I tend to be more of the thought where I tend to not think too much about the amp and the tubes and everything involved. I know some of the brightness could come from too many buffer pedals, and I'm working on that.
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I play with big strings, 11's and in standard tuning. (All clock descriptions are from standing behind the amp, not in front of it.) The bright switch is not enabled, and I think I usually do the EQ switch in custom mode. I find that the bass control is around 3 o'clock, treble around 10 o'clock, and tone cut at around 90%, meaning almost all the way clockwise. I run the amp around 3-5 (9-11 o'clock) on the master, and I run the normal and top-boost in LINK mode and both are around 11'oclock. I think I currently have GT in every tube socket, medium length story as to why, if you care to know. So, that being said, I run a lot of pedals, some true bypass, some not. I love the general tone of the amp, and I'm honestly I'm fine with the amp, but it bugs me when tone controls are in odd positions, like nearly OFF. I got the Alnico Blues and I'm playing a telecaster. I know this is an old post, but I'm looking to tame the treble on my AC30 CC2. (Electro Harmonix in the Power Tubes section) I use a Fender American Strat, all single coils.
#VOX AC30CC2 V1 V2 V3 MOD#
I have Celestion Alnico Blues and performed the Bright Capacitor mod (to tame the highs). So I need to pull the Top boost channel up to par so that I can switch back and forth between Clean and Overdrive. I have noticed that the Normal channel, if I use it as my overdrive OR clean, sounds better than Top Boost as overdrive or clean. Right now I have the default Tong-Sol in V1 and a Chinese in V2. Moreover, I need to keep the gain knobs at relatively the same level since I am switching back and forth with a floor pedal, So i can't just increase the gain on the Top Boost. I would like the Top Boost channel to be very dirty. So in keeping with my requirements for Normal being clean and Top Boost being dirty, I need:Ī) in V1 position, a tube that can provide a nice chimey clean classic AC30 tone for Normal Channel, as well as supplying the dirt for the initial "Top Boost" gainī) in v2 position, a tube that can break up early and provide the overdrive for my "Top Boost". V3 is phase inverter needs to be balancedġ x GZ34 Rectifier (often goes bad in AC30) will cause fuse to blow if bad Vox discontinued the AC30CC2 in January, 2010.4 x EL84/6BQ5 power tubes, need to be matched quadģ x 12AX7/ECC83 pre-amp.
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#VOX AC30CC2 V1 V2 V3 SERIES#
The AC30CC2 utilized two 12" Vox Wharfedale GSH-1230-8 eight ohm speakers, wired in series to sixteen ohms and designed to tonally resemble the famous "green back" speaker frequently used by Vox from the 70s through the 90s.Ĭlick here to read about the circuitry and all the electronic features of the AC30CC2.Ī two button VF002 foot switch was included with this amp to actuate the reverb and tremolo. It was produced for Vox by the International Audio Group in Shenzhen, China. The AC30CC2 was designed in 2004 by then Vox lead engineer Steve Grindrod. gold plated logo, gold grill molding, white grill piping, three Vox handles, and eight black plastic two pin corners. The all tube, 30 watt amp featured a baltic birch enclosure with all the classic Vox cosmetic touches: basket weave vinhyde, brown Vox diamond grill (or fret) cloth, gold piping. First introduced to the US market in April 2005, the AC-30CC2 was the most popular amplifier model in the Custom Classic Series.