Vox AC30CC2 212 Combo

It's got a killer Tremolo....beats f.ex Fender Twin Reverb. Reverb was lousy so I changed to Accutronics unit. Not the most awesome reverb still. The lack of more tone-control is a bugger. Been using a Boss Equalizer to get what I want in sound. But it feels like an overkill to hustle with that. The footswtich is rugged and nice. Not like the one that comes with a Fender TRRI - that's a joke. The Insert loop on mine had a bug where when it was activated lost power and some bottom. But I changed a cap inside of it. Realised later that running straight in serial into amp and skip the loop didn't change anything.

Well it's british. It can get scrary screaming loud and with a tendency to be a chainsaw in your ear unless you keep her tamed on the top tones or change some capacitors. I swapped the Wharfies into Celestion Blue and found them to somewhat more pleasing to listen to.Theres no noise from it like those Fender amps that has a got deal more hiss to them. The 15w Alnico Blues lost some headroom though. Consider the Celestion Gold if you swap them.

If you look on the internet you'll find a bunch of owners that really dig into improvements to this amp. Changing a lot of components and chasing that vintage 60'ies sound. I just got me a Fender Twin Reverb also - and hey..that amp is just something you turn on and then go play. Seems like the AC30 has this chinese production trauma where some components where just not ok to use. And I can agree on that. Too much Wall-mart different places in it. Had some issues f.ex with those plastic jack inputs.

I've had it for some years. Been hunting that countryish midtone from it. I've managed to get close after hard struggle. And I'll be damn if I didn't one day try out a Twin Reverb and INSTANTLY realized that I had been a fool trying to make a Brit Amp into a cowboy. So IF you consider getting an AC30, - PLEASE check it out in comparison a f.ex TRRI and assure yourself whether you maybe should fly a P-51 and drive a Mustang instead ;-)

This amp was made in 2008.

I got this amp, mostly to get the Stone Temple Pilots sound and it does a great job at getting that vibe. It also allowed me to discover a whole new tonal palette and range. What a pleasant surprise this amp has been in terms of tone.

This is a 2 channel amp with 2 separate inputs and lots of neat features like power filtering modes, effects loop, reverb, tremolo, blend-able channels, hot/warm bias settings, eq modes.

I use the amp mainly for blues, funk and some hard rock. It is a LOUD amplifier, even in the 22watt mode. No trouble being heard over a loud drummer with this amp.

HEAVY. At Almost 80lbs, you'll need someone to help out at gigs. I wish the amp came with a cover.

This amp is a total revelation to me in terms of tone. The only thing I'm having trouble with is getting an overdrive pedal to sound good with the amp, mostly when using the Top Boost channel (C12 mod or not). I have the preamp set pretty much at 3/4 of the way up on the TB channel. This gives a nice warm overdriven sound, perfectly suited for blues and rock and it only sounds better as the master volume is turned up.

It sounds decent at bedroom levels for practicing but this is no practice amp. Better to get an AC4, AC15 or Night Train.

I'd love to get an overdrive to sound good with this amp for soloing where more sustain is needed - I've tried a bunch of different pedals but nothing I tried really works well with it. The only thing that sounds good so far is a clean boost, setup to drive the input of the amp harder. Everyone seems to say that the Crowther hotcake is the way to go. I'll have to get one when I get some cash. I use the TB channel with the EQ set to the custom mode. This seems to give me a more vintage, greasy, thick sound. I don't like the mid cut you get with the normal mode.

The normal channel is used when I want a cleaner sound. Very warm and bright at the same time. The mids have a lot of girth to them.

regardless of the channel I'm using, I get a lot of compliments on my tone with this amp, especially when used in combination with a Marshall.

When played loud, the amp has a definite vintage vibe to it, especially with the sag that is caused by the use of the valve rectifier.

It is a noisy amp. I tried different tube in the preamp section and that helped somewhat and the tone was a little better (tigher bass with the re-issue Tung Sols and RCA 7025 in V1 combination). The valve rectifier is holding up well. I don't mind the stock EH EL-84 tubes so I'll leave 'em in there until they are done. I do have a set of backup JJ EL-84s and rectifier tube, just in case.

I'm very impressed at the quality of the cabinetry, electronics, assembly, expect for the tolex. The tolex is very fragile and the glue used to put this on must have been very weak.

