Vox AD50VT 112 Combo

Purchased this amp from Best Buy in July/09 (Yep, just a few stores have a pretty good music instrument department) new in the box (clearance for VT50). I suspect the amp was made in the last year produced (2008) and has the fan that makes a slight noise but nothing that drives me nuts. Wish it had had more memory channels but for the price wasn't a deal breaker. The amp has all I need and more. Tweeking the amp models with the effects gives you more sound variations than ever dreamed. I'm just a weekend jammer with friends so this amp is more than I really need but gives the versitality to play anything.

Sound is what ever you want it to be. Reverb and chorus allow you to do just about anything and coupled with the amp models you find yourself fiddling around just to see how many sounds are in that box. Honestly, I hadn't heard of an "amp modeling" type of amp until my brother-in-law explained it to me. Not having a standard guitar amp for 20 years (just got the Ampeg bass amp last year)I was out of the market and wanted a good amp for a descent price. Kowing this amp has been upgraded to the VT and XL models offering 2 - 3x's the amp modeling presets, price drove me to search for a AD50VT which fills my sound needs above expectations. I did play the VT50 and it does offer more amp modeling pre-sets but the AD50 will get you there or close to it by just experimenting. Good cleans and as much distortion as you'll ever need or want (at least for this old guy).

Have only owned the amp for a couple of months....all is O.K. for now.

I have been playing for over 30 years (mostly acoustic) and have owned a 66 Tele, Ovations, Hagstroms(68 original) and curretnly have a Samic (Les Paul and looking for more Samics and Agile Tele), Ovation XL Legend 12-string, playing a Epiphone Les Paul Bass through an Ampeg 115HP and also have a Yamaha YPG-625 88 key for just messing qround. After playing through a Crate, Line-6, and a variety of other modeling amps I decided to buy the AD50VT (price at Best Buy was a huge factor). So far so good. I am reading the manual each time playing. Be surprised how much it helps in tweeking for the sound you want. Has a slight fan noice but nothing that drives me nuts. The 11 amp models are great plus the effects you get more than enough variations. I am a wannabe rocker at heart and mainly jam with friends and a brother-in-law who played professionally back in the 80"s and currenlty owns original Les Pauls,Strats, Martins, Taylors and plays through a 25 year old Mesa 10" - 30 watt. So far he likes the amp as well.

I have a VOX AD50VT 1x12 combo. Made in 2006. I play blues, rock, metal and jazz. This amp, is what it is. It is not good enough for me for jazz. The Mesa example doesn't have the feel of a true tube amp.I just don't feel the warmth and dynamics when you back down the gain or even backing down the guitar volume. It's not their in preset either. But with that said it does have some impressive tones and features. I use this amp at home and at band practice. It has the power for a four piece band. But know your limits. Another guitar player will walk all over you voice if you don't tweak the mid's with an EQ and/or some type of boost to cut threw or grab frequencies that aren't used by the other guitar player. The effects are useless except a little reverb , delay and the comp. The comp is percusive witch is not what I want all the time out compression.

I mainly use fender stratocasters. I have a 79 and a 60th Anniversary mexi strat with Tex-mex in the neck and middle position. And a Semour duncan Hot rails in the bridge. I know...I can here the hiss and boos. The new strat sounds better on this vox than the 79. I love the Dumble clean at high volumes. In manual setting tweak the mid and bass. Tweed is awesome its as close to vintage as you can get for your money. Like I said before it is what it is. The UK 70 in some of the other reviews has been labeled a Marshal JTM 45 OR a super 800. I am pretty sure it's a HI-WATT and wow it has a bottom end to it that has some punch!!! My 2 favorites are US hi gain and boutique od/Dumble. CRANKED UP!!! Turn back the volume on the gtr and this is some of the most exciting tones I have ever made. US HI-G makes me feel like I have something close to a Solano. It gets muddy with boost or tube overdrives. The nu-metal is just down right awful to me. I have never heard a mesa sound like it. It's a misrepresentation of a dual-rec. Theirs no control over its harshness and it seems very mechanically sounding. The AC 15 & AC 30TB that's the original boutique sound. Very close to the original and should be for obvious reasons. I hear from a lot of guys that's a Vox don't sound like one. Because I wasn't modeling one. Other player are impressed with the sound , the price and the Vox name.

This amp has been very reliable. It does what it clams to do. Their are limits to its use. Does it replace any of the amps it modules? No!! Never will. Who can replace a 59 bassman, a Dumlble overdrive special, a Marshal jtm45 or a vintage HI-WATT? Some of us have the cash too. I don't, I bet you don't ether.I want all of these amps but I cant'. So I did the next best thing I played all the modeling amps out there and Vox was the one I couldn't stop thinking about. 25 years of playing,and watching gear prices that were affordable once become out of reach for most of us. Hats off to Vox for having the vision.I never new I could have this much fun with tone. I was always told find a tone and stick with it, don't complicate things. I use this amp every were I can. For now I don't have a backup. Until Vox MAKES AN ALL TUBE VERSION that is. So far so good.

I extended the warranty 3 years. No problem. Oh the fan does not bother me because I don't ever play that low to hear it. Come on guys! The fan!
I cant hear it past volume two. I didn't know it had one until I read some of the boo hooing in the reviews. You bought an amp in $250-350 range, it is what it is. Like Johnny Cash said to his drummer "Play the dam thing man". In its class and price range it is a good amp. Don't expect it to be more than what it can do and you will enjoy your self. You played the amp before you bought right? Yes $300 or so is a lot. But, you didn't buy a Triple-rectifier, then get bored with "It's killer tone man" which it does have. I don't dispute this. Because you now want to play classic rock too and your sound is one dimensional. And then get pissed off because you made an impulse buy of $6,500.00 head and cab. And the local dealer will buy it back for $1,500.00. God for bid they make a buck on resale to pay employees or any thing. So you but it on craigs list $5000.00, then $4000.00 , then $2,200.00 for 6 months. Then you write a review about the vox valvtronic amps. Because your band mate has one and can't compete with your fire breather. But the chicks dig because he sounds like he can play anything. So your review says" the fans to loud man ". Its not the fan its you. I PLAY MINE SO @#!%$ LOUD I CAN'T HEAR THE FAN. VOX will keep on moving without a customer like you. Pick the right tool for the right job. Customer support has answered and solved any problem Ive had. But then I didn't ask the amp to walk on water.

I have been playing for 25 years. I have sold gear I shouldn't have and had to. It happens when you need money in an emergency. If my amp was lost or stolen I might buy the vox pedal board w/the 11 modules and maybe a 50 watt stack. Just because of I really like to have at least 2 10" speakers. Maybe a Cornford,Fuchs, Solano or Bad Cat. I would rebuy it if money was an issue. I don't like the noise reduction character. I don't mind amp noise. I play strats Its part of the sound. The noise reduction makes it feel like the amps not wide open. Like an all tube amp has a feel as if you still have a lot of head room left. I wish this amp had a open back option. But I do PLAY it !@#$%*& LOUD! And I do enjoy what this amp does. The comparable amps like fender cyber or what ever seem to lack vibe. The line 6 I came close to buying. I don't think any of them as modeling amps are as good the VOX. It is what it is. It seems the closest Ill get to any of the great amps it employs.

Bought 2 of these babies from guitar center.
Plays excellent through my PRS, not so great on Rickenbacker 330 or possibly semi or hollow electric guitars. I do the channel switching. I love the idea that I can use 3 different sounds with the footswitch. I was gigging with these amps at least once a week. It is good enough for medium size halls without miking it.

Use solid body guitars. Danelectro doubleneck and Paul Reed Smith 1994 CE24. This was the best guitar amp for sound I ever had. Had some tube freaks tell me it was a lousy sound, but you have to love the sound yourself to be happy. Previously had Twin Fenders, Vox AC15, Mesa Boogie Rectifier, plus other low name amps. But this was the killer. My main sound was the Clean Compression sound that came out. Plus the distortion was the greatest, My Tone sound was dialed in and of course it takes some dialing in to get what you want.

Issue with the amp is that it's not a gigging amp. It's great for leaving the amp at practice. Too much jarring around and something comes loose. With my 1st amp within a year I lost my sound to where I could only use the presets. Warrenty with Guitar Center and they sent me a check and I was able to keep the amp and I got another AD50. Within 16 months, this time the sound was cutting out at high volumes. Guessing the soldering must of came loose. This time they are wanting me to send the unit and then they will send a check out. Bottom line, you need a backup if you gig alot.

Emailed the company on an issue, took them 4 days to reply.
Warranty was through GUitar Center. Guitar Center is good.
Didn't even try Vox.

Been playing for 28 years.
This time I'm buying the Vox Custom Classic AC30CCH.
I'm a little leery about this cuz it's from China, plus I've read the reviews on it, so I'm taking a chance.
But I really loved the AD50. I was going to buy the Valvetronix AD100VTH but I'm afraid that they may discontinue the model and if they do that then I would have to eventually upgrade to a different model like what I'm doing now. But The AC30CCH looks like it may have features that I may be able to dial in. I may have to use a distortion on this puppy and use a compression box. We'll See.

The Vox ad50vt is an hybride amp. It has a transistorpreamp, tube and a end amp. Wit this configuration 11 popular amps can be selected. To every ampselection a lot of effects can be added. It has a prefect balanced preset, but can also be maually chanced.

The output is 50 watt. Suits perfect.
Te tube is placed befor the endamp to give a more realistic tube sound.

I used it with a telecaster and a les paul model. The sounds are wonderful. Just like the original Vox tube amps. Jou want to play it clean or rough. Play it

I have a a few weeks and I can not say how it is over a few years. The construction is very good, and perfectly finished.

The waaranty from the dealer is 3 years. So that is very nice

I pay a few years now and I tried a lot of amplifiers.I have a good feeling over this amp. It has a nice an honest sound and has the presets that I want.

This is a mid 2006 model. I mainly play classic rock, blues, church worship, and some jazz. The amp is versatile enough for the common "gigger", but if you are looking for the tone that you will stick with your whole life, then use this as a stepping stone. The amp features have already been stated in other reviews. I wish it was open back. Some folks like the closed back, but I'm more into the shimmery, mid saturated tone along the lines of SRV and John Mayer mixed with the ability to have clarity in my leads like John Petrucci. The only amp model I really dabble with is the AC15. The others sound very fabricated and thin. I use this amp in small to medium venues, although I had the opportunity to use it in an arena with 4,000 attendees. If mic'd it holds up fine. You can make this thing loud!! **Note** This amp sounds tons better cranked. You loose lots and lots of head room at low volumes. It seems to have a problem handling effects pedals (lack of head room).

I play with a Gibson Les Paul studio, a mexi tele with Texas specials, and a deluxe players strat with texas specials. The amp can do many styles and tones fairly well, but none of them really stand out. The amp can do many tones that fit me. I find that I like a mild blues for rhythm and a saturated rock tone for leads. The amp allows for fairly close replication of these. The amp is relatively quiet compared to a lot of amps. It all has to do with the power you are getting. Clean power equals clean signal. The "clean" channel is whatever amp model you choose. Then they follow the same path. Progressively louder from 0-8 and then just compression from there (especially with the wattage dial down below 50 watts). I am switching from this amp for several reasons. One of them being that the amp doesn't do any one thing really spectacular. The others being the closed back (preference), and the head room problem when you add pedals. Another thing I've noticed is that the user settings seem to vary by a minute amount every time you turn the amp on. I can't handle that. I need consistency.

This has to be the highlight of the amp. It is a workhorse. No problems, many scrapes, dings, and as i like to call it "character" to the amp. It has never puked out on me. I have it on for 5 hour stints 3 times a week. The only issue here is the variation in the saved settings mentioned above. I consider that reliability.

Never talked to them. Never needed repaired. Authorized repair centers are common. "Competent" authorized repair centers are not. Nuff said. The warranty is 3 years conditional warranty. I'm almost out of it.

I've been playing for 9 years. 5 semi-professionally. I own the above stated guitars, and a pedal board with the following in line: Boss chromatic tuner, Crybaby, Boss EQ pedal, Boss OD-2, Ibanez TS-808 (with vintage chip), and a Boss DD-20 (in line due to tone of pedal). All are connected with custom length Monster patch cables. I use only monster guitar cables. If it were stolen, I would buy a Fender HRD 2x12. I love the grill. I hate the closed back. hate it. I compared to the Marshall MG series. This blew them out of the water. I chose this one due to the cost and the possibilities. I wish it had an open back cab, and I wish it had better electronics. The amp was a good step up, but now I'm ready for a more permanent all-tube tone. If I didn't need the cash to trade up, I would keep this one for a practice at home amp. That would be nice.

This amp has loads of features, most of which i havent used. i only really use the boutique clean and AC30 amp models and the tremelo and spring reverb effects, all of which i love. my only criticism would be that you cant use the delay and reverb together. Also there are only two programable channels, where as three would be useful for me.

My setup
Guitar: Rally Neo sound (335 style)
Pick ups: Twin Humbucker 3 way toggle
Strings: D'Addario 11's
Pick: Jim Dunlop Tortex Blue 1.0

My Style
Ive got a one man band, playing alternative indie bluesy rock and thanks to my guitar set up and this amp ive got the exact sound that i want. which is an old skool fat bluesy type sound typial to that you would only usually expect from highly priced tube amps.

Gain And Volume
Thanks to being able to adjust the output power of the tube via a knob on the back of the amp you can either turn the volume right down and still get a full on tube overdrive (perfect for rehearsing) or get a lovely clean tone at very high volumes (ideal for gigs). Although peronally i like a tiny amount of tube distortion on the peaks of my clean sound.
The variety of drive options is massive from perfectly clean tones to crazy heavy distortion, however i only use three drive settings, a clean tone on the boutique clean amp, a crunch on the AC30 and an overdrive on the AC30. these sounds are also varied a great deal between pickups.

Noise
There is a noise reduction option on the amp which is very effective, however i like a bit of old skool amp noise and like to highlight my mistakes, so i dont use it.

Ive only gigged it a few times and touch wood its worked fine, but i have a feeling that it wouldnt be to happy if any water got spilled into the vents on the top of the amp.

never dealt with them

Im really a drummer so i dont know much about the technicalities of guitar stuff, but i know what i like and i like this amp. I have guitarist friends who own very expensive tube amps and i prefer the sound, performance and ease of use of this.
I love the AC30 sound but i would still buy this amp instead, due to its versitility and ease of use and i would buy another without hesitation.
If the amp had 3 programable channels instead of 2 and the reverb was separate to the other effects the amp would be perfect.

In summary, if youre looking for that old skool tube amp sound without the tube amp price tag this amp is just the ticket.

To hear he amp in action visit my bands page: www.myspace.com/onlymoses

Everyone knows these.

Quite good. The cleans are very natural feeling. I dont use the distortions much, so I cant issue a judgement. Dolphinstreetmusic.com has some very good sounding videos using this amp. The effect are good, but limited, compared to other programmable units. I like popping country twang, and the compressor on this amp does this pretty well, but with a big volume increase at the setting I like.
I didnt find a nice woody mid-rangy sound, like my old Legend Amp had. I dont think these digital modeling amps are capable of that sound.
I like the auto-wah for some ocasional funky stuff. Note that on the new VT series the auto wah is GONE, and the compressor has been BADLY compromised. It is combined with the chorus setting, and to my ears, adds only harsh distortion. I think that these 2 issues will keep me from considering the VT50 when it becomes available.
I am looking for a used AD50VT, and see it as a complete grab-and-go self contained system. for my gigging.

Dont know first hand. These reviews site quite a few problems. I dont think these computer type amps last a long time, and since the manufacturers only allow a model life of about 3 years, getting these amps fixed down the road appears to be impossible. Pretty close to "use it then pitch it when something goes wrong, like a computer. What happens to all this electronic junk, anyway? Are we dumping it all in the oceans?

At any rate, I'm a bit leery, but for about $200, I'll risk it.

No experience

Vox makes good, good sounding stuff. I'm impressed with the several Voxed I've tried in the stores. (About 4 hours time on them).

The vt series has added some great sounding models, and the line out is said to be improved, but I think I'll go for an AD50, for probaly half of the VT50's cost.

One 12-inch speaker
50 solid-state watts
12ax7 tube preamp
11 different amp models
Adjustable wattage dial

I primarily use a 2004 60s' reissue Fender strat. I will occasionally use a Schecter S-1 Elite. I play mostly blues and rock and play in a band at chuch. We play a lot of contemporary christian music and this amp is wonderfull. It offers a wide variety of sounds and is very versitile. Let me put it this way... I have a Fender Blues Deville 4x10 reissue which is modified version of the old Fender Bassman, and this amp actually sounds better. There is a model of the 4x10 tweed on this amp and it sounds sweet. I've had this amp for about 3 months and really like the way it sounds. I can't quite give it a 10 because there are some amps that sound better. (a fender twin for one) But it is the best sounding solid-state amp I have ever heard. After playing with it for some time there is a little trick to maximizing the sound. Rather than control the amp volume with the wattage knob on the back, crank the wattage to 50 and control the overall volume with your master volume control. If you push the master volume, but lower the wattage, your clean headroom disappears rapidly. This amp's best qualities are its clean channels. The overdrive amp models sound a bit "processed". The only overdrive amp model I really use is the boutique OD. Again, another reason for the 9 rating. Overall, nothing but great sounds and even better considering the price.

Mine has functioned very well. Only minor issue is sometimes the amp decides to forget what your user programs are.

Never dealt with them.

If this amp were stolen, I'd get another. Very reliable to gig with and very sturdy. Great sound for the money. I would recommend this to all musicians from starters to experienced. I've been playing for about 15 years. This amp is geat.

I bought my 2005 AD50VT from a friend who was fed up with nit. He said he couldn???t get any volume out of it for gigging with his band. Hell, it???s 50 watts, I thought something must be wrong with it. But for $150 I took it off his hands. I discovered that he had failed to use the wattage control on the back of the amp. He came over the other day and heard me wailing away on the ES 335 with an AC 30 setting and his mouth fell open. ???What did you do to the amp???? he asked. I lied. I told him I had it worked on by a pro sound guy. (I couldn???t make my good friend feel like a wad head.)

I get great tone out of my AD50vt and I play it out all the time. In the studio, I cranked the gain up and the wattage down and I???ve got the perfect TV face Fender Junior going???perfect for Chicago-style blues. It chimes on the AC15 and AC 30 setting and I play it coupled with a Marshall Ministack for a rich, gritty 60???s sound. (AB switch with the Marshall getting about 30% and the Vox carrying 70%. The Marshall is there for a bit of dirt and coloring. It does the job quite well.) Both my Les Paul 57 Gold Top Reissue and my ES 335 love this box.

And my friend? He is still throwing money around trying to find ???that??? tome I stole from him for $150. Maybe I should tell him???but then again, he is helping the economy.

Excellent... and not just for the money. This amp is becoming a classic in its own right.

Many studio guys i know have them.

No problems. The fan doesn't not bother me. You can't hear it when you stand two steps away and micing the front for studio work, it never shows up.

never needed it. But the on-line manuals are great! Hello marshall are you listening!!!!

I've been playing since the 60's. This is the best amp I've ever owned. And I've owned a lot of amps.

--3 Channels! Yep I said three. I have the $29 optional footswitch and have programed the second button to turn on the MANUAL CHANNEL. The first button switches between CHANNEL 1 & CHANNEL 2. That makes for 3 different sounds without touching the controls again after you initially set them up. This is plenty for the style of playing I do.
--The built in attenuator is a huge plus for me. (I have a 3 year old who sleeps early)
--I don't use the presets, but they are not bad
--The effects are nice if you know how to work them

ON A SIDE NOTE:
Read the manual! I read it before I bought the amp. I am glad I did, because it addressed almost every issue I had seen in the reviews. It was enough to convince me that a lot of people just tried to plug in and play. One example is the noise gate. Several reviews said it couldn't be cut off. It can not only be cut off, but it can be dialed in strength from 0-100%.

--I play 2 Thinline Tele's, a Hagstrom Viking, a 72 Strat and several others through it. They all sound different and they all sound good.

--Would rate an 8 because it doesn't exactly replicate that tube sound us tone nuts love so much. But it is a hybrid, and not a tube amp so what do you expect. That being said, I had to bump it to a 9 because the tone is killer for an amp that isn't fully tube.

--I play a broad range of music, but mostly play blues. I play in a group that has three different singers/writers in it and we play a broad range of music. It's like seeing 3 bands in one night. But I was having to set up 2 amps to cover my tonal bases. Now I just need this one. I have three tones set up before hand and use my Keeley-Blues driver to boost for solos.

--It's a little noisy, but only if you are alone in a quiet space. But any amp this size would be. You want quiet, get small. At most any gig this amp is plenty quiet for it's size and power.

--The range of clean-distortion-high gain is as broad as they come.

--The base isn't super clean, but it's a VOX not a Fender. That's my take on it anyway. That's like buying a Ford and complaining because it doesn't look like a Chevy. It's not that either really is much better than the other, just a little different.

--Have not had it long enough, but it seems to be well built. I take care of my gear tho, even stuff that I gig with so I don't see any real problems in the near future with it.

--They pointed me to a site with over 500 presets for the AD50VT when I couldn't find the old site. Very Helpful.

If I were only comparing it to tube amps, it would fall to around 7, maybe 8. But it beets everything in it's class by a mile so I gave it a nine. It's not a pure tube amp, but as close as I have heard to one.

The features on this amp are great, but using them in a live gig is nearly impossible. The foot switch limits you to 2 channles and an effects bypass. Buy some stomp boxes.

I would have rated this 10, but I have heard a few amps that sound better. I don't own any, but I have heard some. I have a vintage blackface twin. I liked it a lot until I bought this amp. Bottom line if you spend thousands of dollars you can get better, but from about a grand and under this is in my opinion the best sounding amp I have ever used. I play mainly on my deluxe players strat, but my teles sound great, and my gibsons are ok,not spectacular. I use pedals comp. chorus. delay. and 2 distortion pedals. and a volume pedal between the effects and amp. My favorite models are ac30, 410 tweed, I dial in a sweet semi acoustic sound with the boutique clean model, and the us highgain is my favorite dirty model. The only time I get that crappy digital distortion sound is when I turn the wattage knob down. This thing sounds GREAT when cranked. My master volume is almost always wide ass open on gigs. Not for volume, but for sound quality. Ikeep the gains borderline crunch, so I can get a little dirty when I kick my vol pedal up, or kick in compression. How loud is it? Well I play lots of clubs, and I play with lots of bands so sometimes it can't be micd. I have never ever ever played a clubthat I could not cut through the band mix with no mic, no bullshit there. Someday I might, but I have not yet, and I have played clubs that can hold 5 to 6 hundred drunks. Buy one its only 379.00

I spilled a beer in one, and it broke, so I went and bought another one, and then a friend of mine fixed the broke one, now I have 2. I did have an input jack break, but I fixed that. The first one I bought gave me problems, and Vox replaced it. I guess you could say after 4 years or so these things hold up pretty good. I leave one in my trailer in a case all the time. I rarely carry a spare amp.

They were hard to get in touch with at first, but when I explained who I was and the gigs I was playing, a rep responded to my e-mail, and replaced my first amp. I never had any problems with that amp after that, even after the beer incident.

This is my baby. The other players that hear me know what I play on. They know it is part of my personal signature sound. It ALWAYS sounds great. I have played right along side other players playing high dollar amps, and mine has always been comparable where sound quality is concerned. I have a blackface twin, a peavey classic 50, a vintage fender champ, a peavey triumph, and a line 6 practice amp, this thing sounds much better than all of those. If I thought I could get a better sound for a grand or less I would spend the money, but it cannot in my opinion be acheived

I've had this amp for two years. I've programmed the sounds I want in to the two channels and on occasion switch to manual for an additional "channel". Models all sound pretty good. I've read a few reviews that they can't find a clean or they don't like the distortion. Cleans are everywhere, turning down the gain only decreases the volume on certain amp models that are included. This amp is great for about everything except metal (I don't play it anyway) but it can hold it's own with the gain it can push. I do wish it had an effects loop, but with 11 effects on board I guess VOX figured you wouldn't need anything extra. it has an external speaker out... but it cuts out the internal speaker. It has plenty of power, especially with the variable Wattage dial on the back - push it for all 50W, the master knob can then be cranked (I've only pushed it to about a quarter of the way and its plenty loud for the gigs we've played).

I play with a few things: Epiphone Les Paul Classic, Fender Strat, Ibanez Talman (PAF Joe-Neck, Red Velvet-middle, Tone Zone-bridge). They all sound great through the amp, esp the PAF Joe and the strat. The amp can get some noise if you push too hard on the gain sometimes under flouresent lights like any amp, but if you care - you can easily fix that with a few adjustments. Distortion does what I want (punkish/rock, I don't push to high gains). For me, perfect cleans. Very versitile cleans. For the money, this can't be beat if you're not a metal head.

I've gigged with it for the two years I've had it with no problems whatsoever. My settings have never failed me. It has tipped over while playing and kicked a few times and has remained loyal and in tact. I haven't done any maintenance work! Great little amp.

Haven't dealt with them

If you want a good modeling amp with some good power, but also great tones at low volumes - get it. Price is affordable, sound quality is there and it's dependable. I don't remember the warranty information, but I haven't had a need for it.

As far as versatility this amp kinda sucks. i've had it for about a year now and it just dosnt have what i want. i mostly play metal and the numetal setting seems to work best but dosnt have as much distortion as i would like. Otherwise the effects seem to be good although i rarely use them, occasionally i use reverb and delay. It definatly does not have as much power as i would like, its fine for practice but if you plan on playing with a drummer than barely loud enough.

Maby i'm just stupid but i cant seem to get a very clean clean channel. In order to get an ok clean channel you have to turn down the gain a lot which takes away a lot of volume, and still there is always some distortion. i'm currenly play with an epiphone les paul classic, and i have installed symore duncan SH-Distortion pickups on the bridge and the stock pickup is still in the neck. As I said before the numetal setting works best for metal but at high volumes it is horrible. It still sounds the same but it gives a ton of feedback, random loud anoying high pitch noises. Although i dont use the other amp models that much they seem to be quite good and definatly have a good tone. This amp is just not for metal.

