My H150 / VOX AC15C1

[rockabilly69]

By no means a proper recording!

 

Just me noodling on my H150, first take clams and all! Thought you guys might want to hear it with the VOX straight in!

 

I was just feeling a little blues, and the iPad was sitting on my coffee table so I just turned it on and used the internal mic.

 

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-weldon-1/vox-test

[holyroller]

Ahhh, the vox . Very nice tone!!

[Redsand]

Sounding good, as always Daniel......could be a solid ad for both the iPad and the noodle industry.

[FredZepp]

Nice one. The iPad does a nice job of sharing that glorious tone with us.

 

And some nice playing too.

[High Flying Bird]

I have a Vox AC15C2, I think. It has a similar tone when I play through it. Of course your finger control is so much more involved than my weekend player technique.

 

I usually use a Tri-Boost box from BYOC.com. With the 535 and this little stomp box I can get some righteous tone through the Vox.

[bolero]

oh yeah..that is the shit, right there!!

 

 

VERY nice playing.....I dig it!!

[rockabilly69]

Sounding good, as always Daniel......could be a solid ad for both the iPad and the noodle industry.

 

Well I do love noodles

[H]

Nice Channeling SRV once or twice in there too

[rockabilly69]

H thanks for that, but I guarantee you I've never heard a Stevie Ray song all the way through:) My electric blues

influences generally come from your side of the pond! I'm more a fan of Mark Knopler, Mick Taylor, Jimmy Page,

and Jeff Beck:) Now acoustic blues influences, mine are mostly American!

[H]

Ever heard SRV playing Voodoo Chile at Carnegie Hall? That's where I heard elements of your phrasing

[rockabilly69]

Ever heard SRV playing Voodoo Chile at Carnegie Hall? That's where I heard elements of your phrasing

 

No I haven't. Early on when I first heard SRV it was just too much guitar for me, so I kinda steered away from him.

After he sobered up, I went to see him live. He seemed to play with a bit more restraint, which I liked, but it was

painfully loud, so I walked out. And to make matters worse, he spawned a generation of wanna-be SRV's to

further irritate my eardrums:) Most of those guys play too-long guitar solos or too-fast solos. Their solos sound

like one-way conversations to me. When I post clips like this, it's just to show the guitar/amp tone or the quality

of the recording medium, so I just wank away with my noodling:)

[H]

I enjoyed it - you have a lot of talent and a natural 'feel' for music

 

It always amuses me to see the way Americans use the word 'wank', its meaning is much more singular in the UK

[Billgelder]

Very nice Daniel,

When are we going to get a clip of the Martin D17M.

[tulk1]

Set just right you can do a lot of stuff with a Vox. My AC30CC1 is my fav amp. Nice stuff there, Mr. 'abilly.

[rockabilly69]

Very nice Daniel,

When are we going to get a clip of the Martin D17M.

Soon Bill:)

[rockabilly69]

Set just right you can do a lot of stuff with a Vox. My AC30CC1 is my fav amp. Nice stuff there, Mr. 'abilly.

I would have bought the AC30CC1 but It was too heavy!!! They are also quite loud!

[tulk1]

I would have bought the AC30CC1 but It was too heavy!!! They are also quite loud!

Yeah, they are a beast. Mine stays at home for that very reason. I had an AC15CC1 for a while. While not exactly a 15w AC30, it was darned close and a heck of a lot more portable!! Now I use my Mesa TA on the "Vox" 15w setting and a 112 cab. Gets very very close to the AC30, but with a bit more musical undertones, IMO.

 

Still, the AC30 is nowhere near as heavy as the Mesa Lone Star 112. It weighs in at a svelte 98lbs!

[rockabilly69]

Yeah, they are a beast. Mine stays at home for that very reason. I had an AC15CC1 for a while. While not exactly a 15w AC30, it was darned close and a heck of a lot more portable!! Now I use my Mesa TA on the "Vox" 15w setting and a 112 cab. Gets very very close to the AC30, but with a bit more musical undertones, IMO.

 

Still, the AC30 is nowhere near as heavy as the Mesa Lone Star 112. It weighs in at a svelte 98lbs!

 

Yeah, I'm one of the only vintage amp guys around my parts that likes Mesas and I like those Lone Stars too, but I could never haul one of those around either! I'd be singing the hernia blues. I have a Mesa DC-2 combo that can get the VOX tone on the clean channel, but I didn't want to take that one on the airplane so that's why I bought the AC15C1. I've also played the TA but I couldn't get the sound I was looking for out of that amp. It could have been the speaker cabinet I was testing it with because it was just a Mesa Black Shadow speaker.

[rockabilly69]

cont...

 

My DC2 combo (loaded with Amperex Bugle Boy EL84s, and Mullard preamp tubes) has a Greenback, and the ext cab has a Blue. It is a GREAT sounding rig! But Vox amps have a certain quaity in the highs that I don't find in any Mesa amps. As a matter of fact when I first started playing Vox AC's I tried to dial out that high spike until I realized that it was part of what made them so musical:)

[kidsmoke]

sweet tones rockabilly...thanks for sharing.

 

on the tangent...isn't the Black Shadow a Celestion build for Mesa?

[rockabilly69]

sweet tones rockabilly...thanks for sharing.

 

on the tangent...isn't the Black Shadow a Celestion build for Mesa?

 

Yes it is, but it's not voiced like my favorites:) Mesa also has Greenbacks made (in England)!

[fxdx99]

Man that sounds good. Woody, throaty... mostly neck pickup, right? 'cept for spots like in the ~1:20s where a flip to the bridge?

 

Recall the mods you talked about when you got that 150, but can't recall (and lazy to search...). What pickups?

 

Great right hand technique! (the main reason the tone/voicing is so good...) Allows those harmonics to ring.

[rockabilly69]

Man that sounds good. Woody, throaty... mostly neck pickup, right? 'cept for spots like in the ~1:20s where a flip to the bridge?

 

Recall the mods you talked about when you got that 150, but can't recall (and lazy to search...). What pickups?

 

Great right hand technique! (the main reason the tone/voicing is so good...) Allows those harmonics to ring.

Seymour Duncan Peter Green Custom Shop Set (I asked them to make them with non flipped magnet so they would be in phase), and

yes, most was the neck pickup which I think is exceptional. Mods: Faber ToneLoc ABR and inserts, TonePros lightweight tailpiece and

RS Steel Studs, RS Kit, Jensen PIO caps.

[tulk1]

Seymour Duncan Peter Green Custom Shop Set (I asked them to make them with non flipped magnet so they would be in phase), and

yes, most was the neck pickup which I think is exceptional. Mods: Faber ToneLoc ABR and inserts, TonePros lightweight tailpiece and

RS Steel Studs, RS Kit, Jensen PIO caps.

Doesn't that just make them ... pickups? ..........

[rockabilly69]

Well yes, just like the 100s of other PAF replicas, but these have the perfect magnet/winding/dc resistance combination that makes me happy! The neck pickup has the best balance of warmth to clarity I've heard yet. And the bridge pickup spanks! They are far better for me than the Pearly Gates p/u's that were in there!

Doesn't that just make them ... pickups? ..........