Every time I plug into the amp, I just love the sound. It does need to be warm to sound good. Eventually, I'll probably get a Mercury Magnetics output transformer upgrade to get the most out of this amp. This one is definitely a keeper. Too bad it took me 25 years to discover the Vox AC30 sound.

Sometimes, I wish the bass was tighter but I guess that if it was tighter, it wouldn't be the Vox sound. The stock Wharfdale speakers are OK. They get better as they get broken in. They were really harsh at first and after a couple of loud gigs and rehearsals, they are breaking in nicely. I'm happy with them now but I might experiment with some Celestion Blues one day, when I can find $600.00 to blow of a pair of speakers.

A lot of people say that these amps can be modified ever so slightly to fall into the same tonal spectrum as the old AC30s. I believe them. This is a sweet amp. I've done the C12 mod and plan on getting the effect loop modded for more transparency. Simple and cheap procedures.

Even though the reliability rating is low, I haven't had any problems with the amp.

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I'd definitely get another AC30 if I lost this one.

I got my AC-30cc2 way back in 2005 (which, as far as this incarnation of the AC-30 is about as far back as you can go). I have the wharfdales in mine. I'm sure most people know the features by now, but to recap you get two channels, the normal channel with a volume control and a brightness switch, and then the top boost channel with volume, bass, and treble controls. Reverb, tremolo, and the master tone "cut" knob round out the features. You can also run it tighter at approximately 33 watts for more clean headroom and a tighter overall response, or run it cooler at 22 watts for earlier breakeup and a looser, warmer tone.

This thing is plenty loud. It's held it's own against JCM 800 half stacks, fender twins, etc. I will say, however, that you can't keep a perfectly clean tone at loud volumes without compensating by reducing the output of your guitar. But if you're into loud clean tones, you're probably playing a Twin, anyway.

I play a '62 Tele > Boss TU-2 > Barber LTD > Barber Direct Drive > Visual Sounds H20 Chorus and Echo > EH Small Stone Phaser > Line 6 DL4. I also occasionally play my Epi Les Paul through it plus I've used it in the studio with a number of different guitars from Les Pauls to an ES-335 and a Rickenbacker 360. Having had it for four years, I think I've got a pretty good sense of what it can and can't do. For the most part, I run the two channels blended (the top boost channel by itself is a little too bright for my single coiled tele so blending it with the darker Normal channel rolls just enough off the high end) so that I get a very light breakup when I strum hard. This is, in my eyes, the tone nirvana of this amp. The breakup is sweet and clear with just the right amount of natural compression. Chords are clear, single note lines are smooth. It's just built for this sound. This amp is a bigtime midrange pusher, too, so it does a nice job cutting through a loud live mix, where scooped or overly bassy sounds are lost. It's also extremely responsive to dynamics at this level and you can move between clean and lite crunch with a small twist of the volume knob or more force from the pick.

It also takes pedals reasonably well. Because I play with single coils, I did have to experiment with my overdrive pedals before I settled on the Barbers. My old OCD was a little too bright. The Barbers ended up working a bit better. When I play with humbuckers, though, I do open up the tone on both the LTD and the DD to bring back some of the brightness and clarity of the amp. The amp WILL NOT handle bass heavy overdrives/distortion boxes, though. At least that's been my experience. The amp is built to charm you with it's midrange bark, not shake you to your core with bass. You can achieve some very heavy tones with this amp, but they're going to be in the British vein of the 70's. Pedals will give you a little more saturation, but the overall tone is still going to be very British (but hey, we're talking a Vox with EL-84's so you shouldn't expect any more). Personally, I love this sound, but you have to be a fan of it to want this amp, otherwise you're going to be disappointed.

I agree with others that the Warfdales do seem to lose some of their clarity if you start diming the master and playing at really high volumes. I've never had to do this live as the amp is always plenty loud and rarely does the master exceed 1/2 volume, but in the studio when I've wanted to get a lot of power tube saturation I've noticed a little loss of clarity. That being said, the amp sounds great on any setting as long as the master is above 1/4. Below that, the amp is simply not being worked hard enough to be as responsive as it it is made to be. One day I may upgrade to the alnicos, but I really like the sound I have from it now and am in no hurry to do so.

