Vox VTX line

[ragingplatypi]

Say what you want about the Andertons/Rob Chapman clickbait videos, but I generally find them entertaining and sometimes informative. This one has been haunting me:

The reason is that a few years ago I had the same experience with a Vox VTX amp. I went to a GC and rolled through all the budget amps. I was perplexed by how good the Vox sounded and at the same time knew I wouldn’t buy it. Wall wart power, lack of gigable features and it felt like if I looked at it the wrong way bits of plastic and tolex would start flaking off.

Has anyone seen one of these outside a store? Anyone have any idea what’s going on with the cabinet design and if would actually project in a gig?

 

[EOengineer]

I had the VTX 20 watt combo for a while. It was interesting on some of the lower and mid gain tones but the crunch and higher gain area was a miss for me - probably because of the small combo honestly.

I ended up giving it to a friends daughter who was just starting up on guitar.

If you were going to chase a vox modeling amp, look for the original blue ones from the 90s/early 2000s - the valve reactor circuit in those was legit and those amp sound/feel very good. The VTX series might have a tube but I’m pretty sure its basically a pilot light.

 

[Life Eats Life]

Can’t speak for the VTX but certainly will scream
AD120 VTH Valvetronix.
That’s a rad amp man.
The Octaver in that amp is the best Octaver in the world,seriously
So good with the neck pickup.
Rad amp, -run it with a Alnico Gold X H30 FTW.
I played that amp out for a solid year and then it melted itself down to a steaming plastic pile of gnub.
The proprietary Vox speaker’s are not too happenin’
V-30’s were very good with that amp also.

 

[ragingplatypi]

I’m not in the market. I loved the old Valvetronix stuff, but moved on to the Helix-verse. I’m more curious about this crappy little VTX amp that somehow isn’t crappy when you’re sitting right next to it. I know they did something untraditional with the cabinet because it’s got a small speaker but sounds much bigger.
But “melting down into a steaming pile of plastic gnub” is definitely what I imagine this one would do.

 

[timbuck3]

I still play ad60 and 120 vtx combos as well as the ad120 vth(head) with the matching box 4-12 stereo neo cab and the vt300 valvetronix combo stack and still think that the majority is models sound excellent

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I used to jam thru my buddies gothed out Vox modeling combo when we were young. I remember it sounding really good. It was an oversized 1x12 IIRC

 

[timbuck3]

Valvenergy

voxampshop.com

 

[HomespunEffects]

Say what you want about the Andertons/Rob Chapman clickbait videos, but I generally find them entertaining and sometimes informative. This one has been haunting me:

The reason is that a few years ago I had the same experience with a Vox VTX amp. I went to a GC and rolled through all the budget amps. I was perplexed by how good the Vox sounded and at the same time knew I wouldn’t buy it. Wall wart power, lack of gigable features and it felt like if I looked at it the wrong way bits of plastic and tolex would start flaking off.

Has anyone seen one of these outside a store? Anyone have any idea what’s going on with the cabinet design and if would actually project in a gig?

I was looking for an amp to leave at church and picked up a VT40X. It was late and they were closing the store so I only got a few moments with the amp. I took it home and over the next two days put it through some testing. Absolute garbage amplifier. You absolutely cannot use any external pedals with it. It's thin and whispy sounding and the amp is really noisy. I returned it. Don't waste your time with them.