 Vox Amplug Metal Review |
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  Mar 29 2010, 11:04 AM
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 Competitions Coordinator - Up the Irons  Group: GMC Senior Posts: 5.289 Joined: 17-February 08 From: Stavanger, Norway Member No.: 4.276  |
I bought a cheap little thingy from VOX a few days ago..
The VOX AmPlug Metal  It's a little cartrigde with a golden VOX logo, three controls (gain, tone and volume), on/off switch, red power led, a mini-jack out for headphones (or recording, but I'll get to that later), a bit of vintage VOX styling and a big piece of jack sticking out underneath (for plugging into your guitar). It runs on two AAA batteries, and runs for quite some time (if you remember to turn it off after use  )'Price: 40 USD. Great bang for your buck. Operation: Plug it into your guitar, put some headphones on your head and ROCK ON!  It's easy as sunday morning! Appearance: Looks great actually! VOX in a box Sound: The most important thing of the whole review isn't it...? The sound is good, but it's got a high end fizzle going on that I'm not to fond of.. I mean, it's better than many amp modelers out there and that's a great achievment cosidering it's size and prize. If you plug a jack into the headphones output, you can record directly through your soundcard. And that works flawlessly, and sound very well too. I've recorded a clip with 4 different riffs so you can hear what it's all about To make it sound better, I EQ'ed it a little.. Demo: 
testing_VOX_AmPlug_Metal_2.mp3 ( 4.46MB )
Number of downloads: 1218Considering what you get for the price, this is a very cool device! Well worth the money for shredding your ears to a bloody pulp without bothering anyone |
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Mar 29 2010, 11:07 AM
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 Learning Rock Star - Wiki Coordinator Group: GMC Senior Posts: 6.578 Joined: 20-November 07 From: Spain Member No.: 3.338 |
Cool toy Paal, I'm addint this to the knowledge base now
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Mar 29 2010, 12:06 PM
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 Learning Tone Master  Group: MVC Posts: 3.185 Joined: 22-June 07 From: Germany Member No.: 2.164 |
Cool clips!
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Mar 29 2010, 12:32 PM
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Competitions Coordinator - Up the Irons Group: GMC Senior Posts: 5.289 Joined: 17-February 08 From: Stavanger, Norway Member No.: 4.276 |
QUOTE (Fran @ Mar 29 2010, 12:07 PM)  Cool toy Paal, I'm addint this to the knowledge base now Edit: added http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/inde...ug_Metal_Review Thanks! QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Mar 29 2010, 01:06 PM) Cool clips! Thanks!
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Mar 29 2010, 02:45 PM
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 GMC Admin & Bass Instructor  Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 14.042 Joined: 30-November 07 From: Belgrade, Serbia Member No.: 3.410 |
Wow this little thing sounds great in the sound clip!
Its a very good portable solution for practicing!
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Mar 29 2010, 02:50 PM
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 Born of NWOBHM, Moderation Team Leader  Group: Members Posts: 8.562 Joined: 9-January 07 From: Stockholm, Sweden Member No.: 1.062 |
Sounds surprisingly good. Do you have the un-eq'ed file aswell? I think's more fair to evaluate
 QUOTE To make it sound better, I EQ'ed it a little.. Probably means, I added EQ, chorus, compressor and mastered the clip... a little...  -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 29 2010, 02:51 PM
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Sounds good, but I think it would be good to give dry samples
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Mar 29 2010, 04:24 PM
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Competitions Coordinator - Up the Irons Group: GMC Senior Posts: 5.289 Joined: 17-February 08 From: Stavanger, Norway Member No.: 4.276 |
QUOTE (Bogdan Radovic @ Mar 29 2010, 03:45 PM) Wow this little thing sounds great in the sound clip! Its a very good portable solution for practicing! Yeah, it's pretty nifty QUOTE (MickeM @ Mar 29 2010, 03:50 PM) Sounds surprisingly good. Do you have the un-eq'ed file aswell? I think's more fair to evaluate Probably means, I added EQ, chorus, compressor and mastered the clip... a little... Haha, no it actually means a little EQ'ing this time QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Mar 29 2010, 03:51 PM) Sounds good, but I think it would be good to give dry samples I never saved it I'm afraid, but I'll see if I can record some new stuff
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Mar 29 2010, 04:28 PM
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 GMC:er Group: Members Posts: 323 Joined: 26-December 07 From: Enschede, Netherlands Member No.: 3.618 |
Amps are getting smaller and smaller
 Sounds pretty good for this handy little device. I'm also interested in the dry sound. --------------------  Roland Cube 30; Toneport GX; Cort kx1; Ibanez RG1570; Ibanez EW35ABE-NT http://www.last.fm/user/Mr_T83 |
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Mar 29 2010, 04:35 PM
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 Learning Tone Seeker Group: Members Posts: 1.543 Joined: 26-May 08 From: Lodz, Poland Member No.: 5.185 |
Definitely a cheap way to go if You wanna have a full stack and don't spend a fortune;)
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Mar 29 2010, 05:15 PM
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 Learning Rock Star Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: 10-January 10 From: Belgium Member No.: 9.110 |
That looks great! I'll be waiting 'till the dry take is on. Maybe it's worth buying!
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Mar 30 2010, 09:07 PM
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I have the Classic Rock one and can't recommend these highly enough!!
For the price they're astounding!!! Nice demo and review Paal!!
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Apr 4 2010, 12:21 AM
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 Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 5.655 Joined: 11-October 09 From: Bogota Member No.: 7.694 |
wow man, really cool
you really had to zoom in for the pic 
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Apr 7 2010, 06:07 PM
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This is so useful to practice when touring!!
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Apr 16 2010, 08:46 AM
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Competitions Coordinator - Up the Irons Group: GMC Senior Posts: 5.289 Joined: 17-February 08 From: Stavanger, Norway Member No.: 4.276 |
It's really worth the money, great little "amp" with a BIG tone
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