Like everybody else has been saying, it would be very anyoning to gig with because you can never trust the settings you've saved to be there.
the only thing that i've had a problem with is the nut on the input jack got lossed somewhere, but that was because i underestimated how long my cable was and so the nut had been loose for about 2 months before it finally fell off.

I finally got sick of the distortion sucking and got an electro-harmonix metal muff pedal that has worked very well for me. I probably would not be upset if this amp got stolen or somehow lost. I really dont like a whole lot about this amp, and i've pretty much said why i hate it. For metal i would suggest a line 6 or a peavey mixed with your own effects.

this amp has a whole lot of features, and they are probable described in other reviews

i use mainly gibson, and all my guitars are humbucker guitars

i mostly play old school hard rock/ rock n' roll, it does'nt suit that style very well, but it is fine for practice

it's a little bit noisy, but not to much, and mostly on higain settings

in my opinion this amp is not very versatile, i only use the boutique clean channel, and then i use my drive pedals (mostly t-rex and mxr) to get the drive i want, i don't like any other channel on this amp, the worst channel are all the higain channels, i think they stinks

the amp can play pretty loud, but is no tube amp when cranked up

seems fine to me

never had any problems

the only thing i love about the amp is that it sounds got at low volumes, and it has lots of fx. i can play with

if it was stolen i would not buy a new one. mostly because i am getting a Marshall 1987x next month, and that is one hell of an expensive amp, so i won't have the money

2006
This is a follow up report to the one I did two years ago.
I have owned this amp for two years now and not had any problems with it. The amp is not really designed for gigging although I do use it for that. The channel saving and switching with the VFS2 is a joke as volume levels between channels is always inconsistent so I dont use my footswitch any more. The controls for the effects are annoying as they just dont do one thing but multiple things by holding one down and turning another ect.
I have modified this amp by fitting an effects loop (not a difficult mod)which I run my Behringer EQ700 equaliser pedal thru to cut the bass and raise the mids and highs slightly. Takes the muddiness out of the amp like taking a blanket off.
I designed and made my own treble diffuser (Beam blocker) which works beatifully and takes those harsh treble notes away that you hear if in line with the speaker. I painted the grill with a Crinkled black automotive finish and it looks really cool.
The best way for gigging is to use a low gain clean channel like Blackface or Bassman and pedals for OD and distortion so volume is always right when you stomp your pedal.
The line out is a waste of time as it mutes the speaker and does not reproduce what the speaker is doing as it is taken before the Valve reactor.
I mostly play clean when I am gigging and the presets such as Blackface, Bassman & AC30 are pretty good sounding but obviously not the real thing.
It has enough of power for playing in a band situation. I always use mine at 50 watts as the clean tone suffers if turned down. By turning down the master, turing the guitar volume to full it will break into overdrive / distortion nicely on the higher gain channels.

It has some nice clean tones both with the LP clone, ES335 and single coil Strat that I use. There are some nice dirty sounds with UK Modern,US High gain and BT Overdrive but I dont use them for the giiging I do but do play at home with it. If you use them with presets which I only really discovered recently they have the EQ and gain set nicely. Push the Bypass button and you can remove the preset effect or dial it to what you want.
The amp noise even on high gain channels is not excessive and a touch of noise gate does the trick.

These are known to have some reliabilty problems with cold solder joints and require all the jack sockets on the amp cleaning every few months or so with contact cleaner and a plug pushed in and out to make sure the cheap switching jacks they use make good contact other wise they can cause sound loss and noise problems.
I have had no real problems with mine and it has never let me down at a gig.

Vox are not the greatest company to deal with unless you strike the right person from what I have read on Valvetronix.net and Patchtronix.com. Check these sites out to get the low down on these amps and how to get the best out of them.

If it was stolen I would probably look at other amps such as the AD60VTX or some other brands but the weight of the VT50 at 20kg is really all I want to lug around. The VTX is a little heavier.

I've had this amp since early 2005. I still really haven't explored all the sounds it's capable of, and that for me is a mixed blessing. It's a very warm sounding amp--you hear that tube preamp. Many of the models are excellent. I find, however, that it's difficult to chose and mix a setting and have it reliably saved. There are too many choices and too many complex steps to go through to be doing adjustments on stage. If you like reading and memorizing manuals, fine. You'll be doing a lot of that with this amp. It has the power and sound for stage, but this is not a simple amp to control.

The sounds are a step above any modeling amp I've heard to date for the Vox AC 30 and the 70's UK (Marshall, I suppose) The Blackface settings are decent as well, as is the Vox AC 15. The tube preamp really does make itself heard. I play a Telecaster and an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. The distortion is great with the AC 30 and 70's UK. I play rock, use both distortion and clean settings. I hear the fan come on when I turn it on, but it's remarkably quiet with the humbuckers, less so with the single coils. Now for the awful part: sometimes when I select either channel, usually channel 1, I get a full tilt squeal like all of the volume knobs have been turned all the way on. At the same time, the Auto Wah comes on. I've never saved an Auto Wah setting anytime--I hate it. If I switch to Channel 2, it's somewhat less squealy, but not by much. If I back down on the gain and volume knobs all the way, the squeal goes away, but I can't record a different channel 1 or channel 2 setting that will stay. I always get the squeal. This isn't "brutal distortion," this is an amp that is either 1) defective or 2) rediculously complex.

I can't gig with this. I can't reliably save a setting and know that it will be there for me. I know about the manual. I've read it. I've been trying to make sense of saving settings and getting rid of this incredible squeal for nearly three years. If I leave it on one setting and don't mess with it, it's great. But other amps do that too. They're called "tube" amps. I was hoping to change from an AC 30 setting to a Marshall setting on the fly using this amp. What a joke.

I think I'm going to go domestic with the next amp. I've had one good Marshall from Korg/Vox/Marshall or whatever it is, gave it to my son. My local dealer doesn't seem to know jack about Vox or care, and I don't want to listen to Vox people tell me how dumb I am that I can't make their simple amp tap and save and bypass and all the other really unintuitive crap they've thrown into it. They're like Linux techs, complexity for its own sake. I'll use it in my bedroom to practice on where I have time to tweak the settings, but not in public where it just wastes time. People don't like to watch performers fool around with their gear onstage.

I've been playing for forty three years. I don't think I'd have another of this model, not unless they did some serious usability studies. They aren't manufacturing this amp for the hardened professional, it's made for the hobbyist, the amateur, the semi-pro at best, and they seriously neglected this aspect of the design. I'm convinced that mine is broken with that full-tilt squeal with the Auto Wah. No one can explain it otherwise. I love the sounds I've been able to coax, however, to turn on the amp and not know what's going to come up next is unreasonable. I don't remember what warranty it had. All the folks at the music store I bought it from have changed, sales, management, etc. Seems to happen a lot, always has. Therefore, I expect any amp to work right from the get-go and not to need warranty work. In forty three years, I've only had four amps. My first and the longest lasting was a Vox. I don't know what happened to that company. This is really wrong.

I've got this babe 2007 Juni, and had it for a half year, and it never dissepoints me.
You can get like Which style you like on this AMP!
All from Clasic sound to Heavy Metal with the right settings.
I Play most of the 80s Rock, Metallica, Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne..
All that! And it fits great!
Atm i only used it with a few freinds playing with my band, and man it blowd me away how good it sounds on higher volumes!
Just sometimes i could wish it had a littel more cruncy Metal..

This amp is quite good with 11 diffrent settings i can get what sound i would ever like to have!
in my style the 1980s Metal it suits it very well, I have an Ibanez Les paul custom from 1976 which sounds great on this amp, and just got me a Zakk wylde overdrive pedal to get the extra sound..
This amp can pick up Good Harmonic response, If your looking for the Zakk wylde hard pinches i would sugest you to buy Mxr Zakk wylde overdrive pedal..
For this great price which was for me 400USD I think, it may be the best amp on the market! The amp is not Nosiy at all, Maybe if you sit way to close and to loud volume it can be.. But its very good amp!

The - on this would be that i would really want a more substain, more heavy metal sound from it, but all this can be fixed if you buy some very cool pedal..

Well, i never had any problems at all! Always working very good!
I tryd it out with my freinds and man it really screams NICE!
My dads band member have this 1 and when the played on a market, and wow he had it quite loud and man so Clean! I was schoked how good it sounded! And he played a cool blues solo! And yeah no pedal at all! Only hes skill and a VOX ADVT 50W!

I never had to deal with them..

I've been playing guitar for maybe 2 years? But the latest year i got alot alot better. I Play this beauty with an Ibanez Les paul Custom 76, MXR Zakk wylde overdrive pedal, and it really sounds good!

If this would get stolend im not sure if i would buy a new one, becouse i would like to get a littel more heavier metal sound on this babe, so i would think on some more metal amp..
But this amp aint bad! IF you want good variations! Quite good metal tone! and an awsome blues tone! this is the amp!
I compared this to a Peavey Bandit 112, I did like this amp more becouse of all the efects which would have costed me alot more!

Have had this amp for 1 year. This is a fantastic amp, and a real bargian at $350.00. Not sure I would use this a gigging amp but it perfect for a practice/bedroom amp. Very versatile for the styles I play using a Deluxe Powerhouse Strat and plating 60's, 70,s and blues and country. The effects are all very good save the wah. And the models are also very good, particularly the Vox and 70's, 80's and modern Marshalls. It's also great that you can dial down the power and plug in headphones.

The amp does take some adjusting to dial in the sweet spots, but it's actually kind of fun, especially with the versatility of sounds that can be had from a strat. The powerhouse Strat I'm playing has a mid range boost which helps bring out the warmth on the Fender
models with a little patience and some tweaking. The 2 Vox models and the Marshalls are by far the best though. It is a quiet running amp and actually sounds better the louder you play it. I've had a Line 6 Flextone and it can't hold a candle to the Valvetronix. If your looking for a modeling amp with a budget south of five bills these are the best amps on the market period.

I did have two crap out on me but, ultimately found out it was not the amps but some electrical issues with extension cord I was plugging into. American Music Supply was absolutely a joy to deal with and gave me no problems in returning them. I ultimately called Korg just to get a feel for their feedback and they advised they have had very few problems with them. I also called some of the other giants like Sam Ash and Sweetwater and they both had very positive feedback regarding the reliability of these amps.

Called Korg once and the engineer even provided his cell number if I has any further problems with the new one shipped. They were not difficult to get in touch with and very eager to help.

I also own a Line 6 Flextone XL, and believe me there is no comparison. The Vox Valvetronix blows the Line 6 away. Am playing both a Deluxe Powerhouse Strat and Blackout Tele and both sound great through this amp.

as listed - see all the other reviews, that follow on. the main feature that i must point out, and one of the main reasens i purchased this amp, is how simple it is to use.

have owned and still own, some very juicey examples of 'tube-nivarna' this amp can do it all, not perfectly, not exact. it sounds way too good for something so cheap, and built in china.

owned and abused it two months, fingers crossed ! i purchased it for small 'jams' and small 'gigs'. hey it works ! (every time).

not needed, but its real easy to repair, the service agent here in new zealand, is very good.

it does exactly what it is built to do, if you've never heard or used a vintage 'marshall' or recto-mesa, or know how to get a sound from a 'soldano' then this amp, will be a problem for you. hell i wish i had an amp like this twenty years ago ! i've been playing punk-metal-blues for a long time. it is a fantastic amp, i own 'vintage' brit-amps that don't sound this good ! (unless there cranked). you could do worse !.

A very versatile amp with a large range of amp modelling and FX. Amp models go from Boutique clean(good), Fenders (good), Vox (very convincing), Marshalls (not so good), Mesas (OK). FX are reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, rotary, compressor, auto wah, flanger, phaser and various combinations of the above. It has two programmable channels and a manual setting. Footswitch can switch between channels and switch FX on/off. It would be better if the footswitch could also be used to set the tempo for delay and reverb. As it stands it can only be set by switching the effect on and tapping the switch on the amp.
I am in a band playing rock and pop covers, anything from Alanis Morissette to Puddle of Mudd. This amp can handle just about anything, although I am using external FX for some sounds. My set up is Fender Strat or Les Paul>Ibanez Weeping Demon wah>EHX Small Stone>Rocktron Nitro>Baker Electronics Direct Drive>EHX Metal Muff>Behringer Chorus> Ernie Ball Volume pedal>Vox AD50VT
Power of this amp is great for the venues I play, bars and clubs mainly. As the output wattage can be varied by a knob at the back you can get that amp really driving the pre-amp valve without having to crank it up to ear splitting volumes.

I got this amp a couple of days before gigging with my new band because my usual all-valve amp decided to go faulty on me again. I had two days to play with the sounds to get a good, sweet clean sound which I needed to play acoustic type sounds and some clean slide, and a good crunchy overdriven sound which I could then use FX on to get more extreme distortion. I found the sounds in a couple of hours and only had to tweak the EQ a little at the gig to perfect them.
Clean was so... well, clean and clear, a bit of reverb made it sound so sweet with the slide. This was using the Boutique Clean model. Overdrive sound was the Vox AC30 type model. It worked really well and with a touch of delay and chorus, cut through the mix really well for solos. I can imagine that the more extreme amp models would be quite noisy and would possibly push the speaker a bit too far. SO if you are after a Metal amp don't buy this one. If you are playing blues, pop, rock I would recommend this amp.

Only had it for a week but OK so far. I would and have already used it for a gig without a backup.

Never had to contact them

I've been playing for 27 years and have had lots of amps. Fender, Marshall, Laney valve amps and Line 6 modeling amps. I'd rate the Vox AD50VT very highly as a good amp for someone playing small to medium sized bars and clubs. To be able to program two totally different channels with different FX is an excellent thing to have. It's a shame the footswitch doesn't have a Tap button on it though, but I guess that would increase the price. As it is the price is excellent for an amp that is a great tool for a gigging musician.

Purchased new in Sept. '07. First the negatives: No dedicated Reverb. There is a severe lack of Treble. I am making up for that with a Boss Equalizer but you will have to supplement it somehow. There are lots of distortions but not enough nice clean sounds and when you try to clean up the amp models by turning down the gain, the volume also goes way down. You can only store two sounds. If you buy the footswitch (I did) you can use three sounds - woopie! You can then switch between CH1, CH2, and Manual. It has a Celestion speaker but it is made in China. I took the back off mine to look at it. Maybe that's why it sounds so dark. There are eleven effects (some are composite) but I don't use them. I only use reverb and very occasional delay or chorus. There are also eleven amp models. And last- I hate the shiny metal grill. A vintage looking grill cloth would look much better. On the positive side: There is a master volume and on the back panel there is a variable dial power level control. These two features allow great tone at low volume. The power level control is a fantastic feature. Someone should have thought of it before (I wish I had)! Other than that, you have your basic gain, channel volume, bass, mid, treble. There is a Noise Reduction feature which works pretty well. It has an Ext. speaker jack but if you use an external speaker it disables the internal speaker. You should be able to use one or the other or both simultaneously. There is a headphone jack and a line out. They could have made this thing a little smaller to cut down on the weight.

I tried the AD30VT first and it had better treble response but I went with the AD50 for more power for playing live, jamming etc. The AD50 overall has a more mellow, musical, albeit darker tone. Out of the eleven models there are four I like and will probably be the only ones I use 99% of the time. I play blues, jazzy blues, jazz-rock fusion and some classic rock. I suits me pretty well except for the aforementioned lack of clean tones. I go for a Robben Ford type sound (hey, I can't afford a Dumble). I'm not a Strat guy so I can't tell you how it sounds with one but it sounds good with humbuckers. Although, as I said, you will need to add some kind of treble booster/tone enhancer. This amp does sound good tone-wise overall, it sounds very tube like (it uses a 12AX7 in the preamp section). I think it sounds better and the models are more accurate than the Line 6 products. Mine is fairly quiet but you can hear a hissing sound coming out of the vents on top of the amp, not from the speaker.

I've only had it about one month but I would not use it or any other amp for that matter, without a backup. Why take a chance? Anything can happen.

N/A. Haven't had it long enough. There is a one year parts and labor warranty.

I pretty much covered all this in the previous categories. I've been playing for 40 some years and have owned a lot of different guitars and amps, some I really wish I still had. But who knew then what they would be worth now? If it were lost or stolen, I'm not sure if I'd buy another. I like to try different products and there is so much available these days at affordable prices- it's hard to decide what to choose. However, this amp is definitely worth trying.

Bought new in Sept. 2007 from Sam Ash web site as a "B" stock item meaning it's new but box was opened and resealed. Comes with same warranty as a new one. Price was $320 versus $380 regular price. Features have been mentioned in other reviews. 11 amp models and 11 effects. I bought the VFS2 footswitch which allows you to switch between 3 tones. Some negatives: I tried the AD30VT first but wasn't crazy about the sound of the speaker even though it had much better treble response than the AD50 which is severely lacking in treble. The AD30 wouldn't have enough power for a live situation either. I'm going to have to buy an equalizer or something to boost the treble. It also needs a dedicated reverb so that no matter what effect you choose, you can still always use reverb too. I hate the silver metal grill. The manual does not mention how to access and replace the tube. There are plenty of distortions but not enough nice clean sounds. On the positive side, it is not complicated and is easy to use. Also, you can get great tone at low volume with the power level control (a fantastic feature! why didn't someone think of this before?) along with the master volume. Also, if you use the external speaker feature, it turns off the internal speaker which kind of sucks. You should be able to use both if you want to.

As I said, very lacking in treble. There are only a few amp models I really like but they pretty much give me the sound I'm looking for - almost. Forget the presets, you have to dial in your own tones. There are not enough clean sounds. The best ones to me for a clean sound are the Boutique Clean (Dumble) - which requires a lot of tweaking and the Blackface 212 (Twin Reverb). The AC15 and AC30 are good for lead or crunch rhythm although a tad boxy sounding. They also get a fairly good clean tone but due to the aforementioned lack of treble, you can't nail that early Beatles George Harrison tone. I like the 80's Marshall tone although a tad honky sounding with humbuckers. This is my favorite lead tone so far, I think, as I have not had the amp very long - still experimenting. It (80s Marshall) can be pretty crisp and articulate. I don't care for heavy, high gain distortion. I'm more of a Robben Ford, Larry Carlton stylist. I was disappointed with the Boutique OD (Dumble) which doesn't really give me the Robben Ford type tone I was looking for. Once again, an equalizer may help solve that. You can get a great blues tone from the Twin if you crank the gain, treble and middle and lower the bass. Overall, this amp sounds very good and blows away the Line 6 stuff of which I have owned several products. The 12" Celestion has a warm sound but may be lending to lack of treble? This amp uses a 12AX7 which really gives it an authentic tube tone. I can't say much about the effects as I don't really use them other than reverb and occasional chorus which I use a pedal for. This amp sounds just as good or better than any tube amp I've had.

Can't say. Only had it a couple weeks.

Warranty is 90 days on speaker and tube and 1 year otherwise. That's from memory but I think that's accurate.

Overall - a great amp for the money, big bang for the buck. Why spend a fortune on a tube amp that gives you few tone options when you can buy this at an affordable price and have a myriad of tone options? If it were lost or stolen I would most likely buy another. I have had Fender, Mesa Boogie and Carvin tube amps and several solid states. I've been playing for forty years and have owned many amps and guitars, too many to list. I'm still kicking myself for selling some of the guitars I had but who knew then what they would be worth today? I currently use a '72 Gibson ES355, an early seventies Gibson SG, a recent Epiphone SG, an Ibanez AR250 (I changed the pickups) and a mid-seventies ES175. I also have a couple other amps. As you can see, I'm not a Strat guy so I can't tell you how this amp would sound with single coils. I can tell you that it's a very versatile amp and sounds as good as the original Pod (which was the best one) or Flextone II amp (2x10 stereo). It sounds far better than the Spyder II (2x10) and blows the Spyder III away. No matter what style you play, this amp has something to offer. Try one, you'll probably like it.

Plenty of features for the money. I use for classic rock, blues and a touch of country. Used for live shows. Plenty of volume to cut through band with a three piece mic'd horn section. I owned both the ad50vt and the ad30vt and used both with the horns, bass and drums. My recommendation is that if you're going to play in front of any size audience, go with the 50 watt. The 30 is the exact same amp, but really strains to be heard through the mix beyond the stage. For jamming and practice, the 30 will work and is in a smaller and lighter package.

Very quiet and versatile amp. Too many programming options to shake a Strat at. For those impatient like me, check out: http://www.valvetronix.net/ for great pre-set ideas. I've had great luck with anything rated four knobs or higher. As for effects, I've found them to be adequate, especially dialing in a specific sound like those found on this website. If you want creative control, go with rack mount or stompbox effects. For the money and flexibility, this is the best modeling amp on the market.

There have been quality issues reported on this and the ad30vt models. Mine has had the problem of sticking on an effect when the program has been changed. It does easily revert to the new setting with a tweak. Have never had this problem switching between channels 1 and 2 live. Just when using the manual mode. Unfortnately, quality control may be a problem for the price point. Give it as much of a workout as you can if you have a thrity-day trial period.

None directly. The Vox website is very useful as are the user groups that are out there for tips and info.

There are some cut corners that directly reflect the price of the amp. The knobs, corner pieces and grill are below standard compared to other Vox amps. However, the sound more than compensates for the asthetics. This amp nails the ac15 and ac30 sounds, and for that alone, you're getting your money's worth. The rest is gravy. I'm not a snob and could care less about whether it is a true tube amp or not. The fact is that the sound for the money is the best value out there.

I will say from comments I received from other musicians that the Vox name has a cache that you won't get with other similarly priced amps. This is serious gear, whether or not you consider it a true tube amp or not.

I've been playing for twenty years and am usinging a '68 reissue Japanese Strat with Duncan Antiquity pickups.

I would definitely purchase again or consider upgrading to the ad60vt to get the upgraded cloth grill cover and real knobs. Money being an object, the amp's sound makes it easy to overlook the touches that were spared.

Well it has a lot of them...a little too many for my liking but it works out ok. I play a lot of rock, metal, punk, blues...been playing for 16 years...

This amp can get loud and still hold on quite nicely. Most of the distortion sounds (which i use the most) seem pretty good but they all sound muffled...no treble. doesn't matter what volume level you are at. or maybe Im going def from all of the loud shows ive played and been to.
clean on the other hand is great! beautiful sounds that I would never expect from this amp...truly impressed

Only had it two weeks...bought it used and its been good so far

never had to deal with them

Well...Like I said, I have been playing for about 16 years...play on a gibson explorer, PRS soapbar II maple, washburn...as far as amps go...Mesa dual rect, marshall mode 4, crate blue voodoo half stack, fender...overall I like the VOX a lot. I this it will do good things for me. I think it definatly need some sort of pedal though. Cant hang with the distortion. Good luck everybody

These amps retail for about $800 N.Z. I got mine for free as a replacement amp under insurance (I got my last amp stolen. All the features have already been mentioned.

There are plenty of features, lots of inbuilt effects. It's fairly loud for 50 watts. I personally don't use any of the effects with this amp. I have a Boss Me-50 pedal which I run all my effects off because I can get a better sound with the Pedal.
It models 11 different amp types (I think). At the moment I am using the AC15 amp model.
I would prefer a simpler amp. I find there is not a huge amount of control tone wise over the sound.

I kind of wish it had a little more juice. If you are a guitarist with no effects this amp would be great for you because it has so many built in, but if you have effects pedals there isn't much need for all the effects. Before I bought my ME-50 I used the VOX footswitch 2 (sold separately) to change effects and channels.

I give it a ten because it is very versatile as stand alone amp.

This amp has a huge variety of sounds. It can go from clean to a very distorted heavy metal kind of sound.

I play Blues, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock. I use a Fender Telecaster through this amp. I personally don't like the sound very much. One afternoon before a performance I literally spent about two hours fiddling with knobs trying to get a good sound, and even then wasn't completely satisfied.

The AC15 amp modeller has a fairly good sound, but not great either.
The Boutique setting isn't very defined, and can sound a little flat.

This amp uses a single tube to create the many amp models. The amp models classic amp sounds such as the Vox AC15 the VOX AC30 and boutique amps, 2x12, and tweed amps among others. In my opinion they are mediocre comparisons of the real things.

One thing I do like about this amp is it uses a Celestion speaker.

I use it very regularly. I play in a youth group band most Fridays, and at Church most Sundays.

One thing that I will never understand about these amps is that the nuts around the input jack, the speaker output, the line-out jack etc are all made of plastic!
The threading around the plastic nut of the input jack has worn and every now and then the input will fall inside the amp. That then means I have to unscrew the back (it's a closed back amp), and pretty much take it apart to push the input back up and re-attach it.

This has caused problems with the tone. This is because sometimes I haven't screwed the back up tight enough. The screws come loose, the back rattles, and causes a really unpleasant sound.

The cabinet has a very cheap feel, and the ply used is inferior quality.
This amp is not designed to last. Vox is a classic amplification brand but it didn't get its name through these amps.

Haven't had any dealings with customer support.

I have been playing guitar for 12 years but seriously for about four years.

I also own a Jansen Bassman 100 head(classic NZ made amp), A Mexican Telecaster, and a Boss Me-50

If this amp were stolen I wouldn't be too fussed. I defintely wouldn't replace it. It has some nice sounds, but overall not amazing.

Brandy new. Features? It's all been said here before, six pages of reviews.... Blah, blah, blah.

I use this amp gigging once to twice a week.

Sound quality / overall tone is absoutely great. I wanted a modeler for a while. I've tried everything else. My main gigging amp is an all tube Marshall 65 watt head with a two-twelve cab. I even tried a Roland Jazz Chorus in combination with the Marshall for a while to get solid state clean and Plexi-style power tube crunch. Too much gear to haul around.

The range of tones is impressive. The most convincing patches are the AC30TB and 70's 80's Marshall. The cleaner patches ain't bad either. Forget the ubermetal sound.

