I've never seen or played w/ a TA-15 in person to have any direct frame of reference on its Top Boost channel & not everybody's looking for the same specific sounds so it could just be that Top Boost OD is not for you outside of a "classic rock" setting? The natural character of the OD/crunch goosed w/ a boost worked great for me. Normal channel on the AC30 was great for chimey cleans through edge of breakup to jangly crunch (although I liked those sounds better going through an Alnico Gold & a Greenback rather than the Wharfedales).īoth the AC30CCH & AC4HW1 Top Boost seem touchy about fuzz or distortion being fed into them if I felt I needed to go there, but I usually didn't. But you can also run two individual TS cables.Ĭlick to expand.Going for a more aggressive sounds (most of the time somewhere in the neighborhood of '80s/'90s Hardcore/Punk or guitar oriented indie rock & some stoner-y sludgefest mostly just for fun) w/ the Top Boost voicing on that AC30CCH & AC4HW1 through a 2x12 I've used a "transparent" OD or boost w/ most of my guitars w/ moderate-ish output pickups & could generally cover edge of breakup through crunch to pretty damn dirty to my liking w/o needing to twiddle knobs on the amp mid-song/set. I am using a single stereo TRS cable with left/right splitters from my AB switch to the amp inputs Normal and Top Boost. The channel switch applies to the looper pedal also, if you have that earlier in the chain, unless you run a looper on the one branch that goes after the AB switch like on the cable to the Normal channel if you want to play a clean loop, then swap to the Top Boost to solo over it. Mine does have a slider switch for the Y or both AB option, but you can not engage that with your foot. This is a no frills switch that does not have a phase switch, but I don’t need that on the Vox, I think the one I got is by SonicCake, there are others in that small micro size also. The micro A/B switch does not take up much space, and if you don’t need to see the light change color on it you can use it without power. The AC15 also has its own foot switch to engage the HOT mode mini toggle, but I kind of like to leave that on anyway. I have a micro A/B switch and run the A into normal and the B into Top Boost in my AC15. So what other rock bands mostly used AC30 top boost overdrive ? But I don't play Queen, U2 or Deep Purple songs. Yes, Queen, Ritchie Blackmore, U2 and sometimes Tom Petty (Mike Campbell) used top boost overdrive. I find the normal channel best for clean tones so I use that mostly. TA-15 has solved these issues but I'm wondering what you Vox owners do.Īlso, while the Vox AC normal channel has many great uses I'm struggling to find a wide variety of uses for the top boost overdrive voice. Overdrive/distortion pedals can be used obviously but I try to avoid those when an amp has better quality overdrive/distortion.
or do you all just play clean and don't switch from clean to overdrive on the fly. How have people who own AC15 / AC30 dealt with this issue. I've never tried it but suspect that wouldn't provide anywhere near the gain boost I'd require.Ī better option is to use something like this as a channel switcher.īut that's extra cost, extra set up, more cabling, more to go wrong etc. I understand you can insert a jumper between the 2 jacks on AC30 but that just blends normal and top boost.
In music I play I do a lot of switching between clean and overdrive/distortion tones mid song. I've played/gigged AC30's and found them very limiting by not being able to switch between normal and top boost on the fly. It also has master volume dial, has more gain on tap than an AC30 and only weighs 12 pounds.
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It has all the jangle/chime of AC30 if you run it thru Celestion alnico speaker, or a Celestion Creamback.īut TA-15 also has 5w, 15w and 25w options plus you can switch between normal and top boost channels. To my ears, and others who own AC30, the TA-15 Vox tones sound very very similar and equally as good as a re-issue Vox AC30. It does many things but its tone options include a cloned AC30 normal channel & top boost. Ok so a few months ago I got a Mesa Boogie Transtlantic TA-15.
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