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Posted by: audiopaal Mar 29 2010, 11:04 AM

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 ) : 1708




Considering 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

Posted by: Fran Mar 29 2010, 11:07 AM

Cool toy Paal, I'm addint this to the knowledge base now

Edit: added
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/index.php/Vox_Amplug_Metal_Review

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 29 2010, 12:06 PM

Cool clips!

Posted by: audiopaal Mar 29 2010, 12:32 PM

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/index.php/Vox_Amplug_Metal_Review

QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Mar 29 2010, 01:06 PM)

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Mar 29 2010, 02:45 PM

Wow this little thing sounds great in the sound clip! Its a very good portable solution for practicing!

Posted by: MickeM Mar 29 2010, 02:50 PM

Sounds surprisingly good. Do you have the un-eq'ed file aswell? I think's more fair to evaluate

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 29 2010, 02:51 PM

Sounds good, but I think it would be good to give dry samples

Posted by: audiopaal Mar 29 2010, 04:24 PM

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!

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...

QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Mar 29 2010, 03:51 PM)

Sounds good, but I think it would be good to give dry samples

Posted by: Mr T Mar 29 2010, 04:28 PM

Amps are getting smaller and smaller

Sounds pretty good for this handy little device. I'm also interested in the dry sound.

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Mar 29 2010, 04:35 PM

Definitely a cheap way to go if You wanna have a full stack and don't spend a fortune;)

Posted by: Fre Mar 29 2010, 05:15 PM

That looks great! I'll be waiting 'till the dry take is on. Maybe it's worth buying!

Posted by: Sensible Jones Mar 30 2010, 09:07 PM

I have the Classic Rock one and can't recommend these highly enough!!
For the price they're astounding!!!
Nice demo and review Paal!!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Apr 4 2010, 12:21 AM

wow man, really cool

you really had to zoom in for the pic

Posted by: Santiago Diaz Garces Apr 7 2010, 06:07 PM

This is so useful to practice when touring!!

Posted by: audiopaal Apr 16 2010, 08:46 AM

It's really worth the money, great little "amp" with a BIG tone