My two complaints are with the trem and the reverb. The trem speed simply does not get fast enough. The reverb simply does not saturate the sound enough on the highest settings. Both sound pretty solid, but they are limited by a lack of control. I don't usually use reverb, but when I do, I use it more as an ambient effect rather than something to compliment the sound. Compared to virtually all other amps with reverb that I've played, the vox reverb simply isn't versatile enough. Same with the tremolo. Sounds great, but sometimes it would be nice to have a faster setting. Now, I didn't buy a vox for the reverb, but I did expect a little more out of the trem. For that, I'd like to give the amp a sound rating of 8.5 with 8.5 meaning it's totally worth it but it could easily be higher if more time were put into the reverb and the trem. I guess I'll round up.

I have a Vox Tonelab I cart around to use as a backup plus the other guys in my band have a backup amps that we cart around just in case because you can never be too cautious. That being said, this amp has been pretty solid. No problems for me until halfway through the amp's third year when the rectifier tube went out. That's a little early for a rectifier tube, but it's alright as the amp hasn't given me any other problems save for right before the tube went out and it starting making all kinds of noise. Of course, I figured it was a tube issue so I don't really blame the amp. My amp tech says that these amps do seem to eat tubes faster than most and is always a threat to blow a tube at any given moment (as are all tube amps, I guess). I play mine pretty regularly and gig it regularly, even a few traveling shows, so I expect that it will need tubes every 2-3 years or so. Because of this, I definitely wouldn't play without a backup close by. However, I the sound is worth it so I wouldn't switch amps, either.

I've been playing for 10+ years and now make it my living. When I bought it, it was the most amp I could afford and I'm glad I spent all my money on it. It has a great sound, is a great foundation for pedals, looks great, records well, and cuts through the mix on stage. If it were lost or stolen, I'd definitely consider it, but I also would take a hard look at the cc2x with the blues as well as the boutique amps like Dr. Z, Matchless, etc as I love this amp, but don't think it's as good as it gets. I've played through a few Dr Z's and similar amps and have definitely loved them, but never gotten a chance to play them side by side with my Vox. In the end, however, this amp is great if you already know you like the Vox sound and want a lot of amp for your money.

This is a review of a 2007 Vox AC30CC2 212 Combo without the Celestion speakers.
The features are very simple and well explained in other reviews - two channels that have different tonal voicings - not a clean and a dirty channel - reverb, tremolo and a master volume.
You wouldn't buy a Vox for its features, just its lovely tone.
30 watts, plenty, though not heaps of clean headroom if you want that sort of thing.

I use this with a Casino into a treble booster into an analogue delay into the vox.
The sound is amazing. Very harmonically rich and complex. I like to to drive the amp to a natural breakup and use the treble booster for some very musical feedback style lead guitar. I also play a lot of slide guitar with this setup and it all sounds great.

The AC30 is quite noise - 60 cycle hum - particularly using the tremolo with the P90s in the Casino. But, the tone is worth it.

When I first got the amp, I was pleased but not overwhelmed. In the short time I've had it, it has aged really well and the harmonic continue to become more complex.

The reverb was initially disappointing, but it has lost its 'boingyness' and sounds better than current Fender spring reverbs - there's just much more depth to the reverb.

I use the amp for Australian swamp rock and roll - think Scientists, Birthday Party, The Drones. With the reverb and the tremolo, it sounds perfect.

Forget ultra clean and shredding, this amp is for rock and roll. It sounds best when slightly distorted, but to scoop its mids would be a travesty.

Thus far no worries - quite an achievement considering it is occasionally transferred in the back of a wood truck with wood dust floating around everywhere

Perhaps if anything could be improved it would be a footswitch to boost the top boost channel - that would beat an overdrive pedal anyday.

Compared to AC30s of old, its features are pretty good - two channels that you can blend, reverb and tremolo. However, I find the tone controls a bit limiting (more on that below), and it is very odd that Vox didn't produce a footswitch to go between each channel/blend. I understand it is possible to get a switch to do that though. It has an effects loop, switches for different kinds of smoothing, and hot or warm running.

