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Originally Posted by Battles  Thanks for the reply Dean7. That scratchy sound that can be heard while I am playing single notes sounds like a tube acting up. Not sure though. At the end of the Vox_test_1 file you can really hear the sound I am curious about. Are these normal characteristics of a Vox? Like you said Dean7, it definitely doesn't sound bad. On the chords it sounds cool ... but when playing solos, I do not care for the noise.
Either way ... the Vox definitely has the sound I was looking for. Just trying to figure out if my unit is okay. |
Well, in that regard I think your unit is OK. There are a lot of strange harmonics that go on with the AC30, and I've heard reports of people hearing strange notes that basically sound like they're playing 2 notes when they're only playing a single note.
I used to notice that sort of thing as well until I took mine in to an amazing tech here in Portland and he installed a "rectifier saver" circuit (not sure what that entails I have to confess) because the AC30s REALLY chew through rectifier tubes, and he installed some better tubes in it and those 2 changes made it sound a lot better (and it tamed some of the strange wolf notes and stuff a little bit). It still has the quirky AC30 sounds, and it's crazy at times (part of what I like about my AC30) but it has a more "rock solid" tone to it now. So, you might just need to re-tube with some high-quality stuff if you want to get rid of that tone.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is: the AC30 has ALWAYS been a quirky amp. Ever since their inception they have been plagued with reliability issues (my CC2 actually has been pretty dang reliable since I had the amp tech go over it, actually), and Dick Denney basically created it by tweaking and finding something that sounded good. His methods were pretty ghetto and un-scientific, and I have gotten the feeling that he was the kind of guy who didn't really understand what he was doing half the time but just "went for it" anyway.
Hope this helps. :)
-Dean