After the C19 mod, the right tubes really help. Got myself an old tube based PA amp with master volume and use that for home practicing. but: it is a toy, not a proper guitar amp. Looks absolutely stunning in the living room (your girlfriend will love it). It's as if everything below 100 Hz (guesstimate here) is filtered out (as those frequencies would suck the 2W quickly leaving very little clean headroom. It may have the volume level one would want from a late nite practice amp, but it has no bottom end, at all. The main reason my Lil' Night Train is now for sale is: it is, and sounds like, a small amp. The clean channel is really nice, though. very fizzy even if I did the C19 mod (made it switchable). I personally do not care for the other "channel". The Lil' Night Train in itself has that Vox clean and semi-clean tone. Add a little extra money and get the 112 cab! My input may not be too helpful as I only know the Lil' Night Train and the matching 110 cab. So, can anyone comment and give me any direction as to which of those options would be the best? Thanks! If I end up really liking the amp and saving up some more buck I think that I'd change the stock 10" for a G10 Greenback. The 1x10 cabinet seems to be the seeling point here - it's bigger than the AC4 combo cabinets, therefore I think that it will deliver fuller, nicer sounds. The Bright Cap mod seems unavoidable, but that's not new to me - I've done it to my AC15 too. The Lil Nigh Train has some nice features - low wattage, master volume, thick switch for potential Led Zeppelin riffage. I played the 15 watt Night Train - it was really sweet until I compared it directly to my AC15 through the same Greenback speaker. On the other hand I think it's the closest thing to my AC15.ġ) NT2H+matching 110 cabinet - This is a very interesting setup. Youtube clips kinda contradict each other - there's a guy playing a strat who sounds full, big and epic, and there is another chap playing an LP who sounds really thin and ugly. But that unfortunately costs money and kills mu budget.Ģ) AC4C1-BL - again, I am afraid that it would sound VERY boxy. Recordings on YT show that this amp has some serious recording potential, though.ģ) AC4TVH + cabinet - A great thing to have, but when I buy a 1x12 I'd like it to be Greenback - loaded so that I can use it as an extension for my future gigs with the ac15. I remember it sounded kinda boxy, so I am not that crazy about buying it. There are 3-4 candidates I have in my head, I will assign them to places according to how much I am leaning towards buying each one of them.Ĥ) AC4TV combo - not much to say. I want it to sound good with my pedalboard and I want it to be low wattage. I want it to be a vox and have those characteristic vox features when it comes to sound. That's why I am looking for a nice tube amp to playing at home. 20km from my house, it discourages me to get the amp back home after each time we rehearse. Even my old Line 6 M13 sounded glorious through it.Three weeks ago I finally joined a band and my AC15 became a full-time resident at our excellent rehearsal place. So tempted and will use it as a back up for my Princeton, I owned a Vox Da5 mini amp quite a few years back and the clean and crunch tones from that were quite remarkable for such a small amp. I used to run a pair in stereo a few years ago, it was one of the best sounds I've had. But the core clean tone is a very nice sound. The gain section is not great (rather raspy and quite noisy) and the reverb is mild but effective to give your sound a 3D effect. It has a lovely tone and valve like response to picking. The Vox 15R on the other hand, can def be gigged if you mic it up, or if required take the output to a bigger cabinet. There's a noticeable hum from the amp (not loud but annoying) and the core tone with no sweetening provided by the chorus section can only be described as nasty imo. I'd been lusting after a JC-22 for years as they're so cute but the reality was a disappointment. The JC-22 is very much a practise amp, with little to no bass output. Having had both those amps, I'd go with the Vox. Hi there, how much did you pay for it? and do you reckon it’ll work for small gigs or rehearsal? kind of swaying towards solid state now and this thread has got me thinking - tempted by Roland JC- 22 also I'm not looking to mess with it, but as I use my amps as clean pedal platforms is it worth doing the LED mod or replacing the stock Celestion/Vox Bulldog with a more efficient speaker? Awesome clean sounds, lightweight, seems like it might even be gig worth into an ext. Well, as the title says! Picked her up for very cheap and I must say I'm incredibly impressed.
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