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Vox LNT

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A Vox toaster? :think: :lol:

Looks :drool:
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Nice looker - often they seem to be silver, but gold and black like this looks better to me. :thumbsup:

2 watts? Good one for the home people say.
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Yeah Gerd, Toasting the Blues :)

rVB, Sorry, didn't notice the color myself, but it's the light that makes it look golden. It's just chrome.

Meanwhile I've played a bit. I've hooked it up to my 12"Speaker cab (80's Celection G12M75) and after some tweaking got a very very nice tone.
I remebered I had a Mullard nos 12AX7 laying around and put that in position 1. That tamed the bright beast a little.
Next will be the C19 (bright switch cap mod making it switchable) to loose a bit of the brightness that lurks around the corner when gain is turned up.

Sound demos are in the works

First lady loves this little amp. (1,5 ballpoint pen size)
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Got some time and recorded a short sound demo, clipped C19 and recorded another dirty demo.
During the recording I didn't notice the Gmajor was active with it's Reverb. I was a couple of meters away from my monitor speaker and in front of the Celestion 12"cabinet to judge the results of the mod and didn't notice the reverb :motz:

Any way, the Vox LTN in it's natural habitat:
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Kitty is inactive, needs some TLC
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and the quick (stiff fingers) sound demo.
first part is with C19 active and the second part with the capacitor clipped (one leg) Of course I turned the control knobs when opening the amp and clipping the capacitor's leg. So to be honest the Demo is crap for comparing sounds ( 2nd part, from approx. 1:42, way more drive (of course)) :wall: But for now, take it from me, I have more control space in the treble and gain settings of the amp now.

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Used gear : Tokai Goldstar -> Vox LTN (with Mullard 12AX7 nos @ V1) -> Celestion G12M75 cab -> SM57 & PG57 -> D&R Mixer with TC electroning Gmajor in send return loop (damn) ==--> PC


I have to conclude this is one sweet little amp, It's pretty loud for it's 1.5 watts into 8 Ohm (2 Watts into 16 Ohm) and I guess I can dial in all the sounds I like, from sparkling cleans to heavy overdrive with a lot of nuance in between.
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Well, silly me about the colours! :big_smile:

I hadn't even noticed the ballpoint pen in the picture, which highlights the size very well.

It sounds amazing for such a small low budget amp - though I'm sure some of that credit goes to to the player, the guitar and the mods you've done. It certainly sings - and has something of the "Vox" sound - it does seem very responsive to what you are playing. :thumbsup:
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I agree with VB that the guitar sing and I will add that you use right amount of dirty dist. Great sound...... :music2: :thumbsup:
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Thanks VB and Michael :)

Meanwhile I hooked up the Ibanez Artcore AKA Fat Lady :) and dialed in a tone I liked.
I've recorded a rather long test and jam session and managed to extract 2 minutes that sounded like the tone I had in mind. Not to Voxie I think but nevertheless quite a usefull slowblues sound. Never suspected the Artcore could sound like this.

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Funny how different the tastes are - I find the clean, sparkling tone from the beginning just outstanding, the last one a bit to airless (don't have the right word).
Your playing is still there btw. :pray:
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