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Vox Brian May Special Guitar Combo Amplifier

The Special is a 10-watt, 1 x 6.5 in. practice/recording amp that sounds identical to Brian May's homemade 'Deacy System' (his Deacy amp/Treble Boost combination), which was the homemade, behind-the-scenes key to Brian's signature tone. The Special delivers the genuine feel and sonic integrity of Brian's original system. Learn More...

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10

Individual User Ratings

Overall:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * . . . . . . 4 out of 10

Feature:
The tone was of a good variaty but the volume was no good. My speakers blew within 2 months and they were very hard to replace. The gold VOX logo has also began to ware slightly.

Sound:
The sound is warm and rich but doesnt sound like brian may live. If thats the sound you want just find a decent pedal. This amp is not very loud and the speakers are a bit dodgey. I wanted my les paul to sound like brian may so i bought this amp. Try and guess what? It was a waste of money.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Features:
* * * * . . . . . . 4 out of 10
Quality:
* * * . . . . . . . 3 out of 10
Value:
* * * * . . . . . . 4 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10

Feature:
Simple, I don't like tons of knobs. You can get alot of different combinations with very few adjustments. But the speakers are crap. Mine blew within 2 weeks of buying it and I never turned it up all the way

Quality:
My speaker blew and had to be replaced and then the input jack.

Value:
You can get a decent 15 watt for 80... this is 10 and 150? Something isnt adding up.

Desirability:
It's really nice looking. All white with the brown cover and golden Vox. The only reason I bought instead of a 15 watt Fender.

Sound:
I love the sound. It can be bright and it can be raunchy.

Support:
Would of been better if I hadn't thrown away the receit

Overall:
I already replaced it witha Behringer. Which seems to have alot more settings and you can get more diverse sounds out of it.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10

Feature:
I love the flexibility of being able to drive another amp for another completely different sound and having a recording output. This is NOT an amp for playing clean jazz through, so don't look for THAT kind of flexibility! For what it does, though, it has the features I need.

Quality:
To some degree this is made down to a price, but not to the degree of affecting reliability - at least so far, after a year's fairly hard use. Fit and finish on some of the trim is not up to AC30 standards, but neither is the price!

Value:
I think it's superb value for money.

Desirability:
If this amp was taken, I'd immediately replace it.

Sound:
I use my Guild Brian May guitars through numrous amps - vintage tweed Fender, vintage Selmer, Dean Markley Signature (tube 60w). BUT when you want to sound like Brian - especially buiding up that incredible 'orchestration' layered sound with multi-tracking, nothing else comes close. It sounds very 'big' for such a tiny amp.

Support:
One of my amps didn't have a manual, and I was referred to a website to download one. Effective for documentation, but I would have preferred a factory printed manual.

Overall:
There really isn't another product likely to come along that would compare.

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