![]() Most modern Marshalls, Fenders, Blackstar et al are made the same way, for context. It's one way in which Vox is able to keep costs reasonable while also ensuring consistency. The circuit is built around a modern, custom-designed PCB layout. A health-and-safety approved back panel stops you getting at anything inside but it's no biggie in this instance -changing valves on an AC15 or 30 is a nightmare anyway because of how the chassis is mounted, regardless of the protective panel. In terms of general construction, the cabinet is built solidly from quality ply and covered in tough textured vinyl. There's also an in-built tremolo effect, with controls for depth and speed. One benefit of the bigger, 2 x 12 enclosure is that it provides ample room for a full-length reverb tank, housed in the bottom. These amps aren't really built with that in mind, however: it's more a case of one sound or the other as the basis for your tone. If you're unfamiliar with classic Voxes (and old Fenders and Marshalls for that matter), you'll be surprised to learn that the separate channels are not independently switchable as you'd expect in a modern amp, so again you'd need an external A/B box to do that, if indeed you wanted to. It's the same story for the Top Boost channel, except now you benefit from the extra gain in that circuit and its own bass and treble controls. So unlike vintage AC15s, you can crank the front end to billy-o for crunchy drive, but keep the master low to protect the ear drums (and a harmonious domestic environment). ![]() The normal channel works off a single volume pot that runs straight to the master volume and tone cut section. It's a shame you can't mix the two channels as you can on a lot of AC amps (using a 'jumper' cable between spare inputs) so if you want to do that, you'll need a quality AB/Y box and do it externally. ![]() The new AC15 'Twin' retains the all-important dual-EL84, cathode-biased output section of its forebear, but otherwise it's very different. Then two years later, a young man named Lennon from Liverpool received his AC15 'Twin'…īut we dwell too long in history, however. Also, in 1 x 12 format it was the amp behind Hank Marvin and The Shadows on their first number one, Apache, in 1960. This new addition to the Chinese-made AC Custom range has quite a heritage, in name at least it was among the first guitar amplifiers to be designed specifically for guitar all the way back in 1958. We get lost for hours in the top boost channel just on the edge of clean break up, master around half, with a great dollop of spring reverb and a slow, just detectable tremolo What makes this one different? Well, for a start it's the first 2 x 12 AC15 we can remember in decades. Almost annually since the reissues of the mid-'90s (that were made in the Marshall factory, as it goes), there's been a succession of ostensibly very similar black boxes with diamond grille cloth. ![]()
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