I play all sorts of guitars but my main gigging compliment is a Hamer USA Duotone for Gibby and acoustic sounds and a Strat for single coil and quacks.

How "brutal" is the distortion? (That's what the review rubric asks.) I hate descriptives like that. Sounds like a catalogue listing for 15 year old guitar players. The most "brutal" distortion can actually be sonically pleasing, so forget that idea... Most of the distortion models on the VOX are very pleasing and I believe that is a result of the 12ax7 tube working like a power section and not making fizzy preamp distortion. VERY NICE actually.

I play in a very versatile cover band. A power trio really, but with alot of finesse. The VOX amp gives me lots of ability to do my "do", can be VERY loud if I need and I am not afraid to use this amp at gigs. My "guitar guy" buddies will scoff in the shadow of their Dr. Z's, Blockheads, Trainwrecks and Blackface Fenders, but I defy someone to convince me that the models on this amp are not genuine, pleasing and toneful.

This amp proves quieter than all my other rigs, and the noise supression react quickly and naturally.

My favorite patch is the AC30 Top Boost (Go figure) and I like the fact that programming is accomplished mostly with knobs instead of layers of imbedded software and LCD screens.

I was very pleased at a gig the other night that the amp produces natural harmonic feedback and reacts nicely to Floyd Rose divebombs. Many solid state amps and preamps fail to go all the way in that regard. The amp takes pedals well also. My TS9 and Crybaby sounded even better than my Marshall.

Two gigs so far, but I don't forsee any problems. If it poops-out, I'll be very disappointed. I've read a few problems here, but there are ALOT of reviews.

I'll rate VOX here because other players havbe had good experiences.

Playing a long time. 35 years? I dunno.

If this amp were gone for some reason, I'd get another. Definitely.

I love the big-amp performance in a small package. The models are really good. Effects are respectable.

I compared the combo to the head, and decided the combo worked so well, I could leave a cab home.

I hate the shiny chrome grille. I would prefer traditional VOX grille cloth. I may do something about that.

I wish it had a holder for my beer.

Like others have said, don't judge an amp by the price. Most of the vintage classic amps of yesterday were bottom end reasonably priced mass produced hardware. Boutique amps SHOULD give you tingles BECAUSE they cost so much. When an amp comes along that produces "tingles" for 350 bucks, you've got something great. I love this amp. I love my Marshall, I love my 50 watt Bassman. The "guitar guys" can tease if they want, but if this amp blows-up, I could probably just buy a new one. The Epi Valve Junior is $99 and tell me that there isn't a legion of devotees lining up behind that one!

I love this amp.

Ok, feautures are well known at this time, but is always good to say that this is a very versatile amp, with good sound and effects... It could have more chanels, but that's ok for the budget....

Here we go!! I have played trough Marshall, Mesa, Fender, Peavey, Laney....etc.... all valve, and honestly this amp is quite a surprise. I know that is not a real tube amp, and that some amps are not quite similar, but in my opinion the sounds are very good and warm. I have a Hamer Eclipse, and i think that VOX Ac 15 30 and The Marshall 70's rocks like a true valve amp with a full warm tone.... very nice. The cleans are also very good (mainly the fenders) and the high gain amps are from very good to good (even if the sound of some are not quite equal). It's very, very versatile... and have really good sounds... not a metal amp, but a outstanding rock amp.And for the price we pay for this litle baby, man it's hard to find better...

I had no problems at all at this time. I have mine since october and until now it still rocks. And it's funny because during a venue i turned a glass of Wiskey in it, and still working.... :) Very nice...
But.... i hate the wood of the amp... It's thin, don't have any acoustic and worst, it seems to crash much more soon than we can imagine.... Plastic parts are a joke (i work in the moulds and plastic industry) and the corners are just decoration, not protection.... it's sad to see a great brand as VOX making this.... but.... Even being a "crap" about rliability, i've been ver happy for the accident with the wiskey so....7

I had made some contacts with them, and honestly i didn't have any delays or problems.... Lets see in the future

Man, don't you have one? Valvestate? Tubefusion? Line crap 6?
For the price... it's one of the best sounding amps in the planet.... I know mesa sounds better, but will you spend 3000??? in a amp to play in bars?!?
I love it....

UPDATE: On 05.02.07, just a bit short of a month of having this amp, it died on me. I was playing through this amp at bedroom-level when there were a few sharp popping sounds, after which the speaker started buzzing loudly and the guitar signal was no longer audible. The popping sounds and the subsequent smell of burning electronics leads me to believe that the circuitry for the unit may have included defective capacitors (which I have had an unfortunate amount of experience with on computer motherboards over the years). I couldn't open the unit up without voiding the warranty, so this can't be confirmed as such. I'll be posting a second review once the replacement unit arrives, accounting for both new-found reliability issues or differences in sound between the new unit and the previous.

I heard back from VOX within 12 hours of emailing them. Unfortunately, they seem to have had incompetents build their site: despite having filled out the "model" and "serial" fields, the person contacting me asked for these anyway, and these particular values were not reflected in the quoted message I'd apparently sent them. There was no mention of the problem being a common or uncommon one, or recommended courses of action. Given that the amp was new, I'm shocked they didn't default to a "return the amp to the place of purchase for replacement/repair"...such is obvious, but when trying to rule out things as "common problems", it's bad not to be specific.

On the plus side, I phoned Musician's Friend in the middle of the night and talked to a friendly (if a bit bored) staffer who listened to me explain what happened and immediately accepted my explanation as valid for the item being likely defective, and assured me I'd have an RMA label emailed to me sometime the next day. Sure enough, I had the RMA label in my inbox by 8AM PDT the following morning. I printed it out, repacked the amp in the original box with all the materials, and FedEx came around to pick it up the next day. I'm curious to see turn-around on this...the amp should reach them by the 9th. Hopefully I'll have something before the 15th. Again, I'll post another review to cover it.

I'll spare the detail-listing and get to the meat:

PROS: Knobs seem solid. Worked just fine out of the box. Modeling interface is pretty straight-forward w/ the exception of the effects section. Having "Manual" control things as expected is the best feature of all. Cooling fan isn't anywhere near as loud as some would suggest.

CONS: Most default presets are useless; with all the guitars out there, why bother? I doubt anybody's concerned about the exact emulation of a specific amp's controls as they are easily getting a good sound out of it for their particular guitar -and damn, if'n there ain't a lot of 'em out there.

Also, plastic jacks suck; they'll crap out under heavy use. What's the big deal on spending a dollar or two more to get this right from the start? Replacement of lone tube is not made obvious by the manual; guess I have to open 'er up myself and risk voiding the warranty.

Surprisingly good for a modeling amp. Manual over-sells the power attenuation feature; while it's useful, you *CAN'T* necessarily get good sounds at a lower volume with it. All the distortion sounds are awful at low volume settings.

I'm using this with a G&L Tribute ASAT Special. Nu-metal is useless but the other models seem decent. No real "crunch" but that's expected and probably dictates how accurate the modeling is; the beefy G&L single-coils sound like beefy G&L single coils. I can't wait to hook a humbucker-equipped guitar up to this and see how it differs.

Favorite model? AC-30 TB with the gain up. Rolling down the volume on the guitar lends a nice clean sound that's still lively, while raising it a bit distorts things enough for extra sustain but still retains character; things don't "fuzz out". This is my anti-heavy distorted rock sound: somewhere between Tom Herman on the first couple Pere Ubu albums and Steve Albini's work on Shellac, though not as trebly as the former or as crunchy as the latter. The key thing for me is that I can still hear all the nuances of the pick attack and not have a ton of noise or hum in the background.

Effects-wise...eh, guess they're okay. The delay is nice, though the time could be longer. The others are kinda okay but don't vary in range enough from subtle to extreme and are thus useless to me. The exception is probably the compressor; amps should probably have compressors built-in anyway for clean playing. But the effects are ultimately only so much use without the extra-$25 footswitch that should've been included. I'll buy it soon but it's pretty idiotic not to include it with an amp that's got so many settings packed in from the start.

Again, plastic jacks worry me, as do all of the reports of this thing having broken down and the bad customer service. Self-service doesn't seem like much of an option, and with the short warranty, it concerns me. I'm not adverse to opening it up myself, but a real-live service manual would be nice.

OTOH, chassis seems pretty solid for what it is. That ugly metal grill will make sure nothing ever punctures the speaker. All the screws seem tight. For a sub-$1000 amp, I guess that's about as much as a guy can expect.

Bottom-line: I bought this to play at home and occasionally drag to a friend's place. If I'm going to gig out, I'll buy something more solid.

Haven't dealt with 'em yet. On-line registration requires you to spec your computer platform as either Windows or Mac, w/ no room for Linux, which is commonplace yet stupid. At least include an "other" line. Some of us like legit multi-trackers like Ardour. :)

Does what it's supposed to. I expect to get 3-5 years out of this amp as a home practice/recording rig and that's pretty much it. The sounds it yields are pretty versatile and most are decent. It's cheap compared to other amps that yield the same quality of sound. It sounds significantly better than other modeling amps in the same price range. It's the right size for playing in my apartment and in friends' basements/garages/etc. Couldn't ask for much for at under $400.

Not sure when this amp was made. Bought it used being 5 months old.It's the "Does not have the fan" version so I'm guessing it's the first issues. I have the 220 volt model being overseas at the moment.
One channel one input. Channel switching for a 2 channel but did not come with the prescribed footswitch. Dang! Lose one point for that. No FX loop. Not really missing it though. Yes a headphone/Line out. Great that they impedanced it for DI recording. At this point am not sure if it is a stereo line out. I wish it had the ability to get sound out of the internal speaker along with the the external speaker out. There goes another point.Wish it had speaker impedance selector for 4/8/16 ohms. The power so far is fine. It has the single preamp tube 12ax7. Mine is an Electro Harmonix model. Read reviews previous to mine that swapping out the tubes is a hit and miss judgment call. Electro Harmonix 12ax7 is touted as being a good anti-feedback tube. I got lots of feedback when standing too close to the amp as I turned up the volume. Cool but it could also be my old DiMarzio pre Dual Sound bridge position humbucker is not wax potted. You would think a company like Vox/Korg/Marshall would have an idea on how to formulate the best pieces for the cost and still go for tone. In a world of so many manufacturers at least the tone came out on top rather than features. For a solid state amp it does sound like a Vox. But then Vox always made solid state amps back in the 60's. Unlike other reviewers I like the metal grill. I think it adds to the sound and also makes the amp more sturdy. Back in the day. Vox made cabinets with + braces or single braces in the speaker hole to protect the speakers.I know my Defiant cab has the single brace. The metal grill is a better solution.It does not detract from the looks although Vox vintage purists may disagree. Think of it as it Bill and Ted took their Vox amps and came back from the future with the metal grills on or Marty McFly, whichever movie you liked better. It may look great on stage as the stage lights hit it. There may be a use for the the different sounds on this amp. It just takes innovation. Other than that it's another amp among the many needed in the world of music.

Makes a Vox AC30 sound. There are many sounds available and for practicing, songwriting and recording it should do great. I don't tend to look at the presets as certain amp sounds but rather as a starting point for songwriting. For live I will probably use the AC30 setting and plug in a multi FX like a Digitech or a slew of Boss, Maxon. Ibanez. Arion, DOD pedals. Got a great sound out of my RP 50 going from distortion to a clean Mike Campbell (TP and the Heaertbreakers) sound. Tried a little Pipeline surf's up twang with it also. I think pedals through the stock preset setting is a good thing on this amp. Many amps do not do pedals easily but this amp holds its own. Now that is a plus. Old style amps are great straight in, back when pedals were non existent but in today's modern world, pedals are a fact of life, so amp makers should consider that in their designs. Overall the amp fits my style of twang and jangle ala Pete Townsend/Tom Petty with the occasional Godsmack, Megadeth, Mastodon need for distortion. My amp is quiet. I tried it out loud in a large living room with marble floors before I laid down my cash to the 14 year old who sold it to me and was pleased with the performance. I had the AD50VT atop an old Vox Defiant 2x12 cab I found for cheap and restored. This amp sounds better if closer to ear level. When down on the floor, it's hard to gauge the tone and I think this may the problem other reviewers may have not being able to hear the amp during a gig. With massive PA's and monitors, gone are the 60's where all the power had to come from the amp. Let the PA do the work. The Vox tube sound is very much alive in the Valvetronix. I'm glad Vox/Korg decided to keep the vents on top which I feel add to the sound of Vox combo amps. Some of the sound comes out of those vents and mixes with the speaker.I played a Fender Fat Strat HSS/Floyd when demoing this amp before purchase. It handles humbuckers as well as single coils. All in, it's basically a Vox amp sound while it does offer some other sounds, you may need to tweak each preset to get better use out of them. Since the amp does not allow for switching through the presets like an amp modeler should, it wants to be used with an external FX pedal while the presets may be left for songwriting and practicing.

Can't say I've had any problems with the amp. I've owned Vox equipment before and will have to wait and see if I experience the problems other reviewers have had. I hope it does not act up. I will most likely bring other amps to a gig. No matter the brand, many pro acts have backups plugged in ready to go in the event of failure. There is a tendency for computer based musical devices to freeze or glitch.

I emailed Vox about using the external speaker out with other than an 8 ohm cab since the owner's manual says not to while others on this review report using additional cabs, but have not received an answer from Vox on this. They might be thinking, we already answered you in the owner's manual..

Been playing for decades. Have owned many amps through the years, 60's Fender Vibroverb, Bassman, Bandmaster, Dual Showman Reverb, Standell, Vox Buckingham, Musicman, Marshall Slash, JCM900, JTM30, Peavey. A recording studio with vintage preamps into modern DAW Pro Tools rig. I play guitar, bass, keyboards, hammond organ, sing, write and arrange songs. Have had a few albums out and videos on MTV. I initially did not pay attention to the ad on this amp as it was being offered for sale. But something about it caught my attention. It was a Vox. I played a Vox AD120VT prior to picking up the 50 watter. The 120 was going for $800 while the 50 sold for $320. I couldn't justify the additional cost, extra modeler features, the larger cabinet. The 50 sounded better for my purposes, specially when cranked. I wanted it for a live situation not having to drag out vintage tube amps to the gig. Something more portable than a stack and not as heavy. Still wish it could keep the internal speaker when using an external and had a free footswitch. It would have been nice if it could shuffle through the presets on a pedal but then it might have gone up in price. I don't like that it's made of MDF but there is 10 ply plywood bracing in there so Vox made some good decisions regarding that. A nice solid wood cabinet would be cool for this. But then the sound may change. Sometimes the best materials are the ones that are inexpensive, combined in such a way as to offer a sound at an affordable price. Like a masonite Danelectro. I choose this because it had good enough wattage, presets and effects, a "power soak" built in, a 12 inch Vox Celestion in an AC30 type combo cab and most of all sounded like a Vox in a small affordable package. There are sounds that only a solid state amp can make and I think Vox was able to tie the old world with the new on this amp. They just have to get the reliability factor worked out. Too many reviews of problems only scares away potential customers. But then they may have planned this to keep their top line models in demand. Some boutique tweaker may want to get into beefing up these little amps for pro use.I have seen other users post an FX loop mod for this amp out of Malaysia. My amp was made in Vietnam. So far I like the amp for what it does. It seems there are like minded users out there who have hit on the same idea. It's not an AC30 but neither is it a Pathfinder. It's a valvetronix. If it disappeared I would try and find another. If it fails, then an AC30 would be the logical replacement.

I think it's a '06, definitely has a fan, but who can hear it when you're rockin'? 11 models, 11 effects......you know the deal by now. you can get 3 settings if you're sly, 2 preset, 1 that you adjust on the fly. 8-ohm ext. speaker out (cuts off the stock speaker, too bad) it would be nice to be able to go 4 or 16. Tube in the power stage, cool! 'Power Soak' like wattage control., also very cool.

I really love about 5 of the 11 models (Boutique clean has to be tweaked in comparison to Fender 2-12, AC30 and Bassman models. Brit and NuMetal are good also (I use a loud 90's Brit for rhythm preset on 1st preset, and LOUDER w. delay for preset 2 for lead). I love these tones, the speaker is not bad, I hook mine to a Hartke G-412 (Celestions!). Boss DS-1, MXR Micro Amp (lead boost on clean channel) and the secret weapon, a BBE Sonic Stomp at the end of the chain. Very much captures the spirit of these amps, plus where are you gonna get this close (very very close) to an AC-30 for under 4 bills? The Vox Bulldog speaker is nice, I am the sole guitarist in a power trio and need to move more air, hence the 4-12".

Some of the effects are great (delay, rotary, phase shifter, reverb), some are so-so (flange, chorus is especially lame IMO, compressor just seems harsh, but w/ the BBE who needs it?) but it likes pedals and you just can't beat the useable stuff here for the price, the audience in the bar does not care if you have a 3500$ Soldano or a Line 6, why not be happy for less $ or spend the change on a new Strat (I did)! Nashville Tele and Dimarzio equipped Aria Pro II sound KICKIN' through this amp!

This is my second, 1st one died after about 12 hrs, but Guitar Center happily gave me another, and I have been giigin' steady for about 9 months. Get the footswitch and read the manual. You won't be sorry!

Fender Strat, Nashville Tele, MXR, DOD, Ibanez Dano effects all ROCK through this. Been Playing originals and covers (mostly classic/current rock, some weddings) beats the crap outta Line 6! Joe Bob says check it out!

2006 model, bought it from zzounds online for 287.00 US. Did alot of research on this thing before I even went to test one at Guitar Center. By now, everyone knows the features and most of the amps that are being modelled. That said, I think the thing many folks don't realize is that the tone and gain pots work with the same characteristics as the pots on the originals, not models with one preset group of tone control responses. I had the priviledge of seeing Larry Carlton live and got in early and listened to his sound check. This little amp nails his $15,000 Dumble tones! And it has 2 Dumbles in it! All models are excellent and accurate. The only shortcoming is the speaker. They got the most versatile they could considering the wide range of tonalities being modelled.

I play blues, jazz, fusion, rock, pop, praise and worship. I get everything I need from this amp, so far. Glistening cleans, ballsy blues, killer crunch and the effects work nicely too! My band outside of church is 6 pieces and our lead guitarist uses a Marshall 100watter w/ a 4x12 cab. Even he is impressed with how this 50w combo stands up to the rest of the band. By the way guys, if you're complaining about volume while gigging...MIC the darn thing and get some in a monitor!! Hello... anybody home?

Used it only about six weeks now, but use it everyday. At 3 rehearsals a week (2 church, and a bandy), haul it everywhere, no problems yet!?! Will rate this category later.

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In my 30+ years of playing seriously, I have found this to be one of my 3 wisest musical grabs. And the other 2 each cost more than 3 times the price of this one. A Taylor 510 and a Sonor drum kit. I'm the ultimate bargain hunter and tinkerer so I use this amp with an Epi strat knockoff with pickup upgrade, a Jay Turser strat knockoff straight up and an Oscar Schmidt 335 knockoff with P-90s. They more than get the job done and cost me next to nothing...they only play and sound expensive. Overall, this is a great value, but, I would rather have the classic Vox grill cloth. The chrome grating looks more industrial and the amp sounds very classic. Only compared it to every tube amp they had in the store...the sales guy hated me for not buying the amp right then and there, but like I said...I'm a bargain hunter and saved enough to buy a six month supply of strings by getting it online! Bang for the buck is awesome!!!

This amp is nice and the modeling part is great but the effects although with some work can be used, will not sound like the original effects.

This amp has pre set models that sound good out of the headphones or DI jack but forget that. The Celestian in this puppy likes to play and this amp is a full fifty watt of volume, 50s are all I use. Tweek the models in manual and save a couple. Every amp is usefull. Try the Mesa at lower gain, and you will be taking this amp with you a lot more.

I had a metal input jack put in and anchor the cicutry of the original, I get a stonger signal to I think. Do what you need to, it won't be that much to get your $359.99 out of it.

They where accessible and helpfull.

I have been performing for 45 years, road house warrior. I play Strats one fender custom shop and one made by my tech with Rio Grande pickups. Ibanez acoustic. Peavey Classic 50 212s old tweed jj tubes. Behringer bass amp. Fernades bass. I would replace both amps if possible and cry about my babies than built a strat firebird and a tele. I love the vox because it sounds great and is easy.

I bought this VOX AD50VT new in November, 2004. The amp is marvelous clean with P90's on my Gibson ES125 and Gibson Blueshawk as well as my American Deluxe Strat HSSLT. It has 2 programable, footswitchable channels. If you use the manuel setting you have 3 channels but only 2 footswitchable. It has 11 models of amplifiers to choose from and 11 effects but you can only use 1 at a time unless you program 1 in and use the bypass switch then you get 2. The power section of this amp is solid state but the preamp is driven by a 12AX7 tube. It has an output knob that allows the user to turn down the power while still being able to turn up the preamp knobs to make the little 12AX7 tube glow. The output knob was pure genius. I wish the speaker out jack did not mute the speaker.

This amp is very clean and pretty on the Boutique, Blackface, or Tweed amp models but you must tweak and coax to get volume out of it. The UK 70's, UK80's and the UK modern all soud incredible with my Les Paul LE and volume is NOT an issue here! I play classic rock, blues and a little jazz.

I have read the criticisms of the input jack falling into the cabinet and the amp breaking down. I have had no such issues with this amp but I have only gigged it twice and it performed admirably. Some people can actually break an anvil through carelessness and inattention. After 22 months of almost daily playing I replaced the 12AX7 tube with a Tung Sol 12AX7 tube and it really perked up! Bottom line is if this amp were stolen I'd cry and then buy another, pronto!

The warranty was one year and has expired. I have not had any dealings with VOX nor have I had it repaired except for a tube I replaced myself.

You know the features, very well equipped

for such a cheap amp, it really is great. I use a '78 tele and a gibson les paul and both work well with it. The stock speaker isnt the best quality and is a little bit muddy with the les paul but besides that, im more than happy with it. My favourite amp models are the 4x10 tweed, AC30 (and 15) and the 80's, 90's marshalls, not to say that the others arent bad, they are all good contenders. Probably the only model i dont really like is the Nu metal, but thats a personal dislike. it still isnt that bad. I wont use effects pedals on this amp ,and I never have on any amp. It sounds good by itself. And the on board effects work well enough.

Very reliable, i havent gigged it yet because i ususally use my marshall for gigging, but i would not doubt it for a second.

never contacted VOX

For the price they are, if it gets stolen, i would just buy another one or two or three, they are dirt cheap, reliable, feature packed and they sound great, maby im a lucky one regards reliabillity? but it does the job for me. i also purchased the foot switch and it is all i need.

50 Watt Digital modeling amp featuring 11 amp types and a few effects. Sounds can be saved to two independent channels. No FX-loop, which I didn't expect for the price but sure would be nice. Line out, 8 ohms speaker out, footswitch jack. Power amp with adjustable wattage, supposed to make the amp sound better at lower volumes. I use this amp as a back-up for my main amp, which is a Hughes-&-Kettner Triamp. My main guitar is a Gibson Les Paul with EMGs (81, 89), usually played through the H&K hooked up to an Orange 4x12 with Celestion Vintage 30s. I use an Alesis Quadraverb in my main amp's FX-Loop for delay and reverb. The Vox surely isn't the most luxurous amp ever but is a lot of bang for the buck, which explains my high rating.

This amp can go from really clean to brutal overdrive within a step on the footswitch, which is not included. I initially bought this amp as a back up and practice amp, because I thought it would have a nice sound a t low volumes. It doesn't. Instead it ended up being the main rehearsal amp for one of my bands.

This thing really shines when turned up. I remember cranking it the first time in the rehearsal room and man, was this a revelation. I really can't tell how good this amp simulates the original amplifiers. You'd have to A/B them. All I can say is that I like the clean sound, the AC 30 emulation (which I can tell gets pretty close to the original) and the boutique distortion when cranked. I don't like the Marshall amps (70s, 80s) at all. Plus, in the Rectifier setting I get a horrible screaming feedback, which makes it unusable at high volumes. In general, it lacks bass response, I have to turn bass all the way up to have a fairly ok low end.

Generally this amp sounds weak and thin at bedroom volume but probably this is a psycho-acoustic phenomenon or something like that. I've never heard an amp sound good at low volumes, mediocre yes, but not good. This can't beat the cheap Ibanez solid state practice amp I sold for this in terms of sound for practicing at home.

There is one thing I totally hate about this amp. It's the fact that the volume ratios between the channels change if you change the master volume. I guess the master volume is supposed to emulate the original amps master volumes but that's just plain stupid. For example: I use a clean setting on channel 1 and a distorted setting on channel 2. I set up the volume ratios between those two channels at bedroom volume so they're at about the same volume. Now if I take my amp to a rehearsal or gig and turn up the master volume, the distorted channel gets MUCH louder than the clean one and I have to re-edit the volume settings for each channel. This also happens if I don't use the master volume but the wattage knob on the back of the amp to control the overall volume. That's just weird and annoying.

Can't say much about the effects. Provide some quality to an otherwise dry and dull sound, when you don't play loud. You can choose between reverb, delay and some combinations of chorus, compressor and reverb. FX are ok.

Never had any problems with it. Doesn't look like I will, seems reliable,

Again, never had problems with it.

Been playing for 10 years now. I play all kinds of stuff, from 70s Rock to Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Blues. This definitely covers the range of guitar sounds I need, well, it sorta does it ok, not overwhelmingly prefect. But hey, it cost a little more than 400 bucks so what do you want? Sure, my H&K sounds a million times as good to me, but I don't know if anyone in the audience cares. I would buy it again, simply because it's a really good deal. It's good enough for what it's built for and that's certainly not for recording albums that go platinum or play stadium shows.

I purchased my VOX AD50 VT amp in 2004. I also purchased the optional VOX VSF2 footswitch to operate the effects In and Out and switch channels. I absolutely love the ability to adjust the power amp output and still be able to drive the preamp at sensible volume levels.

This amp goes from Clean to Dirty and does it at all volume levels. It goes from playing slide on my vintage Gibson ES125 with it's single coil P90, rhythm and leads on an HSS LT Strat, and classic rock tunes with my Les Paul Standard with Burstbucker pickups Distortion is predictable and usable and the clean sound is very sweet.

