, so it is a classic British Invasion rig. My style is mainly clean with that gorgeous Casino semi-acoustic, glassy, jangly sound. I play folk rock and classic rock styles with a bit of blues in there. The Vox suits the Casino like you wouldn't believe! An amazing match! Matching the guitar to the amp is hugely underrated and my experience really showed this.

After wanting a good low powered tube amp for a while, I narrowed it down to the AC15 and a Fender Blues Junior. I took my guitar up to the shop and played through both for about an hour. The Vox was insane and super responsive to anything I did: playing dynamics, EQ, guitar tone and volume etc. But when I switched to the BJ I struggled to find a good sound. That's no slight on the BJ, it just didn't seem to work with the Casino ??? probably better suited to Strats and Teles. It was the upgraded BJ as well with the Jensen speaker and different tube configuration. The sound was really boxy no matter what I did and it broke up really early; in a way it was really just one sound. I plugged back into the Vox and simply melted as this beautiful sound overwhelmed me.

The clean (master right up, volume down low) is clean as: glassy, smooth and creamy if you know what I mean. To overdrive it, crank the volume and drop the master. It's not a massive drive but perfect for most situations. It's not switchable either so you'll need a drive pedal if playing live (I got a Boss OD-3 which works great with it, and pretty much everything else).

The tremolo has to be heard to be believed ??? truly amazing and giving a quintessential 60s sound.

Many have dissed the reverb but I don't know why. I've found it very versatile with a smooth and deep sound. Mixed with some tremolo you can do the surf thing really well too.

The AC15 CC1 has the Warfdale speaker as stock. The Celestion option was outside my price range and while I was thinking I might upgrade later, I've been so impressed with the Warfdale that I doubt I'll bother. It's breaking in nicely and simply sounds beautiful.

Built like a tank (and weighs about the same!). There are apparently some issues with this so I'm being careful and watching it closely. Seems really well-built to me.

Not needed.

I've been playing for a bit over 20 years but really seriously for about ten. My other guitars are a Maton 225 acoustic and an Alvarez AD60s 12 string. The Casino is my dream electric and suits me perfectly. The Vox AC15 is made for it and I'd buy another one in a heartbeat if it were lost or stolen or, dare I say, if it broke).

Simple as they come. I have a Mesa Boogie nomad 45, vintage fender bassman and other amps and for me this is the perfect feature set. Simple. The thing that makes this feature rich for me is the way the guitar tone comes through - versatility by maximizing the instrument's tones.

My main guitar is a gibson ES 137 - 'buckers and a hard tail. Love the tone. I also have a PRS singlecut and a vintage fender mustang. Again, the amp really brings out the guitar tone. It is warm, can growl (turn it up - saturate it and see) and is just about the closest thing to what I imagine a tube amp should sound like.

no issues yet

again, nothing to report here, I am going on an extended International tour - I will let you know.

tone is king with this thing. I needed to scale down a bit. On long tours it gets to be a pain hauling around vintage fender gear with cabs etc.. The tone is great - forget the price, I woiuld have paid more for this. The tremelo is smooth, the foot pedal is clean (no pops or fuzzz) and I have to say I am totally impressed. If I close my eyes and just play it - not thinking about the propaganda this way or that, I just know this one in particular is for me.

well people have done an already pretty thorough job of this so ill run thru it quick. made in china but what isnt nowadays? more versatile then you might think, change how and what you play and ull find it can do more then you might think. i doubt i played the same things as the other reviewers, im in to heavier stuff. i still really like mellow cleans, and the raunchy overdrive, but i also like hard rock tones(iron maiden,randy rhoads) and occasional older metal(metallica and such). i knew it couldnt do metal but i wanted to see how far it could go past classic rock. these features although seemingly simple can do a lot more then meets the eye.

Now i just tested this amp i a store to get an idea of the ac30 which i was actually planning to buy. i was quite unimpressed with the amps i tried before this in the store including a genz benz el diablo and the black pearl which is more similar to this amp. i plugged in a valvetronix and was pretty suprised to how it sounded. Then i tried the ac15 and my jaw dropped, the valvetronix was garbage compared to this! this is what a tube amp should be! i went through all the classic rock stuff like queen and then even tried some hard rock(Dont wrry, definitly NO metal) and was suprised it kept up. i mean it could use more gain( wished i coulda plugged in my ts808) but as they say, tone is in the fingers and i made my fingers do hard rock. she followed and what was lost with gain was made up with rich harmonic overtones, beautiful! i have never really been happy with my amp tones and am ALWAYS dispointed with the amps i try with very few exceptions. Now i havent tried every amp but there are only 5 amps i havent been left wanting. The ac30,ac15,jcm 800,plexi, and the mesa boogie express 5:50. obviously a bogner would or something would be on that list but as i said i havent tried every amp. ill give it a 9 because nothing is perfect but that rich harmonicy sound sure comes close!

i only tried it in the store but it sure looked beat to hell with scratches and cuts. voxs r known for being fragile so becareful with that tolex!

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this amp had something that no other amp iv tried had. it just simply sounded like a real tube amp with the real soul of the tubes coming through. this sucker was also super loud! easily hold itself in a jam situation but she wont stay clean! This amp at the very least is worth a plug in at a store and a whirl, i promise ull love it. this is coming from a person who has NEVER done a postive review and i always bash where i can because the person reading the review needs to know where there might be faults. i never found any but i never got to try it too long. just dont count on this thing doin marshall gain levels perfectly. it can stretch that far but it IS a stretch!

sorry for my english!