The AC30 AmPlug is excellent for practice, with adequate sound at a great price.
It's not perfect. The little control wheels on top are delicate and have settings 1-10 but that's aspirational. The gain, for example, fuzzes out above 5, so leave it at 5. You want to protect your ears, anyway. The tone control goes muddy on bass, so keep it balanced at 5 and use the guitar's tone control. I use JBL earbuds and the sound is clear and completely satisfactory.
The FX are discriminable: chorus, delay, and reverb, which is pretty amazing in such a small device, but don't expect too much.
The "Modes" (which not documented in the "documentation" sheet that comes well-hidden in the packaging -- you have to look online to discover these modes), are three degrees of distortion, from clean to dirty. I use clean mode almost exclusively to reduce my Telecaster's natural twang while I practice and learn.
Technically there are 9 effects then, Mode x FX, though many of them seem about the same and some are close to pink noise. Keep in mind what you're buying: A portable practice amp for $40.
You have to look for online videos to figure out what the different Vox models do because the verbal descriptions are bland and uninformative. I think I might have preferred the "Clean" or the "Blues" model, and I may get one of those, but the AC-30 is the one-size fits all solution for somebody who needs a portable practice amp. The Vox Amplug is not a refined enough device for you to be honing your instrument's voice on it, so don't overthink all the settings. For developing your guitar's voice, you should be using a serious practice amp. This is just a little gizmo so you can practice your pentatonic scales without driving your family crazy.
I recommend a 3 to 6-foot cable, 1/4" male-to-female, so you can "externalize" the Vox box and have it beside you or in your lap. When it's plugged directly into the guitar, it's hard to see and use, probably upside-down, and you'll likely break it when you store the guitar.
If you want to get tricky, you can plug a Bluetooth transmitter into the Vox and route the sound to wireless headphones/buds. I'm not sure what that would do to sound quality. The device also has an Aux-in jack so you could route an .mp3 backing track through it. I haven't tried that.
Overall, the Vox AC30 does the job and is well-worth the price.
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Love the size its so compact and the fact that I don't have to take out my heavy Peavy amp.I have a fender telecaster so it's a bit awkward to customize the tone settings while playing but I'm a beginner so it's pretty cool for practicing and not annoying everyone in the house
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ANDREReviewed in Belgium on December 14, 2024
Très pratique pour préserver son entourage.
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- Sandomo MarakReviewed in India on July 15, 2015
ordered from Bajao and it is powerful tone and handy
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FABIOReviewed in Italy on February 3, 2021
Fantastico, ma va compreso
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Va premesso che sono alle prime armi con la chitarra elettrica, e sto ancora costruendo il mio armamentario di strumenti/cavetteria/amplificazione/ecc.. definitivo. Ho delle conoscenze di base.Fantastico, ma va compresoFABIO
Reviewed in Italy on February 3, 2021
L’amplug in se è magnifico, ben costruito e seppur piccolo e un po’ “plasticoso” nel complesso è solido e funzionale. È pensato per essere estremamente portatile, e dunque andrebbe utilizzato con delle cuffie auricolari, chiaramente migliori sono le cuffie, migliore sarà la resa sonora, e la presenza dei 3 effetti + tremolo è un plus divertente. È possibile collegare un cavo aux in entrata da computer e riprodurre delle tracce di base per fare del backing track. Insomma, per un uso così è perfetto, quindi esercitarsi e roba simile!
Può risultare invece un po’ “limitato” l’uso con delle casse stereo (quelle che collegate al pc fisso ad esempio): anche se di qualità intermedia, non si riesce a riprodurre bene la dinamicità dei suoni di una elettrica, specie se in distorto. L’ideale sarebbe collegare un vero e proprio amplificatore per elettrica...che di solito, ha tutte le funzioni che ha questo amplug. Se non di più.
In definitiva, ottima manifattura del prodotto e interessante per l’uso in cuffia e per la possibilità di portarselo facilmente in giro. Ma se avevate intenzione di usare delle casse esterne, il risultato non è proprio il massimo specie se volete suonare in distorto!
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