![]() ![]() The amp featured a 12" Celestion Green Back speaker. The corners, vents, handles, knobs and feet were off white. The AC15C1-BRG was covered in a deep green vinyl with the traditional Vox "basket weave" pattern. September 2012 - Vox introduced the AC15C1 British Racing Green Limited Edition amp. The amp featured a single 12" Celestion Green Back speaker. The corners, vents, handles and knobs were off white. The AC15C1-BL was covered in blue vinyl with the traditional Vox "basket weave" pattern. January 2012 - Vox introduced the AC15C1 Blue Limited Edition amp. The Celestion Blue Alnico was not offered in this model. It was equipped with a 12" G12M Celestion Green Back speaker. The corners, vents, handles and control knobs were black. It was covered in a special "Vintage Red" basket weave vinyl with contrasting brown diamond fret cloth. A 12" G12M Celestion Green Back speaker was standard, an optional 12" Celestion Alnico Blue became available in 2013.ĭecember 2010 - Vox introduced the first limited edition AC15C1-RD. The corners, vents, handles and knobs were black. It was covered in black basket weave vinyl and brown diamond fret cloth. This five tube, two channel amp featured reverb, tremolo and Top Boost. Looking forward to playing this amp through the silver bell.January 2010 - Vox introduced the "standard" AC15C1 amplifier. ![]() It's a bright sounding amp, and the silverbell is less bright than the blue, with smoother and warmer highs, and a beautiful compression. Since it's a special amp, I thought a special speaker was appropriate. Brian used vintage 1960 components in the build, including output transformer and tubes, etc. The early 1960's AC10 is the same circuit as the AC15, except neutered down to 10 watts instead of 15, and 10" speakers used instead of 12". Brian saw the listing, and said it's the same cone he had on the silverback he used with the 1965 JMI AC10 twin that inspired him to become an amp builder, and also said the "1777" cone some of the other silverbacks have are good for about 15 watts, while this cone is good for about 20 watts. $525USD, so about $200USD more than a Celestion blue or Scumback Scuminco - the other speakers I had been considering. An original Vox Celestion silver bell speaker from the 1960's is being shipped, and it still has its original "pulsonic" cone in very good shape. 5879 is different tube than EF-86, but similar in that its a higher gain tube and very touch sensitive.īrian is making me a cabinet for his AC10 head, using the same fawn Vox livery as the head. I love Gibson amps, have several, and especially love the 5879 preamp circuits in the GA40, and in the vibrato channel of GA20. That top-boost circuit was copied directly from Gibson's GA-77 Vanguard amp, including the mistake in that circuit. It was too microphonic in the higher powered AC30, however, so was designed out of that amp, then the top-boost circuit designed in. That's the tube Dick Denny loved, and used in all his early Vox amp design. The EF-86 vibrato (tremolo) channel is very touch sensitive, and I'm loving it. I couldn't be more pleased with this head, it sounds awesome through the original Chicago jensen C12R in my 1960 GA-20. I liked it so much, that when I saw a "3rd Rail amps" (Brian) JMI AC10 clone head for sale on Reverb, having just been reduced $400USD, I pounced on it, even though I hadn't been planning on buying another amp (and know its a different amp). This is my first Vox amp, and I love that "top boost" sound - it really gets that classic Vox tone at a reasonable volume. These are bright amps, so a creamback seems more appropriate for smoothing and warming the highs, and a little louder than the greenback. Like others here, I plan to upgrade some of the tubes, and get a creamback to improve the sound. The whole amp is kind of cheaply constructed, but it sounds great, what really matters. It has the stock speaker, which sounds great even though its a cheap. ![]() Sweetwater had them on sale for $389USD shipped, too good to pass on since I always craved the Vox tone. I got a new royal blue AC10C1 (also "rich blue" depending on when marketing was advertising), my favorite look with cream handle and vent, brown grill cloth and gold piping. Thinking about it, the 10" has a flatter cone, so maybe that has something to do with it (or maybe not?)? I had always thought it was the opposite - 10" being more directional than 12", but recently read I was misinformed. With the closed back cab speakers are more directional, but 10" less directional than 12". Click to expand.If you lift them off the floor on a stand, they seem to get considerably louder, plus its closer to ear level that way. ![]()
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