I have had the amp for 2 years and so far it has performed flawlessly.

Check musicians friend for the feature list. The 11 amps are very versatile, I can't imagine not being able to find a sound you like with this amp.
My only wish is for an effects loop (which the 100W combo and head have). You can always install one though.
I also would've designed the effects interface differently to be more streamlined, but that aside the effects are a nice complement for the amps.

The sound quality really amazed me. It can copy or come close to any tone I want.
Keep in mind I'm playing with a professionally set up Epi Les Paul Standard with stock pickups, so I can't comment on sound with a strat or tele.
Maybe a little lacking in versatility for metal tones (the one it has is great though), but a few pedals could make up for that.
I'm sorry for anyone here that is not enjoying this amp, because its beauty to play with.
I haven't played it in a live situation yet, but when I do I'll update with how it performed. I expect it to be good though. As of now I've only played it in an upstairs room of my house. It did however make some of the ceiling tile from the room below it fall off though, so I think it's quite loud enough.

All the parts seem sturdy enough. Haven't had any issues as of yet. Obviously, if you beat it with a stick, its not going to like that. Neither will any amp no matter what it is.

There is a one year limited warrenty on the amp. If you open it up yourself though, it is voided. So modify it with that in mind.
Haven't had to deal with customer support.

I've been playing going on 2 years, this is my first serious amp but i've played extremely nice amps before and this one can go up against any of them in my opinion.
I love that i'm not limited to one sound all the time. And when I do change my sound, I know its not going to sound junky. Vox has made a real winner. I would most likely buy a new one if this one ever gave out.

One of the most versatile amps I can think of. Many effects, amp types, etc. Attenuator and noise reduction rock the house.

I give it a 7 stock. Decent/Good tone to base everything off of. Be prepared to do some things with this amp. Once you do, it sounds absolutely killer. Swap the speaker with a good Celestion(Or Speaker of your own taste) or run it through a good 2X12 or 4X12 because the Vox speaker is absolute garbage. The highs are harsh and the bass is flubby. I swapped it with a Celestion Classic Lead, mushy distortion is gone, flubby artificial bass is gone and it sounds great. I run it through a Classic Lead 2X12 when I need more volume. Swap the preamp tube. Since it only uses one, you can afford to put a good NOS tube in there. I use a Mullard, it's richer,fatter, and has much more warmth than the little generic one they put in there. The stock tube is really much too neutral.

No trouble with it yet. Since it's hybrid, it should be more dependable than an all tube amp.

Sub-par.They take way too long to respond to emails. And once you open the thing up the warranty is pretty much done.

Stock from the store, it's pretty middle of the road. Nothing special. After putting a good three hundred in it, it's killer. Also, don't blame the amp for crummy tone when you're feeding garbage into the signal (Bad pickups, crappy effects, etc). After a nice tube and speaker swap, feed nice 7/10 band EQ into this baby, and it will surprise you.

Fuetures a bunch of nice amp models. You can assign typical setting (eq, volume, fx etc) for an amp model so you dont have to turn the knobs each time you switch a model. It also has 2 proggramable channels, i think there should have been at least 4. It also has a bunch of built in effects, i dont really use them. It also a speaker out (which apparently sounds bad). This amp has no effects loop, really annoying!! I think any amp above 30watts should have one!

Okay here we go, this amps sounds very good if you play on your own, very beautifull. However, if you play with other people this thing is a total dog. This amp just cant cut through the mix!! All i can hear are the nasty high frequencies! This makes the amp totally useless in a live situation. I've tried messing around with the eq etc, nothing helps. My friend has a Cube60 and although it doesn't sound as good as the vox it totally shines in the mix!! Did Vox even test this amp in a live situation???!! Crazy.

This thing can go quite loud. My cab seems to vibrate badly at even low volumes, very annoying.

I dont really use the effects but the rotary cab sounds really nice! Wow! The delay is a bit lame, my old Zoom505II had better delay than this thing. The manual says they modelled it after an anologue tape unit, but it sound really unwarm and digital to me. Cant really comment on the rest.

Playing on your own i'll give it an 8. Otherwise a 5

I think the construction is a bit shoddy, like i said my cab vibrates badly. The material covering the cab is really thin. My fan also got really noisey after the first few days

Vox really cut corners in the construction.

It hasn't let me down yet but thats not saying much. No opinion here really.

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Basically this amps sound great on it's own. With other people it just cant cut through the mix. The construction is questionable. Switching channels and fx is a bit limited. It's a shame, vox had something good going, they just had it half baked. Maybe next time!

I think i'm going with a cube!

It's all been said

I can't understand people who knock this amp. For the money you just can't beat it right now! I've gotten nice blues,jazz and rock sounds just from every thing thats on board. I've played the line 6 xt and spider and all i can say is this is a way better deal. In a live band setting this thing holds it's own and then some. It can be bassy or alittle boomy at times (that has alot to do with room acoustics and where you are sitting in relationship to the amp) but when the drums and bass are grovin and the tapes rolling this amp will really prove it's self to you. Onboard fx's are more then what I expected. they really help colour the sound when needed for a song. I could have easily spent 4 times as much money on an amp a xt pro and some dedicated fx's and not been happy as I am now.

I wouldn't take it on a world tour but it's obviously not sold for that.

2 years and it's still going strong! Way more then I can say for some other digital junk I've purchased!

I've been playing drums and guitar for 16 years. Yes I have owend some nice amps thru that period that beat this amp in one aspect or another, but for what this vox (korg) is I don't think you could do better. The first month I had it some doubt crawled into my brain and mucked around a bit. But honestly I felt the same way when I spent $1,100 on a decked out, mint twin reverb and that only had one good sound! For a all in one in this price range it's the best!

I think the features have been discussed - 11 KILLER amp models, 11 effects, Power attenuator (1-50 watts, extremely useful), line out/headphones with speaker simulation, tube power amp. Amazing what you can get these days. I never use an effects loop, so I don't miss having one. Plenty of features for me.

I play many styles, and use a variety of guitars with it. The amp models are the best I've heard, and I have owned quite a few modelers. Very realistic, and tweakable to create your own frankenstein amp. Can go from super clean to nasty.

I bought a used one that has had some use, and it works like a charm.

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I have to laugh to myself when I read complaints about this amp - I don't think that some people would be happy no matter how much you give them. This amp is the answer to all of my needs right now - 11 superb amp models, adjustable power output from 1 to 50 watts, 11 good quality effects, line out for recording with good speaker simulation, and in a live situation, 3 switchable amp models (CH1 & 2 + manual). The lack of effects loop doesn't bother me because I don't use them - I'd just have to split my pedal effects any way to put the compressor, overdrive, etc. in front and modulation effects in the loop. I like the effects on the amp for recording, but will retain the pedals for live playing because I feel most comfortable with them. This amp is unbeatable for recording, practicing and live playing. Only 3 amps switchable? Get over it - thats two more than you had before! Change your presets during break and stick to your setlist. 40 years of playing through amps, and this one of my favorites.

Amp made in 2005 I think. purchased from Guitar Center in 2006.
This amp is very vesatile, you can get anything you want out of it. Some of the effects combinations were a little wierd, but still plenty good enough. 2 programmable channels with one "manual" channel, both channels and effects are footswitchable. Only complaints are, as everyone else has said, no effects loop, and the ext. speaker jack mutes the internal speaker. But for the price you can't do much better. I use this amp at home by myself, at band practice, and the occasional small gig. For gigs it can't handle, you'd probably need to mic a bigger amp too, so plenty there. Power adjustment feature is great. I mostly leave the master at 10, and use the wattage as a the "volume", to take advantage of the tube power emulation or whatever it's called. Built in noise reduction is really great too. Has a lot of features, definitely plenty of selection.

Using it with a les paul loaded with Seymour Duncan Alnico-II Pro in the neck and a Pearly Gates in the bridge. Suits my music style really well. I play most rock from indie to hard, sounds great for classic stuff too. The metal sounds...eh. Only place this is lacking. It's not bad at all, but it can get muddy. Still good for slower metal-type songs, but for fast metallica songs and etc. it's not so great. Still good for hard rock stuff like Disturbed though. Ton of variety. Cleans are great, crunch and slight overdrive is great, hard sounds are great, metal sounds are decent. There isn't really a situation where this amp is going to be noisier in the bad sense than any other amp. Built in noise reduction circuit is AWESOME!!!!. Distortion, as mentioned before, is good, but not quite "brutal"

Amp is built very solidly, you can definitely depend on it. You could gig it w.o a backup, but I would always have one in case lighting strikes it or a big rock falls on it or something. I don't care how solidly built your amp is, a big rock falling on it isn't going to end positively. Failing that, definitely usable and realiable for gigs.

never dealt with them, only w/GC.

I've been playing for about 2 years, I've got my axe, this amp, and a boss OS-2. I love how it sounds. Beats and Line 6 or MG, Cube comes close, does metal better, but not everything else as good. Kicks ass, especially for the price.

You've head this a million times already. Just check the site. One thing I will say is that it does NOT have an FX loop so you cannot plug effects into it! This is a major flaw, I had to get one installed.

The only good sounding amp types are the AC30TB and UK 80's. The others just sound fake and cheap. For example the UK 70's and UK Modern sound VERY muddy and distorted, whilst Numetal sounds hilariously overblown and flanged. All the amp presets are basically the AC15 with various effects added to to them. The AC30TC combined with the right settings of delay will create a pretty convincing U2-like sound, perfect for people who cannot afford SDD 3000s and TC 2290s and want to reproduce The Edge's trademark echo. Also, there is hardly any feedback, even when I hold the guitar up close to the amp. They are probably the only good things about this amp.

Hasn't broken yet and i've had it for about 3 months.

Haven't had to contact tham yet, although I should to find out if I can get a refund...

I've been playing for about 2 years, so you could say i'm not that experienced. However, I am experienced enough to know that this amp has more faults that qualities. Decent for beginners, but useless to those on the gigging circuit.

The sound (when working properly)is fantastic! If you have the time to really work with all of it's features you really can get any sound you want and it has MORE than enough power to do damage to your eardrums if you enjoy that sort of thing.

I use a Schecter C1+ with stock pickups and the rock/metal tones are incredible. I play a lot of blues lead and you can dial this amp right in to where you want it (when its working properly).

Some of the effects create too much noise. Flange is one where the sweeep noise can overpower the note your on. The effects are good but lack the sound quality of dedicated effect systems.

I have to tank the amp here. Here I am almost 7 months into ownership and I have one and only one problem with this amp.

After really enjoying this amp and the great low level overdriven sounds as well as the ear busting volume, I was practicing in my little home office at low volume and when I went to change the tempo on an effect and tapped the tap tempo button the amp went into full 50 watt full gain full volume full noise full crap mode. I was only able to fix this by resetting the factory defaults. Since that time it occurs more frequently and with less provocation and each time I have to ditch my presets and start over.

Do not depend on this amp if you are doing club shows....you have been warned.

A nice 90 day warranty - Useless phone support "Just take it back to where you bought it and get them to have it serviced." (turn around time in the Houston Texas area is 8 weeks give or take)Local technician was more helpful than the manufacturer but still got to be the one to tell me about the abysmal parts turn around time on the amp. VOX made a great design and followed through with shoddy parts and poor warranty and customer service. There is no place in teh manual to even describe the replacement process of the single Tube that sits in the mini poweramp on this model. I guess they want techs to make fortunes in labor from something I used to do as a child with my Dad and the Family television. I won't buy a VOX product again.

I have played bass and guitar for many years. I quit for a while. This guitar and amp was a fresh start for me and while the tone and feature set of this amp are tremendous, I feel that the VOX company should have insisted on a far greater level of quality control and should have backed their product up with a longer warranty. I regret saving the $150.00 and passing up the Marshall or the Peavey models I was looking at. For the dollar amount, if you get a good version of this amp then you are way ahead. If you get one of the substantial number of Lemons they apparently shipped out then the old saying "You get what you pay for" is all I have for you.

I don't want to bother you with things that have been explained to dath...

It simply sounds horrible. False and sythetic, bass heavy and muddy, no matter if you set it clean or distorted. This is one of the worst amps I've ever had the privilege to listen to.

It broke down after the 3rd gig. What a POS...

I rang them up and they weren't helpful at all. Brought it back to the shop the other week and got my money back. Got me a real amp instead...

A nightmare. I can't understand how anybody with ears wants such a noisemaker?

Check the site, footswitch came included with mine.

It really needs an effects loop though. Might get one installed

im using a schecter C1 hellraiser - Digitech whammy - Vai 2 bad horsie wah - AD50VT. Awesome. AWESOME!I love the UK Modern settings for distortion and have a clean tone prset in the 2nd chennel. I am yet to hear a cleaner and more defined distortion sound.

Once I turned it on and it was really buzzy and weak but once I turned it off and back on it was fine, other than this it is built pretty damn solid.

Like I said, the only thing this amp needs is an effects loop, but its no hassle to get one installed. Also, I made a ply backing with cutouts to really pull out the bass frequencies, made a huge difference

This is a new amp 2006.I am pleased with the way it responds to what I play and how i play,Blues,Rock Funk Etc.I am writing this review because of what has been writen here.Are we all talking about the same amp?So here it goes.No effects loop,darn!It has channel switching.Good!A headphone jack,never used it.I wish it had a loop,but darn it it don't.GET OVER IT! I only use the reverb in the effects section,cuz i like my board.As to power, my band wishes it was less powerful,heh heh! I like the cab,speaker,and I don't like that the Speaker won't play when a cab is conected.For a modeling amp,IT ROCKS!!!!

I play STRATOCASTERS.I can and do play all of what I play using just this amp,but i somtimes use an old PV classic 50 and A/B between them.Rock Blues,Funk punk etc...This amp is usually,but not always Quiet.In a bar with lots of neon lites it gets noisey,but not unuseable.This amp can and does make a wild amount of different sounds.But,I only use ONE! model,The AC30TB.It Rocks.This amp behaves very much like a good tube amp.I set one channel some what clean,with low bass,and one channel a little louder dirtier and slightly bassier.The distortion then can be adequatly controled by my volume knob and effects board.

I depend on this amp,I have and do gig with no backup.Right after I bought this amp I had a little trouble with the tube in it.The store I bought it from fixed it imediately,for free! Thank you Evan! So far it has worked very well

As stated the store took care of my amp prroblem,I have not dealt withVOX directly

I have been playing for 35 or so years.I have owned a ton of amps.this and myPeavey classic 50 are all i need now.My board has a cry baby,marshall comp,tubeworks tube driver,onerr delay,EH chorus,and a boss pitch shifter,A?B box,and a fender floor tuner.So far.If this amp were lost or stolen I would replace it.I love the way this amp responds,it breathes like a tube amp.Its not too heavey.I hate the matal grill.I tried a lot of other amps and chose this one for its sound and price.I wish it had a fx loop.If you can't get a good sound out of this amp you might want to consder another line of work,after all the tone is in your fingers!!

This is a 1x12 amp with built in Valvetronix amp modelling and FX modelling. It has the facility to have 2 programmable channels, as well as using one of the numerous amp models (with or without effects) or dial up your own settings.

I previously used the bigger, more expensive AD120VT, which I loved. I had to sell that one because I wasn't get much us out of it and I bought this as a replacement for less than half the price I sold the bigger amp.

I can't admit to putting this amp through it's paces. All I know is it can make the sounds I want it to make, IE a clean one and a slightly gritty, not too overdriven sound.

I know the variety of sounds is there because it has been designed with amp models that have styles ranging from thrash metal to country. The fact that this amp has a valve in the preamp and a power soak knob on the back to allow you to push the amp into meltdown with an output as low as 1w mean that I chose this over a Marshall MG.

I would say this is a reliable amp. The AD120VT I had before was really good and there is nothing to indicate this one isn't as good.

I've never dealt with Korg or Vox. I believe my warranty is with the retailer I purchase it from, although it was purchased as a second hand amp.

I am biased toward Vox amps, but this one was not purchased blindly. I sold my old Vox amp and then drew up a list containing 12 different amps to choose from. This won not just because of it's modelling capabilities, but because the modelling is so good that it is beyond the gimmicky levels of other models.

I didn't initially like the fact that this amp has a chrome speaker grille and silver logos (instead of gold). I've actually grown to like this appearance, but I have also made up a brown Vox grille, so I can switch between them.

From the other reviews you know the Features, so I will only include my 2 points off niggles.
-1 for not having extention speaker out that does not mute the internal speaker.
-1 for no Straight non-modeled amp tone to take advantatge of the cool power section.
A presence control would also help, considering all of the really good Marshall models.

Currently I'm running my ESP M-1 Custom with an EMG 81 along with my Ibanez RG220 with Carvin M22's. I used the UK settings the most, they did a good job on these models. I found the Vox and Nu Metal/ Soldano settings a joke. Just to mushy.But now I am running the Boutique Clean with a Boss Metal Zone and a Digitech RP80 and am the most satisified with this arrangement. This gives me the great RP amp models, beautiful clean with effects, and if I need to heat it up I run the Metal Zone into the RP 80 setup real hard and clean with no amp models. Sounds Great. I set up the AD50VT channel presets for lead boost, with or without effects.

Had it for a year now with no troubles.

Haven't dealt with them...no opinion.

I did this review just to let everyone know about my cool find!
A lot of people are plagued by the short footswitch cable, but I have found a solution. American Musical Supply sells a 25' Straight Headphone Extention Cable. Plugged in line you now have a 30' cable for stage work. Works like a charm for $6.95. Just wanted to pass on the info.
Overall for the money I have not found a better rig for me. Over my 25 years of playing I've owned 2 JCM800 Halfstacks, a Boogie Mark 3 combo, 2 Carvin X-60B Halfstacks and a Fender twin. I sold all of my gear in 1990 and am starting to play again. If you spend the time tweaking it, this is a good overall amp.

My brother bought this amp last year, I believe a few months before Christmas. At the time it was the best thing since sliced bread. Since then I've realized how much this thing is lacking.

The amp replication was cool for a while, but it got old really quick. I'm not going to bother to list the fearutres etc since most of the people here already know what it has.

No matter the feature or setting, it really wasn't as versatile as I thought it should be. And a real clean sound from it was almost impossible to attain.

The reverb and other functions were only paired in twos and it would've been so much nicer if you could select any two of them as opposed to the preset two's.

Humbuckers, single coils, rails, and yet nothing sounded good. I used everything from a Les Paul to a Deluxe Deluxe Strat with noiseless pickups to Ibanez Hollowbodies to Alvarez acoustic-electrics and I didn't get a sound I liked from it.

For one, it was far too heavy on the bottom end. Even with the bass on minimum it was far too bass heavy. It just got too muddy and the sound fell apart when I tried to turn it up. It just sounded like the speaker was smothering itself with its own sound, or rather the low end.

The thing sounds horrible to me. The cleans are just as messy as the gain. The last thing I played on it was a Tradition Strat, which was the last guitar in my house I hadn't tried on it, but it still sounded like shite. I ended up playing with the phaser and such.

That's another thing, the functions don't sound real to me. They have a sort of overly fake sound to them, like Vox was trying too hard to get them to sound better.

I'd never use this at a live show and I don't even use it for practice. Our Roland Blues Cube does about everything this should, and about twenty times better. I'll stick to pedals for my wah, chorus, or phaser too.

It hasn't had a problem, but I would never use this for a gig. It just sounds horrible at any volume to my ears.

I figure it lasts, but it just sounds horrible.

Never dealt with them nor did I care enough about the thing to worry about the warranty.

It was a waste of money. That's all I can say. The salesman took advantage of my brother's naivity at the time and sold him a piece of crap.

For comparison, of our own we have a Marshall JTM-60, Fender Blues Jr., Roland Blues Cube, and another five various amps. This fails in every imaginable catagory.

I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone. I wish it had the sound of my JTM-60 for the tube sound and crunch and the cleans of our Fender Blues Jr. or even better, the cleans of one of the '59 Bassman Ltd. Reissues, which I have a feeling will soon be replacing of the spot of his room where this bastard child of an amp takes residence.

just got the amp today so its a 2006 model , the effects sound really good (expecialy the reverb) the noise reduction is really effective when practicing. the amp models sound excelent i prefer the "us higain" and "uk modern"
it looks cool aswell

i use a "yamaha pacifica 0112" mostly with the humbucker p/u selected
i play lots of rock (cream to AC/DC) and punk (greenday) music and the gain is really effective
you can fully customize each effect, for instance auto wah can be modified by the polarity and attack

ive had it one day what is there to say

but i have heard they better made then marshalls so it must be good

had it one day so no comment

GIMMIE MORE soooooooooooo good so effective a must buy

Features have already been outlined. Here's the 411 on this amp after testing it for a couple months. Good features, but the problems are:

1. Too many high-gain amp models and not enough good medium gain amp models.
2. Your presets can be saved, but cannot be readily or easily adjusted in a live situation.
3. The effects are in mono, making some good and some not very good.
4. Not enough effect combinations, lots of practical combinations are overlooked. eg-reverb and delay
5. You cannot run an external speaker while running the internal speaker, making the common technique of stacking 2 1x12 cabinets impossible with this amp.
6. Volume levels of the amp models are somewhat misbalanced, making keeping a clean sound at high volume difficult.

All in all, good amp models and features, but these flaws make using this thing live a bit dodgy.

This is not a glory review. Sounds are all around good, but suffer from a few cross-the-board flaws:

1.Cabinet is built like crap. This makes tonal response unbalanced at high volumes, and creates vibration that muddens and distorts your sound.
2. Clean amp models sound to be quite low-output and lacking in girth, for example, 2x12 blackface.
3.while there are a few tube tones, the amp has an overall harsh, brittle sound to it, most likely the result of the cheap 12" speaker and particle board cabinet.
4. The bottom end on many of the models, staying true to the originals, is extremely loose and tends to crumble. This can create a monstrous thump in a 4x12 cabinet, but just sounds mushy in a 1x12 combo.

All in all, sounds are decent, but the more your turn up, the less usable this amp becomes. Flashy at low volume with lots of variety and built in effects. Used a 1999 Jeff Beck Signature Stratocaster w/ gold lace sensors and bucker in bridge.

Mine had to be returned due to the cabinet buzzing constantly. That is just poor quality. If you open this thing up you can see the shotty construction first hand. Would not trust this thing to deliver night after night. Looks tough with a chrome grill and black tolex, but the joints of this amplifier are weak and cheaply assembled.

Like many people, I've played for a long time and owned lots of gear. However, I am critical of the gear I do own and never give out glory reviews. for amps in this price range, this is what you get. While the ad50vt may sound better at low volumes and pack more features than other amps in the same class (peavey bandit, traynor dynagain, roland cube, etc.)this amp is far from stageworthy, and that is simply why it sucks. I would rather have a 2 channel solid-state peavey that has a decent cabinet, speaker and line out than a digital amp-modeling piece of $%^&. I am buying something else. Traynor makes decent stuff at least in terms of contruction, so you know that you can turn it up and haul it around to gigs, so I would recommed them over this fancy vox.

The features have been listed before, so I won't be repeating them here. I will say that I bought it because I thought it would be really versatile for a live cover band gig. I was wrong. You have two preset modes and a manual mode to choose from, but you can only toggle between the presets. During the course of a gig, I need many different variations of distortion, delay, chorus, clean, etc... You can tweak the controls on the fly, but if you switch to a different channel and switch back, the variations you made are gone. You could save the changes, but then you would be constantly saving and changinging all night. Big pain. I tried going with two base tones for clean and distorted and added pedals to color things, but I found the amp did not react well at all with the pedals. It doesn't help that there is no fx loop.

I LOVE the sounds this amp makes! That's why I bought it. I still use the amp for practice, but just don't want to fight with it during a gig. I use a Music Man Silhouette and Axis guitars loaded with the stock pick ups. It suites any style I want to play, (one at a time) The cleans and distortion models do a great job, I especially love the old Marshall models.

I did have a problem with the power level knob on the back. Basically, it would short out if I turned the amp valume up to practice levels. I took it to a repair shop and Vox paid for the repairs under warranty.

Never dealt with the company directly, but like I stated above, the repairs were done under warranty with no hassles.

I've been playing guitar for over 20 years and currently, I'm playing through a Mesa Dual Recto 3-chl, with a boss chorus and delay, bbe sonic stomp, cry baby wah and comp. Right now I love my sound, but was looking for a smaller amp for beach gigs and doubles. If it were lost or stolen, I would buy a used mesa subway rocket and just run pedals. The amp has great sounds, but just not flexible enough for cover gigs. I think vox needs to nix the built-in fx and and ad an fx loop. Still not a bad amp for the $$$.

This one is made in 2006. 11 amp models, 11 effects plus built-in noise gate. I could say that this amp is very versatile for any music style.. but I'am a metal head and I mainly play death metal. Basically it has 2 channels plus a manual channel which kind of acts as like a 3rd one if you wanted to use it as well. It has a headphone jack but unfortunately not the effects loop.. I really wish it has one and it would probably get a full rating in this category. Anyways the external speaker output is a good thing to have to play at larger venues and the best feature in which i think is the power level knob at the back, you can always have the power tube driven hard without killing your ears and getting complaints from bitchy neighboors. It acts kind of like a built-in attenuator. At first I was really interested in the AD30VT but I've opt for the AD50VT for extra volume and a 12" Celestion speaker but I'll take a point off for not having an effects loop. Overall very easy to use. tweak.. save.. play.. +Decent Manual

At first I laughed when a friend of mine got himself a Vox AD30VT, coz this dude also plays metal. In respect I think Vox makes amp for jazz-pop-rock stuff but c'mon. Vox for metal? ya gotta be a retard.. Well my criticism ended right there after I tried the amp at his house,I was using his B.C. Rich Bich through it. All I could say is that it produced pretty decent metal tones out of the U.S. Hi-Gain model. I was sold on this amp's amp model alone and quickly bought the AD50VT the next few days. Heres what I can say..

