Vox AD100VT 212 Combo

features listed in other reviews. Adjustable power is sweet! low in the studio, loud in the crowd. I'd like a dedicated line out for recording that doesnt cut the speakers. not a big deal. the variety of sounds possible compensates for this shortcoming.

I use a cheap double humbucker les paul knockoff, and an Ibanez artstar hollow body, also double humbuckers. I love the AC30 setting. some reviews criticize the Vox amp settings as flat or hollow. I don't agree at all. Original Vox amps aren't designed for late 90's alternative/pop, so I'm not sure why you'd try and use one for that kind of music. I run heavy delay and reverb and get airy harmonics and rich high notes that ring for days. This is a shoegaze or psych. rock bargain. Don't waste your money on a vintage AC30 unless you've just signed a record deal, once the bass and the pedals kick in nobody can tell the difference. Nobody. Love the AC30 and UK 70's settings.

don't gig without a backup. this amp has never broken, but is only a year old.

I love the cleans, the reverb, and the tremolo. Still prefer a suitcase full of pedals for other effects, but it's nice to be able to switch between two totally different sounding amps mid song.

I picked this amp up a couple of years ago now. I was looking for a 2X12 tube amp but had to stop and look at the vox because of its price, and the fact that its stainless grill caught my eye. Although it was a hybrid tube amp I really liked the sound, and its options (11 models and 11 effects). Like I said i really like the amp becasue it has just enough amp model options and effects. In essence you have 3 channels (channel #1, channel #2 and the manual mode). I like that it has a headphone jack for when my kids are sleeping but my favorite option is the power switch on the back allowing you to adjust from low watts for small rooms or home practice to 100 watts for larger gigs. The power switch allows you to drive the amp to your liking at any range in the spectrum.

I play an Epiphone 335, a hagstrom Super Swede, and a fender Strat through this amp and they all seem to work fine. I really like blues, classic rock, and regular rock and it seems to track with my style just fine. I use the amp mostly at clean settings and use external pedals for added effects. Each of my channels is a different clean amp setting. I like the Boutique clean setting and the AC30TB setting. for manual I dial in one of the more agresssive distortion settings like the "80's" or "New Metal" settings. As you can probably tell i use the amp footswitch to access these settings during play.

The only problem i had was the nut on the input jack seemed to pop off quite easily with a little tension on the jack causing the jack to fall into the amp once the cable was pulled out. I have fixed it twice on my own and now tie off my guitar cable on to one of the hadels to see that it doesn't happen again. I switched the jack nut on the input jack with the red nut from the back pannel for the external speaker. It seems to work better and it looks cool.

I have e-mailed in to vox with a concern and wasn't happy with the answer. When i ordered the footswitch for the amp the footswitch cable was a lot shorter than expected. I am sure that this would do just fine in a bedroom but on stage or gigging I knew I would need more length. When i e-mailed they did respond and i will give them that but they were very dissinterested and just told me to go and but an extension from Radioshack. I ended up having a friend who works in the sound industry add a bunch of cable to it for me.

I like the amp and play on it once to twice a week out. It is a little heavey but what do you expect from a 2X12. I would consider another Vox product again in the future if i was amp hunting. I love the versatility of the amp, the cool steel grill look, the sound, and the power adjuster option.

I just wanted to add that I thought it was pretty cheap of Vox to not add an amp cover or footswitch with the amp. I know they are trying to cut the overall cost but I just thought that was cheap.

All the details are listed on the Vox site and above this review...I believe my amp to be a 2006 model, which I purchased in 2007. There are enough options with the sounds to require a degree in sound engineering, but by taking things on one by one, I am learning the value of this amp.
I had tried out a lot of combo amps before settling on this model which suits my style of music-surf-heavier rock quite well.
It is loud as hell for 100w.

I have a 62 strat, which sounds great through this amp-I really like a clear top end to things and this certainly delivers without sounding tinny.
The distortion levels on this amp are not great-but with the addition of an overdrive pedal, this can crank out some noise.
The chorus delay and reverb effects are fucking brilliant, and the flanger reverb is really great.