OK - so I bought this AC30 CC2 relatively cheaply with the intention of upgrading the speakers. The Wharfedales were fine on the lower volumes and in the relatively clean terrain - in fact really lovely sounding. But I did find things getting a bit harsh and mushy as the knobs were turned up - hence the '8' for sound quality. I put in some Celestion Alnico Blues and replaced the tubes with JJs, and the sound quality was much improved - better break up and more open sounding. I would still give it 9.5 rather than 10 though after the upgrade, because I do find the amp to be a) a bit too bright with single coils. This can be modified with a bright cap mod, which I may do at some point and b) the tone controls are not responsive enough to remedy this brightness. The tone cut for example, only has quite a subtle effect if your treble is already below half.

Reverb takes a bit of getting used to, but is basically quite nice - I like the fact that it is subtle (yet pretty flexible), since too much 'verb can mush out your sound.

However, the basic signature sound here is very very nice indeed. It really brings out the character of the guitar you are using and works great with all kinds of pickups... albeit a little bright with single coils.

Had not reliability issues so far.

Not had to deal with them yet.

Overall I know this is the amp for me, which is why I have invested heavily in it. I still wish certain things on it were better designed - changing the tubes was a bit of a hassle and the tone controls could be more responsive. However, compared to most other amps I have tried, the signature tone of this amp is definitely one of the best out there.

I bought this AC30 CC2 because I heard a friend play his in studio and loved the tones he was getting. It has plenty of features, from the spring reverb tank to the deep tremolo feature. I've never had any problems with any of the features and the different tone options make it easy to play the sounds you hear in your head.

I have a 70's silverface twin reverb, an early 80's super twin reverb, and an early 90's 410 Deville. I honestly think the AC30 is one of my favorites, the tone and verstility is excellent for its class. I mainly play ambient U2/Coldplay type leads but i've also played live country, blues and rock. If you are looking for a 80's rock lead sound you will need a good overdrive pedal which is not hard to get. It does have the drive option if you play with the master volume but like others have said its hard to use in a live setting without manually rolling the knobs back and forth. My live rig is a hot rod telecaster into a keeley two knob compressor into a ibanez TS808, into a full tone fulldrive 2 mosfet into a DL4 delay. I usally have the amp set to a nice chimy clean tone and use the pedals to achieve the drive sounds.

Although if you are not playing live the natural drive in the amp sounds great to brittish chime or punky crunch.

I replace tubes about once a year in all my amps but it really just depends how much you are using it. If you use it mainly for band practice and bedroom practice 2-3 times a week the tubes will last for years if you use the stand-by function. I use mine daily and heavily on weekends so I go through tubes like candy. The best way to look at tubes is you take care of them, they will take care of you. That really goes for any tube amp.

Its really not fair to judge an amp by tubes going out. Fact of the matter is, if you do some reasearch and find the tubes you like it will sound amazing. If you are still using stock tubes and the amp is 5 years old you ARE going to have tone loss and issues. A basic set of JJ tubes from eurotubes.com is just under $100 bucks, really cheap for the thick and warm tones they will produce.

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Overall this amp is a great investment, it has a wide range of sounds and options that will treat you well if you take care of it. The same amp has the option of the Alnico Blue speakers wich if you can afford it is a nice addition. I personally prefer a warmer sound rather than an extreme chimy sound so I like the warfdale speakeres. If you have any questions or just want to talk about the amp my email is listed just give me a shout.

Can I just start off by saying that I bought this amp in efforts to get away from all of the switches, knobs and gadgets found on just about every amp now days. Ive played Mesa Rectifiers and just came from a Mesa Stiletto Deuce. I want a single channel, stripped down, crunchy rock machine that I dont have the option to fiddle with or manipulate; because I have come to the conclusion that an amp will really only ever sound one way and everything else you try to do to it is just coloring over that. I dont use the effects loop (never have understood the purpose of them). The Reverb and Tremolo are nice, but I really dont use them.

One think I will say is that this amp came with the Wharfdale Speakers. I went ahead and forked out the cash to upgrade them to the "Made in Ipswitch, England" Celestian Alnico Blues. Apparently, if you buy the amp from Vox with the Blues already in it, the speakers are made in China with the permission of Celesian Speaker Co. Ive never A/B'd the 2 but some have said the English versions are better. None-the-less, I have a completely different amp now. These speakers are worth the extra money. Soooo much more thump and mid-range crunch that doesnt get flabby when you push them. Ive never heard a speaker that breaks up as nicely as these do. They are bliss. Call Avatar for the best price Ive found on the Blue Speakers-about $75 less than everyone else out there.