I'm using my Schecter C-1 Classic loaded with EMGs thru this amp. My territories are from the amp model UK'80s to US highgain.. i really dig them (except the NUmetal model is a piece of $%^&). UK '80s sounds really close to the real thing (which is a JCM800)really good for midway distortion, it has a huge bottem end but it lacks the amount of gain for death metal (maybe a hot-rodded version or perhaps a distortion pedal in front would make it more satisfying for me).. the UK modern model makes up for that but the bottom end was a bit traded away for loads of gain and mids in which I like to use this model doing harmony riffs and for solos. Now comes to my favorite model.. the US higain, it has a really open bass and slightly compressed mids and highs, great for fast metal riffs. Palm mute chugging with 13s gauge strings in B standard tunning is a wrath to behold.. pure brutal punchfest. I have no need to max out the gain on these.. there is more than enough.

I can't say much about the clean amp models, I barely use them anyway but they sound quite pristine, warm,and clear.. considering that I'm using EMGs.

The effects on this amp sounds okay but I barely use them either.. I like to use the delay and reverb sometimes.. it can sound satisfying if you tweak it (and tweaking in detail is a bit of a hassle to do on this amp).

The power level knob in the back is the bomb.. it does make the amp saturate its tube like it should.. you can get the sag feel of it. I've always kept the volume and master volume on full blast and tweak the knob to a bareable level.

Okay I need to crap on this one.. I've read the reviews here not long ago about the input jack of the amp fallin inwards into the amp. This is true and it DID happen.. it is a &^%$# to get it out again.. u must have some small plier to grip it up out from the hole. So if you're considering of buying this amp, I recommond you guys to tighten the input jack as tight as you can and every now and then if you unplug your cable often. Other than this.. it has never broke down on me yet. I would have to slap them down for the input jack incident. -3

Haven't dealt with them..

I've been playing seriously for 7 years, started from indy-ish alternative rock all the way to death metal at this momemt. If this amp was lost or stolen I would not buy it again coz I'll be too busy savin up for a real all-tube metal amp but I'll always know they make very satisfying amp for band practice and small gigs when you've got to have versatility. Prior in looking for an affordable tube amp, I love the way it can sound for metal but hated the fact that they should improve their built-quality especially the jack inputs.. the knots should be metal, not plastic. I really dig the 12' celestion speaker, it sounds very full and the amp is a closed-back combo = bottom end galore. The only thing i wish it had is an effects-loop, the price might go up a bit but then I don't really mind coz it is still very affordable. For years I've been buying and selling every kind of distortion pedals.. and i can say this.. don't waste ur money and time like i did. distortion sounds best from cranked tube amps, you will hear what you play.. not all that is lost and with this amp's power level feature, you can get that vibe without &^%$#@! ur ear up.. i know most of the metal heads would turn away from Vox but then if you ain't got that much cash to buy a 100watt monster then give this one a try.. i'm glad i did. hands down fantastic value for this price.

The amp models in the AD50VT are the best I've heard. I play many different types of guitars and musical styles. WITH THE RIGHT GUITAR, every amp model contained within this amp will truly shine! A clean model with the as much output as the distortion models is really needed here. The effects are not nearly as bad as some are saying. Each effect can be tweeked to personal preference. My only complaint with the effects feature is that it sometimes seems a chore to dial them in. But once they're dialed they are all as good as any outboard effects. The tubed power section is this amp's secret weapon and I love the adjustable power output feature!

As stated above, I play many different styles and guitars. Soundwise, as a single unit this amp is as versatile as any I've played. The distortion models are the best I've heard. The AC30 model combined with a Ric, Tele, or P90 guitar sound as close to the real thing as it gets! The uk 80's and Numetal distortion models both deliver that classic buzzsaw distortion that seems to be so lacking in most amps available these days. This amp's clean models are lacking. I'd like to see VOX improve on this amp's clean models. The sound quality of the clean models is good but the output is weak. That is my only criticism of this amp models. Again, the effects are as good as any outboard effects I've used. The reverbs, delays, chorus, and comp phaser are just amazing! The tremelo reverb could be better. Other than being a pain at times to work with, I'm very happy the effects choices this amp offers.....On a personal note I'd like to state that some of these reviewers really need to take into account the guitar they're playing before being so critical of this amp's models and effects. At most, your amp only accounts for 50% of your sound! Also take into account that this amp is only intended to be a step or two above a practice amp. And while this amp really cranks and easily keeps up with most 2x12 combos out there, don't expect it to blow doors in big rooms. It'll sound good in your house, small bars, etc. Anywhere bigger and your going to have to rely on your PA to get the true sound out there.

I've owned mine for close to a year now and have had no problems. It's holding up fine.

Haven't needed it....

What I've posted above pretty much sums up my feelings about this amp. This amp delivers alot of bang for the buck.

Feb 2006 model. All the features previous reviewers have commented on.
Ideal for blues,rock, Pop and dare I say Metal heads. There is something for everyone, from super clean to hard core distortion.
In reality ther are too many effects so it will take a while to learn to drive this baby properly. I have noticed if you save channels the saved sounds vary depending on what the dials are set at. This may not be all bad as it gives some variety. The auto Wah and Phaser are two effects I probably want use as they crappy to me. The sound quality is good if not a little bassy on some settings but I went to the 50 watter over the 30 to get a 12inch speaker and a Celestion 70/80 at that so the speaker would handle whatever sound volume you dealt to it I would imagine. I originally looked at Valve/tube amps but the price and need for pedals to colour the sound, plus percieved cost with tube replacement cooled that option. The Chicken Head control Knobs are excellent for easy accurate setting.

I am using my self built Les Paul style axe with 'Golden Age overwound humbucker pickups with coil taps, and with mini switches for each. I tend to like the fuller Humbucker sound plus there is a big volume drop if you switch to single coil. I play in a church worship team and our songs vary from hymns through to rock style where I like to play with some distortion and effects.
Like many others I like the Fender Black 2x12 and Tweed 4x10 for clean channels amd UK 80's, modern and Numetal distorton. At full gain this is pretty brutal.
I have'nt figured out properly yet how to adjust all the effects and noise reduction but at the volumes I play at N.R is not needed.

Time wiill tell regarding reliability, but what I can say is both the music stores in our town sell Vox amps and have told me they have little problem with them. As well in NZ we have the Consumer guarantee act which means all products sold new must be guaranteed for a minimum of one year.

I emailed Vox on there website with some questions but never had a reply so I wasnt impressed with that.

I have been playing guitar for about 7 yrs and have built two all solid wood acoustics, and a L.P shaped electric. I mainly play electric with our worship team as we usually have an acoustic and electric combination with guitar players. I recently sold one of my acoustics plus traded in my Fender 15G and Korg Ampworks to help finance this amp. Contrary to other reviewers I love the Chrome grill which sets it apart from all other amps. It makes a statement; Look at me. I was originally going to buy a Line 6 Spider 30 but our music shops didn't sell them and said the Vox sound was far better. I think I will enjoy this amp even more, as I get to know all the quirks and settings for it.

I bought this amp new Feb 2006 with some trepidation as other reviewers have apparently have had some bad experiences. The 2 music shops in our town both sell Vox amps and they sell like hot cakes and assured me they had very few problems with Vox over the years. I wonder if these amps are more problematic when running on 120 volts instead of the 220 volts they were designed for. Jim Marshall says his amps sound better on 220 volts as well. I traded in my Fender 15G and Korg Ampworks and sold one of my accoustics to finance the deal.
I got it with the VFS2 footswitch and found the standard lead way to short so decided to fit a new 4 meter lead. Hindsight is always a great thing. If you decide to fit a longer lead, don't solder the wires directly to the switch but cut the wires a couple of inches from the switch and join the new wire by twisting and solder and tape them. Even though I had soldering iron that is made for electronics it ruined one of the switches and I had to pull the other one apart but I managed to get it working.
Apart from this setback I love the sounds of the amp and have set up channel one with clean 4x10 and two with AC15 distortion with the distortion channel fractionally louder than clean, so I can cut from one to the other on the move. The sounds you actually save varies because if you twiddle the amp settings/ effects the saved sounds vary which may not be all bad, as you can have more sound variations. Anyway I have not had it long enough to figure out yet all the intricacies it has such as changing the effects parameters and noise reduction. There seems to be debates about fan noise but this isn't a problem as its whisper quiet. Ther are some amp models / effects I would never use, but hey it nice to have choices.

The first time I ever played this amp was at our church and as soon as I hit the first chords the drummer rekoned it sounded awesome even though I was using the factory preset channel one with chorus. ( I dont know what amp type it supposed to be). I didnt have time to experiment so played everything with the same channel that day.
I don't need brutal distortion which it has in bucketloads and dont need huge volumes as we are miked. There is some noise when the amp is turned on full power and high volume but I'm sure the noise reduction will kill this, but as I said already I don't need that sort of volume.

Hoping it is. In New Zealand we have a consummer law which means all new products sold must have a one year minimum guarantee so thats better than the 90 day Vox one. I wiil reserve my decision here and hope it is reliable.

I contacted Vox by email with a couple of questions about a week ago but have never heard from them yet.

I tried various brands and ran hot and cold over both valve and transistor amps and was going to buy a Line 6 until I found none of our music stores sold them and they both raved about the sound quality of the Valvetronics. I was going to get a 30 watter but liked the idea of a 12 inch Celestion speaker universally rated as probably the best brand amp speaker made. I like the idea of minimal setup time without pedals. I have a two into one adaptor so I can have both guitar lead and a short patch lead for my tuner which sits on top of the amp so ther is no unplugging required for tune up. By the way I have a self built Les Paul style axe with "Golden Age" high output overwound humbuckers which have a nice grunty sound, and as well have coil taps for both for a more jangly Strat type sound which I dont use very often.

Well, considering the price of this amp you just can't beat the features. Others have listed them all, so I will not just repeat them. What I tend to use the most is reverb and delay. The only real problem I find is that you can can't combine the effects in any way you like. You are stuck with their pairings for all things. It would be nice to match some of them together in different ways.

However, for the price this is understandable. I'm sure the effects processor isn't as competent as their higher end models. It does do a very good job for the effects it has. Each effect has modifiable settings and rates.

I primarily use it with a Les Paul and an Ibanez Hollowbody. Both guitars use humbucking pickup's that were made by GFS (great pickup's for the price and I have played numberous pickup's over the years. The only other pickup's I ever use are EMG active's that I have to use when I play metal). Overall the sounds I get out of are very good. However, I did do some modifications. First, I made a new back for the cabinet and made it an open back. I personally like the sound of an open back cabinet and found the amp originally far too bass heavy. Good if you want a really fat tone, but I like a nice and airy tone (to get anything I liked before this mod the bass tone was always on about 3 or so). The second mod I did was changed the tube to a Sovtek. Sovteks are generally worse then the Electro Harmonix that is in there. However, I like the nasally/compressed sound that the sovtek gives me. It sounds a little more vintage in my opinion.

I also have an early 70's Fender Twin Reverb and this thing comes very close to that sound with the "blackface 2x12" setting. Although you won't find yourself using all the amp models, some are obviously better then others, all of them are fairly good and can be used for something. There is no model that really just sounds horrible. They all sound better than any transistor Marshall you could buy today.

The only thing I find about this amp is that it is a little on the quiet side for 50W. I don't understand how they could call it a 50W amp when they say that it only uses 52W total power for the whole Amp. That is around a 96% efficiency which is impossible for any amp, even a new digital amp.

Before the mods I would give this amp a 7. After my mods I give this amp an 8.

I have had no problems that others have reported. My amp does have a fan in it, but what can you do. Most of the amps that are built today in this price range have a fan. I was planning on disconnecting it and installing a larger heatsink one day. But, so far my fan is very quiet, even in my room when I am practising. From my experience I am going to give it a 10 in this area. However, others have not had my luck. Just so you know, I usually jam and gig with this amp just about as loud as it will go and I still have had no problems.

I would not hesitate to gig without a backup. You don't want to become a gearhead with more equipment than brains at a gig.

No idea what customer support is like. I did email them once about their bad choice in putting a fan in this amp and got no response. They probably don't like criticism. However, I have never seriously tried to contact them. So, I have no opinion for this category.

Overall this is a great little amp. Its not perfect, but no amp is. Its not getting perfect scores from anyone but those that won't admit that it has flaws. However, I can find flaws and problems in any amp. This amp is more versatile then most, that is such an advantage for someone who is a working musician. If you are a true tube head then you don't care about versatility. That's fine, stick with your one sound then. In that case this is not the amp for you. But, for those of us who play a lot of different music, this amp is great. I am in a 60's and 70's classic rock band(everything from CCR to Black Sabbath) and have been able to recreate a lot of the sounds from those songs. In my opinion that is worth giving up some of the vintage "tube" vibe for a good mix of tube and transistors (plus that, I don't miss paying for new power tubes all the time. The preamp tube will easily last 10 years if not 20 or so).

I have been playing for around 18 years and have always wanted a versatile amp like this. I only keep 2 amps around and can get most sounds I need out of them, this one and the Twin Reverb. I use the Twin now and then for sounds and when I need to be really loud. But, for the most part this is my amp.

I'm assuming this amp was made in '06, because the store I bought it from was opened up in the middle of Jan. '06.

The channels and presets are arranged in an uncommon, but rather intuitive way. There is a channel mode with two totally programmable channels, which can be switched between. The dual footswitch can also be set up to go to what's called "Manual" mode, where the knobs on the amp dictate the sound, like a conventional amp. (This is not always the case with Channel and Preset mode, where the knobs have nothing to do with the tones the amp is making.) Preset mode attaches a predefined gain, volume, and tone stack setting to each amp, so when you change amps, you get a typical tone setting for that amp type on the fly.

No effects loop, it does have a 'phone jack, and an external speaker wire.

I do wish you could reassign the parameters for each amp model as used in "Preset" mode, because they're factory set and aren't changeable. The effects sound really nice, you can do some interesting things with them, they all have three adjustable parameters and a tap tempo button.

I use it in my bedroom (the power-amp wattage dial on the back is great for this) and in practice. I imagine it has the power to gig.

I'm using this amp with a Schecter V-7 with Dimarzio Blaze pickups in H/S/H configuration. The guitar has some bite and some bass, it's pretty well-rounded.

It suits my music style(s) well, as said above which are metal, blues, classic rock and alt rock. You can get some wild sounds with the effects.

It's not too noisy. There is an internal fan, but on mine it's whisper-quiet. The built-in noisegate is very efficient and cuts off quickly with no input. (You're not left with that trailing hum/fuzz for a full second after you stop playing.) Of course it's a bit noisier with unsheilded SCs, in front of a monitor, or right next to the amp, but that's -your- fault. Any amp would be.

I traded in a Marshall MG30, and by comparison, this amp is very versatile. The cleans are great, and the dynamic response of the Tweed 4x10 model is awesome. The dirty is gritty and organic, just what you would expect from a tube amp, even if the weight and price tag are not. I play anything from ambient alt rock to blues to metal, so I can get a lot of good tones out of the amp. The '70s and '80s Marshalls are great for classic rock too.

The clean channels, (certain ones anyway,) distort a high volume, but they are intended to since the amps they model do as well. The distortions are varied, it is after all a modeling amp.

The coolest thing about this amp is the virtual power amp. IT says in the manual that what they did was combine a low-voltage tube with a dummy speaker coil, inside the amp, and digitally monitor the interaction between the two. That info is sent to the power amp, which follows suit. The result is creamy, saturated cranked tube tone when the Master Volume is jacked up, emulating the desireable, buttery breakup of real tube power amps. It's awesome.

Haven't had it for much longer than it took to give each amp an extensive listening. It seems pretty damn sturdy though.

Haven't interacted with customer support yet.

It's an awesome amp for an awesome price. I tried it out against Line 6's, Behringers, and other Marshalls when I went to upgrade. It won in the tone and volume department, hands down.

I use maybe three or four of the effects and maybe five of the amp sounds. I find the idea of using different channels for totally different amp charateristics and effects very interesting. The Amp has yet to be tested live, but I'm quite sure it's powerful enough for the average club situation. For live-situations I think a footswitch is a must. For the money the amp has some nice features. It's got an Effects-Bypass, Noise Reduction, Gain, Volume and Master Volume and three channels.

The Amps strength is his versatility.
One Example: I can switch from a slap-back Rockabilly Sound or Hank Marvin-Sound (sounds best with VOX AC30) to Buddy-Guy-Bassman or Twin-Reverb-Tremolo a la Magic Sam. Nice.

My main guitars are a '88 Fender Telecaster American Standard with a Joe Barden in the Neck Position, an Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe and I have occasional affairs with all kinds of Strats. My Style is Blues, Country, Rockabilly, Soul, some Rock, some Jazz. As I've used strictly Fender Amps in the past, I was sceptical about the Twin and Bassman Sounds, but they actually work very well. I'm surprised how useable the sounds are. Okay, NOTHING replaces a turned up Blackface Twin Reverb or a '59 Bassman. But in ten years of touring I hardly ever got the chance to turn my Baby up to sound like it should. An Amp like the VOX AD50 seems like a good club compromise: it's cheap, it's not heavy or clumsy and you can get good sounds at low volumes. I'm not sure, however, whether the fan doesn't make a little too much noise, especially, when the amp is miked.

The Fender Sounds are good. But I find the VOX AC30 and the UK 70's the most satisfying. The Dumble Clean is interesting but set up too soft compared to the other sounds. I hardly ever use the distorted Heavy Sounds. But I don't think you can play decent Metal without a stack anyway. So I think it would make more sense if a combo format concentrated on combo sounds.

I had problems, because the tone died out in the clean settings. This was due to the noise reduction which I accidentally activated. No other problems yet. As I said, the amp hasn't toured yet so I don't know about that. But I would definitely try to gig wih it without backup.

Didn't really need it yet. See above.

I'm a roots player, been playing 32 years now, and hardly ever expected versatility from an Amp. An Amp had to have but one good characteristic sound. The VOX AD50 is my first departure from all-tube amps. Sold my Twin, Sold my Showman, sold my Blues DeVille. I was tired of schlepping the heavy stuff around. I benefit fully from the versatility of the amp, from the character of three or four settings. I was always looking for something that sounds like an amp turned up, even when it's not. The VOX seems to do that pretty well. It doesn't sound sterile like an Amp-Pod thanks to the tube used and the REMS. The Amp has the bite of a tube amp and sounds better than modeling amps from other companies.

We have a saying in Germany that you might be familiar with, too: The egg-laying-wool-milk-sow. That's what it is.

A very versatile amp. 50 watts of power (though this is adjustable) 11 amp models, volume, treble, middle, bass and gain controls, master volume, 11 effects, two user-writeable channels, footswitching... I think I've covered it all. An effects loop would have been very useful, I'll go into more detail later.

It's not always the easiest to use though, particularly when some of the modelled amps didn't originally have some of the controls on the AD50, meaning they're used to model other features such as presence and volume - you have to tweak for a while to get the sounds you want.

The power feature is very useful, it means you can have the amp's volume set on full to get a nice break-up, but still run at low volumes by turning the power down.

10 for features, -1 for lack of effects loop.

I'm using an Epiphone Les Paul Custom and an Ibanez AFS77T (a Gretsch-type hollowbody with a Bigsby), with a Boss ME-50 multi-effects and DS-2 distortion in front of it, and an E-Bow.

I play a mixture of indie and progressive/post rock, mostly Radiohead, REM, Pink Floyd and The Smiths. For Radiohead, the Vox AC30 model with the gain at around 11:00 gives that lightly distorted sound associated with Thom Yorke, and cranking the gain gives a fantastic crunchy lead sound. If you want to sound like Radiohead or REM but can't afford an AC30, this is the amp for you. For The Smiths, the blackface 2x12 model with the Ibanez gives me a good Johnny Marr jangle. At this point I should note that Vox don't actually tell you what their amp models are based on - I'm guessing Blackface 2x12 is a Fender of some sort.

There's a huge amount of sounds available here. The Boutique Clean model is supposed to give bright cleans, but I can't seem to get that tone out of it, but it does give a beautiful, mellow jazz tone if you turn the gain up to the point where it's just beginning to break up. UK 70s and 80s are obviously Marshall stacks and sound absolutely brilliant with the gain and volume turned up to 11. US Hi-Gain and Nu-Metal are getting into the Mesa Boogie/Hiwatt-type sounds.

You can use the footswitch to switch between the two preset channels and switch on 'Manual' mode, which basically gives you the sound as the knobs are set. I'm currently using the channels as clean and lead sounds, with manual set to a crunchy Vox AC30 sound.

The effects are functional at best, but for the most part I don't use them as I have the ME-50. But this is where the lack of an effects loop becomes a problem. Placing any modulation effects such as chorus or phaser, or dynamic effects such as tremolo, before a distorted amp cancels out the, er, effects of the effects. Since two of my signature sounds are a high-gain lead sound with chorus and phaser respectively, this does pose problems since it means I have to physically go over to the amp and dial the chorus sound in (I have the phaser one saved as a preset and can be footswitched).

So why don't I just use the ME-50's distortion? Well, once you've heard the distortion on this thing you'll see why...

No problems as yet, gigging with it every night this week, but it's already survived an afternoon in our very damp village hall.

Haven't dealt with Vox yet, so I can't say anything.

I sold a Marshall MG30 to buy this with, and it beats the Marshall in every way possible. Beautiful cleans, amazing distortion, more sounds than you could shake a Triple Rectifier at and a half-decent bank of effects to play with. Make sure you buy the footswitch though.

It's a 2005 model, so it has the fan. Mine is from North Coast Music, and it's one of their custom jobs with the brown cloth grill instead of that weird metal plate on standard models. It looks pretty much like a real AC30 that way. From what I understand NCM is licensed by Korg to make those mods. (No, I don't work for them, but their customer service is second to none.)
The amp is super versatile, with the 11 presets and then all the effects. If you want to know more about exactly which real amps are modeled and see all kinds of presets for various sounds, check out valvetronix.net.
I agree with the previous poster who said that it really has three channels--the 2 presets plus bypass. OK, maybe that's 2 and a half channels. I use every feature playing at home or in the church praise band, but one thing I don't often do is sit and fiddle with every single effects parameter. I do wish it had the ability to store more than 2 presets. I mean, it is a computer, after all, certainly it could do more.
The 50 will be plenty for any church hall rocking, and it's a huge improvement over the 15W Valvetronix I already own.
I won't get into the whole tube vs solid state thing.
The Celestion speaker is a huge improvement over what's in lower wattage models.
The wattage selector is handy, to preserve nice tone at lower volumes.

I've used it with my Tele (MIM), my Burns Steer, as well as my acoustic-electric.
It's not noisy, unless you use a naturally noisy amp model or haven't used the NR setting procedure. (Very handy, that!)
I've yet to turn it up super loud.
I am especially fond of the AC15 and AC30 sounds.

Haven't had any problems with the 50, it's new, but nothing with the 15 either and I've had that for over a year.
I don't gig outside the church, so I can't say if it's really wordworthy. I just drag amps back and forth to church.
I'm told the 12AX7 tubes will last 3 to five years. And they are intregral to the working, despite that some have claimed that products like this only light up the tubes and don't really use them.

Who? Korg/Vox? Nope, never needed to.
90 days
Have to give it a 5 (neutral) since I've never had to deal with them and hope I never have to.

It really is a great amp and doesn't sound overly fakey when used in the amp preset mode.
I also own another in the series, plus a Fender bass amp.
I'd probably buy another if it were lost of stolen. I don't wanna think about that, though!
I love that it has so many classis amps. I can't afford (nor do I have space for) a Twin, a Bassman, a Marshall stack, a couple Voxes, and a few boutique amps.
Maybe the only thing I'm not crazy about is that the internal speaker cuts out when you plug it into an external cab. But at least the 50 has that plug, in addition to the phone/line jack.

This amp is a brand new 2006, and is loaded with programmable features. Since the feature are covered in previous reviews, I'll focus on how well they work. The amp modeling is very good. Just keep in mind that it doesn't do CABINET modeling. This means that a 1971 High Treble Marshall will have the ound of a 1971 High Treble Marshall but just through one speaker. Although they do speaker impedence modeling within the amp to simulate the orginal cabinet, 4 speakers for a marshall and 2 for a fender twin play a large role in their distinct sound. That aside, the models are pretty damn close. The effects are also very good for digital effects. With that said, here are the feature flaws:
1. External speaker out shuts off the internal speaker so you can't stack 2 1x12 cabinets.
2. You can't stack effects in the programming.
3. A few vital effect pairings are missing, for intsance delay/reverb.
4. No effects loop.
5. Only 2 saveable presets, or 3 if you use your footswitch for manual mode.

All in all, its still pretty good.

This thing sounds great for a 50 watt 1x12. Good base response considering its only running one speaker. As you turn up, the sound changes just like the original amps, so you have to adust your presets for stage/practice volume. On many of the models, especially the vintage fenders, the base crumbles when pushed. You have to compensate with eq to get balanced response. Very versatile and flexible. Some of the best amp models(in my opinion) are the fender 1959 bassman(tweed 4x10) the fender 1964 twin(black 2x12), marshall 1971 high treble(70's UK) and the boutiqe clean (really a Dumble overdrive special). I think you could get just about every classic sound out of this amp if you take the time to really explore the amp models and adjust the eq. With that said, this amp lies right in the middle groud between complex and simple. Good options, good sounds. It's fitted with a noise gate that stops the fan from sounding when you're not playing. It's a little noisy, but nothing that will hold you back. I use it with a 1999 Jeff Beck signature strat and it sounds great.

Just the way an amplifier's exterior should be built. Metal grill in front of speaker, armour-alled tolex covering and sunk-in top mounted controls. This amp is definetely meant to be played and lugged around. Havn't had any problems yet.

Been playing for 12 years, own a whole bunch of expensive signature strats and a couple of martin acoustics. If I lost this thing I would but it again or key the guy's car who stole it. I love the sounds you can get, but hate a few of the little drawbacks holding it back as discussed in featues. I have also owned a peavey bandit 112 (another cheap combo) and the ad50vt definetely outdoes it. The differrence is in the base response and high end. Having just a few tubes is what sets this cheap combo apart from other cheap combos. I wish it had the good kind of speaker out where you can run the internal and external speaker at the same time, as well as more effect combinations. In my opinion these are the main and only drawbacks of this outstanding and cost-effective amp.