I had my main imput jack come loose, and it wouldn't stay threaded, so I used some "lock tight" which is a liquid compound (mainly used for autos) that helps in these situations, and it did the trick. I wasn't impressed with having to do this, and living in the country, it would have been a pain in the nuts to haul in for such a minor thing.

The shop I bought this from was aces. If you are shopping in Winnipeg for an amp, check out Mother's Music. Great Service.

I have had this amp for almost a year, and have finally broken down and bought the 2 phase pedal which I will get in a week or so ($29.00). With all these splendid options, you need a pedal to change sounds in a song. In my opinion, this should come with the amp to start with.
Overall, this is a great amp, and having come from a 100w 70's Traynor tube amp, this still delivers a wallop. The lone tube it comes with does not replicate that sound, but if you want a clear high end, with a lot of options, this is the amp to buy.

This thing is stacked with some pretty damn high quality features. Two channels, 11 amp models and a shitload of effects. You create your own channels which is an excellent feature. A third channel would be great for a solo tone but a boost pedal would handle this fine. The thing with this amp is that the features are all really high quality, but using them live is a bit of a letdown. There is only one switchable effect per channel, and this means that most of the time all those cool effects never get used. Other than that though, its a loaded amp.

This thing handles my style of playing with ease and power. I play funk based rock that occasionally gets a bit prog when we start jamming. My gat is a mexican tele thats been beefed up with a duncan hot-rail for when shit gets heavy, but its also coil tapped to get those sharp funk sounds. The boutique Od rips for soloing and riffige and the cleans are great for staccato funk rythyms and high seventh chords. I like a bit of metal in my own time, and although the amp does this admirably its not its strong point. The high gain settings are heavy and strong but a bit muddy. But for the price, pretty gnarly.

This amp often gets a bad rap on this point, but I appear to have gotten lucky. Frankly, I've been thrashing the shit out of this thing for nearly two years and its never let me down. I've played about 30 or so gigs with it since I got it in Jan 2006 and its still ripping.

Haven't had to deal with them so wouldn't know.

This thing dominates other amps in its price range. Its all valve marshall or fender but it costs a third of those amps. The only fault I can really say it has is the fact that you can't really reap the benefits of its versatilty in a gig situation.

I got this amp in our local shop and payed a little over the top for it at 550 euros. I was desperate as my other amp ACX 1000 had broke down, yes I know the ACX 1000 is an acoustic amp, but I accidently plugged my Yam LD acoustic into this Vox in the shop, the clean settings are so very ringingly acoustic and I was bitten, now I can introduce some distortion into my acoustic ramblings in bars here in Ireland and the punters love it too.

Its certainly a powerfull and loud amp when its needed, OK feedback on acoustics is a problem, but I get this amp up high as possible and swivelled to point the right angle in the room, then my swell pedal does the trick, any feedback is instantly quelled without having to stop playing, by easing the swell pedal up or down as the people move around in the bar.
My Yam LD has a very advanced pickup system which somehow suits this amp.
I'm getting a Gibson electric soon with an acoustic bridge pickup, I hope this will bring out the full potential of this amp and me too.

Six months use and no problems as yet thank you.

I cannot comment as I had no problems yet.

The size of this amp is what makes it the powerfull beast it is! Its a bug'un and prety heavy too, but it has "stage pressence" and certainly draws the punters while setting up your gear, so you best be a capable guitarist to keep them punters around!

regarding the footswitch for the AD 100VT 2 x 12....if you check your manual it should say that the footswitch comes with the 100 watt model....i bought mine about a year ago...i happened to read the manual and voila!!...i called the music store and proved it to them and they gave me one...the contacted vox and the newer manuals were to be changed..

I'm not sure where this amp was made in but my guess would go for China or Korea. It has two channels (you can get three of them if you count the manual mode aswell).

