Mod Your Cheap Amp, Vox Ad30vt speaker swap Options

[ItsMe]

Hi I'm kind of back. Had to take some time of from guitar but try to find some time now. But first I tried to mod my cheap Vox modeling amp. I think the Vox modeling line is much better than Line6 and other competitor amps. At least when you look for a more tube like sound. These things have a real tube in the, so called, Valve reaktor preamp circuit. The model I have doesn't work for metal but everything else sounds great. But they have a line that can definitely serve you metal heads. Anyway I was at a jam session and a guy there had the exact same amp I have. A couple of people came up to him after the gig and asked him where he got this great sounding amp. He told them it's a 200$ modeling amp that he just modded a little by swapping the speaker. He put a really expensive Celestion greenback in. I went home and got myself a Jensen C30Q because it's half the price of the Celestion and had great reviews on some forums.
Ok now the result. The amp sound great, at least 10000 times better. I also put a better tube in too, but that didn't change too much. The speaker swap however transformed that little thing into a tone monster.
So all owners of a cheap vox modelers. Get yourself a better speaker.

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This post has been edited by ItsMe: Mar 15 2009, 04:23 AM