I have only being playin guitar for a year but il try my best in this review.
The vox ad50vt features about 10 amp offerings, which include ac30 which is a very popular tube amp also by Vox. There is a main volume control, gain, treble, middle and bass and a master volume. Gain, middle and treble aswell as the volume itself control the volume which is quite inconvinient because that restricts the volume at times.There are 11 built in effects all of which are very good, especially the flanger and delay. The level of these effects is controlled by a knob (which is very gud for fine adjusting) and a tap button. My favourite feature is the wattage gate on the back, u can adjust the output wattage so u can practice at home on 25 watts and gig/jam at 50, very handy!

I play with a cheap aria strat but even so i can still get a very nice sound. The clean drive is extremely nice and very versitile thanks to the amp offerings and a responsive bass control. The overdrive isn't so versitile, it hardly respondes with the treble at all so if ur looking for sharp slash like overdrive u cant get it on this amp, but it still sounds very gud and that problem can be solved with additional fx. Also this problem is only really bad with the metal drive so don't be put off! This amp is well worth getting for its features and its awesome clean drive.

Overall i love this amp! It has an amazing versitile clean tone, great blues tone and great features. The only thing i think should be changed is how the treble, middle and gain effect volume. Also this amp is very loud dispite what the other reviews say, And it handles the high volumes very well. Buy it!! It's well worth the money...

I have a 2005 version with fan. All the features are listed in previous reviews.

I definitely had to read the manual to understand where I was starting from, but then it seemed to click in and really be user friendly. I have played single coil (Jackson Soloist w/EMG's), double coil (Schecter w/Duncan humbuckers), and piezo pickups through this thing and even the piezo sounds good. That never happens. It's amazing the subtlety of tones I can get and particularly so with single coils which sound really thin through just about anything else. I'm old school. I want the guitar to blow through the band when necessary. Those glassy Andy Summers tones don't work well for me unless there's some meat behind them. This amp can make it happen.

This is where it gets a bit sticky. I have a lean back cart on which I have loaded many amps. Just rolling it across a parking lot has loosened the large screws holding the chassis to the cabinet. I have had to tighten them on a couple of occasions when I heard rattling. The metal grill is great, but it's tougher than the cheap cabinet. I have used this amp sparingly over the past six months and the vinyl is bubbling up off the wood underneath. I also have some pretty large tears in the vinyl on the sides, and the cabinet is slowly crushing where the amp leans against my cart when rolling into a gig. Very nasty wood used. I would accept a few extra pounds to have a more solid cabinet. It kind of feels like a toy. PLease note that these comments are only in regard to the cabinet and not to the electronics which are stellar.

Never contacted them, but I am interested in their response when I do contact them about the cheap cabinetry.

Love the amp. Someone wrote that you can only store two pre-sets. I beg to differ. You have the option of programming one of the two foot switches to effects on and off or to switch to manual mode. I programmed to the latter. I have pre-set one set to clean. When I kick the number one switch I have it set to go into overdrive. Switch number two, which I have prgrammed to manual mode, I have set with the same sound I have on the clean setting, but adding chorus. Works for me. You can set the three sounds to be anything you like, but you have to remember to program your footswitch accordingly to be able to do this.

You all know the features. 2 channels, 11 amp models, I have the 2005 model.

I play a 1975 Fender Strat and a 2005 PRS Custom 22. My music styles are classic rock, pop, and blues. This amp has plenty of power although, I don't gig so I can't judge how much volume you could crank in a large hall. I own a Marshall TSL 122 all tube combo and a Line 6 flextone 2 modelling amp. The Vox sounds almost as good as my tube Marshall. It really blows away the line 6. The tone of the Vox is very warm and tube like on both clean and distorted settings. If I were to gig, I would take the Vox with me. The presets on the vox are just so so and need tweeking. The best part of this amp is the variable power output. Max output is 50 watts, and there is a knob on the back that controls the wattage output. This means you can turn up the master volume all the way, and cut down the volume using the wattage output knob. The result is great tone at low volume.

Here is the great unknown. I have read reviews by those who have had trouble. There are stories of the input jack falling into the cabinet, and noisy fans inside, and the thing just dying. Some complain of not being able to get anyone over at Vox on the phone. Before my purchase, I called vox (distributed by Korg) at US Customer Service(631) 390-6500 US Product Support (631) 390-8737. After just a few minutes on hold, I got a Vox tech on the phone and expressed my fears. He had heard of these problems also but assured me that they get very few of them in for repair. I bought from a very reliable local shop just in case. To set the record straight, the first run of the Ad50vts did not have a cooling fan but had a heat sink. After that they built the amps with a computer type fan inside for cooling. This info was given to me by the Vox tech. I play in a very quiet room in my home and cannot hear any noise at all from the fan. My local music store also tells me they get very few Vox amps in for repair. Time will tell, but I would suggest buying from a very reputable music store that stands behind their products just in case problems arise. I have had mine for four months without a glitch.

Again, I never needed a repair. I did speak to customer support US Product Support (631) 390-8737. The product is distributed by korg and you can get them on the phone for help with Vox products http://www.korg.com/service/contactus.asp.

Been playing for 30 years rock, pop, blues. This amp is light, versatile, and loud. The best feature is the variable wattage output allowing you to crank the gain and master to full, and cut back the volume with the output wattage dial. This allows you to drive the amp hard at low volumes and still maintain great tone without making your ears bleed. The amp has a very rich warm tone almost (very very close) to that of my tube amp (but at half the weight). I liked the sound and features better than the Line 6 stuff and better than the Roland Cube. Too bad they only give you two programmable channels. I was afraid to buy this thing at first due to the reliablilty issue, but once I saw I could get vox on the phone I took the plunge. The sound is really better than any other non tube amp I have played on.

Made in 2005. See the VoxUK site for all the bells and whistles.
My reviews for good or not always take in account the price of the piece and what the manufacturer claims it will do. So with that in mind, this little box is very versatile and (AFTER READING THE MANUAL, TRY IT SOME TIME) easy to dial in. I paid $287.00 delivered to my door. It was a MF scratch and dent. Could not find the scratch or dent.

This is the first non tube amp I have ever bought. I was definitely a tube snob. But after reading the reviews on this site by people that had tried the other modeling amps but also knew tube amps I decided to try the AD50-VT.
I use a '77 Strat, Historic ' 59 Les Paul and a Texas Tele. Mostly the Strat. Play Rock and Blues. My 2 pre-sets started with the Bassman and 70 Marshall settings. I am very impresssed with the clean
and the overdrive you can dial in. I have a '75 Twin Reverb and this amp gets extremely close.
I also have a Reisssue Bluesbreaker and I like the sound of the Vox better. The BB is now for sale. I did disconnect the fan, If I play out in a warm place I reconnect it. I traded the tube for a NOS <> Telefunken ECC83. I removed the BBQ grill. I think both of the mods helped a little bit. No doubt commetically! The amp is absolutely quiet with the settings I use. I have had Deluxe Reverb's, Vox Ac 30's, AC 15 reissue, Bassmans, JTM 45's, and at least 30 other amps familiar to all. Besides a '68 Vibro Champ I bought years ago for $100 this is by far the least expensive amp I have ever bought. I tried hard not to like it because it was so inexpensive and has only one tube. But because it does the Deluxe Reverb, The Vox, The Twin and the Marshall so well I just smile every time I crank it up. Like the 2nd James Gang album and the manual says, this amp was made loud to be played loud. Turn it up. Just remember, the amp models are just primary colors. Use them anyway you like to shape your OWN sound. I have several stomp boxes that cost more than this amp and so far only use the COT and a Fender Reverb occasionally. Using the Vox's gain control and the Strat's volume knob mostly I am just plugged straight in. Also has a good Celestion speaker but you can go into a cab for even more variety. For the $287.00 it's a 10.

I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and remember it, so I am old. Been playing a long time. I have a silver face twin, 58 bassman, reissue bluesbreaker, 68 vibro champ, reissue twin reverb. I am in the procees of downsizing and was looking for something that was not a one trick pony, inexpensive, light and could also be played by my 14 year old son when he plays out with his friends. (he now wants his own!) The fact that it sound so good was a very unexpected bonus. I keep thinking, the whole amp cost almost $100.00 less than my Klon pedal!

The features of this amp are listed here and all over the net, so I won't go into detail. 50 watts, 11 amp models, a few effects, all going thru a 12 inch speaker. Enough versatility for most musicians. It has plenty of power for the types of gigs I do. When it's not loud enough, I mic it. I do wish the extension speaker out didn't mute the internal speaker, though.

I use this amp with a couple Tele's and a Strat, all single coils, and mostly stock. I spend about 90% of the time in the AC30TB preset. I guess it makes sense that Vox would model a Vox the best, and they certainly have. It has the tonal character and chime that you'd expect from an AC30, but it's more versatile due to the addition of midrange and master volume controls. I start in the preset mode, then crank the gain and treble just a little bit. This gives me a great Brad Paisley-like tone when using a Tele. This may not be a Dr. Z, but with a little tweaking, I can get a pretty good approximation of most of Brad's sounds. Try the afore-mentioned settings and run thru "The Nervous Breakdown" to see how close it really is. The effects sound pretty good, but the only ones I use consistently are the delay and reverb. I run a Keeley-modified Ibanez TS-9, a Boss BD-2 and a DD-2 ahead of this amp, so using the 2 channels and bypass mode, I'm able to get a variety of drive and delay settings with minimal gadgets. Very cool.
As some other reviewers have noted, this amp does lack in bass response. This was especially noticable for me after playing thru a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, which is well-known for its bassy tone. This hasn't been a real problem for me, as a huge bass sound isn't really necessary for the sounds I like, but I do occasionally run this amp in tandem with the HRD to fill out the bottom end.

I bought the display model at a local guitar store, and haven't had a ny problems with it. I read some statistic that said if electronics are going to die (while still under warranty, anyway) it will be in the really early stages. This amp had lived a few months on the salesfloor of the Pickin' Palace, so it was broken-in pretty well for me. Haven't had any problems at all since I bought it 4 months ago.

Haven't dealt with VOX, but I'm good friends with the owner of the shop where I bought it, so I'm sure they'll take care of me

I've been playing almost 10 years, and as I said I also own a Hot Rod Deluxe I've had for about 6 years. I own a few Tele's and Strats, as well as an Epiphone "Lucille" and some acoustics. This amp has allowed me to get the tones I wanted at a dirt-cheap price, and I'm very happy with it. I'd definitely buy another if it were stolen. Actually I think I'd buy the 100 watter with 2 12's. Maybe it has a bigger bottom than it's little older brother. This one will do til I can afford a Dr. Z or BadCat.

This is 2005 Vox AD50VT. It has 2 channels that are easy to set up with multi effects and it uses a simple footswitch to change channels. It has a "power soak" type control on the back to attenuate the power. It has reverb, delays, flanging, chorusing, compressor, auto wah, (not the best effect but sometimes fun) but only one effect can be selected. The good news is there are multi effects as a selection. For instance delay and compression or reverb and chorus etc. Of course it has amp modeling but there are less choices that the big brother Vox Valvetronics series. It has an output for an external speaker but it kills the internal one when pluged in. I use this amp for recording, parties, clubs, concerts and practice. Because of it's flexible tone and volume structure and it's power it's able to cover a lot of ground. On the down side the amp is ugly. I love the look of Vox amps with the "X" stitched grill cloth and the gold trim. This amp is not like that. It has an ugly chrome metal grill that put me off so much that I almost did not buy it. It looks so gaudy I had to paint the metal grill black. I hate to do stuff like that but I could not look at it without gagging!

I use a Fender American Strat most of the time but also a Epi Les Paul and a Ibanez 335 copy. I can't say enough about the sounds in the little amp. I've had it now for about 6 months and I can't find anything that sounds better for any price. I mostly use the Fender Black Face with a little verb for clean and the UK 80's with compression for crank. I love the Vox AC30 sound but for live I don't really use it that much. When I record it's great to be able to have such a wide pallet of amp models to choose from. You can sonically experiment and find great combinations. It records great and you can even take the rear output for direct but I do perfer micing the speaker. I do use the direct for recording bass with the Bassman sound but I also mic that too. Lately I have been using a Hartkey 4-12 bottom with this amp as a head. This makes it sound even better. The internal speaker is 8 ohms so I imagine it is matched for 8 ohm output but my cab in mono is either 16 or 4 ohms. I run the cab at 4 ohms and man! What a Sound! The AD50VT is a 50 watt amp but this thing must be producing close to 100 at 4 ohms. I can get a clean sound as loud as I want and the crank can be deadly. The Hartkey 4-12 celestion loaded cab is a good combination because it is rather neutral sounding so it reproduces the amp models without coloring or added a different speaker character. I have A-B'ed this amp with the big brother Vox Valvetronic Combo and 120 watt head and the AD50VT sounds better. It does not have as many amp models, effects and features as the VXT series has but the a clearer, more defined, and believe or not it is louder than the 120 watt. I have also A-B'ed side by side with the new Vox AC30CC which is a great amp. The AD50VT is louder, cleaner, ballsier, and more virsatile with all the differenct amp models. The distortion is just as good as the real tube amps and the clean sound is crystal. I have also compared it side by side with my vintage Fender Twin and Bassman. Again the AD50VT stands up to the test and to my ears sounds even better on the "Black Face" setting than my Fender Black face! I know your getting tired of hearing all this but I am really convinced this amp could be the only thing I need. It out Voxes the real Vox, out Fenders the Fenders, and out Marshalls the Marshalls. On top of that is gets a great Boogie and Boutique sound. The channel programing could not be easier and unlike the big brother Voxes you don't need to spend $250 for a foot pedal. Granted, it's a much simpler set up and you only have 2 channels and for some that is not going to cut it. But for me 2 channels works fine.

So far I have had no problems in the 6 months I have had my amp. I play every day for at least 4 hours and play out at least 2 times a week at clubs, bars, etc.
The other guitarist in my band went out and bought the same amp after he heard mine.
The only problem he has had is the guitar jack fell in on a show. That was not good but easily fixed. The nut had worked loose and when he plugged in the jack fell inside the amp. The tolex type covering is very thin. Even thinner than the more expensive Vox amps and it will tear very easily.

I have not had much luck contacting Vox. There website does not give you a phone number in the USA. Luckily I have not needed to contact them for any problems.

I have been playing since the 60's and have been through a lot of amps. Now I own a 60's Fender Twin, Bassman head, Vox AC30CC, Peavey Backstage, Peavey Bandit, Marshall Valvestate, and Crate Palamino. If stolen or lost I would run out the next day and buy another one. I might just run out and buy another one now just to be safe. I played the other night with this amp and a 4-12 bottom and I had the best time of my life on stage.
It's that good. We play originals and lots of classic and new rock covers. I don't need a ton of different sounds but I do need great tone. With the Black face on the clean and the UK 80 on the crank and a couple of more variation in there, I had a ball and it was a joy hearing the sound of my amp behind me on every tune. A funny aside...I also recently tried the AD100VT which is the same basic amp in a 2-12 100watt version. My AD50VT sounded more defined and centered sonically. I don't know why but I'm glad I have this amp.

I am going to buy this amp today.
I took it for a trial and it sounded amazing.
The first thing I've noticed was that the sound is being 'cut off' all the time. After reading the manual I found out about the noise gate. Once I got that turned off the amp started sounding like it should.
I would suggest any of you who felt like the amp is killing the tone to turn it off. Just put the effects on bypass, and while pressing the tap button turn dial all the way to the left.
You should feel the improvement on the spot.
I will try to write a full review as soon as I have enough playing time on it.

2005
Yes Blues & Rock
2,Yes, Yes, Yes
That the Treble, Midrange and Bass woud work better.
Band, No for a 50 watts it's low in power.

Ric's 360 & 625 and re-issue 54 Fender Strat
Not very well, Rock Blues
Some sounds are good but some are very weak.
Yes, at about 3/4
It sounds like the speaker is crak and the sound drops off and vibs.

Not at this time would need to have it little longer.
No

Customer Support Good
No I just sent the amp back
From where I bought the amp it was a year on parts and labor.

40 yrs, 5 guitars, mikes another Fender amp and Pathfinder Vox for home.
I hate the METAL FRONT
Had more power and keeping the vol. from dropping off.

The amp has a wide palate of tones. It only has two savable channels, and that bothers many, but I only use one or two sounds anyway. I was worried that this digital amp would have a problem with stomp boxes. I was glad to find that the amp has no problems with my pedals. Running distortion into the amp works fine. The amp is compact and light weight. It's great for gigging in this regard. I opened up the back and found that the cabinet construction seems well braced and solid.

I especially like the Vox AC 15 and 30 simulations and the 80s British setting. There is a smooth breakup and natural tube like dynamics. The tone controls have a broad range, and the effects are good, just annoying to edit. Now here are the shortcomings. The amp really doesn?t have good bass response. At low volume its fine, but when you?re playing a show or a high volume practice, the bass becomes flabby and indistinct. I really like deep clean bass from an amp, and this guy can't cut it. In overall volume though, it has sufficient power for any small gig, minus beefy bass. My other complaint is the noise gate. This amp has a noise gate on at all times, and this can really screw with your dynamics. If you turn the volume down on your guitar, the quiet bits get cut out and you can really hear your playing suffer. Even at full guitar volume at some settings, the noise gate makes its presence known. In short, this amp has a limited dynamic range. Overall the sounds are good but not outstanding. It should be obvious that digital simulations can never mach the real tube amps, but most of us don't have the money for the classics.

On my first gig with the Amp, I used a relatively short cable, and the strain on the plastic input jack stripped the threading. The input jack fell into the inside of the amp, making it impossible to plug back in. The gig was effectively ended. Vox really needs to make a more durable, preferably metal part here, or design the jack so it has reinforcement from below. Other than this problem, the amp has been solid.

I repaired the problem I mentioned above. Therefore I have no opinion at this time.

I bought the AD 50 VT last spring (2005) after my crate 2*12 blew out. Though I prefer the distortion sounds of the Vox, I really miss the clean low end power of the crate. Many people are championing this Vox AD series to exessive levels. Like anything, it has limitations. I'll use this amp gigging till it dies, but at home there is no substitute for my trusty Fender Champ.

i really liked the features of the amp. I could dial in a tone and it worked . It is simple to use and has alot of choices.

I think that for a digital amp it sounds good. I don't know if it is the tube in the preamp or the valve "tronix" the have on the power amp. i put this next to a ac30 tb and it was really close. I said for $600 difference it didn't sound that much different.

I have went to guitar center twice in 2 weeks because of problems with it. I don't think it will take much abuse. IF YOU are goijg to use it in a studio or just at home it is great. I would never take this amp giging without a back up. That is just because of the 2 i have run across.

I never delt with vox so i have no idea. Guitar center is a litle of a pain, but is seeming to come through.

I am thinking about fining something else different. I need an amp that is durable and that has great tone. just take into consideration what you are going to use it for befor you buy it.

I bought a new 2005 Vox & loved the sound. The effects were very useable. The main complaint was the 6 ft chord on the footswitch. The Volume of this amp had to be turned up every few min. as it would fade away when the amp got hot. (great sound - bad amp)

I played this amp with a les paul. I ouund myself constantly changing chords hoping to find the problem with my sound fading away. the amp has 11 amp simulations & great effects but it could need more power for a gigging musician.

I set this amp up in my basement and carried it to a paid gig with my band for the real test. The volume dissapeared on the third set. I changed some chords & put a fan in front of the amp. I was able to finish the night. The second time i used the amp was at rehersal. It made it for about 1 hour prior to a complete meltdown. I will never own another VOX

Never dealt with them. Guitar Center took the amp back without question.

I have been playing for about 20 years now. I have played with the same band for almost 10 years. I have owned several different amps over the years, but the Vox is the only one that left me stranded on stage.

Bought new 2005 model. Plenty of features already detailed here. I would like a footswitch included and the ability to select from 3 sounds - what's the point of 11 models when you can only access two? Power is an extemely weak 50 watts - it doesn't seem to be as loud as a 15-20 watt tube amp.

I play hard rock/old punk and a little power pop on occasion. I use gibson les pauls and explorers with humbuckers. I've played marshall heads my whole 20+years of playing, and some others along the way. I never use effects. This amp sounded great on the Vox and JCM800 settings. It sounded a lot like my JCM900 head and 2 x 12 cab with just it's one speaker! The higher gain models are a little noisy, but every high gain amp has that. The rectifier sound is horrible - I couldn't even hear it over my drummer at practice. Very good sounds, but not enough volume.

I played it for a long time at the store, then bought it and brought it home. After the first half hour of playing it in practice, notes started to tail off into a digital crackly sound. I'd read the manual and knew how to use/defeat the noise gate and all. The two other problems on that very first day: the "Power" knob (1 watt - 50 watt) on the back was unuseable in the full 50 watt position without making uncontollable squeal and noise. I don't have squeal with any other amp. So I'm paying for a 50 watt amp, but can only use less power. Then the amp was making crackling noises even when I had nothing input to the amp. At first I tried different cables and all, but it was certainly the amp. I'm pissed that these are unreliable and made like crap, especially since I was digging the sound. I could never play out with that.

Customer support to me would include acknowleging that there is a problem with these amps and making them more reliable. There is no way there should be so many people reporting problems with a new product. I don't want to keep doing "trial by error" with a new amp purchase. I was luck it crapped out on day 1 so I could get a full refund from Sam Ash. I did have to drive a 2 hour plus round trip though...

I wish it had worked. I liked the sounds. Effects were pretty bad, especially in the pairs, but I would use them much anyway. I may try one more in a couple of months. It's a shame that they can't put out a consitstenly working amp. I was looking for a nice portable practice amp/small (super small) gig combo that would save me from lugging a 1/4 stack and head around. This was almost it. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I just read another review the mentioned the same problem...

I recently purchased a new Vox AD50VT, 1x12, 50 watt guitar amp. This is one of the new modelling type amps. It has 11 presets that model a variety of amps from Fender Twin Reverb, Fender Super Reverb, 2 older Vox models popular with the early Brit rockers right through modern, high powered, super distortion "metal" models. It has three channels; one for the preset models and two "programmable" channels. There is a (separately available) footswitch for remote channel switching.
The really cool thing about this amp is, while it is essentially a solid state amp, it has a real tube curcuit that is somehow "in line" with the power output, so it sounds and "feels" like a real tube amp! It is not simply a tube pre, like you might be thinking! I read, but don't really understand, the technology, but it is very cool!

I am an active musician, although I only perform in a duo with my wife currently. I play mostly folk, folk rock, country rock and classic rock, so I spend most of my time in the Fender and Vox models. I bought this to bring some "electric" sound to our performances. For example, The Beach Boys "In My Room" sounds way better on a solid body electric through a "Fender Twin" with tremelo, than it does through a Guild F-50 with a Fishman!! I play an old Peavey T-60 solid body, which is a very versatile guitar; more so than I can explain here. If you're unfamiliar, look it up!
I think the sound is fantastic! There is some noise in some settings, but there is also a noise supression feature! The Fender models, which I have owned over the years, are just wonderful! It is full and has plenty of power. The controls are extremely versatile. It has Master, Volume, Gain AND a little knob on the back that regulates the output wattage! That little knob allows you to can get all the "grit" and overdrive sound without peeling the paint off the walls! That said, you do lose some "bottom end", but the overall tone is there. Essentially, there are four ways to regulate the output (volume)!! It also has treble, mid and bass controls. I defy you to think of a sound this can't make! The "high powered" modern distortion models are just awesome! I don't play that kind of music in my act, but boy-oh-boy I love wailing the "Nu-Metal" setting at home!!!
According to H-C's instructions I'm supposed to say something "bad" about it because "nothing's perfect", and that's true. The effects may not be to everyones taste. Among the effects are: tremelo, delay, compression, phaser, phlanger, chorus, auto-wah(!), reverb, rotary speaker. The "weird" thing is that many of them are preset in pairs! This can be a problem if you were to want either, a combination that's not there, or wanted an effect "by itself" that is part of a pair. The only effects I care about are reverb, tremelo, delay and maybe some chorus and they are all very adequate. I'm sure top quality out-board devices would blow these effects away, but I was looking for a "one-piece package". Effects were something I was willing to give some ground on, as long as the ones I use a lot are okay.

I've only owned it about 3 months, but I have had it to several gigs and it seems very "road-worthy" so far. That said, I haven't dropped it or knocked it over yet either!
My "10" rating is a "so far" rating

I have no practical experience with this yet.
One year on everything, but the speaker.....90 days.
I did write tio ask about a cover (N/A) and I got a response, from a real guy, in one day!

I spent about two hours going back and forth between a Roland Cube 60, a Fender Blues Junior, a Fender FM 212R, a Marshall MG50DFX, and a Line 6 Spider II 112(first one cut!) I thought the Vox was way more versatile and sounded the best, for what I want. I'm an old "tube guy", so the Vox stole my heart compared to the all solid state guys. The Blues Junior is a great little tube amp, but it "is what it is"; no versatility at all.
The thing I'd like you to come away with is "curiousity". I don't think many Americans consider, or even know much about, Vox! I know I didn't. I stumbled across them while perusing a Musician's Friend catalog. All I knew before that was that The Beatles used them a million years ago! If you are shopping for a smallish, modestly priced ($350 =/-) combo amp with tons of features and more versatility than the average player will ever master, please go to your dealer and give the Vox AD50VT a test drive! I think you will be mightily impressed!

Made in 2005. Very Versatile with many sounds and models. I play rock, blues, country. It has two channels, but no footswitch. No effects loop, which I really wish it had. Power is ok on some models, but lacking on others, such as the Botique clean.