This amp also has an effects loop and a line out jack but I haven't needed them yet. I use this amp with my band, mainly at our practise place which is a big bunker. It cuts through the mix after some testing and such. Cut the gain and add mids and it should sound great. 100 wats is more than enough: I usually crank the master volume all the way up and then set the power knob to around 10 o'clock. Even then it's very loud and has some of that tube feel into it. Too bad that the foot switch didn't come with the amp!

I love the clean sounds in this Vox! It depends on your pickups whether the sound gets distorted when playing with a clean setting. The sounds are in general great and luckily there is some variety in the amp models. I mainly use the UK'80's and tweed amp settings and they are doing their job well.

I mainly play classic rock with a punk flavor and this amp is great for those styles. But take this hint: you really can't get very metalish sounds from this amp. The heaviest sounds are the likes of, let's say Trivium and Metallica. So no death or doom metal with this amp, I'd say.

I wish the amp would give a more trebly sound but that's more of my guitar's fault since at the moment I use a dark-sounding Les Paul. So it's in your hands (or should I say ears) whether the sound is trebly enough or not. Otherwise it sounds awesome.

The effects are good aswell. At the moment I don't use any other effects than Whammy and delay. I use the amp's built-in delay effect and it sounds great. Sometimes i also like to mess around with the auto-wah which doesn't sound bad at all. Well I wouldn't use the auto-wah for solos but it's a great effect to fool around when playing new riffs.

The amp can be a bit noisy depending on your pickups. But it has a built in noise cancelling which has been enough for me.

I've had the amp about a year now and it hasn't had any problems. I've also done some gigging with it and it hasn't let me down. I've heard that there are some bad inviduals with these specific amp models but I guess that I don't have one of those!

Haven't used the customer support so no rating for it. It has a year long warranty I suppose.

I have been playing about 6 years now and this amp is my main amplifier that I use. As I mentioned before I use a Les Paul but I'm about to buy a new strat soon. I can't wait that: single coil strat-sounds + this amp's clean sounds = one way ticket to heaven! If it were stolen I would buy a second one if I had the same amount of money. Or I would buy the AD100VTH-head and a Vox cabinet because I like this amp so much!

I have compared this with amps that cost approximately the same amount (Line6 Spider III, the bugdet model Marshall head and so on) and I would say that this one will give the most for your money! But if you play VERY heavy metal I would suggest the amp my friend has, Line6 Spider III. That one has metter metal sounds. But in other areas this amp kills even some of the more expensive ones! A great value in my opinion!

This has been covered well.
I wish it had more than one input, and the ability old more than 2 patches would be good as well.
I got this amp in a trade. I needed a practice amp and a friend had been afer a fender vibrolux that i had in storage. I also got a strat in the deal as well.
The power control on the back makes this thing perfect for a bedroom amp even though it is a 100w beast.
I wish it had the foot pedal, but it's only about $25 more.
It has enough features to get good sound if you know what good sound is.

This will go from clean to extra dirty and all points in between , no complaint there.
I have used a les Paul, a strat, and a jazz box with the amp and it works well with them all and can get amost any sound you want.
The tube is easily changable, and was one of the first things I did.
IO went to a tube that breaks up a little easier, and the tone improved greatly.
The noise gate is a nice addition which keeps down noise even with old gretsch single coils.
This will do it all - no question.
I waited for about 2 months to write this as I wanted to form a good opinion before I wrote.
Unless you are going to spend huge $ on a lot of amps and effects this is the bet.
Suprprisingly it has a warm tube sound.

I have only giged with it 3 times, but have had no problem.

never delt with them.

I've been playing long enough to have gray hair, and it was long and dark when I began.would I buy it? probably not, just because I have sooo much gear already. Like I said I got it on a trade. I think the strat I got was almost worth the trade.
Change the tube if you want even more warmth.
I used a grove tube with a medium hardness that I had laying around just to see what it would do and I love the change.
I think this is better sounding than some of the multi-effects I have run through tube amps; because you can push the tube at low volumes and make it scream in the bedroom with out the rest of the family sh*ting bricks.
The hole multi thing is great, but you still have to used them with a tube amp while pushiing the tubes to get a good sound.
This just seems more warm and responsive to me.