I play heavy southern rock-type riffs to noise math music.

I absolutely LOVE the natural channel both tonaly and because of its pure simplicity. I prefer the bright switch off on this channel.

The top boost chanel is absolutely screaming crunch! I was sooo suprized to get so much gain out of an amp that is supposed to sound like "The Beatles". It does that too with every bit of british shimmer and jangle that I craved, but turn that gain to 10 and adjust the bass and treble to taste and youve got chunky crunch just from the amp itself (without a boost pedal).

I find that the custom switch ads a little more edge to your distorted tone-probably like putting the midrange control on 12 oclock if it had a midrange control, while the standard setting sounds to me like the mids are set about 10:30 or 11 oclock. Because I set the gain so high I typically set this to the custom setting with the bass lower(about 9:30). This amp is only 30 watts but I would think that it would have more than enough power to play pretty much any venue. Im half tempted to buy another to set ontop of it for a 60 watt 4 x 12 setup.

Ive only had it for a couple of months but I hear they are more relable than the older ones.

Neva dealt wit um.

Ive been playing about 10 years and I am happier with this amp (suprizingly enough) than I ever was with my '79 Mesa Mark IIb, Mesa Subway Rocket, Mesa Trem-oVerb, Mesa Triple Rectifier and Mesa Stiletto Deuce (lotta Mesas ;) ). I love the dynamics and toch sensitivity it has, while it is an all out screamer of a tone machine. Personally I feel like this has more "tonal balls" than any of the other amp ive owned. I play a '97 SG Special, a tricked out Epi SG and a Fender-Japan Lite Ash Tele. They all sound great through it.

This is a Vox AC30 CC2 with Wharfdale Speakers, from '06. It's got what you need, great spring reverb, great wharm lively tremolo.

2 channels; Top boost channel and clean. To get OD you crank the top boost and lower the master, to get clean, the opposite. You can do the same on the clean channel, where there also is a brilliance swith. That enables some of the higher ranges, and make it "brilliate more".

It would be great if the footswitch could switch between the channels, but all it does is switching reverb and tremolo on and off.

Nonethless, great tubeamp, loud and beautiful, though really heavy.

I am playing with a Gibson Les Paul Classic with original pickups from 2003, and it sounds awesome. It souts whatever I play, though if you wanna go the Black Label Society way, or the more heavy distorted, you should get an extra dist pedal to boost the top boost channel. It is not at all noisy, and sounds great on low volumes also. I play jazz, blues, rock n roll and heavy metal (Sabbath, T-Rex and the more oldschool-end). It does a warm and hot overdrive and a soft clean. It doesn't sound like a Marshall, nor like a Fender, but it isn't supposed to either. It is a Vox, and an amazing sounding Vox amp.

I haven't had any problems so far - at all.

I've been playing around 8 years, and I own this, my fav. guitar, Les Paul Classic '03,and I use a Shure SM57 to record.
If stolen or lost, I would buy a new one, or an amp that reminds of it - now pretending that I'll have the money for it. I chose this amp over a Marshall JCM900 because I like this sound more, and I felt like experimenting more. Most people just go: "Marshall + Gibson = everything I need", but to get your own sound you gotta think for yourself, and this amp sounded just perfect for me.

It has got some switches on the back where you can switch between (and this will affect the sound ofcrouse) vintage or modern, and hot or warm. You can add external speakers, and it has got a special effects loop for 1 pedal.

Bought the amp from a Long & McQuade in January 2006; it was a floor model. It's got the Wharfedales in it. It's got the normal and top boost channels with blending which I've toyed around with, but for my style I stick with the top boost channel exclusively. Each channel has it's own volume with a separate master. A tone control helps fine tune the sound as well, almost smoothing the sound out as you dial it in.

I play primarily experimental/progressive rock ranging from Mars Volta-ish stuff to psychadelic and TOOL-ish stuff. Would be great to have footswitching between the normal/top-boost. To switch channels you have to plug into a separate jack. That I'm not a fan of.

It's got an effect loop jack that you can disable with a switch in the back, but I feed my effects (delay, FM4 filter modeler, looper) in directly on the main input. I have tried it out and it worked fine.

The footswitchable effects: reverb and tremolo, are basic and functional. I toy with them on occasion but I'm sure you could find quality pedals that blow them out of the water.

