Product: Vox V267 Cheetah
Price Paid: US $450
Submitted
04/01/2005
at
08:48am
by
jules
Features
:
10
Late sixties Vox semi acoustic 22 frets. 2 pickups with tone controls and one master volume control. Gibson 335 style, with cool vox teardrop headstock. This guitar also features the following built in effects 1. Repeater 2. Distortion 3. treble/bass boost. These are powered by a 9v battery in the back of the instrument
This allows for a huge range of sounds from very low and bluesy to very sharp and piercing. There is also an incredibly useful E tuner, for those days you forget to bring one!
Sound
:
10
As described above this guitar is full of sounds - no song need sound like any other
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
This guitar was 35 years old when I got it, so who knows how it left the factory.
Reliability/Durability
:
6
One problem with these old Voxs is the laquer seems to crack very easily. I have read that it is due to being too thickly coated? who knows? but anyway there are large finish cracks - not just checking, cracks. I would catiously rely on this instrument in a live situation as it eats batteries for breakfast. Only if I had inserted a new one before going on. Luckily a dead battery only affects the effects, and the guitar still works without power. It seems relatively durable - but as can be seen in the Whos perfomance on the smothers brother show, the Vox Cheetah is not unbreakable!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
7
Overall a great instrument - quite cheap and full of mad sounds. It could do being made from finer materials, but if thats what you want you buy a Gibson 335. If I was not so stupid/poor I would take the electronics out and put them in a Gibson 335. I've got some sound clips up at http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/voxCheetah.php.
If I lost it, I would certainly buy another - what other guitar can boast so many sounds?