Manufactured 2005/6. Has plenty of modes but none of them were really what I wanted once I got it home and in a band situation. I ended up using a digitech multi effects unit to get my sound back. Despite having lots of different amp models each setting was really one dimensional and hard to tweak.

The power control is exceptionally cool though.

Not much chop for a modelling amp.

Cleans were pristine and lush, distortions were pretty good but each one I found had a glaring flaw. The US Hi gain lacked a lot of highs, numetal lacked far too much midrange and had excess buzz. UK Modern didn't have enough bottom end.

The milder overdrives I can't comment on.

Mine started belching smoke during practice, so I returned it under warranty. The replacement did not work at all. I got my money back.

It sounded pretty good, and I got an excellent distortion out of it with some outside effects. (For the cost, you can't expect it to be supreme). Even if mine was still working today, I couldn't overly recommend it. Because mine killed itself after three months AND the replacement was a complete dud this amp simply isn't worth its admittedly low cost. Modelling fans save your money and get top end Rocktron, Line 6 or Tech 21 gear. If this amp is the best you can afford, get something cheaper and worse. It will probably last many times longer.

Features have been adequately covered before. The philosophy on this amp seems to be, "Everything you need, nothing you don't need". There are comparatively few amp models, but the ones that are here all sound great and cover all the usual styles. Same with the effects. I sometimes wish it had even 4 preset channels - doesn't seem like that would have been too expensive to add - but you only get two. That's still good enough for me 90% of the time. And, the effects editing is a bit inconvenient, as you have to hold down multiple buttons simultaneously to use the single edit knob for a variety of parameters (the Line 6 Flextones use the same scheme to cut down on the number of knobs, so it wasn't really a shocker).

I don't know if it was in the manual (I only skimmed it, you really don't need to read it as the amp is very self-explanatory), but I discovered quite happily that the effects settings are stored with the presets even if you don't save the effect as engaged with the preset. I rated realistically for what it is advertised as, what I expected of it, and what it's reasonable to expect at this price point, not of what I wish it would do in a perfect world:

The 11 amp models are all great; there's not a weak link here. I especially like the AC30TB, JCM800, Dumble clean, and Soldano models. Like their tube counterparts and unlike a lot of other modling amps, these push a lot of air when cranked, and the dynamic tube feel is markedly better than that of other modeling amps. The power reduction knob is great for maintaining a "pushed" power tube feel at bedroom volumes, although honestly, the master volume knob seems to do just as good a job, and the power reduction knob seems to cut some high end presence out of the sound. I experimented until I found a good balance of volume using the power reduction and master volume knobs.

The amp does lack a little high end; there is no presence knob, no allowance for a presence control with any of the presets, and I think the cheaper speakers could be a culprit, too. I compared this to the AD60VTX, which has a presence knob, and the AD60VTX did have a little more sparkle. For distortion sounds it isn't a problem since you generally want darker eq, but for clean sounds it doesn't quite have that Fender or Vox sparkle and sheen. I don't know what they did for the amp models that originally had a presence or "cut" control in terms of modeling...did they model the presence part of the circuit at 100% and gave the treble control more range to make up? Sometimes it frankly sounds like they just modeled at presence setting "0". Seems a bit weird since this is a Vox product and the AC30TB's are famous for the presence cut control.

However, I will say that, with treble and presence-equipped amps, I'm always second guessing which is which when I'm tweaking the high end, and I've never found an acceptable balance between treble and presence on real tube Fenders and Voxes, anyway. Seems like these amps are always too bright or too dull, and with only a treble control, there's no time wasted tweaking: turn it all the way up, and these models still sound great. I think better speakers might open up the top end, too.

Effects are surprisingly good. The delay is supposedly modeled on tape echo, but I don't hear the distinctive tape echo smear...just a really good analog delay sound. The tremolo, rotary, and chorus are good and rich, and the auto wah is surpringly usable (I usually think of this effect as a useless toy unless you have a really good one). I was able to tweak it so much to my liking that I rarely bother plugging in my wah pedal anymore, which is fine since it's a tone suck on my guitars, anyway. Spring reverb model also sounds good.

