The front baffle was now divided by a thin gold-toned strip with the upper valence covered in fawn Rexine, and the lower grille covered in brown diamond cloth. The new cabinets featured a different covering known as fawn Rexine, which was a sort of beige leathercloth with a subtle printed grain. īy 1960, Vox had forsaken the more conservative TV-front look for the now legendary cabinet design that has remained largely unchanged since 1960. The first AC30 Twins used two Goodmans Audiom 60 15-Watt Speakers, followed by Celestion G12 alnico speakers. Vox initially offered a 1×12" version but subsequently introduced the 2×12" AC30 Twin, which solved the volume problem at larger venues. The AC30/4 also carried over the AC15's preamplifier circuit, which included the EF86 pentode in its "Normal" channel. This second generation AC30/4 had two channels with two inputs, hence the "4" in the model name, and a single tone control, and was powered by a quartet of EL84 (6BQ5) power tubes, making it truly a doubling of the AC15 power amp circuit. However, the E元4-powered AC30 was short lived, and a new AC30 version appeared in late 1959. These early amps sported a thin white covering ("Rexine") with a small printed diamond pattern and larger diamond pattern grill cloth. This first generation of AC30s were housed in "TV-front" cabinets, much like the early to mid-50s tweed Fender amps, and had a single 12-inch Goodmans 60-watt speaker, as opposed to the later, conventional twin 12-inch speaker configuration. The original first-generation AC30 used a GZ34 tube rectifier, three ECC83s (12AX7) for the Normal channel and the tremolo/vibrato oscillator/modulator circuits, one ECC81 (12AT7) phase inverter, and EL84 tubes in the power amplifier circuit. The AC15 was powered by a pair of EL84 tubes, an EF86-driven "Normal" channel, an ECC83-driven "Vib-Trem" channel, and rectified by an EZ81. In my last Gig I used either my Matamp C7 Rig.OR.The AC30CC.īOTH were always Running at about 80% and that ensured a simply Beautiful Overdriven Valve Sound that was completely at MY Control by using the Guitar's Volume Pot.The Vox AC30 was originally introduced in 1959 at Hank Marvin's request as the "big brother" of the fifteen watt (15 W) AC15 model, Vox's original flagship amplifier, because the AC15 was not loud enough with the screaming fans at Cliff Richard's concerts. Because of the age I am.I tend to prefer to use my Guitar Controls and have the Amp REALLY Cooking behind me!! It's a Great Experience and should be something that EVERY Player should do at least ONCE!! I'd recommend a TS9 or similar, but.an AC15 is a beautiful Amp and designed for running either way. There is nothing at all wrong with using a decent quality Booster if you prefer going down that road. Everything was controlled from the Guitar's Volume and Tone Pots. This is how we all ran our amps in the days before Master Volumes et all. THEN.Roll OFF some Volume on the Guitar's Volume control (Probably at LEAST Half of it) and hey presto!!!! Beautiful Cleans, but still at a usable Volume within the Band Context. Assuming that you have a Really nice Crunch going on at this point.then take things a touch higher on the Amps Master Volume. Set up to an AMP Level that fits in with the rest of the Band.With Your Guitar Volume WIDE OPEN.especially for when the going gets LOUD. You are going to have to use your Guitar's Volume Control as your Master Tool here. And here is one of those 'delightful' moments when Lurid gets to reminisce about when he was a Lad. The Trick here is wind things up somewhat. The AC15 at a Master of 3 is actually hardly noticing what you are doing to it. OK.I had the AC30CC and found that when I had the Top Boost Setting engaged I could still run the Master Hard when required.