The Gear Mall » Vox Amplifiers http://thegearmall.com Vintage & Boutique Amps, Guitars & Effects Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Vox Tony Bruno Series Amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-tony-bruno-series-amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-tony-bruno-series-amps#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:19:39 +0000 anthony http://thegearmall.com/?p=3953 Vox Tony Bruno Series AmpsVox Amplifiers has introduced the TB35C1 and the TB35C2, two new amps created as part of their collaboration with top boutique amp maker Tony Bruno. Bruno is widely known for his unique and great sounding amps, of which he has personally hand-built more than a thousand of them. His amps have been ranked as some of the best in the world, so it’s no wonder the two he designed for Vox are getting great reviews. Bruno has been a friend to Vox for years, working with the company during the 90s on the AC30, the Night Train, and the Vox Custom Series.

In the past, Vox worked mainly on refining the British amp circuit, recreating that classic sound. However, the TB35C1 and C2 are distinctly American, something Bruno helped with. His hand-built prototypes captured the exact sound Vox wanted, and the final products are perfect for genres like country and blues. The two amps are designed to be user-friendly and include a number of different ways to customize your sound. These features include the Macho Switch, which boosts the mids and the gain. The Macro Switch aims at keeping the purity of your tone while giving your solos a little extra boost.

These two Vox/Bruno amps are all-tube amps and, besides the Macho Switch, also feature high quality reverb, a bass boost, and master volume bypass. They’re two great amps from a legendary amp designer and top quality amp company.

For more info you can check out the Vox website: http://www.voxamps.com/tb35c/

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]]> http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-tony-bruno-series-amps/feed 0 Vox Amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-amps#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:59 +0000 anthony http://thegearmall.com/?p=2217 There are a number of newer amp companies out there that, while great, simply don’t have a history behind them.  Sometimes this doesn’t matter, and sometimes it does.  However, Vox Amps is not one of those.  The company has a long and rich history of designing amps.  It all began way back in 1917 when Thomas Walter Jennings was born.  Jennings would later go on to co-found Vox Amps along with Dick Denney, whom he met in 1941.  vox-ampsBoth Jennings and Denney were amateur musicians, but they both also had an interest in electronics and in amps.

In 1944, Jennings opened up a second hand instrument store.  While he mostly sold and traded accordions, he did deal in other instruments.  His company flourished during the 40s, and at one point, he even created an electronic keyboard style instrument that he named the Univox.  This unique instrument sold fairly well, and it helped Jennings fund The Jennings Organ Company.

While Jennings was doing well, during the 1950s, Denney was dealing with illness.  While recovering, he started to experiment with amps, and he built his own 15 watt amp.  It sounded great, and he built several of them.  In 1956, a friend took one of Denney’s amps to Jennings’ store, and the two soon reunited.  The next year, the first Vox guitar amplifier, the AC2/30, hit the market.  Soon, the company was producing a number of different amps, and through the 50s and 60s, several bands began using Vox products.

In 1961, Vox products its first guitar.  However, Jennings wasn’t happy with its look, and so Vox partnered with Italian guitar designer EKO to create some very different looking and poplar instruments, including the Vox Phantom.  They continued to produce many new amps and guitars during the 60s and 70s, with many of them becoming very popular.  However, towards the end of the 70s, the Vox line began to decline due to changes in ownership.

Vox was revived in 1980, and it once again began producing very popular amps and guitars.  The company rebuilt itself, and by the late 1990s, it was once again very successful.  In the 2000s, Vox began a relationship with Brian May, and the two created a number of amps together.  They also began supplying a number of new bands, including Train and Primus, with amps and guitars.  Today, Vox has reached a new level of popularity, and groups such as Fall Out Boy and Sparta often use their products.  In 2007, they celebrated their 50th anniversary.

]]> http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-amps/feed 0 Vox Heritage Collection – 50th Aniversary Hand-Wired Amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-heritage-collection-50th-aniversary-hand-wired-amps http://thegearmall.com/boutique-amps/vox-amplifiers/vox-heritage-collection-50th-aniversary-hand-wired-amps#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:42:15 +0000 admin http://thegearmall.com/?p=464
vox1-460-80To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, Vox has introduced a new line of hand-wired amplifiers called the Heritage Collection. This is no average reissue collection as Vox has pulled out all the stops fusing old with new and adding the EF86 preamp channel from 1958 along with the 1963 Top Boost channel together is a single amplifier. Here's a demo of the Ac15 just one of these great looking and sounding reissues:

Below is a great demo that will provide you with an excellent example of the range and versatility of these amps. If your looking for that classic, british tube style crunch, then your search is over as these amps really deliver the goods.


Check out our selection of Vox Heritage amps

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