Obviously, there are limits because these effects have only basic 3-paramater tweaking and you can't store more than 2 presets, but since they do sound really good, it's nice to have some effects if I'm just plugging straight in and don't want to have to fire up my pedalboard.

Made in Vietnam. Seems study enough but at this price point and with Vox's history of poor reliability, hard to say. I've had it for a few months now, no problems, but I've owned a lot of other Vox products in the past and all of them have had problems sooner than later. It must be a real tribute to Tom Jennings and Dick Denney's amp voicing that people still love that sound so much that they're willing to pay for an unreliable amplifier!

I suspect that the cabinet is made of particle board at this price. I don't have the heart to rip off some vynhide (sp?) and look, I'll just accept that I like the amp and leave it at that. One very cool feature: the tube is easily accessible from the back! Replacing it would take 10 seconds, unlike the full tube AC30 Custom Classics (and, for that matter, every English-style Vox amplifier ever made) where you literally have to remove the chassis from the cabinet to reach the tubes!

If I were touring, I think it would be foolish not to have a backup, but with reasonable care exersized it seems sturdy enough. No creaks, poorly joined parts, or other things making me blatantly nervous. Even though I prefer the older basketweave fronts, the chrome speaker protectors are kind of cool, makes the amp feel not quite as prissy as a real AC30. Corners are plastic, though.

As with Vox's recent history as a brand name, the current crew running the company are not the same people who did the 90s reissues, who were not the same people who did the 80's/70's Vox, etc., so you have to evaluate using a fair and fresh perspective on the new company's mission. The stuff is made in a SE Asian factory where we frankly can't see what the build quality is one way or the other, but the company seems committed to making this business model work, and the prices are ridiculously affordable for what you get. When I first decided that I wanted a Vox AC30 in 1992, there's no way I could have had one for less than $2k. Hard to be too critical here, to be fair. We'll see. I have to give it an 8 based on its relaibility for me and my confidence so far. I also own a Tonelab SE and it seems VERY well built, nothing shaky about it, all good-quality metal parts, and they are made in the same factory, so it's a good sign...

never dealt with them. Have heard high praise and horror stories. I hope I never have to find out!

Been playing for 20 years. Favorite bands are The Beatles, The Who, Zep, and U2. I don't play professionally anymore, otherwise I might go for a more expensive, more tank-like amp, but for occasional friendly jams and the fact that I finally have a Vox amp that sounds like I think they're supposed to, it's great! (I had an AC30 reissue in the late 90's and really didn't care for it, it just didn't seem to have the characteristic Vox sound in spades...with this one I plug in, dial the knobs for 5 seconds, and it sounds like the Vox tones I love from my favorite records). My guitars are Epi Casino and Fender Am. Strat, and I generally don't use effects anymore if I can get away with it.

I compared it to the higher line AD60VT from Vox and Line 6 Flextone III. The AD60 had more features (preamp pedal effects like a variety of overdrives etc.), more effects, and more programmability, none of which really appealed to me (save the missing presence knob!) so I couldn't see spending the extra money. The Line 6 stuff sounds great at bedroom whisper levels but always seems to sound sterile, lifeless, and thin with any kind of healthy volume. The Flextones are probably more rewarding at the music stores since they seem to be tweaked to sound better at lower volumes and seem to capture more of the "characteristic" sound of the various amp models (plus they have more variety), but only the Vox modeling amps are as fun (nearly as fun, anyway) to play as a real tube amp. I've gigged with a Flextone and still cringe every time I hear my guitar tone on a recording we made that night.

I'm guessing a simple speaker upgrade might help this amp a lot. The middle of the road speakers included don't sound like anything, really...you can't quite get the boxy Beatle tone of the AC30 model without real Blue Bulldog speakers, etc., so I plan on some experimentation here. But I still love this amp.