I've used this amp consistently two nights a week (about 4 hours nearly straight each) since I got it.. cranked to earplugs-required volume and it gets louder. It can sufficiently deafen 600-700 square feet of people at about half volume.

It has a basic eq for the top boost channel (treble/bass) as well as some switches in rear for hot/warm and modern/classic modes. Each offers differences in sound for various types of playing I've found. There is also a brilliance switch with can add a little jangle to the normal channel. For my purposes, I roll with hot and modern with the top boost channel. Would love some midrange control though.

I play an Epiphone Les Paul Standard (circa 1999) with stock humbucker pickups through this thing. I love the sounds I get out of this thing. As mentioned above, playing progish rock in the vein of Mars Volta - TOOL. While the overdrive capabilities of this amp are suited to British invasion sounds and Indie genre rock, the sound is very raw and this amp has a lot of growl.

In a 15x15 foot room, turning it up to compete with a 5 piece drum kit can get some feedback going. In that same environment, I tried out an Ibanez Tubescreamer and had to return it because of the squealing feedback raping my ears. Now I don't know much about feedback so it could have just been the tiny room we were locked up in.. I've talked to other folks that use Tubescreamers with this amp and have no issue.

The overdrive can range from that growl I mentioned to a soft touch to augment a clean sound... particularly if you use the blending on the normal channel. Lots of options for integrating it into your sound. That being said, if you're rocking Metallica tunes this amp's overdrive isn't going to cut it alone in the distortion department.

The master volume is well implemented. You can turn up the master without having to distort your clean sound and open up the boost channel. If you're playing in your bedroom/apartment the master volume isn't going to close out all your tone, which is nice. You won't get all the depth of tone as opening it up on the master, but it's better than some amps I've heard turned down.

I pump some weird synth effects (Line 6 FM4) through this thing at times, and it works well for that as well.

This amp has never broken down on me. I haven't replaced the tubes or anything else on it for that matter in the two and a half years I've had it (although I bet a change of tubes would sound lovely). When I first got it, I was carrying it into the backseat of a car one to two times a week to jam with it in the dead of winter (-30ish). This thing has stood up to much manhandling.

I read the reviews here after purchasing it and cringed at some of the reliability issues with the models shipped before mine, as I didn't visit the store intending to get this amp. But I have been pleasantly surprised that nothing has gone wrong. I've left it on for pretty much an entire day at a time during weekend blitz rock sessions, coming to it for 2 hours at a time.

Never had to get this thing serviced or place a support call for any reason.

I've been playing since for about 10 years. The only other amp I've owned is the original Traynor 30W practice amp I had.

I didn't compare it to a lot of other amps. I would, of course, always recommend doing so. Also at the time, I wasn't sure what style and sound I was going for so this style and sound has grown around this amp. I tried out other tube amps in the price range, some Traynors, there was a Line 6 in there maybe.. the 112 AC30CC. This amp blew those out of the water.

This amp is a heavy mother. 75lbs is a lot to haul around if you're a scrawny guy like me, but it's worth it. But depending on your needs that might be a consideration.

I love this amp's growl and character. I've been thinking of buying another amp for the purpose of a heavier rock sound, but I wouldn't sell the AC30.

I hate that there is no footswitching available between channels. I would like some midrange control on the top boost channel.. but I also understand they were trying to use features available on the plethora of previous AC30s they were feeding off of for this reissue.

In my opinion this amp is great for what I use it for. If you like the sound for what you do, grab it.

Features are what you'd expect. The fact that you can combine the two inputs/channels is cool. Reverb abd tremolo are good

This amp sounds AWESOME! I have done lots of jamming and recording with it and always love the sound. It's especially good with single coil p/ups. My Les Paul Special (p90s) and G&L ASAT Classic both sound great through this amp!

Here's where my beef comes. This is the most unreliable amp I have EVER owned!! Tubes going, fuses blowing .... very frustrating. I have it in the shop again because it totally won't power up!! I am very gentle on my gear - so this has caused me great frustration!

They (Vox) get back to you pretty quick - which is great because the local dealer where I bought it is useless.

If it were only reliable this would be the Holy Grail for me. It sounds THAT good ... when it is working ....

I have played professionally for 30+ years and I know what I like.

Wow - if only this thing was reliable ... fortunately I have a sweet Orange AD30HTC as well - which never lets me down.