I use a strat with Fralins. I like the Vox models, but I wish the manual would give more info on top boost settings. I have been using it for about 3 months now and have found only three models I like. I have not heard all the real amps modeled, so I can't comment on how authentic they sound and I really don't care, I just want good tone. There seems to be a loud static-like noise comming from the amp even when the guitar is not plugged in, and all the controls are set to zero, fully counter-clockwise. I must reduce the volume control on the back to prevent this from happening. It reduces the volume by half, so I can't gig with it, just use it as a practice amp. At high volume (and high hiss) the cabinet makes a horrible distorted noise at certain frequencies which I understand is from the closed back concept. I don't use the effects, and I have the noise gate completely shut off. The compressor increases the volume substanially, even on normal moderate passages. I don't understand why. Every other compressor I have used increases sustain and low-volume passages, and decreases the volume of the high-volume passages. This one just increases volume, and totally distorts the original signal. I have adjusted all parameters according to the manual, but no luck. It's too bad, because it's really the only effect I would like to use on the Marshall amp models. The Botique clean sounds excellent.

I am also worried after reading the reviews here. I have owned several Marshalls, maybe 4 in my life. Three of them died. Korg makes this amp also. Hmm... I am worried now.. I can't gig with it becuase it is not loud enough.

I have not dealt with them, but according to all the reviews here, they (Vox) is owned by Korg. This amp has a 90 day warrenty? My is over by now.. so all I can do is pray that the little plastic fan keeps working. Mine does not always switch the amp when I turn the switch, I have to power the amp down to get it to work. Yes, I have read the manual can emailed Korg, no response.

I have been playing 5 years. I like this amp for practice, but will stick with tube amps and pedals. I probably should have tested it more in the store. I have it in a gazillion pieces right now trying to figure out what is wrong with it and why it buzzes so much. Since it is all digital, it is unlikely I will be able to fix it.

For the money, I guess this is a great amp. Just barely big enough to gig with. But in my living room, it is the best I could have bought. Every effect and amp model is there, but the optional footswitch doesn't give me enough effects options. On gigs I just use my pedals and not the built in effects. The bigger valvetronix give you the option of the big footswitch.

This is where this amp shines. The 4x10 tweed setting is so sweet. Low end that will rattle the stage. boutique sounds are ok. US high gain is also awesome. And the AC30 Is great. very close to expensive tube amps, just not as loud. Best you can get for the money, and I have tried all of them.

Had a problem with mine. Volume knob stopped working. If I turned it past 20 o clock, I would get no sound at all. I gig a lot. This amp sees the stage at least 2 nights a week. Maybe it wasn't made for that, but at 50 watts, vox should expect it to be used by club guys, and we tend to dish out some abuse. I brought it back to the store, and they exchanged it without question. It was showing a little wear.
But I also have a Peavey clasiic vt and have NEVER had a problem, so I guess my reliability standards are high. If I have to carry 2 amps to make sure 1 works, that is not reliable.

My unit was in warranty when it broke, I got a brand new one. Support seems to be good.

Overall, i love it. I get to leave my peavey in the trailer, and throw this one in the car for spot gigs. Grab one of my guitars, and my old RP3 AND GO!! I will own it as long as it works. I am waitng for the vt 100 to come out, and will buy one when it does. But I will keep the 50 to play in my room.

I play a mixture of styles from reggae, funk, blues, rock, metal. I like Chili peppers, 311, Hendrix, Jack Johnson, 3eB. This amp is not the best looking amp out there, but if you care about sound and not looks then you are in for a great surprise. The only drawback that I can find as far as features is that it only has 3 programmable channels, ch1, ch2 and manual. You can switch through these with the optional foot pedal. So if you need more channels this could be a problem. 3 channels are enough for me so it is perfect. It doesn't have as many amp models as the high dollar Vox models but for the price this amp is awesome! It also has some pretty good effects. It has enough amp models for me and I will probably never use all of them. I have not used this amp in a live gig setting, but I would say that if you are planning on playing in a stadium get something else. It is only 1x12 after all. But with that said it is still pretty loud.

I use a Fender Mexican strat and a Gibson les paul studio. This thing sounds awesome! Let me just say this. I bought a 60w 1x12 line6 flextone plus combo, with the extra 1x12 extension cab when they first came out. I have always been disappointed with the sound from it. So I never really played the line6 it just sat there. That was about $800-900 wasted. I was looking to buy a Mesa Boogie 1x12 tremoverb combo and had written off the whole digital tubetone possibilities. Then I heard that korg had bought vox and had put their modeling technology into this amp. I already owned a Korg PX4 guitar processor and was highly impressed with their modeling sounds so I decided to look into it. Man I am glad that I did. Finally someone got this amp modeling right! They use a real tube in this amp to achieve this effect. This amp has a warm tube sound that my line 6 never had and every amp model on here is highly usable to me. The cleans and the distortions blow my line6 away. This amp can make any sound that you need. From clean and reggae funky, to rectified metal it is all there. I was more interested with the amp models than the effects, but the effects all sound great too. Of course you have to adjust your guitar for the type of sound that you want. You will get a thin sound from any amp if you only play the bridge pickup with the tone controls set to 10 and the treble on the amp turned all the way up. I can take my strat, crank up the Uk Modern setting, turn on the autowah effect, and go from Hendrix voodo chile intro with the neck pick up to the verse with no wah and the bridge pickup and it sounds great.

I have never owned a vox before but it seems pretty sturdy and well made to me. Why does Vox only give a 90 day warranty on most of the parts?

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I have been playing for over 20 years. I would definitely buy this amp again. I had given up on the amp modeling technology after my line6, but Korg and Vox have restored my faith! This amp sounds awesome, is highly versatile, has a real tube in it, and is way affordable. I got mine cheaper than the catalogs, at a local music store. A few hundred dollars for this thing are you kidding? I just found the deal of the century! If you are planning on touring the country and rocking out stadiums then you should obviously get something else. But for what this amp sets out to do it nails it perfectly in my opinion.

Great features - but the last couple of reviewers here need to READ THE MANUAL and understand the amp!! It's a GREAT amp, but try to learn WHY it has 4 volume controls (there is a very good reason) and for the person who finds it cutting off his sound quickly and sounding fuzzy - that's what the built-in noise suppressor does (that's what ANY single-ended noise suppressor does in fact). So turn off the noise suppressor! It's simple - look it up in the manual. This amp IS a full tube amp as far as how it interacts with your guitar - but apparently many supposedly "pro" or otherwise experienced guitar players have never used a noise suppressor, and the person below me doesn't understand how a tube amp works.

The gain control (which is a late 1970s or 80s invention) simply increases the input level - it sort of simulates overdrive, but has a slightly different sound from OD. The Volume control controls the pre-amp's volume limiting circuitry, allowing it to be wide open (10) or cut down all the way to no volume. The Master control controls the Pre-amp's output level (or power-amp's gain level depending on the design), and with this unique Vox amp the fourth control is for the final solid state amplifier's power level (which is purely a PA-like clean amplifier designed to make the final sound louder, it doesn't offer any distortion or overdrive and doesn't affect the tone at all except for how the speaker is driven). So you can get full Master volume hard-driven tube amp sounds plus hard driven main volume tube amp sounds without cranking the gain, which is how original fenders and many other amps (voxes?) worked. Then you can overdrive it with a real overdrive pedal of your choice (I use a chandler tube driver but anything will work as long as you understand that you keep the gain LOW on an OD pedal when using it with a tube amp and only crank the output level of the pedal). That way you get any real tube sound you want. Roll off the guitar's volume pedal for cleaner sounds, and as long as the noise killing circuit in the vox amp is turned OFF you'll get great response.

This review is just to let people know how to use this unusual and amazing guitar amp - and to make sure nobody is persuaded away from it because of reviewers who haven't taken the time to read the manual and ask their local guitar shop what to do. And if any guitar shops don't know these basic answers then, well, I'm pretty disappointed in the world of musical instrument retail...

simply perfect. amazing versatility. All sound great, including the fenders (but you should really plug into a fender open back speaker cab for that 100% perfect fender sound).

Don't forget this amp doesn't do cab modelling, so use a real cab from an original amp you're trying to emulate if you want 100% perfection. I'm quite happy with the sound of the fender blackface amp - it sounds incredible as is.

I've had no problems and a 1 year warranty in canada.

haven't needed them yet.

very fun and satisfying amp.

Very versatile. I play jazz, rock, blues. One channel. Two presets, but they dissappear every time I shut the amp off. Presets sound horrible, none of them are usable. Effects are in weird combinations that I don't normally use. Why can't I use the compressor with reverb or delay? Something is wrong here... No footswitch.

I use an American strat and Les Paul. Sound is extremely thin with strat. 2x12 Fender emulation is a joke. The only good sounding amp model id the bassman and the Modern Marshall JCM 2000 amp, the rest suck except for the Dumble Overdrive clean model. Sounds great, but here is the problem with this amp: It produces a great deal of white noise-like static which causes me to lower the speaker attenuator on back to about 30 watts without hissing. Now I am trying to emulate a 100 watt stack with a 30 watt solid state amp? It simply does not work. None of the clean models sound like a tube amp, and only one hi-gain sounds decent. I tried taking the back off to reduce the resonant frequency lower-mid boom, but I lost about 50% of what little bass there was. I tried changing the tube with a Mullard, no noticable differnce. It is overly bright and mid-rangy. Tone controls have almost no effect on most models. Here's another oddity: You have a master volume control, a gain control, and volume control, and a speaker attenuator. Why? Four volume controls? I only need two: gain and volume. This amp does not make any sense at all. Sounds cheap, plastciky, and lifeless. There is a HUGE volume difference between models, which can be expected between the Vox AC-15 and the Marshall JCM 800, but why is the Dumble so quiet? I can barely hear it when volume is half way up.. The Vox models sound muddy. Amazing. Who made this amp?

The channel settings can not be saved. It is made in the same factory (Korg) as Marshall. Nuff said. My Marshall just died. Third one in three years. Sometimes this amp forgets the effects and stays locked in the previous bizzare effects combination. Allready showing why I hate compuer-based amps. Memory errors!

I won't need them, it's going back.

Been playing 25 years now. Buy a decent tube amp and some pedals for the best sound. But this if you never plan on buying another amp and hate pedals. Technology changes rapidly. Tube amps are cheap on ebay. This wou be best suited for punks who like metal.

Please refer to other reviews for features. All in all, it is an extremely versatile amp. And light weight!

I play through my faithful G&L Legacy into this little combo. Initially, I was quite pleased with the wide range of tones I could emulate. My passion remains in the Blues, so if you can imagine, I highly value the ability to overdrive a tube amp at certain times, and still fall back on clean tones by rolling back on the volume of my guitar. Nevertheless, during live settings, (though a lot of our original works are Blues orientated) we do a variety of covers, ranging from Beatles, U2, to Foofighters and Bon Jovi.

I must say, the distortion tones of the UK Modern and so on are very satisfactory. However, having this as my main amp for the last 7 months, I found that the cleans were less than impressive.

First and foremost, in my experience, This amp does not behave like a tube amp. But hey, it's a transtube, so perhaps I shouldn't have expected that. On settings such as the Tweed 4x10 or AC30TB, I can get decently light overdrive tones (which is what I am aiming for), however, when I roll off on my guitar's volume to clean up the signal, the tone responds very strangely.

It drops in volume, but it also gets fuzzy. Furthermore, and this is my biggest gripe, is that when I pick or strum, this fuzzy tone peaks in volume, and levels off instantly. Thus revealing the artificial nature of this otherwise very convincing amp. It is extremely annoying, and in my considered opinion, for this scenario alone, it sounds like garbage.

The other tones, when I don't fiddle with my volume, are decent.

As for the effects, there are a lot of them, but I limit myself to the reverb, as I still rely on my pedals. I find some of them to be a little cold and digital, however, still usable. (except the flanger, or phaser. However, if that's your thing, it's there for your disposal).

One last thing, there have been some complaints about the cooling fan being too loud. There IS a fan in my amp, however, it doesn't bother. Perhaps I got lucky, but I don't even notice it unless I try to. In any case, I figure I'm simply trading that tubewarmth hum for a cold-digi fan.

I mainly use this at restaurant bars, however, I do use it for my worship team at church on occasion (but I mainly play my acoustic with them).

This little one has never failed me yet, in my 7 months.

Never dealt with them.

Practically speaking, the audience won't be able to tell the difference between analogue and digital, and considering the variety of styles that my band and I play, this little one has served me quite well. It's small and lightweight, and is A LOT more convenient to lug around as opposed to a 90lb Bluesbreaker... But... that as it may be, it is my only amp for the time being, and I truly miss having a tube amp.

I like to name my guitars and amps, but I have trouble for this guy, even after 7 months. Despite it's versatility, it lacks personality. It is very practical, but I would not buy it again.

I bought my VoX Ad50vt from a local guitar shop in my town, I was originally looking for a tube amp, but didnt know prices were so high and had wanted a Vox amp anyway-since The Beatles used them....I played it in the shop and fell in love with the different effects, at first I thought the front shiny grill looked cheap, but after awhile i realized the genius of it, because its tough and why not make all amps with a caged front? I always keep my wattage knob at its highest so dont know if this is really a great feature or not but I really love the power supply cable jack, how it plugs in or out of the amp and also love the input jack at the top of the amp.

I play anything from Distortion to clean and this amp covers everything for me, I mostly use the UK 80's for clean and UK modern for distortion (best distortion on amp) and the delay sounds especially bad ass for me and chorus and the reverb are the next best features. The amp does get noisy when your guitar is around stuff for some reason, like my mic stand or getting close to the amp, but i guess this is normal and cant hear it when you play anyway. (I also plug my 'Shure' mic into this amp and the effects work great for voice as well.) Ive never turned the amp to its highest settings cause ive never had to but keep everything turned to 12:00 or lower

Ive owned my amp for about a month now and have bumped it a few times in and out of my car but thats about it and I wont bump it anymore but it still sounds like a fat lady singing...

I want the foot switch they make for it but havent gotten back with the shop I bought it from but the name VoX just sounds cool and it looks bad as well. Ive seen kids who dont even play guitar use the name 'VoX' on the internet. So if the customer support sucks then they have a right to, cause there VoX. But give me a name brand company that is known for having bad customer service.

Ive been playing for 9 years now and have owned small amps like peavey and fender and this amp compliments my fender telecaster like peanut and jelly, so dont think this amp holds back on anything. I got lucky that my local guitar shop had this amp in my opinion cause I could have bought another one and not known about this one. The biggest concern for me was price and I really feel I got my moneys worth on buying this amplifer cause I still got money left in my wallet and plus a kick ass practice amp. To me this amp is heaven sent and at night I sleep next to it and hold it like a teddy bear in my arms....

I went to buy a Fender modeling amp but came home with the Vox instead. The Vox sounded richer,was cheaper(less expensive) and I just liked the set-up with the chicken head knobs instead of push buttons and menus.It obviously has the same features as everyone else's so I won't repeat it.

I use a 70's Strat with 3 singles and a Valley Arts with HSS configuration. I play classic rock and blues at home and praise and worship music in church. I needed something that can play clean to slightly fuzzy,nothing heavy. I like the Clean Botique and the AC15 and AC30tb. The effects work well and are simple to use. I would like a stand alone chorus. The amp is very quiet,no hissing.

Now, here is why I submitted this review, as I am not much of an expert on tones. After2 weeks the wattage selector (attenuator?)started to occasionally short out, giving shrieks from the amp at the worst possible times.At least that is what it seemed like to me. Whatever was at fault,the repair shop couldn't get a replacement part.All parts were going on new amps, and new amps were backordered. So I was stuck without an amp and without funds to buy a different amp. After a few weeks the store gave me a loaner amp and eventually Vox replaced my amp with a new one. The process took about 6 to 8 weeks.It was inconvenient for me , but for a working musican it would have been dire. I guess this happens sometimes with a new product that is in high demand and to their credit they did make it right.I can't say their products are unrelaible in general but this particular amp was. No problems at all with the new amp yet.

The customer support was fine. Their hands were basically tied until an amp came available.The repair shop mainly delt with Vox or Korg. In my correspondence with them they seemed concerned and willing to do whatever thay could. If they had gotten a replacement for me sooner I would have given them a 10.

I've been playing off and on for 25+ years and am very happy with this amp. Portable and versitle you can crank it or play softly. I think it would satisfy all but the most discriminating purists.If it were stolen(how could you lose something this big) I would buy another, or a 30 watt model if it was significantly lighter.

2005 - Ireland
I think the features of this amp have already been well-covered by other contributors here. I play in a lot of different types of bands ranging from Jazz to rock to country and I love this amp. Have had the amp 3 weeks now and it has done a lot of sessions since including a tv show last night. To be honest I always bypass the effects section, for 2 reasons. Firstly I find it quite limiting as I like to mix and switch effects at my feet, but for the price of the amp they're a great feature. Secondly I've been using Boss pedals for years along with a Tubescreamer and I'm so used to them. Some people have commented that their effects didn't work well with this amp but that hasn't been my experience.

My main guitar is a Gibson Les Paul although I use several others depending on the situation. My favourite sound on this amp has got to be the AC30TB. I use this most of the time with the gain back so that the sound is clean but almost starting to break up. Then when I need to rock out I kick on the Tubescreamer and 'Tone Heaven'. I love it. My main worry buying the amp was that it mightn't be loud enough in a live band situation, my previous amp was a Peavey 160w Special 112. But so far it has had no problem being heard and I only mic it in situations where I would have miced the Peavey also.

Of the other sounds available I like the 70's and 80's Marshall but I would never use Numetal sounds for instance, so I can't really comment on these as I don't like that particular sound.

Haven't had it long enough to give a fair comment. Seems sturdy enough though a lot lighter in weight than my Peavey (thank God!). I do a lot of work and this thing seems to be taking all in it's stride.

Don't know and hopefully never will.

Been playing about 20 years. If it was stolen or lost I would buy another one, or possibly upgrade to another Valvetronix model, though this one is doing all I need. What I love most is the valve sound at such an incredible price. My biggest gripe is that you can't add an extension cab, which would be ideal for real spread on stage. I think they should have included the footswitch, even if it meant adding a few quid to the overall price as the amp is great value for money.

It has everything ill need and more for features, i jam in a live jam situation, and im a tube amp freak, but as far as the amount of time i use it jamming, the peavey, laney, and marshall halfstacks i had werent practical for me to use 2 times a month jamming and then practicing in the bedroom with! Effects by korg the same who make my favorite pedals, Boss. Its solid state with a one tube preamp, i immediately stuck my favorite JJ ecc83s in the tube socket and ditched the electro harmonix 12ax7. I had it specially set up for my AD50VT. Wish it wouldnt cut the internal speaker out when a cab is hooked up to it, wish i could just add a 112 cab to it.

My current set up is an Agile 2500 LP copy, A seymour duncan sh-1 vintage'59 pickup in the neck, and an sh-11 custom custom in the bridge. Run it through a modified Vox v-847 wah pedal all insides are area51's vintage italian wah kit. It suits my styles just fine, i play rock, hard rock, Blues,metal. For the people who dont read the directions it does sound muffled and unable to project, i know because im one of them! Im a tube amp guy and when i had it for the first week i was like man it would sound so much better if it was so muffled, and it sounded too electronicky, like a line 6 anything. All though line 6 has redeemed them selves with the hd-147 head, If i had the cake id be writing a review on that right now! Im used to the tube feel and until i learned how to turn off the stinkin noise gate i was dissapointed. The sustain and background sssssssssss was there as i would expect from a tube amp at high volume and i was really diggin it after that, the ac30 70's and 80's UK settings is/are what i use the most, and ive recently started slaving it with a VOX Brian May special! It really increases the tonal range from blues to god awful distortion.HOwever you can hear every chord and note. Ive jammed in live situations plenty of times unmiked and it cuts right through, RDFD! Read Da Fucking Directions! Play with it and twist the chicken head knobs for all they are worth! i wouldnt play stadiums with it but for a club jam or garage style its perfect. this is what i have found, and my buddy jeff plays loud!"motorhead loud" and he has the new hd 147, and he was amazed at how it projected its sound.

Well i havent spilled a beer on it yet or dropped down a flight of stairs like my poor Classic 50. but it seems to be pretty decent, i d gig with a backup anyway, if i regular gigged id have a half stack and probably a Vox Valvetronix head. Besides for the price, if it malfunctioned, specially repeatedly, id Pete Townsend its electronic ass! Stage show antics!

I emailed them to ask them how to slave it with the Brian May special, the next night i got a reply! WOW! They seem really enthusiastic about customers there questions and the new gear they are putting out, friendly and curtious.

Ive been a playing Amature for bout seven years now. I am always looking for new things, especially how different amp companys take is on a tube emulation amp. I went through a lot of them including the big boys, i picked this over an Hughes&Kettner Matrix. Hmmm i wanna try the H&K again. I currently own nothing else i used to have every thing but a set of drums but my past situation led to where i am with this little Vox Ripper! The only amp i want back is A Laney lc-30, i had one and regret to this day giving it up to pay a bill, i hear people say marshalls are loud, sheer childsplay next to a Laney! I know..... im a trouble maker....

Lots of choices. Eleven amp models, some you will like immediately some will require tweaking. Some amp models are more sensitive to modification than others, but I think that criticism of subtleties isn't productive nor is it mature. Any "classic" tube amp is going to sound like, well, itself, and nothing will nail it on the head. This amp comes closer to an AC30TB, a Fender Blackface 2x12, a Marshall 70's and 80's model than you're going to find without a lot of work or money, and it does a good enough job at a Vox AC 15, a Fender tweed 2x12, and a Mesa amp to get you into a no-excuse territory as to your craftsmanship on the guitar. Versitility is a major strong point here.

I use a Telecaster. Stock pickups. The people I like either play the same or started their careers on them. It's noisy unless your cord is brand new, never stepped on or bent. I can't say I like all of the effects as well as the best of them, I can say that they are all, without exception, useful and well-executed. I don't like the excessive noise I get with a well-used cord. I do like the flexibility they built into the amp, both with the controls and with the wattage selection. Great idea, an electronics tech dream in a world of pure tube bullshit. Not enough noise suppression for me, but that is a common complaint for me with all kinds of gear. I play slide a lot, I play Brit Invasion, I play serious and not-so-serious rock and roll, I play whatever I feel like at the moment in front of anybody. I play a Telecaster for its flexibility, got this amp for its flexibility, haven't been disappointed yet with either.

Don't know for sure because it hasn't broken yet. I have a Marshall Valvestate, made by Korg like this one, have had it for years, sounds great live and has NEVER given me a bad note I didn't ask for. I spent the 1960's and '70s playing Vox, loved the sound, never had a problem, not one. This is Korg. Played the 1980's and 1990's with Korg effects, never had a problem. Korea? England? Who cares? What I know is that the nameplates Vox and Korg and Marshall have yet to cause me a problem, and other makes have. I might have just been lucky, but I've played out a lot for a lot of years and I'm happy with these brands.

Dealt with other companys, not with Vox/Marshall/Korg except to buy the stuff.

I've played since 1964. I play a Tele and this Vox. Hope it doesn't break, but all gear does now and then. It sounds good. It does an AC 30 as good as an AC 30. It does a Fender Blackface just as good. It is surprisingly good at the 70's and 80's Marshall, will make you stop and play those settings as they are that good. Can't say I hear a lot in other settings, AC 15 leaves me cold as does boutique clean, but I have to say the amp gives a lot to work with and I'm not a Korg rep and could probably gain some insight as a rep who knew the amp better. I play a lot, demand a lot, and this, short of a gozillion dollars worth of overpriced "classic" gear, does a fine job. I played the classic amps when they were new and cheap. This amp does a fine job. Don't listen to the finicky rich mofo wannabees, old or young. Screw em. Listen to the amp. You'll like this one.

Bought 2005 , 50w (variable) combo amp from Vox.

11 Amp models, range of effects (some work in tandem, but you cant pick and choose) 2 preset channels for storing your favourites, together with Preset (the settings Vox in their wisdom claim you need to hear!), and manual so you can mess around to your hearts content. Effects section is bypassable, and has a noise gate. (I need this for my Tele, but not my Strat)

If I am correct, this has a tube on the pre-amp stage.

Standard EQ controls, Gain, Volume, Bass, Middle, Treble, and Master Volume.

Also has a hot output for connecting to another cab, jack for external footswitch (VFS2) for changing channels and bypassing the effects section. Shared Line and Headphone jack on the back.

Cool feature is the variable power output - some people on here are suggesting that this is just another volume - they are missing the point. The tube section really comes into its own when you drive it hard, and for many, this aint an option in a bedroom or house. By turning wattage down, you can crank the volume and gain right up and play at full tilt without the loud sound, but still flooding the tube to full and getting the sweetest tones out of it.

Things I miss - sperate jack socket, or maybe even XLR jack, but thats all.

Still new to it, and it clearly needs breaking in, but very impressed so far. With AC-30 setting I was getting a sound very similar to the Small Faces on Afterglow or All or Nothing with my Tele.

Lots of other models as detailed in other reports below. The modern amp sounds very 1990's and cool distorted. The Boutique Clear is really sweet, and Fender models are lovely.

Cant say the same about the effects section, which in my view sounds very digital and weak. The compressor for example when on high volume gives a notable digital fade to the end of the note. AutoWah is useless (get a pedal!). But I suppost thats my point, I have a pedal board with Boss Compressor, Delay, Big Muff Fuzz, Small Clone Chorus, so didnt buy this amp for effects. You will have fun with them, but I cant really class them as serious effects. Only one I would suggest is worth using is the Reverb.

Otherwise, sound is so so sweet when you get the right setting. Can occasionally sound a bit muddy, and volume differences between models are a bit extreme (try changing from a loud Boutique CL setting to Nu Metal, and you will shake the windows) Still, sounds lovely though.

Got to mark this down for the effects section being superflous, but would give it a 10 otherwise

Obviously put together cheaply at this price, but it doesnt really show. Plastic corners, cheap covering material (but lovely metal grille that is solid!!)

Chickenhead switches seem to turn too easily between models, but they are firmly stuck on.

Not broken yet, but then it's brand new!

Not tried

Been playing a few years, but still only class myself as a beginner to intermediate. Terrible with theory, but think my technique aint bad.

