Vox AC4TV Tone Test

Playing a Vox AC4TV 10" Celestion speaker all tube combo 4 watt amplifier with a Fender 60s Road Worn Stratocaster with stock Tex Mex pickups. The AC4TV setting is, volume 7, tone 8, OP 4 watts. A Boss DS-1 Distortion, MXR Classic Distortion, and an Ibanez Tubescreamer were used to demo how the AC4TV sounds with various overdrive and distortion pedals. An Electro Harmonix Holy Grail reverb pedal was used also. AC4TV was recorded using a Shure SM57 mic plugged directly to a M-Audio Fast Track USB interface using a Apple Macbook laptop.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fender
• Apple Macbook
• Mac
• Vox AC4TV
• Ibanez Tube Screamer
• Tex Mex
• Shure SM57
• M-Audio Fast Track USB
• MXR Classic Distortion
• MXR Distortion III
• Boss DS-1
• Celestion
• Strat
• Fender Road Worn Strat
• Road Worn
• Electro Harmonix
• Stratocaster
• Holy Grail
• Ibanez
• Attenuator
• Guitar Tone
• Guitar Sound
• Vintage Guitar Sound
• Hendrix Tone

[funkymonkey2985]

whats the advantage with the half stack? Does it make it louder?

[gmlasam]

The half stack is louder, 100 watt. The tone is much fuller with the half stack, four 12" speakers as opposed to one 10". For bedroom level playing, the AC4 is best IMHO.

[seraphsignum]

That sounds really great for such a small little amp, but it sort of sounds like that 57 is clipping quite a bit. Or is that the actual speaker on the amp?

[gmlasam]

Its the Shure SM57 that is clipping. I didn't set the mic level properly.

[alexismmef]

Hey, by British tone you mean Beatles or Marshall? Sorry, I just want to clear this up! A Marshall cranked like Clapton did on Cream is my kinda sound, and so is Jimi Hendrix with Marshall! Can I get this with Vox?? thank you

[gmlasam]

British tone I"m referring to is the classic clapton blues breaker marshall type tone. There is certainly a big difference between a overdriven Fender amp and a overdriven British amp like Marshall and Vox.

[CJsoccer4]

@gmlasam hey could i ask you a question about your recording since its clearly with a mic, camera, and a pro-tools kind of software....?

[BrianBosboom]

This is the only demo of the AC4TV that I have liked. Cheers mate, great playing and great vid!

[2ndDayRiffs]

Good playing just bad mic placement

[CaptainP00face]

Ok so, effect pedals work OK on this amp?

[arjunkaul]

Good demo and great playing man.

[kevaso]

Fantastic playing man!

[Jujucaster1]

@gmlasam  it's not the mic clipping but the level set too high. ;)

[MrBeaverReviews]

If you point the mic a bit further out from the centre of the speaker it wont sound so harsh, a bit rounder.

nice playing though

[SocialistFish]

@drewfasa guitar -> reverb in -> reverb out -> amp.... if you don't have an effect loop, just plug your guitar right into a line of pedals...

[MrSoulSamCooke]

1:20

I hear that Hendrix Tone