USED products: 4% of the current new selling price to increase the warranty from 3 months to 1 year. 4% for each additional year. The digital reverb is okay. My problem is not with the quality of the sound, but simply that it should have been optimized to favor more subtle sounds. Seriously, you're unlikely to ever have that knob over "9:00" before it gets pretty swampy and surfy. But at the end of the day, it's better to have it than not have it. The Vox AC10RT was equipped with three Goodmans 10" stamped frame speakers with alnico magnets. An impedance value of 15Ω was imprinted on the rim of each speaker (see photo at left). As the trio of 10" 15Ω speakers was wired in parallel, a total load of 5Ω (15Ω÷ 3 = 5Ω) was presented to the output stage of the amplifier. This amp is light weight at under 30 lbs. If you like tube amp tones, but your at that stage in life where hauling a 40-50 lb. Amp is not that appealing, this is the amp for you. Grab and go. It sounds best when left on the floor vs. put on a stand. The way the cab is constructed, being on the floor gives it some more resonance which helps fill out the tone. With a simple design like this it all comes down to tone as there are no bells and whistles to attract potential customers with, so how does the AC10C1 perform? Starting with a clean tone, the gain set low and master volume set high it is immediately apparent just how much this amp sparkles and chimes. Classic Vox cleans are present straight away with a load of dynamics that are so much fun to play. At these settings there is plenty of clean headroom from the master volume but you’d be hard pushed to play with a loud drummer on stage if clean tones are your thing or you need a clean amp for running pedals into.

Exactly 50 years after the original was discontinued, the new AC10C1 joins Vox’s Custom Series, its flagship line of tube amps (make that, valve amps). And just as in the olden days, it slots nicely between the revived AC4 and AC15. Yet the 10 now includes more desirable bells and whistles than ever before.The size - I got this amp exclusively because of its small size and low wattage, but make no mistake, this amp can keep up at a gig no problem. The size is absolutely perfect, especially because of the small car I drive (Honda Fit), and I have no problem toting this amp, my guitar, and my pedal board all in one trip from car to venue. The design of the AC10RT 3x10 and LW30 cabinets strayed away from traditional Vox design in several ways. While the top ⅓ of the front panel of a typical Vox combo amplifier was covered with vinyl and the lower ⅔ was covered with grill, the AC10RT 3x10 featured a front panel that was fully grilled from top to bottom. The location of the control panel was relocated from the traditional horizontal location at the top of the amp to a vertical position on the upper rear of the AC10RT3x10. I've had the AC10 for about a year now; mine is the limited edition White tolex version. This amp thrives in a recording environment and a gigging environment. It does struggle a bit to keep up in a practice room with a loud drummer without sounding a bit bright. I get some great output coupled then with mic'ing up and running through the house PA. Yet this little beast can be tamed down for the home and still give that great clean to grit tone of the VOX.

In terms of overall sound, the AC10 doesn't sound boxy like some other small amps in this category. An AC15 sounds more boxy to my ears than this amp.

Customer Reviews

This has changed that notion. It is a lightweight, great sounding, perfectly loud enough and great priced amplifier. I play mostly in the Indie/Shoegaze/Twee genres. Its clean, loud and expressive, though it does break up very well. I even like the Digital Reverb, which I was not sold on when I first read it. The Reverb is voiced well and doesn't get cacophonous with heavy overdrive (I use a vintage Rat and a Muff Fuzz clone). For those of you wondering, this amp is definitely loud enough for gigging at a small bar, even with a drummer. I have it in my basement operating at half volume and my ears are starting to really ache. I have no doubt this would work at a small gig, even without a mic. The only pedal that i had not sell was the sd1 Boss. I was not happy with it with my JCM 800 and other amps.

The preamp circuitry of the AC10 Super Reverb Unit bore little resemblance to the original and namesake Vox AC10 circuit documented on JMIschematic "OS/008 AC/10 Amplifier N o 3," dated September 9, 1960. The original AC-10 design from 1960 had two channels while the AC-10 Super Reverb unit had only one. While the preamp circuit of the 1960 AC-10 utilized esoteric ECF82 and EF86 tubes, the 1964 "AC10 Super Reverb Unit" preamp was powered by more conventional 12AX7 and 12AU7 tubes. The only effect in the original 1960 era AC-10 circuit design was tremolo. The 1964 era AC-10 revision added reverb. The "AC10 Super Reverb Unit" and the original "AC/10 Amplifier N o 3" circuits were produced concurrently by Vox in 1964 and 1965. The amp has a lush digital reverb built in. It has one knob, so it's less or more. I leave it on about 4 all the time. A welcome addition to any amp of this size is reverb and we painstaking designed the AC10C1’s reverb to sound just right, adding tonal ambience without being overwhelming that is all too often the case with many other amps.Our sole complaint: the controls are a bit peaky. Turn up the reverb, and at a certain point, it’s on, really on. Ditto for the Treble and Bass knobs. This isn’t a problem, but you’ll need to learn to finesse those controls and find their sweet spot. The Vox AC10 was one of the earlier amplifiers produced by the company but never reached the same status as the coveted AC15 model that has become one of the most revered guitar amplifiers ever made. The AC10 was a lower powered version of that classic Top Boost tone circuit amplifier but was discontinued in 1965 in favour of its higher powered sibling that went on to be the basis for some of the greatest guitar tones of all time. However, the AC10 was also very much loved at the time for its ability to reach the tonal characteristics of the AC15 but at more manageable volumes on stage and in the studio. The clean (chimey?) tones are amazing, which is what I'm mostly looking for. The adjective "deep" comes to mind. Exceeds expectations in clean tones. Circuitry plus the 10 inch Celestian speaker seem perfectly matched.