I play MIM Tele and Am Std Strat through it and it is a huge improvement on my Marshall 30 DFX rubbish. It sounds so sweet and warm, and has massive variety. Still new to it, so got lots to play with before I've explored it all. Value for money though, cant go wrong.

2005 model.. 11 amp models, 11 effects, two channels, line out, head phone jack, no effects loop, foot switch jack but foot switch is not included. I had a two button switch from a peavey amp and it worked fine providing channel switching, and effects bypass. Uses a tube in the power amp and the ability to overdrive the tube while turning down a power potentiometer in the back to keep the volume down. Great in theory, but it still generally sounds better at louder volumes.

Built in noise gate - a great feature!

Outstanding bang for the buck! Effect combinations are pre-defined, but each has two or three parameter adjustments. Very cleverly set up. Outstanding as a studio/practice amp. For the stage, it would be difficult to use unless you assigned just two main sounds, one for each channel, and were very quick with the controls for any other sounds you wanted to use. I have a digitech RP2000 modeling foot controlled processor, and it is more versatile and practical for the stage than this amp would be. Also, the RP2000 sounds better at low volumes and WAY better with headphones. Tried using the RP2000 through this amp, but there is no real neutral clean sound, and it the two units just didn't get along well.

Amp seems plenty loud for a 50W 1-12 combo.

I play a variety of rock styles. The clean sounds are great, and the effects are generally very good. I was able to compare it side by side with a Marshall AVT50 which uses a tube preamp instead of the power amp as on this amp. Generally the Marshall had the warmer more tube like sound, but it costs about $200 more, and is much less versatile.

This amp totally nails the Nu-Metal - scooped mids sound! Quite impressive! The speaker has much better bass response than my Marshall AVT 50 stock speaker, and the Marshall could not produce a comparable nu-metal sound, nor could my digitech RP2000.

It also does a pretty convincing Marshall JCM 800. The high gain model sound is alright, but none of the overdrive sounds were really tube-like IMO. However, for the price, they are all pretty good with endless variety. If you like tinkering with controls, this amp will keep you plenty busy. If not, it has presets which are well set up, and easily modified.

You definitely want to read the manual to get the most out of the amp.

The noise gate is great, but when you back off the volume control on the guitar, its hard to find a setting where the notes don't fade out too fast while still gating all the noise at full guitar volume.

Some have mentioned a loud fan. On this one, it was very quiet (unlike my Marshall AVT50).

I'm using Carvin guitars with humbuckers and coil taps, and also a Fender HM strat.

Seems reliable. I only had it for two weeks and took it back, but not because of any problems. It was just too redundant with things I already had. Still, I would recommend it to anyone looking for very versatile amp at a reasonable price.

Been playing >25 years. I was shopping for a backup for my other amp, and was willing to consider any combo under $1000. Spent a whole morning at Guitar Center trying all sorts of amps, and finally kept going back and forth between this and a $900 Mesa Boogie FE30. Sure the Boogie sounded better but (being cheap) it just wasn't $550 better IMO. Also, the Vox did the NU-metal sound much better, and had so many more toys! However, once the novelty wore off, I had to admit that my RP2000 could do almost everything this amp could do, and in most cases better and more easily (except that NU-Metal sound!). So I took it back and ordered the new Traynor 50blue all-tube amp. Still, I would highly recommend this amp to the non-professional on a budget.

2004 Model Vox AD50VT. I play anything from blues to pop/electronica to 'Van Halen' tone rock. This amp covers all the bases for the types of tones needed. This is a solid-state modeling amp with a 12AX7/ECC83 tube in the preamp stage. I wanted to rave about this amp until the demons set in..... First off, I've had it back to the shop twice for cold solder joint. It kept cutting out completely while I was playing. Second of all, don't let the other reviews fool you. When I first got this amp, I was excited about it. I really thought it felt/sounded like a tube amp until I put it to some 'real world' tests (open mic night) where I was literally asked to leave the stage after playing half a song. I crumbled.
The built in effects are nice. Has all the basics. Flange, chourus, reverb, echo/delay and a nice built in noise gate, which I wasn't even aware of until I realized my Strat was making no noise at all! Cool!

I play an American Std. Tele w/a Danny Gatton (Joe Barden) pickup in bridge and a beat up old Strat using Duncan Antiquities all throughout. This amp does cover all the tone selections needed for most styles of music because of the amp modeling, but HEED MY WARNING. When playing out and needing the 'drive' and openness of a real tube amplifier, this amp completely pukes out. Very over compressed and over-processed. I was playing next to a Peavey Classic 30 and could not keep up at ANY volume. It sounds like there's a blanket over this amp at any high volume levels, and it sounds like it's 'choked' or 'straining'. So, as far as sounds are concerned, I have to give it high marks for some nice modeled tones. From a Vox AC30TB to a Mesa rectifier tone, it does a great job at low/moderate volume, but DON'T BUY THIS AMP IF YOU'RE EXPECTING TO PLAY OUT AND NOT BE MIKED UP! It's a nice amp for recording, but it's basically a 50w practice amp.

Had it in twice in a week for cold solder joint repairs.

emailed tech support, and actually got a 'non canned' email within a day, but they basically said 'bring it to where you bought it for repair'. Duh.

Been playing for 25+ years. I would NOT but another one of these amps if it was lost/stolen. I 'undid' the deal I made for this amp to get my Vintage Club 60 back (Crate). This amp is not the tone-modeling panacea all guitar players search for. It is still a transistor amplifier, and cheaply built to boot. (Mine was made in Korea) Take my advice, if you're looking for multiple tones, get yourself a 30-50w ALL TUBE AMP and a few pedals. This amp had no volume overhead and falls apart in real-world applications. Trust me.

2004. The features have been listed below already, but if you're too lazy to scroll:

*11 amp models and 11 built in effects
*Power adjuster (allows user to dial in desired wattage from less than 0.15W - 50W)
*External Speaker Out jack (8 ohms)
*Line/Phone jack
*Foot Switch jack (Vox VFS2 footswitch sold separately)
*2 channels to store settings
*Preset and Manual modes
*Dimensions: 22.76" x 10.43" x 19.95"
*Weight: 44.09 lbs.

I've prolly forgotten some stuff, but you get the picture.

This amp meets every one of my musical needs, but I'll talk about that more in depth under sounds.

Would get a 10, but i need to go out and buy the footswitch?!

I use a Gibson Pete Townshend Signature SG with two P-90 single coil pickups. This is the perfect guitar for me because I'm a Classic Rock guy in a teenage classic rock cover band. We mainly cover Who, Beatles, and beginning to add some songs by 'The Band'. I can get just about any sound I need from my PT SG. Pete used a Gibson SG Special that had P-90s, which is partially responsible for creating his defining live sound between late '68 and '71. The Beatles are very closely associated with Epiphone Casinos which also have P-90s. They also used Strats (and George later used a Telecaster) which also have single coils. The Who and The Beatles being my two favorite bands, i felt it was safe to get P-90 single coils (I also liked the clean sound i got from them :) )

With the Vox AD50VT's 11 amp models i can dial in just about every sound i need:

*Mid 60's Beatles / Early Who - British Invasion sound (though you'd need a RIC too) can be found on AC30TB. This is THE sound for "Day Tripper" and other songs from this era for the Beatles, and lucky me, that's on our set list.

*Late 60's Beatles sound can be found on Tweed 4x10 (Fender Bassman) In the Late 60's when the Beatles were getting more and more psychadelic, they switched their amps from Vox to Fender. You can also get the sounds from most Fender users out of this amp setting.

*The Who's live sound from '69 to '71 (think Woodstock, Live at Leeds, Isle of Wight festivals, Live at The Young Vic), can be found using UK '70s. Cranking the gain on this amp will give you decent distortion, at least for my taste. I plan to get a fuzz pedal for the perfect fuzz sound i seek tho.

*John Entwistle songs ("My Wife" - live) i use UK '80s. When The Who would play John's songs live in the late 70s, theyd play it fairly distorted, so I use this setting. This is the closest I get to playing anything remotely metal or modern. I have no use for the heavily distorted amp models and am not someone to consult if a metal player's amp is what you're looking for. But I do know that if you got money, and are looking for a metal players amp, Mesa Boogie is the way to go. The fact that this amp has amp models for classic rock, modern rock, and metal, you know its versatile. The distortion can get pretty brutal, but at a certain point, distortion loses definition, where distortion is gonna sound like the same mangled piece of shit no matter what you do. I'm definitely not talking about just this amp, but amps in general. But to state it simply, the distortion on this amp can be just about whatever you want in this price range and without a distortion pedal.

* The Band - I turn it to Black 2x12 and turn the Compressor on and I'm able to achieve Robbie Robertson tone. If you're not familiar with his sound, he uses mostly Strats and Teles. In the 60s, the middle pickup of his Strat kept getting in the way of his playing, so he just moved it down towards the bridge. The finished product gave him lots of "twang" and "quack" which defined his sound. He also plays with pinch harmonics almost non-stop to get him even more "quack". It can be heard on the songs "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "Just Another Whistle Stop" especially.


Effects:
The effects on this baby will suit anyone who isn't too picky about their effects or can't afford top notch effects. I'm no Tom Morrello, so I have no intention of having a pedal board with a dozen stomp boxes. However, there are two effects that I am specific about and plan to upgrade to: Fuzz and wah. Being the huge PT fan i am, i intend on getting a Black Cat Univox Superfuzz to mimic the unique distortion heard when Pete plays live. And me also being a sucker for classic rock, a Crybaby Classic. There are some effects i'll use very rarely (i.e. flanger, phaser, tremelo), rarely enough, that i can survive the quality of the effects. They're A-OK in my book.

Overall - the sound is fantastic but

This thing is a TANK!!!!!! It's solid. Its hard for me to explain the amp's strength with words, so if you're at a guitar store anytime soon and they got a ADD50VT on hand, give it a good inspection. I cringe at the thought, but I bet that if it ever fell down the stairs, it could survive. I would definitely gig with this without a backup on hand, cause i trust it. Hasnt failed me yet, I've owned it since late December of '04 and I've been playing it almost non stop.

I've dealt with Vox once asking for the specs of this amp, because for some reason their sites and other sites hadnt posted that yet. I emailed them and they answered me promptly within 11 hours or so.

I think the warranty was 90 days or something, which isnt much...but I don't think I'm gonna need one.

I've been playing guitar for about 3 years (I'm 15), bass for about a year and a half, can barely play keyboard or drums, better at twirling drum sticks than actual drumming. Lead guitarist for a teenage classic rock cover band, backup guitar/organ in my Dad's group (if they need me), which is also a classic rock/ folk cover band. I own a 2001 Gibson Pete Townshend Signature SG and a 2003 Yamaha F-35 acoustic that i started on, along with my trusty Vox AD50VT. I also use/ have access to my Dad's 1997 Epiphone Sheraton II, 1987 Fender F270SCE acoustic-electric, and Epiphone EP-1000 amp. I also use/ have access to his lead guitarist's Squier Strat, 1974 Gibson SG Standard Limited Edition I, Fender Fretless Jazz Bass, Peavey Audition 20 amp, and Fender BXR 25 bass amp and am currently using my guitar mentor's friend's Ibanez-like bass.

When shopping for this amp i considered many things: Wattage, weight, versatility, sound and price. I compared it to many other 50, 65, and even 100 watt amps. It was a clear winner because of it's Vox quality, features, sound, and versatility. Other amps i compared to lacked certain qualities (like staying clean past a certain volume)

I love just about everything this amp has to offer other than its weight, but small price to pay for the greatest amp money can buy in this price range. If someone stole this amp, I'd be pissed, but be glad that they didnt steal my beloved PT SG instead. I'd definitely look for the culprit, who prolly couldnt have run far with this 50lb beauty. IF i couldn't find them, then of course i would definitely buy a replacement cause it's Vox, under $400, with just about every sound i've ever needed right here. Did I mention it's beautiful as well?

Brand-new 2005 model. For the record, there is no fan. You can read the other reviews or go to Vox's website for the complete feature list, but here are the ones I'm most impressed with:
Power knob - genius! Imagine getting that power-amp saturation with a bedroom volume. Works like a built-in attenuator.
11 amp models - the models actually get really close to the tube amps they try to replicate. The AC15 is dead on, and even the Recto is pretty close to my Dual Rec. The only thing missing is that tube response, but hey, if you want that, buy a tube amp.
Effects - I'm not a huge effects user, so this amp suits my needs perfectly. It's a little complex to change some of the effect options (basically you hold down a button while you turn the knob), which could have been avoided by simply adding some more knobs.

A feature that I'm a little disappointed with is that you can only save two channels. Three would have been perfect, or at least a solo boost.

I've played through this amp with an Ibanez S470, an Ibanez GSA60, and a Yamaha 120SD. All guitars sound great through it, and maintain their own respective sounds. I play mostly old-school thrash, with some blues mixed in. The models on the amp give more than enough choices for getting the tone I'm after for a particular band or song. The amp gets a little noisy on the high-gain channels with the volume cranked, but there is a built-in noisegate that takes care of it well enough for me. The sounds that this amp can make have made me wonder why I spent $2000 on my Dual Rec. While it doesn't hit the sound exactly, it gets pretty darn close. The Marshall sound in here is dead on, whether it's for the 70s, 80s, or Modern setting. It brings back memories of the JCM900 I used to have. For players looking for a more laid-back sound, the AD50VT delivers. The AC15 and AC30 settings are perfect for that late Beatles overdrive, and the Marshall 70s or Tweed are perfect for that heart-wrenching smooth blues tone. It's a little hard to get a clean clean sound from this amp, but with the Boutique clean and backing off the gain it is possible.

Overall, this is a very good sounding amp for $350.

I've only had it for about 2 weeks, but being a solid-state amp there's not much in it that can break. Regardless, it seems very well-built and solid enough to withstand some abuse.

Haven't dealt with Vox. The warranty is pretty much a waste, since it's only 90 days. I've always said, an electronic item will either break out of the box, or never break. Given the high build quality I don't anticipate having to deal with Vox support.

I've been playing guitar for about 9 years now, and this is the most satisified I've been with a guitar amp. In the past I've owned a DOD G6 practice amp, a Marshall JCM900 Dual Hi-Gain, and a Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier Road King. Think of this amp as the solid-state version of the Road King. Great sounds possible, just not the tube response. I compared it while shopping to the Line6 Spider II and the Flextone III, and the Tech21 Trademark 60. I also played a bunch of other amps in the store which I never considered buying (Behringer, Marshall AVT, Crate). The Vox blew the Line6 out of the water when it came to sounding like the amps it modeled. The Tech21 somehow managed to get a tube response with a solid-state amp, but it couldn't deliver on the gain, and it didn't model as many amps and had no built-in effects.

If Vox added either a third channel or a solo boost this amp would be perfect. As it is it's still quite a good amp for $350. Feel free to email me with any questions. paistss@hotmail.com

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i wont list all the features as eveyone else has and as u may no they are all damn good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mine is a 2005 model WITH A FAN!!!I could use this lve as well as in the sitting room its AWESOMME!!!!!!!!!,Like that u can turn down power on back so u can still get that warm distortion at volume levels that dont make my wife hit me!!!!

iam using this with a IBANEZ RG 321 and it is great uk 80,s is the marshall tone i have been longing for since my marshall avt150 was stolen but this amp is much better and a lot cheaper and thats sayin something since i was brought up on marshall amps!!!!

dont now yet as only had it since friday 8th april,Anyone that winges about the fan must be on acid sure it vibrates on start up slightley but goes quit straight away,its no louder than marshal avt150,people stop winging and get rocking like maiden.CANT RATE THIS AS ONLY HAD COUPLE OF DAYS

1 year warranty from soundslive in newcastle upon tyne hopefully should be fine

Only been playin about 6 months but like i said earlier wish this amp had been out 6 months ago and i would have saved loads of cash and still had a belting classic marshall sound which everybody wants but not everyone can afford(stacks that is all valve not mg series they suck!!)if it was lost or stolen i would cry and annilate the people responsible for it and get another one I also have the VOX BRIAN MAY SPECIAL ,used to have line 6 pod v2 but got rid of it as this amp has everything i need so part exchanged it for the brian may amp,Line 6 salesman tried to compare his spider2 amp next to this one but he failed (i tried not to laugh at him)silly bloody man!!!

Bought in 2005. Very versatile with a wide range of amp models and effects. I would give it a 10 except for 2 things - Only 2 user presets, and lack of ability to combine effects. Have used it regularly in practise and at one gig. More than loud enough for a gig. Guess it depends on where you gig/how loud the rest of your band is, but at the gig we did, I had no issues. We do alternative rock type stuff.

I play a 1990 MIM Strat, which I bought new and have been playing ever since... Haven't owned a decent amp myself before - mainly relying on practise studio equipment (at rehearsals) and borrowed equipment (at gigs). So clearly I've been 'going with the flow' with respect to amps. However, this means that over the years, I've tried several very nice , and several very poor amps and know the basic difference. To my ears this amp seems to be full of nice warm sounds, with no bad ones. It sounds good at low volume, but when you crank it up and start pushing the speaker, it sounds even better. Not prone to noise (except the minor fan noise which you can't hear once you start playing, even on the quietest settings). My favourite amp models are the bassman and dumble overdrive... I used to have a POD 2 (which I loved), and I sold it to buy this Vox... I don't regret it. I thought the POD was good, but people are correct to say it was certainly not as WARM as the Vox.

This is the 'not totally sure' rating. I have had it for about 3 months. I practise with the band once a week (at max power), and 2-3 times a week at home (on min power). It's never totally 'let me down' but I do worry about it. There have been a couple of incidents in that time where I turned it on and it made some 'wierd' noises. E.g. last practise, before I even had the guitar cable plugged into it, it was making a very loud 'farty digital squeal' when the rear power knob was turned DOWN below 1/3. Turned it off on, moved all the controls, changed channels, plugged things in and out of jacks, made no difference to the tone or volume of the noise. Turned the power knob up above 1/3 and the squeal went away and all was normal. Turned it down again, squeal came back. OK, so the 'workaround' was just to practise that time with the power knob above 1/3 but still, makes you wonder how reliable this thing is... I took it home, and have now used it 2 or 3 times since and never had the same or any other problem. So, I'm 'not sure'...

Never dealt with them, but I get the vibe I might be soon, given the occasional weird noises...

I LOVE IT. I do worry about reliability, but that aside, at the price I think this thing is phenomenal. I tried it head to head against the Marshall AVT50 combo(esentially Marshall's 'Marshall' modelling amp). I found that I liked the 'warmth' of the Vox's 'Marshall' tones more, and it was a tad louder! Once I discovered it could out-marshall the marshall equivalent with still another 10 amp models to spare, it was no contest.

This is the 2005 model Vox AD50VT, and is quite possibly the most versatile amp I've ever played through. Much better than the Line 6 modeling amps out there, what with the tube power amp. I love the power switch feature, living in a tiny little apartment and being able to play a super-crunchy distortion in the dining room without bothering the folks in the living room. I haven't messed with the 30 watt version, but I understand that it is almost identical to the 50 with the number of amp models and effects. The only thing I wish it had is one more speaker, but then again, I've used it at gigs and recording sessions, and it soars through everything else that's going on...I play with a guy using a Fender Twin Reverb hooked in through a Vox 2x12 cabinet, and we match evenly when the volumes are pushed. Speaking of cabinets, it's a great feature to be able to plug it into a different cabinet.

I use a 3 pickup American Stratocaster, and play anywhere from jangly country-tinged music to hard, blasting rock. It switches with ease through varying styles. There is one problem with one of the effects, and apparently this is a common problem with Vox amps from the past ten years. If I turn the compression effect on, the low E tends to have digital rattle in the cabinet. But overall, it sounds perfect. The amp models...DAMN. The 70's UK mimics a Pete Townshend guitar sound perfectly with no effects. The Boutique CL is great for clean playing. And if you are light in the wallet when you get the amp, you have your effects built in. Make sure you check out the instruction manual to learn how to really utilize them. From what I understand, once you get the foot switch you can pretty much write off having to buy any effects pedals (but it does sound good through a distortion box, like the Classic Metal--yipes--or a tube delay). The comp effect has a little more oomph than the speaker tends to be able to handle, but it is very useful for recording.

It also has helped me as a newbie at guitar playing (been playing for about 9 mos.) to learn about how to control electronic effects and amp sounds.

I could have Ivan Drago from Rocky IV take a few whacks at it, and it probably would kick his Russian ass.

Probably not bad. You can register online.

I love it. I would buy four more of them at least. I love just about everything about it, including the price (CHEAP!). It reminded me of a more versatile Music Man 112 with the tube preamp.

Go buy one if you are new at guitar and are wanting to learn about amplifiers. It's a great deal for a true sound.

Im doing a review on a vox ad50vt 1X12 combo amp incase you didnt know already. This amp has many features that include amp modles from boutique clean to high-gain amp modles, there is 11 modles in all. There is also 11 digital effects and a noise gate built in. the level of each effect can be tweaked also which is a good feature. It has a preset mode ( stock presets) a manual mode ( manual, make your own sounds) and two channels for saving your sounds. it also has a headphone jack and speaker out. It has plenty of power but the internal speaker is muted when using headphones, this makes it sound very quiet and the amp's volume must be jacked to get a decent sound. Overall vox did a good job with putting alot of features into this amp that work good.

I use a epiphone les paul with a seymour duncan jb humbucking pickup in the bridge, and a schecter c1 plus with humbuckers. I play alot of metal, classic rock and some blues. This amp isnt exactly a great metal amp. the high gain modles seem like a blanket is over the speaker, they are kind of lifeless. This amp doesnt seem to really come alive like others when playing with alot of distortion ( the tones are amazing though) I found the cleans on this amp to be outstanding, i can get a great clapton or SRV tone with this. Great for blues and some classic rock.

Vox could have really had a great amp if they would have gone the extra mile to make it reliable. My ad50vt broke down 2 DAYS after getting it!!! i hadnt even turned the volume past a halfway. The knobs and input jack seemed flimsy and poorly built. I returned it for a different amp because it just doesnt seem like it would ever be reliable. I wouldnt recommend this for a back up amp at a gig, it could break up or have somehting go wrong. the bad reliability pulls this amp way down.

The warranty is limited and is setup like this, speakers: 90 days. tubes: 90 days. and most other things are ninety days. when i emailed vox dissapointed with my amp i recieved an computer automatic response which doesnt really suit me ( it may help some people). Vox should have a more helpful customer support if they build amps that need alot of support.

Ive been playing for about 2 years, i own a crate glx30 amp and a rocktron replitone 2X12 amp. guitars: yamaha c40 classical guitar, epiphone les paul, schecter c1 plus. If it were stolen i would choose a different amp, possibly a roland cube 60. I love the effects, clean tones, classic rock tones, and effects. i hated the uk 80's mode and the high gain mode, both sounded poorly. If you like clean to classic rock stuff and dont mind possibly having reliability problems ( they all dont have problems, just some) then id give this amp a shot. if your into anything heavy at all go by a roland cube 60.

as listed here before. The features are nice, for the money called perfect.

Played with a IBZ AS200; Rockinger Mahagoni Strat; Fame Forum III; Kramer Focus; IBZ SA.

I play in a Cover Rock Band with 5 hours of program and giging once or twice a week.

The Fender and the Vox Modellings are good period. Clean and Drive they are very close to the originals! NICE!

The Marshall Moddelings are good, but only over the headphone out. over the speaker they are muddy. I had to take out the bass completeley and turn Mid and Treble to 8 or 9 to get somthing of good sound.

The Rektumfrier Modeling is ok.

The Soldano Simulation is again too muddy, you need to teke out the 200hz and add at 2khz with a separate EQ. Than it is usable (similar to the marshall sim.

The clean Dumble is good, the overdriven is acceptable.

The Efects-section is very good. I whish one could turn on and off the effects with a footsitch.

Well this the worst part of the story. I had to return the amp twice! The first had obviously some cold soldering joints, the second had what ever he had - he sounded complete like a garbage can. The third sounded as described above.

No comment but the dealer was great

Actually a good design. The smaller ones and the larger ones sounded good. Buth the AD50VT can only be used for Fender and Vox Modellings.

This is my secound amp (replacement)and is new for 2005. I't provides more than enough amp models and effects to nail any style of music. Two or three channels depending on set up by user, headphone jack and built in effects.

Well my new amp arrived and wow! Vox definately addressed the fan issue. My new amp has a fan, but it is quiet as a whisper. Also cosmetically it is flawless, showing quality continues to climb the longer this amp is in production. Needless to say I am one happy camper and recommend this amp to anyone who wants tone that nails the original amps modelled for a fraction of the cost. Again , Bravo Vox!The amp just sounds great with my Affinity Squier Tele belting out some blues rifts. I say hands down this thing has more bang for the strumming buck than any amp close! Vox sucks unbelievable warmth out that 12AX7 tube and then they put it directly in your amps tone. Distortion doesn't sound harsh and ragged, you still hear your guitars tone. Volume is adjustable from a third volume controll on the back which allows your amp to rock with the same tone at all volume settings including 1 watt!I think that taking the plunge will only give you tone you dreamed about in the under $400 club and it will excell many amps costing considerable more! Vox, Korge and Celestion sound in a package ole Squire could afford! http://www.eagleenterprise.com/squierred

This is a rugged and well constructed amp. If you do have a problem, call Vox. One tube, not much to go wrong!

I love my AD50VT and I might add that Vox stands by it's products. I have had a very good experience with Vox customer service who absolute took care of and addressed any concerns I had! I hate Vox bashing and that is the only reason I won't tell you how far they went in making a very pleased customer!!!!!!!!

I own a Squier Tele and Squier SP-10 amp modified, been playing one year, mostly Blues. I would definately by Vox again because of customer service and excellent tone for dollars ratio! I tried several amps at Guitar center including Fender Fm series, Peavey and other hybrid amps and they just didn't deliver the warmth and tone. If you need a great amp that transforms from bedroom to gigging, this amp deserves a serious look! http://www.eagleenterprise.com/squierred